[susankat]

Been posting a couple of days now on the forums and guess I should introduce myself.

My name is Susan and I have been keeping and breeding fish for 25 to 30 years. I have 12 tanks running at the moment, with 3 more sitting on my back porch. (just moved to a new house) and will be getting 6 more tanks with rack next month.

I Keep and breed
Endlers livebearers
blonde endlers
Bristlenose plecs (have 33 of them) and getting 4 starlights tomorrow
7 species of cories
Pair of angels
P. Nicholsi
betta pictas
Telmatochromis sp. 'Red Cheek'
Cherry shrimp
green shrimp

Most of my tanks are planted, except for the tank being setup for the ruby greens and yellow labs. I also have 2 tanks that are my plant growout tanks.
Hope to help here on the forum and hope to learn new things also.

 

[djrichie]

Belated Welcome to the site.......

 

[roc-aquarium]

Welcome aboard Susan. I've already enjoyed some of your posts. Thanks for joining the community.

 

[susankat]

Thanks for the welcome. I always try to help when I can, and also here to learn more. I have found in keeping fish you learn something new everyday.

 

[MediaHound]

Welcome aboard Susan! Love the avatar!
Looking forward to reading about your experiences breeding those fish.
Make yourself at home and if you need anything around here, please let me know!

 

[susankat]

So far the breeding has been good around here, got one batch of bn fry. 2 more batches waiting to hatch. My starlights came in today, all DOA, which is bad since it was suppose to be overnight delivery and ended up to being 48 hours.

 

[MediaHound]

Well that's upsetting. Who was the carrier?

 

[susankat]

USPS, the bad thing about the deal is it took that long to get from Nebraska to Ok, but then from Neb to Ca took less than 24hours.

 

[MinxMermaid]

WELCOME!!!

ok, dumb question, what are betta pictas? different from splendens?

and....would love to see pics of your tanks and fishies!!

looking forward to getting to know you!

 

[susankat]

WELCOME!!!

ok, dumb question, what are betta pictas? different from splendens?

and....would love to see pics of your tanks and fishies!!

looking forward to getting to know you!

Theres not a dumb question in this hobby! A betta picta is a wild betta that is also a mouth brooder. The male still takes care of the eggs and fry but holds them in his mouth instead of in a bubble nest.

Here is a bad pic of the pair.

 

[MinxMermaid]

ah, cool! thanks!!

 

[susankat]

A few of my tanks

75 gal

15 gal shrimp tank

40 gal

20 long

10 gal

 

[fishfinder]

Beautiful tanks and lovely plants. You certainly have a talent for design and aqua-gardening. Thank you for sharing and welcome!

 

[Chickadee]

Yes, welcome and thanks for sharing the pictures. You are the second person that I have seen who had the pipe with gravel coating it for a cave arrangement. I have always loved that idea.

 

[susankat]

Thanks for the compliments. The pipe in that tank is the only one that has the gravel on it. I have pipes in the bns tanks with nothing on them.

Not really much for aquascaping just planting and letting them grow, trim and stick in another tank. At one time I had so many plants in the 75 that I didn't run a filter on it for almost 2 years.

I'll find that pic and post it.

 

[susankat]

Here is how the 75 used to look till I thinned it out to put plants in other tanks.

 

[Chickadee]

WOW is all I can say and thanks for sharing.