Hi All,
Just recently found this site. I'm looking forward to learning new things and to help others out where I can. I've been in this hobby for about 40 years and I just get more insane... I mean into it as time goes on.
I have a few tanks up and running with, primarily, oddball fish. My house is 2100sq/ft and my fish building is over 7500sq/ft. The main focus of my fish room is producing aussie red-claw crays for the food market. I'm currently running 16,000 gals of growout bins and another 2,000 gals of hatching tanks. I have plans in the works to add 4 26ft x 5ft x 2ft raceways as purge tanks, softshell production tanks, and additional growout space. I'm also gearing up to raise marrons. These are larger crays at 18" and 2 1/2+lbs each. I also have a 20 tank experiment running on the possibility of mass producing Lake Malawi blue swimming crabs as an alternative to the heavily-regulated US blue crab.
My fish collections consists of: River and lake fahaka puffers, colony of large T. fluviatillis puffers, colony of T. palembagensis puffers, several mbu puffers, and assorted other puffers. RTC, RTC/TSN hybrid, large-mouth cat, black morph gator gar, 16 albino P. senegalus, several delhezis, ornates, bichir bichirs, endy, congicus, and I'm sure I'm missing a few, albino P aethiopicus, ATF, 15-16" Panaque nigrolineatus, unidentified dorid cat (looks like a raphael but, it's over a foot long), albino monopterus eel, wide-bar dats, silver dats, 3 different species of severum, malawi trout (Champsochromis), several tropheus species, haps, carpintes 'escondido', geophagus species, shell-dwellers, H. mooris, AST, FRTs, and a bunch of other critters with more being added as I set up new racks.
That's it for now. Hands tired...talk amongst yourselves for a awhile.
Just recently found this site. I'm looking forward to learning new things and to help others out where I can. I've been in this hobby for about 40 years and I just get more insane... I mean into it as time goes on.
I have a few tanks up and running with, primarily, oddball fish. My house is 2100sq/ft and my fish building is over 7500sq/ft. The main focus of my fish room is producing aussie red-claw crays for the food market. I'm currently running 16,000 gals of growout bins and another 2,000 gals of hatching tanks. I have plans in the works to add 4 26ft x 5ft x 2ft raceways as purge tanks, softshell production tanks, and additional growout space. I'm also gearing up to raise marrons. These are larger crays at 18" and 2 1/2+lbs each. I also have a 20 tank experiment running on the possibility of mass producing Lake Malawi blue swimming crabs as an alternative to the heavily-regulated US blue crab.
My fish collections consists of: River and lake fahaka puffers, colony of large T. fluviatillis puffers, colony of T. palembagensis puffers, several mbu puffers, and assorted other puffers. RTC, RTC/TSN hybrid, large-mouth cat, black morph gator gar, 16 albino P. senegalus, several delhezis, ornates, bichir bichirs, endy, congicus, and I'm sure I'm missing a few, albino P aethiopicus, ATF, 15-16" Panaque nigrolineatus, unidentified dorid cat (looks like a raphael but, it's over a foot long), albino monopterus eel, wide-bar dats, silver dats, 3 different species of severum, malawi trout (Champsochromis), several tropheus species, haps, carpintes 'escondido', geophagus species, shell-dwellers, H. mooris, AST, FRTs, and a bunch of other critters with more being added as I set up new racks.
That's it for now. Hands tired...talk amongst yourselves for a awhile.
oddball bet you stay busy lol
Might not be willing to eat em but i'll give a longevity record a run for its money. I had one when i worked at wal mart the thing was a beast. Prettiest cray i've ever seen. Welcome to the site. And damn thats a lotta water to keep track of. 