My biotope aquarium

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They spent the night in a glass jar for pickles. Oh, horror I would say today ..... but they survived and soon got their own rectangular glass container, my first aquarium.

It was an aquarium with a metal frame and glued with glass putty.

There was an aquaristic shop in the neighboring place at that time, which was super stocked for the situation at that time, I got the first technical equipment to start there.

That same year, I received the first set of aquarium glued with silicone putty as a gift for a personal holiday.

In the period until the end of primary school, my friends and I researched, experimented, ... the first aquarium warm-water fish were live-bearing, followed by Asian barbels and labyrinths.

I remember the first glowing tiny fish in the corner of the external filter, the Cardinalk ( Tanichthys albonubes ) fry, the first fry that hatched from my eggs in the aquarium. It was a holiday.

My friend and neighbor and I successfully bred a pearl thread beetle ( Trichopodus leerii - Bleeker, 1852) in the basement of our block, then still under the Latin name Trichogaster leerii .

For the first 5 years, until 1980, I read aquaristic literature (there was very little of it) and gained as much experience as I could. During this time, despite my wishes, I did not have more than 3 aquariums, as the space in my room did not allow me to do so.

After finishing primary school, we moved to the other end of the country, where the second chapter begins and a whole new world of aquaristics.