Heya,
I'm a southerner who ended up in the INW and I miss seafood so bad. Not the same here, not enough pollution to spice it.
Anyway, my daddy had fish when I was little and I've experimented here and there outside, in kiddie pools, ponds with goldfish, frogs that fell from the sky, etc. Not much of that here. Not easy to grow luscious plants here either. Can you tell I'm homesick?
So we tried a pond when we first got here and found that hornets will fly from miles around to get to a little pond, so that was it for that. So I started putting fishes in boxes of water, and here I am 8 years later having just downsized a lot to only a 40g, 2 20g, a new 5g that's gonna hold shrimp, a little 2.5g that has a couple endlers in there, and some plants here and there. If I had to choose a fave, they'd be either my odessa barbs or my dwarf chain loaches. Huge personalities.
I'll always think of myself as a noob. So much to learn and I can't imagine thinking of myself as some sort of expert or something. I remember my dad with a giant net slowly pulling a big oscar around a tank, crying like a baby. I never understood that til now.
I'm a parent of 2 absolutely bonkers awesome cats. They loved trying to fish from the pond, but thankfully they don't mess with the tanks unless I'm taking one apart or setting one up.
I've got a spouse who's pretty clueless about fish but who wants to keep some anyway. That's been a journey, but he enjoys them. We had our 17th or 18th wedding anniversary on the 17th, which my SIL always has to reminds us about. We feel like we've been together forever, so we lose track of those things.
Don't know what else to say other than: if you're from the gulf coast, pls to send me some salty spicy yummy crawfish.
I've run into this forum MANY times over the past few years, and have always been grateful to the people who help others figure things out. Community fish, community of fish keepers.
Thanks for helping me, whether you knew it or not.
psps
I'm a southerner who ended up in the INW and I miss seafood so bad. Not the same here, not enough pollution to spice it.
Anyway, my daddy had fish when I was little and I've experimented here and there outside, in kiddie pools, ponds with goldfish, frogs that fell from the sky, etc. Not much of that here. Not easy to grow luscious plants here either. Can you tell I'm homesick?So we tried a pond when we first got here and found that hornets will fly from miles around to get to a little pond, so that was it for that. So I started putting fishes in boxes of water, and here I am 8 years later having just downsized a lot to only a 40g, 2 20g, a new 5g that's gonna hold shrimp, a little 2.5g that has a couple endlers in there, and some plants here and there. If I had to choose a fave, they'd be either my odessa barbs or my dwarf chain loaches. Huge personalities.
I'll always think of myself as a noob. So much to learn and I can't imagine thinking of myself as some sort of expert or something. I remember my dad with a giant net slowly pulling a big oscar around a tank, crying like a baby. I never understood that til now.
I'm a parent of 2 absolutely bonkers awesome cats. They loved trying to fish from the pond, but thankfully they don't mess with the tanks unless I'm taking one apart or setting one up.
I've got a spouse who's pretty clueless about fish but who wants to keep some anyway. That's been a journey, but he enjoys them. We had our 17th or 18th wedding anniversary on the 17th, which my SIL always has to reminds us about. We feel like we've been together forever, so we lose track of those things.
Don't know what else to say other than: if you're from the gulf coast, pls to send me some salty spicy yummy crawfish.
I've run into this forum MANY times over the past few years, and have always been grateful to the people who help others figure things out. Community fish, community of fish keepers.
Thanks for helping me, whether you knew it or not.
psps
