Hello everyone, my name is Jeff McHenry and in 1988 I was in 8^th grade and we moved to overland park into a duplex that had a concrete fishpond on the patio.   I painted it, sealed it, and put goldfish in it.    The pond was about 8 inches deep and about 2’x3’ and never wanted to hold water and would wake up every morning to an empty pond.   Our duplex neighbor was a fish hobbyist and was nice enough to take the goldfish.   For Christmas or my birthday that year I gold a 20-gallon fish tank kit from Walmart as a present.   Piranhas!  Two of them, Hungry and Toto were their names.  Then came the 75-gallon aquarium with an Oscar and Jack Dempsey’s.    Oscar would jump out of the fish tank about a foot in the air to get the fish feeder out of my hand, I thought he was so badass!  Oh and yes, feeder fish because it was the 90’s by this time.  I graduated high school in Liberty Missouri in 1993 and went to college and my aquarium hobby paused and I did not have a single fish tank for years.   I eventually got one 29-gallon fish tank that I would set up with a cool biotope and run the life of the fish and drain the tank and place it in storage, just to pull it out a year later and do something different.  In 2009 I purchased my house, purchased a used 75-gallon tank, then took it down a few years later and resold it.  Then my 50-year birthday came, maybe it was a mid-life moment, but I pulled that 29-gallon tank out of the basement and set it up, then added a 40 breeder, then added another 40, then another 40, then another 40, then another 40, then a rack with 20’s…. multi tank syndrome hit!  My Aquarium Gallery Room have all high-tech tanks with CO2 and Fancy lighting, and they are all focused on aqua scaping that my Husband enjoys.   I get a lot of fry and plants out of tanks in the Gallery Room tanks.   Of course, the tanks always go in a different direction than I intend. I plan on making a tank for a specific fish but then it becomes a plan B grow out tank.  I do like breeding fish and not just “keeping fish” even though I do have a community tank that I do not intend to breed any fish from.  Do I specialize in any one fish, no… probably because I have not found that fish yet.