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Two pairs and after some digging around apparently my water conditions are more suitable...luckily.

Did the conditions at time of capture get recorded...apart from temperature?

Birger

Oops, missed a couple.
And one for Racoll

<homeer>Mmm. Leporacanthicus... Mmmm</homer>

Nice shots, Birger!

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Mats

Did the conditions at time of capture get recorded...apart from temperature?

Unfortunately not. We do have several pics of the location. As the water was slow flowing and coming through a palm swamp I would guess it to have been slightly acidic (maybe 6.5) and fairly soft.
-Shane

Great pics! Too bad they didn't make it here in the US. I would have been willing to give them a home - LOL!

Wow, 2007

Wow, 2007

Not sure what you mean with this??

Birger wrote:

Wow, 2007

Not sure what you mean with this??

I think it relates to when Jools' first post in the thread is from.

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Mats

Birger wrote:Did the conditions at time of capture get recorded...apart from temperature?

Nope, but here is me collecting them (see also Uganda thread). Blackish water, little current, heavy vegetation maybe 6" of water and at least the same in mud and leaf litter.

Jools

I cant believe time has passed that quickly!

which makes no sense at all.....

I cant believe time has passed that quickly!

Yes, and only here at PC would the vast majority of people replying to a 5 year old post have been forum participants when the posting was originally made!
-Shane

Two pairs

Actually 2 males, 3 females of the Cynopanchax bukobanus

Birger

Last weekend I had the pleasure of a visit by Planet's premier photographer contributor Johnny Jensen. While the Dane only spent a day photographing my fishes, we got through most of them! I will add lots of pics soon, meantime, an update on JJ's site here:

http://www.aquariumphoto.dk/diverse/aqphoto_diary.html

Cheers,

Jools

Jools,
Can't seem to see the gallery.
-Shane

I see the pics, but sadly they don't expand. Very difficult to see details.

Here are a couple of pics.

Birger,

Did you get any pics of you or I in "the room"?

Jools

Birger,

Did you get any pics of you or I in "the room"?

No,sorry just the two wee ones.

Birger

Birger wrote:

Birger,

Did you get any pics of you or I in "the room"?

No,sorry just the two wee ones.

Birger

DOH! Bad planning on my part.

Jools

Put that Anubias in the mail to me pls.
-Shane

Ahhhhh...Scottish shrimp...keeps threatening to jump, wants it's own tank.

The time has come to strip down this fishroom. Actually, it's fishroom v4.

V1 was my first multi-tank set-up in my bedroom at parental home; it got moved a mile across town (because of a girl) and then came back a year later. V2 was set-up in the first place I owned, it took my first import of fishes from a collecting trip to Peru in 2000 - eight tanks on 4 dual stands. Later, in the same property I converted a typical Edinburgh tenement boxroom into my first "proper fishroom" (v3). I will, one day, find some photos of it, I know they exist somewhere. I also had a 48x18x18 display tank in the house before I moved out of Edinburgh.

Fishroom v4 is the one featured in this thread. Hundreds of photos on this site were taken in this room, fishes from seven families of fish have bred here. It has produced a lot of shrimp. It's been graced by aquatic dignitaries from the world over and seen my three children grow. The elder two now have their own tanks. The floor is warped and one end of the room is supported by two car jacks under the floor joists. The walls a damp on one side and the fitted kitchen sink is rotten. Time to strip down, dry and plan v5!

I have some things for sale before Christmas if you are local and interested, drop me a PM or email. I thought it better to post here to keep it on thread, but will post in the for sale section to link here.

Tanks (painted black on all sides except one, cover glass and runners included)
36x15x15 (four available)
36x12x12 (two)
30x15x15 (four)
30x15x12 (two)
24x15x15 (four)
24x15x12 (two)

Fishes from a west African Biotope (barbs, characins, a shoal of , 4 adult )
Several M & Fs.


Traccatichtys taeniatus - rare chinese loach (2)

(male, 2 females)

(black)
(adult pair)


Various filters, lots of light starters (including dual, 65w), air pumps in good condition.

Good luck with the refurb Jools. If you're anything like me, you'll enjoy the process of rebuilding the fish house as much as the fish-keeping!

Pity I'm not a bit closer to take some fish off your hands!

Good luck with the rebuild of your new fish house Jools! I must admit, I don't like fish house builds....except when they are some one else's
Hope you'll let us join in on your progress!!

I would love the Centromuchlus schulzi but as above said, I'm not from your neighborhood either

Good luck Jools

There has been an awakening.

Look forward to seeing any progress!

So, the old fishroom (v2.0) I had to shut down and sold everything off or donated fishes to the Blue Planet Aquarium in Denmark. The room was then converted into an ensuite bedroom for our son (the plumbing came in handy) and we gutted the water tank space in the attic.

Covid then happened and our plans to move house were delayed by a year. We moved (upgraded) to an old house in an even older village near a forest but not far from the bright lights of Scotland's capital, Edinburgh.

We've done some renovations and I've began converting the woodshed into a small garage. It already has running water and I can run electricity to it readily. It's right on top of the drain hub for the property. I need to build a wall or two, and put a better roof on it, but it will be a useful space...

Meanwhile, in the house, I have now four fish tanks running and a dream fish on the way.

Cheers,

Jools

I'll be by in July to pick up that dream fish

-Shane