Catfish Youth

Post by **Birger** » 30 Apr 2005, 16:16

I have been noticing there are a few younger people posting greetings and looking for imformation, it is great they can feel welcome and to see the response of people trying to help them.

Thinking of myself at the age of ten(34 years ago.I had no internet and it seemed like nobody to talk to about my hobby.I wqould go to the library take out aquarium books and have my family test me on the different fish. I mail ordered the Tetra Digest magazine and treasured every issue(I have every one). Even managed to have the odd fish breed as I am still doing today.I am not that old

but have seen such a change in the hobby.

My point is, it is great to see these kids having the opportunities and imformation available to them and feel it is important to help them when we can and hope some of them carry on as hobbyists or with careers in the sciences.

Birger

Sandtiger · Post by **Sandtiger** » 05 May 2005, 00:05

Well put. I am pretty young still myself (21 y/o) but am happy to see so many young people getting into something like this, I find that to many young people don't have any intense hobbys or interests. I am the only person in my family and circle of friends that has a die hard interest in fish and fishkeeping, lucky for me I can talk to others in the forums. Gotta love the internet....sometimes.

bronzefry · Post by **bronzefry** » 05 May 2005, 14:07

Have you noticed they're here on the weekends? During the week, time to do the homework!

kev · Post by **kev** » 07 May 2005, 22:33

tell me am i still considered young at 24 or am i old???

Kev

bronzefry · Post by **bronzefry** » 08 May 2005, 14:22

You're a fry, next to me, kiddo!

bunjiweb · Post by **bunjiweb** » 08 May 2005, 18:38

Im 19, 20 in June... Been interested in Catfish for at least a year and a half if not 2 years now..... does that make me Catfish Youth?

Ben

PlecoCrazy · Post by **PlecoCrazy** » 09 May 2005, 06:24

Its all a matter of perspective. I am only 29 which is not that much older but have kept fish for 22 years and have had more than 5 tanks over 75% of my life, currently 23 of them, and my first catfish spawn of cory aeneus was at age 12 with my latest success L134. I travel all over the country to various fish conventions and I am easily one of the youngest people there and many of them have many more tanks than I. I would have to say you are a catfish youth, you still have much to learn as well as I.

bunjiweb · Post by **bunjiweb** » 09 May 2005, 18:41

Well i have my eye on various things to increase my catfish keeping potential.

A) I am looking into a 6x2x2ft tank to replace my 60Gallon "catfish tank"
B) I am thinking about buying up to 6 x 20Gallon tanks for breeding plecs and other small catfish
C)My first house WILL have a "fish room"...

Ben

pictus_man_77 · Post by **pictus_man_77** » 22 May 2005, 09:15

i am 13 and wll have had my tank for 1 year this Friday.I am certainly one of the younger users of this site and i would like to point out that this website is a wealth of information, so im gonna milk it 4 all its worth!!!!!
the pictus section iz the most use 4 me as i have 2 and when i hope 2 get a new tank im gonna get more

YouTube · Post by **Jools** » 22 May 2005, 09:31

Well, I'm 33. I think I used to belong to catfish youth; I started a fish club at high school and we had nearly 20 tanks in an otherwise unused corner of the drama dept.

One of the reasons I started planetcatfish (aged 25) was that I didn't have an outlet for my catfish interest - I guess it snowballed!

Jools

Nik_Boyd · Post by **Nik_Boyd** » 22 May 2005, 11:46

I'm 21, not been into catfish that long, not kept a tropical tank for that long (about a month) but found even before I got it that this site, and especially the forums contain a wealth of knowledge.

I'm a member of several similar forums, but Planet Catfish seems to have the edge. I don't know if its through dedication of memebers, of just through having people with lots of good advice.

Keep up the great work all!

Nik

bronzefry · Post by **bronzefry** » 22 May 2005, 14:49

I just turned the big 40.

sidguppy · Post by **sidguppy** » 22 May 2005, 15:48

join the club!
I did last october.

doesn't keep me from behaving immature or making piles of stupid mistakes, though; so you'll be warned

bronzefry · Post by **bronzefry** » 22 May 2005, 21:16

It's odd, Sid. I get more immature as I get older....

Post by **medaka** » 22 May 2005, 22:13

doesn't keep me from behaving immature or making piles of stupid mistakes, though

4 more days and I am 45

bronzefry · Post by **bronzefry** » 23 May 2005, 13:53

I see you can't spell either. I was about 18 when I made a concerted effort by doing the NY Times crossword puzzle. Now everybody types so quickly with their instant messaging, nobody notices poor spelling. Only proper spelling is noticed.

Happy Birthday, Medaka.

Odd how they creep up on you and just become "another day."

MatsP · Post by **MatsP** » 23 May 2005, 16:00

Bronzefry wrote:I just turned the big 40.

So did I, a couple of months later than Sid.

Got that "more immature" attitude too. I think it's a case of when you grow up, you need to act more mature to impress on other people (well, sometimes at least). Once you get to 35-40, you don't have that pressure... That's my excuse anyways...

I started with a few fish some 30 or so years ago... Got some guppies of one of the neighbours, bought a tank to keep them. When I moved to England at about 30, I left my 160 ltr tank in Sweden. Thanks to my fiancee who bought a small plastic tub and a couple of goldfish about two years ago, it started up again... In those two years, the plastic tub is gone, and we now have two small, one medium and one large aquariums, plus two baby nets, with in total over 100 fish (most of which are babies).

Always liked the catfish's, particularly the Loricaridae, ever since I got "Algot", which was a "Common pleco" (Probably Hypostomus Plecostomus) some 20 odd years ago. I spent quite a lot of time watching that fish in the "Night light" on the tank.

--
Mats

bronzefry · Post by **bronzefry** » 23 May 2005, 21:16

I imagine those nightlights will come in very handy as "old age" insomnia sets in.

I love the nightlights. I wonder if the fish do.....

FishFin23 · Post by **FishFin23** » 24 May 2005, 02:06

It's refreshing to see people my age interested in the same kind of fish I am (I'm 21). I came here because none of my friends have any idea what to say when I get really excited about that new cory shipment at the fish shop. Nice to know I'm not the only who went crazy at an early age.