Tff has shown me that it's perfectly normal to be obsessed with fish and fill your house with tanks. It's so nice to be able to talk about fish all day if I want and know that no one here is going to get bored.
LOL...I hear ya dthoffsett. When I talk about fish with my family members they look at me and do the blink, blink motion with their eyes. I might as well be talking Spanish, Japanese, or whatever to them...
This forum has inspired me to have a "fish room"
. It will be in our next house. I'd love to get a walk out basement and the fish room will be the family room area with the walk out door. It'd be soo much more interesting and inviting to go to than having 4 walls around me with tiny little windows (in a normal room in a basement..if any window at all).....sigh. My hubby has his gun/sporting goods room. I can have my "fish room". For some of the fish I'd like to have, I'd have to have one room in the basement just for that tank...a SW shark of some kind.....or a red tailed catfish. How I can dream....
I should have been a marine biologist
. .that's what I wanted to be in 10th grade.
Maybe in my afterlife
Anyway, I've learned a ton of awesome info here!! I've been keep fishing since elementary school(with the help of my mom back then), but I think I've learned more in the last 6 months than I had in the last 10 years!!!
THANK YOU to everyone out there who is willing to help and makes time for people who are new to certain aspects of fish keeping. For example, I'm going to start a brackish tank w/puffers and bbg's and I got quite a bit of help on the topic. And definitely thanks to everyone who's helped me with my new 125 gallon African Cichlid tank. I was asking sooo many questions left and right. I was totally new to Africans. I had only kept mollies, guppies, platy's and the like.
Soo to everyone out there willing to help....especially the Mods who have soo much work to do trying to keep this place tidy and help everyone, plus have their own lives
THANK YOU.....THANK YOU....THANK YOU