Intro

Hi Everyone,

Just a short intro. Everyone calls me Noodle, and have ever since I can remember. It's a long story but to cut it short, Santa Clause gave me the moniker :blink1: but that was a long time ago.

When I first started keeping fish, I was a lot younger than I am today. In the good ol' days when you just bought a tank, an air pump and a heater, turfed in some gravel, water and some fish, and you had yourself an aquarium!

Needless to say, I soon got bored with the whole mess and gave everything away to a colleague, who also, after an enthusiastic start, gave up an gave everything away to someone else.

Years have passed, and I'm now retired and bored out of my skull.

I don't know exactly what prompted me to say it, but when my wife told me that my kids had asked her what I would like for my birthday, and that I should give her a few suggestions, I said that I would like a "fish tank".

Okay, cool. Come my birthday, the family had clubbed together and gave me just over R1000.00 to buy a "fish tank" with.

WOW! Clutching the thousand bucks in my hot little hand I headed off to the nearest "fish shop" and came out more than R5000.00 lighter in the wallet than when I went in.

Then came the rude awakening, Things are very different now to what they were years ago.

After loosing a bunch of expensive fish, I started to learn about such things as ammonia poisoning, cycling (which I always thought had something to do with bicycles, but fish don't need bicycles, do they?), Nitrites, Nitrates, ph, total alkalinity, hardness, and a bunch of other water tests. Not to mention diagnosing and treating fish diseases.

Thank goodness for the internet and Google!

Yes, it's a whole new and fascinating game. I can't get enough of it. I've been scouring second hand shops and blowing my pension on on anything that even looks like it might make a nice aquarium.

Needless to say the LOML is getting a bit fed up with the whole thing and is threatening to move out if I don't stop. "...there's not enough space for me and your $@# fish in this house! Either the fish go, or I go, make up your mind!!!"


*sigh* I'm going to miss her.

 

Welcome to TASA!

 

Welcome Noodle.

 

that's a good intro !
hope you frequent the forum .
any questions? just post in the relevant sections and we will help .

tell is about your setups ? some pics ?

cheers

 

Hi there and welcome. Wow what an intro. Glad to have another older person on the forum. Hope you don't get bored with the hobby this time.

 

welcome to TASA noodle!

 

Hello and welcome to TASA Noodle.

 

Welcme Noodle. Nice intro
If you do get bored just look around here and you will find a new challenge to boggle the mind.

 

:rofl: "*sigh* I'm going to miss her." :rofl:

Welcome to TASA .. wicked writing hope to read more from your keyboard.

Proof of life equals a thread and pictures of each tank :blink1:

 

Hello and welcome to TASA Noodle. Nice to have some older "newbies"! to join me and Prof Dirk!

 

Welcome to TASA Noodle
The fish are now part of the family, everyone excepts it

 

Hi Guys,
Thanx for the welcome, I'm feeling at home already!

I doubt I will be getting bored in a hurry. I must admit that retirement was a bit of a shock, and I was starting to feel a little (make that a LOT) depressed. Now, with my "new" hobby, I feel like a kid again. Every morning feels like Christmas all over again.

As for pics, well, I've only been back at it for 2 months now, and I don't feel my setup is ready for public display just yet.

Apart from my snail problem, I must be doing something right, as the only surviving female guppy from my first disaster has already spawned twice. I fear I may be overrun with guppy fry if it goes on like this!