good topic
well, it all started one day when i was nice and warm, but kinda squished up.
I then saw a bright light and before i knew it i was being held in a doctors cold hands.
I was taken home, and to my delight there was a fish tank set up
the point of this story is i've been around freshwater fish tanks for my entire life (thanks to my dad) and always enjoyed them.
my true story though starts when i was about 9. I was getting more and more interested in our 20 gallon, and then my dad finally gave me his 10 gallon which he had no luck with.
It was a 10 gallon "kit". pink gravel. plastic plants. also known as "the works"
so i started looking at fish stores (petland) for fish i liked. i wanted something carnivorous,ferocious, and mean.
First i wanted pirahnas, but knew they would outgrow the tanks. then i really wanted green terrors
finally i decided to get a blue crayfish.
We set up the tank with white and pale green gravel, a lil castle, and some plastic plants. we got our crayfish, and brought him home.
Most would say i was bit by the bug by now, right? Wrong.
dont get me wrong, i loved my crayfish(named zoidberg) but i just wasn't crazy bout fish.
then it happened. I wanted a tank at my moms. i had kept bettas in bowls before at my moms
but never any what i thought to be "real fish".
I was 11, and i wanted a goldfish bowl at my moms house. I really did. So my mom said could. But first i wanted to check if i could, so i went on a forum, and BAM! i got bit.
that goldfish bowl i asked for all that time ago never happened. why? because i kept changing my mind to bigger and better things.
My "goldfish bowl" is now a 29 gallon reef in the works, and im more obsessed than ever.
that's my story, and its all thanks to my dad, people like you on forums, and the wonderful LFS owners of Calgary