The other half...

I was reading Franna's thread when I suddenly got wondering - who else here has somehow mananaged to get their boyfriend/girlfriend/husband/wife to get into fishkeeping?

On my side, I've found it to be impossible. My one ex-girlfriend eventually gave into the idea but never stuck with the hobby for long...

My current girlfriend thinks I'm an absolute nut (which is fair enough). She has no idea why anyone would want so many fish, nor how a person could spend so much cash on them... *groan*... will they ever understand?

Maybe I'm just stuck with the non-fish-friendly ones. Has anyone else had much luck?

 

My wife don't keep fish but likes them. She would once in a while feed them and such. She loves the rams because they would bite your finger if you put it in the tank becasue they want food.

She would put het finger in the tank, laugh and then appologize for not having food to give them.

 

Nope! No one but me will keep fish, however my older brother has got a small tank with guppies in.

 

all my friends ,when they see my tanks , they want one ,soo fish keeping is influencial

 

I got my gf onto fishkeeping, she had more tanks than me at one point (until I caught up, it was an assault on my fishyness). She's on this forum actually, as Whisper...

 

This is propably the way all of the fights between me and my girlfriend start. The money i spend on this hobby... It's just imposible to understand to her.

Schalk

 

I got Kattz into the hobby within a year of meeting her. My first words to her ever were "I like tropical fish."

BEST PICKUP LINE EVER.

Just joking, but yes, I had success with recruitment into the hobby. Two of my friends also started fishkeeping as a direct result of me keeping but both eventually stopped unfortunately.

 

I some of you guys are just lucky I guess.

And you're just super fortunate. I acclimatize my females slowly, only breaking the bad news to them about 2 weeks to a month into the relationship...

 

Gareth somehow rubbed off on me with the fish-keeping hobby...
Although I think the only reason I started was to get the fish he never wanted to buy, like neons, and bettas, ext.
:bigsmile::bigsmile::bigsmile:

 

I am one of the luckly ones...lol
But I must also say that I have gotten a few people into keeping fish and some have even gone back to keeping fish because of me... Like my Parents....lol

 

With enough fish talk Kelly(Kel-Sol) gave in and she is in love with her beta and is somewhere on the forum now. To be honest i think the thing that will either sway a person to this hobby is the first fish, if you want the other half to "give in" a neon/guppy/danio wont cut it imo, a fish with tons of personality and good looks will win them over. i think betas are abs stunning first fish they will literally become pets the longer you keep them and the low maintenance is a definate plus. Well thats my 2c and well i do speak from experience

 

my partner vacumes the 2.5m once a week and does the water changes

 

lol henk now that's love!

my gf thinks im mad but loves my fishes to death .
its a work in progress , when we get hitched and move in together im sure she will get into the hobby ! she likes anything 'pretty ' so a betta could do the trick

cheers

 

Introduced SO to the hobby as well , her saying use to be when i was spending money "but it cant fetch a ball" .. now she has progressed from guppies to wanting to keep angel fish now

 

it will be funny as to what some of the wifes have to say ?

'you spend 250 rand on fish food but can't take me to dinner! '. . and then the fight started !

lol im sure most married men have to bribe their wives for fishy stuff

cheers

 

Haha the betta can literally do tricks Kelly and I are in the process of teaching/training our bettas to do tricks just to name a few following the finger the basis of all the tricks, feeding from a finger in the water, jumping out the water to get a piece of food of the finger(this is an awesome trick they pull their body in or wind it up to jump - just make sure that its done in the middle of the tank and not close to the side) and swimming through a hoop the hardest trick to do of the above mentioned will be keeping an eye open on the net to see what else can be taught. Just get her a 1ft or 1.5ft and set it up for her pop in a heater a sponge/corner filter and there u go the bettas are such low maintenance and feeding time is the most fun time to be with them. Solly Kellys betta goes crazy when she enters her room and he follows her in the tank as she move around. So brads a think the betta would be a great idea just let her chose the little guy and he will grow on her. And if u hav to do the odd gravel vac getting her hooked is worth it

 

A betta is what got me hooked, then also neons, ext.

 

guppies got me hooked lol but my betta is awesome i love him. my bf just rolls his eyes when i start talking bout fish lol. he's very patient though and listens to most of the babble about food, water changes plants, scaping ideas lol poor guy , it might change when we move in together though specially how much i spend on them.

 

you spend money on him Windfire....... damd GG never spend on me...lol....I have been robbed

 

My SpareRib has been completly against my Tanks, from the start untill Sunday when she said I can have as many tanks as I like as long as they are not in the house...
the house we looking at has about 50square meters of study... thats as big as the first town house we stayed in....YIPPY