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  • Greetings all fellow enthusiasts

    My name is Roy and I live in Houston (Heights area). I've been keeping fish for 25 years and its amazing how the industry and techniques have changed and altered over the years. I'll list my various tanks/environs for everyone's perusal.

    Main Community Tank (60 gallon) 4 Silver Dollars (2 differing varieties, but not sure which), 6 Silver Hatchets, 10 Columbian Blue/Red tetra's, 1 Black Ghost, 1 Striped Raphael, 3 Clown Loaches, 1 Ornate Ctenotoma

    Aggressive Tank (55 gallon) 1 Ornate Bichir (very Large - 14"), 1 Blue Tilapia (wild caught)

    Planted Tank (10 gallon) currently empty, but will be using it as my first foray into shrimping and Killi's. I'm currently thinking about shooting for 4 Otocinclus, 12 Crystal Red Shrimp, and hatching out some Nothobranchius guentheri (have a collection of 25 eggs?)

    Betta cube (1 Gallon) Has a Yellow Betta (Splendens) and 2 Ghost Shrimp

    Whiskey Barrel Pond (50 Gallons?) A collection of wild Caught Sailfin Mollies, Killiefish, and Sleeper Gobies.

    Goby Tank (35 gallon) 4 Jade Sleepers (Dormitator maculatus, wild caught)

    I'll post in the various appropriate forums for each as well as some questions/ideas about my various tanks.

    On a side note I do regularly go on collection trips (once a month usually) and would always appreciate some company should anyone wish to join or just try it out. I usually stay in the Houston area/North Houston area, but could be enticed to go a bit farther afield.
    In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
    Desiderius Erasmus
    GHAC President

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    Howdy welcome to the box.
    what equipment do you use to collect & transfer ?
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    • #3
      Welcome to the Box!
      215g Malawi Peacocks and Mbuna
      180g Tropheus Ikola and Bemba and Clown Loaches
      58g Bristlenose breeding and grow out

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      • #4
        I usually use some long dip nets, though I have a 25' seine. I need to pick up a cast net. My fishing equipment is mostly outdated as I fish while I'm out on the platform (120 miles south of Galveston) and would not be very useful for freshwater. I fly into Intercoastal City, Louisiana and have a freind nearby who claims to know a great spot for small Gar and Bowfin. I think I'll hit him up this spring, if nothing else then to just see some different critters.
        In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
        Desiderius Erasmus
        GHAC President

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        • #5
          hi
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          • #6
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            • #7
              Welcome aboard! Very interested in seeing this 'whiskey barrel pond'.....
              25g - Reef
              3.5g - Surge Tank
              10g - Ichthyophthirius multifilis breeding colony

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              • #8
                Welcome to HFB!

                A few of us in the GHAC and other clubs like to go collecting once or twice a year - it's usually hard to get something set up, though, since it's either cold or scorching here in Houston and a day trip with a lot of people is hard to plan in the week or so that Houston has decent weather, LOL. But let us all know when you plan on going collecting next, it'd be great to go again!
                "Millennium hand and shrimp!"

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                • #9


                  Here is a pic when one of our lilies bloomed last summer. I bought the barrel at Home Depot for 35-40 bucks. I have a fluval as a filter and some river stones and bricks to prop the plants up out of the water. I threw in an old powerhead and do water changes every month or so. I did not go with a liner, maybe in the future though. I'd like to pick up a few more this summer and try out some cool livebearers in it (maybe some platies, swordtails, or even some splendens)
                  In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
                  Desiderius Erasmus
                  GHAC President

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                  • #10
                    that looks nice, how about an FTS (full tank shot)
                    25g - Reef
                    3.5g - Surge Tank
                    10g - Ichthyophthirius multifilis breeding colony

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                    • #11
                      I'll try and snap a shot when I come in (work offshore so 2 weeks in/two weeks out) but I'm headed in tomorrow. I just had that in my inbox, my better half snapped it when I was offshore and sure enough if that lily was going to bloom it would be while I was offshore. It lasted all of 3 days so I would have missed it entirely.

                      I'll post up when I'm headed to go ditch crawling certainly, I usualy head up to Buffalo Bayou near downtown or up to the Woodlands area. I know a nice spot for local Killies (usually 2-3 species) and banded pygmy sunfish across from the Woodlands. The buffalo Bayou spot is great for wild Sailfin mollies, Jade Sleepers, Gar, Glass Shrimp, Pirate Perch, and quite a few invasives (Pleco's and Tilapia are everywhere). I always drag all my gear with me and dozens of old bags from the fish store.
                      In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
                      Desiderius Erasmus
                      GHAC President

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                      • #12
                        Welcome to the Houston Fish Box :)

                        What fish do Jesper have
                        180 WC T. Moorii Chilambo +1 Petro trewavasae.
                        110
                        Cyps, WC Xeno Spilopterus Kipili WC/F1/F2 T. sp red Kiku
                        58 S. Decorus

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                        • #13
                          Howdy. Welcome to The Box!

                          Mark
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                          • #14
                            Re: Greetings all fellow enthusiasts

                            Welcome to HFB

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                            • #15
                              Hello and welcome!
                              Looks like we have similar taste in fish and I happen to work in the Heights as well. I had some Jade Gobies, but I gave my prized ones as a thank you gift to the site owner (imagirlgeek) for helping me post Ike.
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