22 years ago - my first planted tank!

Originally Posted by amigo

yup, last time where got $$$ to buy fish tanks. get whatever containers, clean them and put our dearly beloved fish inside.
i still remember when i was small, i bath together with my goldfish which my mum bought for me. thought i need to bath, so does my goldfish. of course, it could last more than 2 hours after that. after that, no more fishes from her.
innocence of a child.....

lucky your goldfish nver bite your 2 big pellets .................

Originally Posted by REDDOT

lucky your goldfish nver bite your 2 big pellets .................

Don't worry . The pellets are protected by his Giant Snakehead. LOL!!!!!

Originally Posted by explorer

Don't worry . The pellets are protected by his Giant Snakehead. LOL!!!!!

How big is your giant snakehead?

[Apollosiao]

mine wasnt that long ago but approximately 13 yrs ago . i inserted a straw into those air stone hoping to blow oxygen into my guppy tank. my mouth was sore but i knew my fishes needed oxygen from my science textbook

[lukeskwr]

so shiok reading this thread....brings back my old memories of fishkeeping. the deaths, the spawning, the 'stunts' from fishshops and most of all the trouble i had with my father.he hates me keeping fish,says only guys with no job will be keeping fish.well i did not have a job then, was schooling..ha ha.but he like animals too.heard from my grandma that he kept dogs, went fishing and such.when i did it he gave me the stare.now i have my own house and own a fishtank(wife not too please with it but nothing can kill my love for fishkeeping).

[lukeskwr]

me kept my fishes in jam bottles, bottle cover had small angelfish and a goldfish, very tiny. fed them with tubifex worms and also the dried bread...tastes plain ok.sadly all the fish died.once i kept some guppies.i felt the water was very cold so i added hot water to bring up the heat....man some fishkeeping knowlegde.....

Originally Posted by lukeskwr

so shiok reading this thread....brings back my old memories of fishkeeping. the deaths, the spawning, the 'stunts' from fishshops...

Bro, care to share wat kind of "stunts" the fishshops performed on u?

[lukeskwr]

Originally Posted by MPeX

Bro, care to share wat kind of "stunts" the fishshops performed on u?

oh yeah....'stunt' fish from shop, not on me. my fren will go talk to the owner while we help ourselves to the guppies in the tank in front of the shop.

Hah...i remember staying in AMK in the late 70s n early 80s,had more then 10containers.These were those 5gallon jerry containers...black in colour...got a saw and made windows in them.

Kept guppy,molly and fighting in them!!Also had a 2footer(why i still remember it had aluminium sides,silicon was in use already)

In this 2footer had a marine set up,UGF white sand live corals and got skimmer yes skimmer!!!!(using air driven-piece of wood,plastic with green coloured rings that hold it in place and a green coloured plastic screw to hold onto the tank).

There was pistol shrimps in it and boy was it irritating early in the morning.(these shrimps were collected by the beach)

Originally Posted by lukeskwr

oh yeah....'stunt' fish from shop, not on me. my fren will go talk to the owner while we help ourselves to the guppies in the tank in front of the shop.

Orhhhh u mean "stun" fish ah... I thought the lfs owner was a stuntman or chut pattern on u... lol...

But those guppies in old market lfs are mostly feeder fishes leh, 1 entire tank full of dull coloured guppies. Quite a squeeze, easily few hundred of them in a small 1.5 or 2 footer..