Novice tropical fish owner.

[Laterider21958]

We've got 5 tanks running currently, 2, 10, 10, 20 and 75 gallons. Mostly bread and butter tropicals, tetras, platys, cory cats, etc, goldfish and the big tank has african chichlids and clown loaches.

At the moment I am sticking to the easy to care for hardy fish. If I am successful with these, I will try to be more adventurous and get a larger tank and try the more challenging varieties. Just love going to the aquarium shop and looking at their displays. One day I will have a big tank, but I'm taking small steps at the moment.

[singletrackmind]

Same here. I'm fond of the bread and butters (easy care cheap fish).

Ma had a 200 gallon with a mess of large turquoise and other varieties of Discus that died when she messed up on a ph adjustment. Oy, how much she spent on those fish and how sad she was to lose every last one.

[Bikingmomof3]

Another aquarium owner here. We began with Platies and guppies, but have since moved on to egg layers. Yes, they do indeed like salt added to the water. We found the live bearers to die young, as the females get worn out from giving birth all the time. And unfortunately we could not find a way to keep the guys happy without the females, so we moved on to other fish.