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Alan Russell

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May 31, 2008
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Hi, my name is Alan as you can tell by my user name. I am fairly new to the aquarium hobby. I was an avid reptile collector/dealer/rescuer specializing in snakes for several years. Once my daughter was born two years ago I gave up the reptiles and have since yearned for a new hobby that I can be passionate about as I was reptiles and just a few months ago decided to do something I have always wanted to do and that is get an aquarium.
I have a 75g community tank and my faves seem to be the Blue Rams. I have so far, a German Blue and a German Blue Long Fin and I hope to start breeding Rams in the near future. That is currently my goal and most of my reading lately is how to successfully do that.
 
I worked with many different types of snakes. All non venomous (except for one copper head I had in my personal collection). My favorites though were just plain ol' Columbian Red Tail Boas. My biggest boa was 10.5 feet 51 lbs. I used it and several others to show at schools in an education program I did and even at Petco on Sundays to educate people on what they were buying and to promote my rescue agency.

I'll get some pics up shortly.
 
Well, here are a few pics as requested. They did not come out as well as i had hoped. I'm sure part of the reason is that i had to use an old camera due to my 2 yr old daughter hiding my good one (good to me anyway).
I couldn't get any of the 'stock" as was asked, but this will do for now. I have nothing spectacular anyway. Just a variety of standard tropicals. In addition to the 2 Blue Rams I mention earlier, I have Neon tetras, tiger barbs, giant danios, kissing gouramis, red eyed tetras, ext. Some i can't even remember what they are, but I hope to learn much more and become very knowledgeable on fish and aquariums.

When I find my camera I'll take better pics and post them in the photo section of the forum.

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Ahhh. Kissing gouramis will get much larger than any of the other fish you have in there. Just be ready for that, lol, I've seen them around 9"+. The other fish can quickly become snacks. Nice starting set up though, better than my goldfish bowls and betta bowls that I started with, lol. Hehe, wait till you get a taste of the larger new world cichlids. ;)
 
Yeah, I know about the kissing gouramis and plan to have a much larger tank by then. That was the plan when I bought them. We plan to keep all fish in this tank around 3-4" max. I have a 2 small angels in there I'll have to transfer later too.
 
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