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My life with fish part 1
6:47 PM, Oct. 18, 2007
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Here is part one of the Highlights of my Fishkeeping you are goin to have to really beg for part two and three
MY EXPERIENCE WITH FISH
HIGHLIGHTS OF MY UP’s & DOWN’s IN THIS HOBBY
BY ISAIAH J. JENKINS
PART ONE
I have kept Goldfish 11 years and freshwater tropical fish for 7 years. I have kept 90 Species of fish and spawned 16 species successfully. Here are the highlights of my fish keeping experience.
I received my first fish at age three a goldfish it didn’t live very long so I consider my fish keeping to start four years later. Two goldfish in a one-gallon bowl with an air bubbler (without a air bubbler they would have again died almost without a doubt I hate to think of what would have happen then that may have killed my hobby but they made it and here I am 89 species and over a thousand fish later). On e of the goldfish survived only a couple of months (he was than flushed due to the fact that we thought he was really sick now that I know a little more it was just a swim bladder problem from being fed to much dry food). So we bought another goldfish to replace the one we lost. The other one continued to survive in the one gallon bowl. We moved after I had the goldfish for about a year and we lost the new one to a swim bladder problem again. The surviving original one (her name was Queenie yes she did turn out to be a female) she continued to survive and maybe even thrive in the bowl for about 6 six months until we once again got her a companion. After I had had Queenie for about three years I decided it was time for a upgrade so I bought a ten-gallon tank and put the two goldfish in it and soon after I bought a black moor which we named Goggles he would later lose his eyes to a beginners mistake. A bout six months later they spawned my first spawning ever although I managed to hatch the eggs and raise the fry for a few weeks but they died. It remains to this day my most successful goldfish spawn. Soon after this my grandfather gave me another ten-gallon tank with filter and hood. This would actually prove to be a pivotal moment in my hobby which at this time was overshadowed by my chickens and sheep but I was about to jump into the hot tropicals and they would steal my heart way.
Six months later an acquaintance (At this time I probably wouldn’t of considered him a friend more like an enemy don’t ask me why he is now the Vice President of DPFH and one of my closest friends) told me that he had some extra Guppies I told him that I had an extra tank of course I had to ask my parents they said yes (they probably regret it now) so the romance was on. So a week later after I had read all the information I had on guppies in every book that I had on fish at that time (which was quite limited) I still research quite a bit when I get a new fish so I got my guppies my first tropicals my first love there were about 15 of them from a couple of days old to about month old. A couple of months later when I was cleaning out the filter, I found a couple of fry I didn’t have a separate tank for them so they didn’t make it. About a week later I took a female out of the tank and put her in a net breeder she had 36 fry a couple of days later and I was a father (beginners luck I have had only had more fry from a guppy once it was the same guppy a month later when she had 46). A little while after this we went to a petstore actually I didn’t get to go in I was being punished I don’t know why oh maybe it was forgetting in a fight with one of my siblings on the way there I only had 5 than but now I have 8 wait I am getting off the subject. Well my brother went into the petstore with my mother while I had to go into another store with my father. My brother bought a albino cory cat. From that point on our collection began to grow at a rapid pace. That cory cat turned out to be a important part of my success. A few months later he spawned with a female that another one of my brothers had bought ( I was pretty slow to buy fish in the beginning of my hobby now I am killed by them for spending money on fish). So when they spawned we moved all the fish to another tank they spawned in a community tank (we had three tanks at this time). The eggs hatched and we managed to raise one of them DHFH was alive and swimming. The second spawn was more successful and we sold most of them to a fish store. In the fall of 2000 we had five tanks and we moved. DPFH had hatched (we changed our name from Deer Hill Fish Hatchers to Deer Path Fish Hatchers). The second day at our new location resulted in a minor accident while we were arranging our new room a book shelf fell on the fish with all the fish in it. Yes, they were in one tank water, fish, and glass flew everywhere luckily we didn’t lose a fish. While I am at it I have another tank shattering story. My brother and I were rough housing and his head hit a fish tank and the whole side of the fish tank cracked and water started pouring out luckily nothing was pouring out of his head. I have since learned not to. That there are to many breakable things (fish tanks) in our room for rough housing.
The next step for me in this hobby was African cichlids. I t all started when a fish store owner asked me if I would like to have 5 newly hatched yellow labid fry I put them in a net breeder in my community tank. I than moved them to a ten gallon with some other fry I was raising and than I was in luck again one Sunday as we were driving home from a picnic we happened to take a side road and there was a thirty gallon fish tank on the side of the road. It had the words African cichlid written all over it. After we tested it for leaks (it didn’t have any) I was ready for African cichlids. By this time the yellow labids were two inches long and two had survived so I moved them to the thirty-gallon tank. A few weeks later we added two more labids one of them died but the other one thrived. A month later I added two more yellow labids and a small tanayikain cichlid (I still don’t know hardly any of the African cichlids names) and a trio of Numbis. After we had had the numbis for about a month they spawned becoming the first cichlid I had ever spawned. After 16 days I took the fry out of the mothers mouth. During this time we had gotten many more cichlids including a pair of convicts that spawned and raised fry in the tank. Then the yellow labids spawned 21 days later I took 16 fry out of her mouth. Than the biggest disaster in DPFH history struck. It all started with 4 seemingly healthy fish bought at petsmart a few days later they began to die and weeks later the other fish started to fade that’s when I started to treat the tank. After awhile the fish stopped dieing and thought I had beaten it. But a few months later it reared it’s ugly head once again. This time I was able to pinpoint it as a deadly protozoa. Nothing seemed to kill it. Out of 20 fish only one survived the ordeal.
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