Tartan-Guppy
Mostly New Member
Hello All,
I thought I'd better get my first post out of the way via an introduction. I'm new to the site but not fishkeeping. I've been lurking a bit recently, reading historical and recent posts so felt it was better to actually sign up than be a silent passenger.
As you might guess from the username and avatar, I'm from somewhere just north of London, Paisley to be precise. Born and bred Aberdonian but moved here for University and never left.
I've had fish since I was a kid and bred guppies to sell back to the local shop to buy more things, as the pocket money never covered everything else that I wanted to buy.
Now, many years later, I've got tanks all over the place and have even set up a room just for the fish. It was a spare room, honest...didn't use it for anything else, I swear
Fish-wise I currently have a couple of tanks with Jewel cichlids, a mixed Dwarf cichlid tank, and a pair of Oscars in my big tank. They're all in the living room and then there's loads of guppies in the aforementioned fish room.
The room has water coming in from a filtered, heated reservoir and there's a pump for waste water so my bucket carrying is minimal. I would love to have got it automated and fully plumbed in but circumstances wouldn't allow it when I was designing and building it. The racks are fairly modular so I can move things about depending on what I am breeding with what and the whole room is heated with central air pumps to power the sponge filters. It's been up and running like this for just over a year so apart from tinkering it only takes about 1/2hr of work a day to keep everything ticking over and each tank gets at least a 30% a week water change
I've kind of gone in a circle as I am back to my love of Guppies (and Endlers). I find their (bold for their size) characters very intriguing and I like trying to get my head around colours and strains. That's why I set up the room and I am starting to focus on specific strains along with a couple of my own attempts at crosses
I know there's a few with a great deal of knowledge about guppies and livebearers on here so hopefully I will learn more about strains and breeding, I'll probably spend most of my time on here in the livebearer threads.
Anyway, now you know a little about me, I am sure you will find out more as I post. I'm more a reader than writer so don't expect the highest post per day count you have seen, but hopefully what I do add will be worthwhile, interesting..or at least, not garbage
All the best,
Tartan-Guppy
I thought I'd better get my first post out of the way via an introduction. I'm new to the site but not fishkeeping. I've been lurking a bit recently, reading historical and recent posts so felt it was better to actually sign up than be a silent passenger.
As you might guess from the username and avatar, I'm from somewhere just north of London, Paisley to be precise. Born and bred Aberdonian but moved here for University and never left.
I've had fish since I was a kid and bred guppies to sell back to the local shop to buy more things, as the pocket money never covered everything else that I wanted to buy.
Now, many years later, I've got tanks all over the place and have even set up a room just for the fish. It was a spare room, honest...didn't use it for anything else, I swear
Fish-wise I currently have a couple of tanks with Jewel cichlids, a mixed Dwarf cichlid tank, and a pair of Oscars in my big tank. They're all in the living room and then there's loads of guppies in the aforementioned fish room.
The room has water coming in from a filtered, heated reservoir and there's a pump for waste water so my bucket carrying is minimal. I would love to have got it automated and fully plumbed in but circumstances wouldn't allow it when I was designing and building it. The racks are fairly modular so I can move things about depending on what I am breeding with what and the whole room is heated with central air pumps to power the sponge filters. It's been up and running like this for just over a year so apart from tinkering it only takes about 1/2hr of work a day to keep everything ticking over and each tank gets at least a 30% a week water change
I've kind of gone in a circle as I am back to my love of Guppies (and Endlers). I find their (bold for their size) characters very intriguing and I like trying to get my head around colours and strains. That's why I set up the room and I am starting to focus on specific strains along with a couple of my own attempts at crosses
I know there's a few with a great deal of knowledge about guppies and livebearers on here so hopefully I will learn more about strains and breeding, I'll probably spend most of my time on here in the livebearer threads.
Anyway, now you know a little about me, I am sure you will find out more as I post. I'm more a reader than writer so don't expect the highest post per day count you have seen, but hopefully what I do add will be worthwhile, interesting..or at least, not garbage
All the best,
Tartan-Guppy
