wildjim
Well-Known Member
Nice man. Old school fish keeper!
My hobby is well more of an addiction, I have 4 125 gallon, 2 77 gallon bow fronts, a 220 gallon and various tanks under 55 gallons. I also have 4 ponds, 3 are in a looped system with 6000gallons and the other is a smaller above ground 500gallon I use in the summer for raising fish.
I have saltwater, one of the 125 gallons is salt, predatory salt water not much corals, clown triggers, domino damsels and lion fish. That's where I recycled my first grow light. 400w metal halide.
Other fish I have include a 16 inch blue diamond piranha, a group of 10, 11 inch redbelly piranhas. Datnoids, angelfish haunduran red points, various dwarf cichlids, African cichlids, peacock bass, freshwater stingrays, the list goes on and on. almost everything I have was either wild caught by me within the last 10 years or ordered wild. Back when I had money I use to go to south america 2 times a year to catch exotic fish. Things change people die and sometimes leave ya with a lot of debit lol
Now I just keep what I accumulated and breed them. I understand water chemistry and plant botany, along with just about every lighting known to man. Just applying my knowledge to another field.
Too bad I can't share many pictures of my aquariums, I don't want anyone to just stumble upon the pics and link the aquariums to me. I'm anonymous here and being as I'm not legally growing..... Yea never mix the 2 worlds.
That's funny with your grand daughter. My Buddy's little one use to feed his fish milk lol " they need milk too daddy" funny till it wiped out a 100gallon aquarium full of African cichlids.
I forgot, I had a nice purple trigger fish too. Was kool. You sound like you have a ton invested. And I do bet it takes a ton of time keeping all of that up.