Random Ramble-...Growing up, my dad and I were always fishing. I remember fishing back home in Guyana where we would throw cast nets and haul seine's we would always catch these amazing pleco's and hoplo catfish among other amazon goodies (almost everything was huge in the water back then). As a kid I had no idea I would grow up and find these same species worth all this money around the world. Oh how I miss those simple days. It would be great if a trip to my LFS was right in my backyard still lol. If I had known I would have started my own breeding collection back then. Back home noone really has aquariums as it is not such a big hobby over there. Where we are from pleco's, hoplo's, peacock bass, etc are all staple food items. Now I wish I had those same luxuries of going backdam or a few foot steps to the nearest river and casting my net and getting some of these fishes regularly ...maybe even finding new aquarium fish that havent been discovered yet. Guyana has a huge abundance of rare and unique species and each year 5,000+ new species of animal are discovered in the rainforest's (The last largest natural rainforest left in the world), imagine the waters were explored. I remember seeing an episode of River Monsters that took place in Guyana and the species of arapaima that Jeremy Wade caught was actually new to science. He even claimed throughtout the world he has never met a river systems such as Guyana's that houses so many River Monsters in one location. Only thing that sucks is with all the Gold Dredging and soon to be oil excavation maybe those same waters may cease to exist but we will see one-day.
