I have been using this site for reference for a number of years but for some strange reason I never joined until now. I kept and bred a number of SA/CA and African cichlids on and off for a good bit of time, but I got out of the hobby around 2012 or so to give my full attention to reptile breeding. I had a good run, but I decided to get back into cichlids again. It's starting to come back to me, but I'm still a bit rusty - you know what they say "if you don't use it, you lose it" 
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I can see some pros here clearly know what they are doing and I'd like to delve a little deeper then last time I had fish, maybe Red Terror, Wolf, Motagua and some more of the bigger bad-***es as well as some of the more difficult to find species. As a side project, I'm working w/ some Bolivian Rams and a semi-peaceful community tank, but I also have an assortment of aggressive and semi-aggressive SA/CA cichlids and some catfish and polypterus.
In the past I bred Jaguars, Jack Dempseys, Convicts, Flowerhorns, Midas, Green Terrors (Gold Saums, technically), Auratus, Johanni and Jewels (maybe some others). I have also kept Red devils, Firemouths, Blue Acaras, Earth-eaters, Kribensis, Oscars, Salvini, a variety of Pseudotropheus, Texas and/or Pearl-scaled (Lowland) cichlids and a vast array of catfish and bottom-feeders.
Currently I have had a difficult time finding many of the fish I'd like to keep, and I have a few tanks set-up w/ groups of juveniles I'm hoping will pair-up or form harems or at least just "get along". No big tanks at the moment but as they grow and hierarchy develops I move stuff around, set up more and bigger tanks and upgrade as needed. A little unorthodox I know but I do at least have a good idea of growth rates according to food intake and temperature to a lot myself proper time to situate everything, so I know i'll probably get some criticism, some well-deserved, but I am indeed here to learn more on an advanced or semi-advanced level and for those who can listen to the message (not the messenger), constructive criticism is the most effective way of learning
Thanks for having me here, I look forward to furthering my education and skill-level.
Cheers.
. I can see some pros here clearly know what they are doing and I'd like to delve a little deeper then last time I had fish, maybe Red Terror, Wolf, Motagua and some more of the bigger bad-***es as well as some of the more difficult to find species. As a side project, I'm working w/ some Bolivian Rams and a semi-peaceful community tank, but I also have an assortment of aggressive and semi-aggressive SA/CA cichlids and some catfish and polypterus.
In the past I bred Jaguars, Jack Dempseys, Convicts, Flowerhorns, Midas, Green Terrors (Gold Saums, technically), Auratus, Johanni and Jewels (maybe some others). I have also kept Red devils, Firemouths, Blue Acaras, Earth-eaters, Kribensis, Oscars, Salvini, a variety of Pseudotropheus, Texas and/or Pearl-scaled (Lowland) cichlids and a vast array of catfish and bottom-feeders.
Currently I have had a difficult time finding many of the fish I'd like to keep, and I have a few tanks set-up w/ groups of juveniles I'm hoping will pair-up or form harems or at least just "get along". No big tanks at the moment but as they grow and hierarchy develops I move stuff around, set up more and bigger tanks and upgrade as needed. A little unorthodox I know but I do at least have a good idea of growth rates according to food intake and temperature to a lot myself proper time to situate everything, so I know i'll probably get some criticism, some well-deserved, but I am indeed here to learn more on an advanced or semi-advanced level and for those who can listen to the message (not the messenger), constructive criticism is the most effective way of learning
Thanks for having me here, I look forward to furthering my education and skill-level.
Cheers.
