Hey, I'm new. My name is Atticus. but my friends call me Atti. I live in Mississippi, and became obsessed with fish-keeping a few years ago. My dad and I had a very large outdoor pond with about twenty comet goldfish. Our investment of twenty-seven cents a fish quickly turned into over forty beautiful goldfish roughly eight inches long and three inches around. After keeping our population up and after seeing several successful breedings, my father decided to re-marry, and he had to fill in our pond because my step-mother's dogs enjoyed chasing the fish. We gave them all to a friend with another large pond. In my first college dorm room I kept a five gallon with two kissing gourami and a fan tail goldfish. I knew very little about fish-keeping, and I was surprised when one gourami killed the other, and then the replacement gourami. I didn't keep them heated, but I was religious about cleaning the tank. After I moved back two-hundred miles away, I gave the tank with the remaining gourami to my step-brother, who also knew nothing about fish-keeping. I have that same tank with me now, and it serves as my sister's guppy tank. I've learned a lot since the pond and the first tank, but now I find that I spend about as much money a week on my fish as I do my three dogs (two dachshund mixes, one of whom is disabled, and a ten-year-old pit bull).
Aside from fish, I am also a writer. I'm in the middle of a novella and perhaps a "memoir" of sorts about my mental illness and how it affects me. I foster pit bulls (and I am in the market for a new puppy to fill in spot number four in the house!), and paint dog portraits to put gas in my car. I have linked my online shop in my profile, if anyone is interested. Though I am male, I do love knitting and baking. I know about one hundred separate ways to cook a zucchini. Anyway, I've got six fish tanks, and I am considering adding another one to cure my puppy fever, so I'm always up for chatting.
Aside from fish, I am also a writer. I'm in the middle of a novella and perhaps a "memoir" of sorts about my mental illness and how it affects me. I foster pit bulls (and I am in the market for a new puppy to fill in spot number four in the house!), and paint dog portraits to put gas in my car. I have linked my online shop in my profile, if anyone is interested. Though I am male, I do love knitting and baking. I know about one hundred separate ways to cook a zucchini. Anyway, I've got six fish tanks, and I am considering adding another one to cure my puppy fever, so I'm always up for chatting.
