Allo deah...
I collect fish and have, off and on as per house, stability and budget, for about 35 years now. Currently have home-built 100G tall/show on the balcony, and if we decide to get the new house will go much much bigger and if not will re-build this one to about 200G.
Collecting is a headache here as you get what they sell you and you pay what they charge you- "they" being importers who are subject to absolutely absurd import duties. So I have an inappropriate collection of small schools of big botia and whatever I can get from local breeders or that shops can't sell or what I dip out of the Martha Brae (river)... which is loaded with fantastic invasive species these days.
I grow coral for my supper, building living breakwaters and snorkeling parks via the propagation methods we developed in my PhD research. www.seascapecarib.com
This has now morphed into also re-doing crappy overheated 1970/80's Koi ponds for hotels and villas as well- which is good fun, and allows me to import my own stuff... thus my collection will get worse.
So, there's my story. I'll post some pond-pictures eventually- so far our current project has >1000 guppies, 100 assorted rainbows, 100 pearl danio and 1 little orange glow-danio, plus FW crabs, shrimp, snails, assorted skuds, beasies and larvae etc. It's 30x15x 18" with a lot of sun, but well planted.
Waiting on the permits to bring in 10 silver arowana and 30 clown-loach... that or just three little Fahaka. We'll see. Will fahaka bite people's toes?
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I collect fish and have, off and on as per house, stability and budget, for about 35 years now. Currently have home-built 100G tall/show on the balcony, and if we decide to get the new house will go much much bigger and if not will re-build this one to about 200G.
Collecting is a headache here as you get what they sell you and you pay what they charge you- "they" being importers who are subject to absolutely absurd import duties. So I have an inappropriate collection of small schools of big botia and whatever I can get from local breeders or that shops can't sell or what I dip out of the Martha Brae (river)... which is loaded with fantastic invasive species these days.
I grow coral for my supper, building living breakwaters and snorkeling parks via the propagation methods we developed in my PhD research. www.seascapecarib.com
This has now morphed into also re-doing crappy overheated 1970/80's Koi ponds for hotels and villas as well- which is good fun, and allows me to import my own stuff... thus my collection will get worse.
So, there's my story. I'll post some pond-pictures eventually- so far our current project has >1000 guppies, 100 assorted rainbows, 100 pearl danio and 1 little orange glow-danio, plus FW crabs, shrimp, snails, assorted skuds, beasies and larvae etc. It's 30x15x 18" with a lot of sun, but well planted.
Waiting on the permits to bring in 10 silver arowana and 30 clown-loach... that or just three little Fahaka. We'll see. Will fahaka bite people's toes?
A
