My history with fish..... Go to the pet store to buy a ten gallon aquarium. When I go to take it out of the car, it has somehow turned into a 29 gallon tank.
Stock said tank with the usual suspects, some mollies, swordtails, neons, maybe an angelfish, a couple catfish, and a pleco for the algae.
As you may know, and I will tell you if you don't, mollies and swordtails are livebearers. No problem, right? Survival of the fittest and all that.
No, the first time I see that little ones being born, the only possible solution is to get a home for them, when turns out to be a 20 gallon tank, that conveniently has the same footprint as the 29, and will fit on the same stand, under it.
Thats nice, but then you get more and more fish, decides some discus would be nice, and a 55 gallon tank somehow materializes in the house.
It's all lunacy... once, a saltwater tank even showed up! Those are beautiful fish, but after finding out more about how many are caught, that hasn't been repeated. Though captive bred clownfish are tempting!
Been thought he whole cycle twice, with only moves across the ocean preventing things from getting even worse!
I could watch the darned things for hours. Right now I have a 55 devoid of life (I think). I either need to clean it and populate it or get rid of it. But I know what will happen if I do either!
