Hi.... I am a new member on this forum, been keeping fish for a year and a half, i have 3 tanks all quite different: started with fancy goldfish, they are in a 55 gall tank, then added some small tropicals in another smaller tank (barbs, guppies, danios, albino plec); my most recent 3rd tank I have had 10 months with cichlids of a few varieties....this tank was purchased used with a strange assortment of fish: blood parrot pair, jack dempsey, silver dollars, red tail shark, and 2 africans... not very compatible species in a 72 gall and quite overcrowded IMO. I have given away most of those inhabitants and recently decided to switch it all to African and I am now enjoying some new msobos, yellow labs, eye biters, brichardi, and giant danios....
I find fish so fun to sit and watch and a very relaxing hobby. Plus being allergic to most typical domestic pets, fish work well for me. :thumbs: