I have been an active aquatic hobbyist for over twenty years. In fact, my hobby has taken me from a small fifteen-gallon peaceful community experiment, through over forty aquariums of various sizes and the ownership of two tropical fish stores in Houston. The majority of the aquariums are gone now; I am down to only one in my bedroom. The tropical fish stores are a distant, albeit financially illustrative, vision. All I have really had to occupy my water-borne fancy is my five-year-old pond in my backyard.

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