What type of tank did you have before getting into SW?

[coyoteseven]

Everything from the obligatory 1g goldfish bowl (over 35yrs ago) to planted/breeding discus and angelfish to outdoor ponds.

Like waterkeeper, my first SW was a 5g dwarf seahorse tank back in the early 70's... lasted about 6 months.

[tperk9784]

Still have a 20 long with 2 neolamprologus multifaciatus (shell dwelling tanganyikan cichlids).

I almost feel bad now that I pay so much more attention to my new 10 gallon SW nano. They get fed and weekly water changes still but I barley sit and look at that tank anymore like I used to.


Tim

[Dr Jones]

I had 2 ciclid tanks, one african and one south american. I loved my south american untill one day one of my big oscars spawned and decided to kill everything in the tank... bad news but i've moved to saltwater now. I also keep a small tetra tank for my sister that I got her for her birthday a while back (she says its her tank but I still do everything for it).

[stapler]

Ive had guppies and cichlid tanks. Cichlids always ate live plants...so stuck with the fake stuff.

[Trekkie]

I had nothing before. I've always had only saltwater.

[luceneck]

I had a tank full of guppies that I was trying to breed as food for some fish I was going to put in my 55g. Never got around to setting up my 55g for FW and it became SW. I worked at Petsmart and I fell in love with the Needle nose fish. I wanted to make a brakish water tank with bog wood and plants. Here is a pic of the fish I was talking about. If you see this thing eat, it is amazing!!!

[Rendos]

I voted other because I have had pretty much all of the above and then some. I have had aquariums since I was 12 years old (23 years and counting). I had community tanks most of that time, but also had large oscar/SA cichlid tanks, African cichlids, discus, angels, arowanna, Fancy goldfish tanks (Ryukin, Lionheads, etc.), rainbow tanks, killifish, tried my hand at brackish water for a while (archers, gobies, scats, etc.). I still have 2 outdoor ponds. 1 is ~3500 gallons with koi (9 koi from 18" - 26"), and the other is ~1300 gallons with Sarasa comets and Shubunkins. I have contemplated tearing down one of my reef tanks and going back to the planted tank with discus. Of all freshwater fish, I think I like them best.

[Jow13]

I had just a goldfish bowl. One black goldfish had him for like 8 years i think. he lives with my sister now, still going strong.

[majesticangelfish]

I went from an 20gallon Amazon- tetra tank to a 30gallon community/gourami tank to a 55gallon Tanganyikan tank- into a 120gallon Blue Ahli breeding system (of which i still have kept about 45) to today a 100gallon reef with now a 40 gallon sump and a 20 gallon fuge- dream is a 3500gallon octagonal tank/ or a shack on the beach in queensland (G.B.R.)

Josh

[charlesgage]

Had a 29 tall with tropicals that i donated to a school. I just sold a 55 Gallon Malawi Setup with a breeding pair and some others for 200 bucks and bought a 55g with a sump and figured that I could get out by spending another 200-300 bucks on a salt setup Here i am at least a thousand bucks later and i still have much to spend. It's funny how quick you get addicted, but the coolest thing is that my new girlfriend knows more about this stuff than i do, she is always helping me with my tank. Now who can deny, a cute girl that doesn't mind spending a night toying with the tank is more than a man could ask?

[cich1]

charlesgage thats pretty funny, i thought the same thing, "i already have the tank, stand,heater and light how much could it cost to go salt" $1000 and 3 months later i think i'm almost ready to add a mushroom

[curtisc63]

Always wanted one and finally got the time, money, and chance to do it.

[saltywater180]

Discus, 4 breeder pair, 6 30long grow out tanks. Way to much WORK!!!!

[WaterKeeper]

Anyone want to hear about my FW shark tank. I really didn't know that bull sharks needed to get some salt water once in awhile.

[jobryan26]

I had some Red Bellied Pacus and absolutely loved them. They just got too dang big!

[overflowin]

i started out with some bala sharks, then clown loaches and a pleco...then i lost the loaches and started a cichlid tank. ended up with one murderous red devil...traded him in at the lfs and never looked back!

donnie

[sharkboy11]

Started with soem Severum then went to Fei Feng..then to f/w stingrays and now im a salty!

[Gimpster]

Lets see, I started with a Goldfish tank right after I got married. It lasted for awhile untill I accidently spilled too much food in the tank and since I did not know enough it went badly.

Next I converted it to a tropical tank and everything was going ok. Then I started adding more aggressive fish and befor long I was left with a 29g occupied with 2 large catfish, 10" & 11", one Tiger Oscer, 9" and 1 Pleco, 14". I started getting pink slime bad enough to require a complete tank cleaning avery few days. Did not know the problems of using tap water and anything about bio-load. The fish were given to a LFS and I gave the tank away.

Eight years later I am now taking care of a 10g nano reef that is doing nicely and I know more then I did before, and that there is always more to learn.

[alprazo]

It all started as a SW 29 tank used to keep bait for fishing. The minnows became mullet, searobins, lookdowns, stargazers, pufferfish, pompano and whatever else I could catch. That was 25 years ago. I still keep a bait tank every summer.

[mellen]

1971, 10AGA with BILLIONS of swordtails. Over next five years my bros and I picked up used 75's until we had 5 tanks all over the house, all marine, all stuff we collected ourselves. Moved from Miami in '81, planted FW S.E. Asian, Malawi Cichlid, planted Congo River, 40 long/breeder SWFO/macros, later got MH and added condies, mandarinfish, first available LR (worked LFS) which came from FL by pickup truck overnight and had all kinda cool stuff on it!

[Agu]

Tried several fw setups, most worked and the fish lived, amazing considering how ignorant I was about fw fish needs.

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Agu