The subtitle of this blog is a little misleading - I'm not going to chronicle the trials and tribulations of the very beginning of my journey, which started with a 10-gallon under-gravel-filtered goldfish aquarium, when I was about eight or so. My family has kept fish for years, and I continued the tradition through my teenager-hood and even after I got married! (My husband graciously puts up with my fish madness, and acts as a desperately needed brake against MTS - "multiple tank syndrome" - the condition in which the aquarist finds herself endlessly multiplying the number of tanks she owns, until there is no space left in the house for more. He is why I now have just two "display" aquariums and a single 10g quarantine.) The purpose of this blog is to allow me to gush harmlessly into the ether about my two currant tanks, both 48" 55-gallon aquariums.
The delightful thing about aquariums is that you can set them up to be as demanding or undemanding as you like - a definite perk for someone like me, who likes to meddle at will but wants things to run pretty much on their own for months at a time. Right now is definitely a meddling period - my fish are so used to me being shoulder-deep in their habitat that I can pet them when they come up to nibble me! I have a little bit of backstory to tell about my newest tank, though, so these first few posts will come fast and furious until I run out of things to say.
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