Hello all!
I have already made a few posts in DIY and perhaps a couple of other sections. Since I'm starting to feel at home, I figured a little introduction was in order.
My fascination with slimy, cold-blooded critters goes back as far as I can remember. When I was about 6 or 7, I used to to catch tadpoles and crawdads, which I would bring home and put in small plastic bowls on the patio... and then wonder why they died so fast in the 100 degree Texas summer heat.
I got my first "real" fish from a school carnival when I was 12. It was a black moor goldfish. I think it persisted about a month before I was actually successful in killing it, too.
By then I had the bug, and soon got a used 10 gallon aquarium from a garage sale, and started reading books by Axelrod and Innes (about the only ones available back then). I learned a great deal from these books, as well as people from excellent LFS's that used to be all over the place (before Petco and Petsmart).
I had several tanks over the years, both freshwater and marine. I more-or-less got out of the hobby about ten years ago, until a co-worker started talking about setting up a small aquarium for his daughter. So, I dusted off the 75 gallon monster, and got wet all over again....
I have already made a few posts in DIY and perhaps a couple of other sections. Since I'm starting to feel at home, I figured a little introduction was in order.
My fascination with slimy, cold-blooded critters goes back as far as I can remember. When I was about 6 or 7, I used to to catch tadpoles and crawdads, which I would bring home and put in small plastic bowls on the patio... and then wonder why they died so fast in the 100 degree Texas summer heat.
I got my first "real" fish from a school carnival when I was 12. It was a black moor goldfish. I think it persisted about a month before I was actually successful in killing it, too.
By then I had the bug, and soon got a used 10 gallon aquarium from a garage sale, and started reading books by Axelrod and Innes (about the only ones available back then). I learned a great deal from these books, as well as people from excellent LFS's that used to be all over the place (before Petco and Petsmart).
I had several tanks over the years, both freshwater and marine. I more-or-less got out of the hobby about ten years ago, until a co-worker started talking about setting up a small aquarium for his daughter. So, I dusted off the 75 gallon monster, and got wet all over again....
There is ALWAYS something to learn in this hobby - makes it interesting - but hard to keep up!
