one of these days..... i am so hooked on this that soft corals are in the near future... my lfs set up a sps lps tank but im stayin away from that. When i first started this adn fihsboy said that he spends at least 45 mins a day watching his tank... quite frankly i thought he was out of his mind and now..... i find myself watching it in the morning... i find myself eating in front of it, reading in front of it, on my comp infront of it, and now my newest thing is to put crashing beach waves music on and watch it.... i never believed how insanely addicting a fish tank can be. No matter what you guys said, without yall i could have some disease or algae blooms, dead fish, who knowz, every question i come up with has an answer on this foroum. A perfect example would be the nem, i thuoght it was a sure gonner jus last week and its thriving now... rediculously healthy. My fish are all bright colors, happy... and no matter how many problems arise, it never deterrs me from the hobby.

You guys are like family

photo bucket them bad boys - - - -or run em on the other site {gomez's}

i know some people don't like it but it has a chat room and picture loading is much easier than here .........BUT ............your right ive never not had a question answered in here and this will always be home to me ....................

amzazing how them lil fellas seem to make everything ok eh?

For me it started about 6-7 years ago, my girlfriend at the time had bought me a fish bowl filled with gummy fish. It got me to thinking and remembering about the tank my dad had when I was younger. So I went and got a 10 gallon setup and put a couple of fish in it. I was hooked, not to long after that my friend gave me a 55g, stand and all the filters and lighting and decoration that he had. I started keeping SA/CA cichlids, then I bought a 35g and setup a little community tank. I had a lazy boy in front of my 55g and used to sit there for hours and watch the fish and research new fish I wanted. When I moved out of the girlfriends house I bought a 75g and had the 55g, 75g and 35g all setup at my brothers where I was staying. Then I moved out of state and left all my tanks with my dad, who kept the 75g going as a community tank (that didn't last long, he eventually gave my 55 and 75 to the neighbor). So after 3 years out state I moved back home and was anxious to setup a tank, but they were gone, except the 35g, so I went and payed way to much for a whole new 55g setup, lights, stand, filters, and everything. Once again
I went with the South Americans, I started researching African Cichlids a bit and after a year traded the SAs in for my first batch of AC, which is where I'm at now. About 8 months ago a friend of mine gave me a 90g in trade for some work. I still spend a good 2 hours a day, sometimes more, watching the fish(I'm layed off right now so I have plenty of time). My apartment now is pretty small, and I don't pay for electric so I only have my 90g and a split 10 w/ 2 bettas. But someday in the near future, when i get a bigger place, would like to setup one or both of the 55g tanks I have, 1 with community fish or dwarf cichlids and the other saltwater, but thats going to have to wait for now.

Haha everyone has such a great story to tell about starting out and looking back on all our mistakes and fun times we've had with our tank, thanks guys!