New User: BrownBullhead

[BrownBullhead]

Well... it's about time I introduce myself on this forum... I go by the nick "BrownBullhead" which is one of the staples of my fishing adventures as a youth growing up in Toronto. I now live in Manitoba... long story, don't ask. I am 29 years old. I work as a Security Officer in Winnipeg, Manitoba. I kept fish with my Father growing up, but nothing more than "community tanks," and the oddball species here and there.

Currently, my hobby interests are with Lake Tanganyika... although I traded my mixed bag of Tanganyikan Cichlids in to a local hobby store earlier this year and acquired various Syno. species. I also bought two colonies of Tropheus (Black "Kiriza" and Moorii "Nkonde") from James Ford @ Ford's Fantastic Fish when he was having a moving sale a few months back. I lost a few from each colony due to bloat about a month after I had them, but since then I have nothing but success! I even had my first ever spawn last month! I now have 8-10 juvenile Kiriza lurking in the rock piles.

My current fish I keep are as follows:

20 (approx.) Tropheus Black Kiriza, plus fry...
20 (approx.) Tropheus Moorii Nkonde...
12 Syno. Multipunctatus...
29 Syno. Petricola...

And one Typhlonectes Natans... still, as always, I have to keep one oddball species. This guy is now 22" and growing. He eates earthworms but leaves fish alone with is cool.

Anyway, thanks for reading... see you in the message threads!

 

[Ethos]

Hello and to TFF!

What kind of setup do you house all those guys in!

 

[rdd1952]

Hi and welcome to the forum.

 

[BrownBullhead]

If a user would like to post links to other aquarium forums and aquarium related sites, which category in this forum would be the most appropriate? Over on Winnipeg Fish Forum we have a specific category for "Fish Related Links". Is there anything here that would be similar? And feel free to check out our Winnipeg Fish Forum... that's where I do most of my forum posting. Cheers!

 

[xamdarb]

wow what size tank you got there sounds huge

 

[BrownBullhead]

Some people asked to see pictures of the "Nkonde" in the above setup... Click the below link (message on this forum) to see some images.

Pictures: Tropheus Moorii "Nkonde" colony...

http/www.fishforums.net/index.php?showtopic=109240

 

[rdd1952]

If a user would like to post links to other aquarium forums and aquarium related sites, which category in this forum would be the most appropriate? Over on Winnipeg Fish Forum we have a specific category for "Fish Related Links". Is there anything here that would be similar? And feel free to check out our Winnipeg Fish Forum... that's where I do most of my forum posting. Cheers!

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Unfortunately, posting links to other forums is against forum rules. I don't know that it's actually written anywhere but someone may correct me on that. You can PM or email a moderator to find out. Here are the general forum rules.

 

[BrownBullhead]

From the page you linked to...

No promoting of other competing sites either in the forum, chat room or private message system.

 

[rdd1952]

How did I miss that? That's what happens when you get old.

I've often wondered what it really matter since we don't pay to use the site. If we were paying, I could understand that they wouldn't want you going to another forum but since it's free??? Anyway, I have tried several in the last 8 months and this is by far my favorite. I almost never go to the others any more.

 

[BrownBullhead]

I go to a few sites... some have their own strengths against the others... there is one for Winnipeg specific stuff... that is pretty sweet... and another I found with awesome information on Tropheus/Petrochromis. Oh well, I guess we live by the rules or face the 3-letter "B" word on our accounts.

 

[victor]

Hi BB..This is the nearest I got to your 'neck-of-the-woods' !!

http/www.city.medicine-hat.ab.ca/

 

[MegTheFish]

Hey, I live 2 1/2 hours east from Winnipeg...oh, and welcome