Your Very First Tank

[titus]

Hello

I thought ppl in the oil / gas industry are one of the top paid ones.


Titus

[ronau]

Originally Posted by titus

Hello

I thought ppl in the oil / gas industry are one of the top paid ones.


Titus

Don't get me wrong, I make good money but living on an acreage and feeding my 3 dogs burns through my pay cheque pretty quick. Management and field personel get paid much better than I but I like not being either one of those.

[gqlmao]

Oh the memories of numerous tanks we spent money and time on. I have had the following:

46 gallon bow front
5 gallon
86 gallon
2 gallon
5 gallon
10 gallon
30 gallon

I started when I was 16, parent sponsored of course.

[Myka]

How do you guys remember all these tanks? I don't remember all mine. I'm not even sure that the one I remember as my first one was really my first one.

Originally Posted by gqlmao

I started when I was 16, parent sponsored of course.

Of course?? I had my first tank when I was 11, and my parents never sponsored my tanks.

[FishyFishy!]

Originally Posted by Myka

How do you guys remember all these tanks? I don't remember all mine. I'm not even sure that the one I remember as my first one was really my first one.

I have pictures of all the tanks I have owned in a big folder, individually named with the size! Right down do my first ones!

Here is the Betta Tank that started it all!

[Ron99]

Guess I've been a slacker:

1. 8 gallon Biocube
2. 10 gallon
3. 75 gallon
4. 2.5ish gallon pico
5. 34 gallon Red Sea Max
6. 120 gallon sitting dry waiting to be plumbed and filled with goodies

[SeaHorse_Fanatic]

My first fw tank that I owned myself was a heavily, heavily overstocked 5 gallon that I bought with some money my parents left us when they went on vacation (ok, it was for food, but I wanted a fish tank). Boy did the LFS owners see me coming cause they loaded up this unsuspecting kid with a brand new 5 g and about 30 small tropical fish and sent him on his way (by bus) home to figure it out before he killed everything.

Fortunately, when my dad came back, he saw the tank, took me to Fraser Aquarium and bought me a new 33g. That was back when I was a weee little lad of eight years old.

My first sw tank was in the early 80s (around 1980-81) and it was a seahorse tank. 10 gallons with no live rock (what's live rock???) and I kept the wc seahorse alive for almost a year on live brine shrimp that I would cycle out to Main Aquarium in Vancouver to buy every week. Then there was a huge storm in San Francisco and all the brine shrimp that they usually collected for the petshop trade were washed out to sea and the poor little guy eventually starved cause I couldn't raise adult brine shrimp from eggs fast enough. 30+ years later, still traumatized (jk) but really, still remember that terrible feeling of hoping a new brine shrimp shipment would come in time and being disappointed each time.

My first two bigger sw tanks was in the mid-80s. Had a 33g for a Volitan lionfish (got it at 3" and raised to over 12" before he poisoned me while I was cleaning his glass and I sold him. The other tank was a 110g with a Passer King Angel, Smooth Horn Shark, Moorish Idol, and Snowflake Moray Eel. 110g was the largest tank you could get back then and I used to hand-feed all these fish with squid and smelts. Wow, that was 30 years ago. Ok, now I feel old.

Anthony

[FishyFishy!]

I started at the age of 16 with a 2 Gallon Marina Betta tank and a half moon betta. Then to a free 10 gallon setup that a friend gave me. And from there.... it was a hoarding nightmare!! And the worst thing is... i'm sure I am forgetting a few setups. lol.

Here's my total including freshwater!

FRESHWATER
1- 2 gallon Betta (half moon)
2- 5 gallon Betta (crown tail)
3- 10 gallon freshwater community
4- 60 gallon cichlid tank
5- 40 gallon brackish archerfish/puffer/mono sebae tank
6- 80 gallon bowfront cichlid tank
7- 8 gallon betta vase (crown tail)
8- 8 gallon betta vase (half moon)
9- 10 gallon serpae tetra mini reef (fake reef, white sand) freshwater
10- 30 Gallon Tiger Barb / semi agressive community
11- 30 gallon Angelfish tank
12- 180 gallon arowana tank (22" Jardini + tiger oscars + jack dempsey + frontosa)
13- 80 Gallon Half circle premium cichlid community (one of my faves!)
14- 10 Gallon tetra/danio community tank (office tank)
15- 77 Gallon half circle community tank (fake reef)
16- 2X20 gallon breeders for apple snails

SALTWATER
17- 110g FOWLR
18- 50g Reef
19- 10g Nano
20- 5g Pico
21- 2.5g Pico
22- 14g Biocube Reef
23- 14g Biocube Mantis Shrimp Tank
24- 30g reef (fully setup and wet.. never added livestock)
25- 29g Bowfront Reef
26- 10g Kitchen Nano
27- 29g Biocube Reef
28- 90g FOWLR
29- 30g Shallow Clam Tank
30- 187g Reef (so far was my favorite tank ever)
31- 155g Bowfront Reef (only set up for a month before getting smashed)
32- 131g FOWLR
33- Fluval Edge Nano
34- 39g bowfront Reef
35- On my last final build with one massive tank, filter room... hopefully my permanent one!!

Tanks I currently have sitting around dry:
90 Gallon drilled (48")
170 Gallon (84")
175 Gallon Sump (72")
40 Gallon (48")
50 Gallon (48")
20 Gallon (24" shallow cube)
20 Gallon (24" shallow cube)
10 Gallon
10 Gallon
5 Gallon
2.5 Gallon

I think that I might need help.....

[gqlmao]

HOLY! You weren't kidding when you said hoarding. I am sure its not a nightmare though .

[FishyFishy!]

I also have to say that 90% of my saltwater tanks were purchased and sold in the canreef for sale section... so thank you canreef!