sleepsmile
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Hi there!
I just wanted to stop in and say hi there and that I love the site. I have been looking for a great active site with loads of information for some time now and I think I found it here!
I am new to fish keeping and love reading loads of information about the hobby.
A little background about me.
I started fish keeping when my mother gave me a male betta that she didn't want about 4 years ago. I kept him in a smallish fish bowl until I found the maintenance for something that small to be a pain. He lived for quite a while surprisingly!
I researched then and fell in love with fish keeping! I harassed my husband to get a larger aquarium for quite a while until we got a 16g bow front.
I did the newbie thing and got the clown puke gravel and the hideous decorations. I THOUGHT I loved it until I took a gander at the planted tank. I had my fake aquarium for about 2 years and it always got disgusting with black gross looking algae even with normal water changes.
I said enough is enough. I revamped my entire setup with a good substrate (I think), real live plants, and more light. I have had my planted aquarium for only about 4 months now and I love it. I hope to one day get a giant (to me) aquarium when we move to a house. Have a big shoal of just a few types of fish and try my hand at breeding them.
I am now a lifetime fish hobbyist and hope to get some direction as to where and how to go about doing this awesome hobby. I am having trouble with my plants right now and hope to get some help and pointers about everything under the fishkeepers sun. I am located in the Portland OR area.
Looking forward to all the great info here!
I just wanted to stop in and say hi there and that I love the site. I have been looking for a great active site with loads of information for some time now and I think I found it here!
I am new to fish keeping and love reading loads of information about the hobby.
A little background about me.
I started fish keeping when my mother gave me a male betta that she didn't want about 4 years ago. I kept him in a smallish fish bowl until I found the maintenance for something that small to be a pain. He lived for quite a while surprisingly!
I researched then and fell in love with fish keeping! I harassed my husband to get a larger aquarium for quite a while until we got a 16g bow front.
I did the newbie thing and got the clown puke gravel and the hideous decorations. I THOUGHT I loved it until I took a gander at the planted tank. I had my fake aquarium for about 2 years and it always got disgusting with black gross looking algae even with normal water changes.
I said enough is enough. I revamped my entire setup with a good substrate (I think), real live plants, and more light. I have had my planted aquarium for only about 4 months now and I love it. I hope to one day get a giant (to me) aquarium when we move to a house. Have a big shoal of just a few types of fish and try my hand at breeding them.
I am now a lifetime fish hobbyist and hope to get some direction as to where and how to go about doing this awesome hobby. I am having trouble with my plants right now and hope to get some help and pointers about everything under the fishkeepers sun. I am located in the Portland OR area.
Looking forward to all the great info here!
