We actually don't know what made our tank burst, there must have been a flaw or something in the glass, either that or one of the fish knocked over one of the heavy rock slabs and it hit the glass and shattered it. The tank was less than 3 years old too The 15 gallon I have going now is almost 20 years old, and it's still fine.

Counting today? Ummm...three weeks.

Kidding.

We kept a bunch when I was a kid - dad bred some mollies etc.
Have always LOVED freshwater fishing. Don't get to go much anymore, but I used to every day.

I kept a Pirranha (sp?) in college. Other stuff here and there through the years.

Just recently got back in hot & heavy for the last couple years or so. This is probably the most into the hobby I've been & I have no desire to slow down.

Dont know if anybody else has noticed, but it all seems as if it is either our parents, or another part of our family, that has got us interested, or at least going by the majority who have answered this thread

Yep.

Funny - that I paid attention to fishkeeping but somehow missed the "drinking" lecture.

like gary my interest was germinated from my childhood obsession with angling.

my big sis had a couple of small tanks for a while which i enjoyed watching when i visited her, plus being a big headed sod i always thought i'd love to do that but do it better.

my 1st tank (about 10 yrs ago) was only 24" x 8" x8" about 5 gal, then i moved onto a 24" x 12" x 12" (10g). i mostly kept small easy to keep fish like tetras and guppies and when i started breeding guppies i bought another 24" x 12" x 12" as a grow out tank for my baby guppies that i would trade back to the fish shop. bred and sold hundreds of the guys which paid for a lot of equipment.

after a while i got a little tired of the hobby, the restrictions of my small tanks and my inability to grow plants. but about 2-3 years ago now i started to do a lot of reading about how to grow plants in the aquarium and decided i would give it a try but get a bigger tank 1st. thats when i bought my Rio 180. since then like most in here i have developed MTS and now have 5 tanks (listed below in my sig.). if my flat wasnt so small i'd have more and bigger ones

now that i have learned how to keep plants and have 2 decent sized planted community tanks i dont see myself losing interest in the hibby like i did a few yrs ago. if anything, the more i learn about different fish and fish keeping in general the more i love it

And so another one was captivated and bitten by the bug

Took about 20 years to get around to acquiring a tank, though.

Ah but you got one then 2 then 3 then 4 and thats what its all about, M.T.S.

And that leads to MHS - Multiple House Syndrome !!

Or maybe just BHS - Bigger House Syndrome...

BHS for me.

Sod it just buy the amazon

The river, or the whole jungle ?

You mean you could have one without the other ?

Depends on how shiny your beads are !