What was you highest achievement in the hobby?

[FishBR]

Mine was to successfully breed wild discus I don't keep discus now, but I have wonderful memories of them. Here is a video of the pair with the 50-fry batch that I successfully raised.

 

[WhistlingBadger]

Wow, that's amazing. I've never had the guts to try discuss, let alone breed them. It's fascinating how they feed off the parent's mucous secretions.

My highest achievement is probably the only aquarium action I have going on right now: About three years ago I built a 150g planted rainbowfish aquascape for a local dentist's office. I used all the skills and knowledge accumulated over several years of learning to make ecologically balanced, semi-natural planted tanks. I am very pleased with it. So are the clients, and best of all it is greatly enjoyed by lots of nervous people waiting for their appointments. It is still going strong; in fact, I haven't had even any minor problems with it for over a year. It's fun making people happy, and I feel very blessed to be paid to pursue my hobby.

 

[FishBR]

Wow, that's amazing. I've never had the guts to try discuss, let alone breed them. It's fascinating how they feed off the parent's mucous secretions.

Thanks. You are so right. Looking at fry attached to the parent's body is amazing. And their spawning "dance" is also a great sight.

My highest achievement is probably the only aquarium action I have going on right now: About three years ago I built a 150g planted rainbowfish aquascape for a local dentist's office. I used all the skills and knowledge accumulated over several years of learning to make ecologically balanced, semi-natural planted tanks. I am very pleased with it. So are the clients, and best of all it is greatly enjoyed by lots of nervous people waiting for their appointments. It is still going strong; in fact, I haven't had even any minor problems with it for over a year. It's fun making people happy, and I feel very blessed to be paid to pursue my hobby.

I would love to have a large rainbowfish tank. Do you have any pictures?

 

[AdoraBelle Dearheart]

Oohh, please share the video again @WhistlingBadger ! It's so beautiful, I want to see it again

 

[Crispii]

My highest accomplishments thus far was breeding and raising Betta imbellis and Boraras naevus fry.

 

[PheonixKingZ]

Probably my aquascaping skills - they have definitely evolved from the “clown puke” ages. (Thanks @WhistlingBadger for that term. )

 

[AilyNC]

I just went 6 days without a water Change. As in 6 days between needing to change, checking levels daily. That's pretty big post crashed fish in cycle mayhem

 

[WhistlingBadger]

I live to serve...
Here's the first video I shot of the tank, when it was about 3 months old.

Here's the most recent, from a couple months ago:

 

[FishGuest5123]

My biggest accomplishment? Not killing the fish! Lol!!! When I was breeding and selling black moors, I guess. Loved doing it. Oh, selling my pond fish to a few ranches/farms in NE Texas too. Wait, I forgot...MY FISH ROOM!

 

[FishBR]

My highest accomplishments thus far was breeding and raising Betta imbellis and Boraras naevus fry.

Cool! I was also able to breed Betta imbellis, but I did not raise the fry. Had to give them away. Here is a video of the fry eating baby brine shrimp:

 

[FishBR]

I live to serve...
Here's the first video I shot of the tank, when it was about 3 months old.

Here's the most recent, from a couple months ago:

So beautiful! That is quite an achievement.

 

[Crispii]

Cool! I was also able to breed Betta imbellis, but I did not raise the fry. Had to give them away. Here is a video of the fry eating baby brine shrimp:

Oh, hey. I remember watching that video!

 

[FishGuy81]

I had cories breed once. I had three fish for the longest time and then one day during feeding time a smaller, fourth one bellied up for some food.

 

[corylover5]

My best achievement was removing the 230 tiny baby mystery snails from my 29 gallon tank in as little as 3 days and giving them to my LFS

 

[Herpin Man]

My highest achievement would be a tossup- either my having kept a few simple species of plants alive, or having bred a couple species of fish.
Although the second one was really unintentional, and should probably be disqualified.