From memory, it all started when my older brother set up a 3-foot tropical tank in our parent's place. I was probably 9 or 10 years old.  I can still remember being mesmerized by the beautiful colours of the Cardinal tetras and a blue/red Siamese fighting fish.

 Since then and until just a few years ago, I've always had at least one fish tank at any given time.  Over the years I experimented with tropical aquariums,  Discus tanks, Cichlids,  reef tanks and planted tanks. Usually sized between 3 foot and 6 foot, although I owed a few unusual  ones :-)

 Reef tanks are my favourite type of aquarium but are also the most demanding, time-consuming and expensive aquariums to set up and maintain. 

Some years ago I was forced to choose between buying cigarettes or getting rid of my fish tanks to reduce the outrageous power bill.  LED lights were still expensive so of course, I chose to keep smoking :-)

I stopped smoking eventually, and the price of LED fittings came down a lot since then   :-) .... but I decided the next time I set up an aquarium will be when I finally buy my own place and it will probably be a small nano tank lol,   I miss having fishtanks around but I'm fed up with having to move them. My back and knees are permanently damaged because of that  :-( 

Unfortunately,  I don't have much to show, most of my old photos were lost in a hard disk crash years ago and I could only find a handful of photos.