How does your current aquarium differ to your very first one?

Magenta

I've been aquascaping this week and spending a lot of time on aquarium decor online stores. One photo of some very frosted pink and blue gravel took me right back to my preteen years.
When I was about 10 I got my first aquarium. It was plastic, about 30L with a bright pink lid and everything in it was gaudy and hideous.
Pink plants, neon yellow plants that glowed in the dark, that awful frosted Barbie-style gravel. And no filter, because my parents refused to believe that a filter was necessary.
I look back now in horror, the tank used to be filthy but the fish somehow lived- one got his tail bit off by the cat so swam around with a stump for the next 6 years.

How has your taste etc changed over the years?

Sleepy

My first tank was similar: plastic, spongebob squarepants themed and a graveyard for at least 5/6 goldfish before I learned what I was doing...

corkgsxr

Pack as much fish in a possible.

Now Iv big silver dollars.

CruelCoin

First tank was guppies in a ****ty bright yellow monstrosity, with plastic plants and pink gravel. No filtration, so surprise surprise, everything died.

Current tank is 10 times the size, heavily planted with a soil substrate topped with sand. Night and day difference.

Berserker

My first tank was a 54L, can't remember the make and model. I had cherry barbs in it.

I now have a 180L Juwel Rio with a shoal of tiger barbs.

Cookie_Monster

It's 400% bigger and sitting on it side, empty, in the garage currently :pac:

Jen Pigs Fly

From goldfish in a 30l to a 350l coral reef marine
Also have a fully planted discus tank as well.

Poor goldfish

Berserker

xxxJennyxxx wrote: »

From goldfish in a 30l to a 350l coral reef marine
Also have a fully planted discus tank as well.

Poor goldfish

Just looking at your location there. I was in a well known pet shop in Maynooth no so long ago and a sales agent was selling a tiny, can't imagine that it was even 30L, tank to a mother for her children. She was going to put a goldfish in it. The rubbish the agent was telling her about keeping goldfish was incredible. I was trying to get a chance to talk to the lady to tell her how unsuitable that tank was for a goldfish but the agent never let her out of his sight.

Jen Pigs Fly

Berserker wrote: »

Just looking at your location there. I was in a well known pet shop in Maynooth no so long ago and a sales agent was selling a tiny, can't imagine that it was even 30L, tank to a mother for her children. She was going to put a goldfish in it. The rubbish the agent was telling her about keeping goldfish was incredible. I was trying to get a chance to talk to the lady to tell her how unsuitable that tank was for a goldfish but the agent never let her out of his sight.

Oh I know well, it's such a disgrace really what people put goldfish especially through.
I work In a fish house and try my very best to educate people about goldfish, suitable tanks for them and general info about them.

The amount of people who are shocked when they hear just what age and how big a goldfish can get.

I'm going for a higher up fish house job, I'm thinking I might get a big goldfish in as a 'store pet' just to show how big they can get and he'll be in a 300L haha

Sleepy

I won a €50 voucher from Seahorse for suggesting just that idea as a display tank xxxJennyxxx!

Make sure if you do it to put a "goldfish bowl" into the bottom of the tank as a tank decoration so people can see just how ridiculous/cruel they are

sebcity

xxxJennyxxx wrote: »

Oh I know well, it's such a disgrace really what people put goldfish especially through.
I work In a fish house and try my very best to educate people about goldfish, suitable tanks for them and general info about them.

The amount of people who are shocked when they hear just what age and how big a goldfish can get.

I'm going for a higher up fish house job, I'm thinking I might get a big goldfish in as a 'store pet' just to show how big they can get and he'll be in a 300L haha

Sleepy wrote: »

I won a €50 voucher from Seahorse for suggesting just that idea as a display tank xxxJennyxxx!

Make sure if you do it to put a "goldfish bowl" into the bottom of the tank as a tank decoration so people can see just how ridiculous/cruel they are

Great ideas!

Jen Pigs Fly

Sleepy wrote: »

I won a €50 voucher from Seahorse for suggesting just that idea as a display tank xxxJennyxxx!

Make sure if you do it to put a "goldfish bowl" into the bottom of the tank as a tank decoration so people can see just how ridiculous/cruel they are

Oh that's the plan and I'm guna say to people, want to see my goldfish and her bowl? And show them a 5 foot with a 12 inch goldfish swimming around her bowl (which will have a little ornament in it)