Thought I would say hi from up over :lol:

Hi there...and welcome!

Cool looking fish...you might want to post how many tanks, what kind of fish, how long you've been in the hobby!

This site is great...the people are wonderful and always willing to help...and you can also count on getting a good laugh here too :lol:

Take care and have fun!

Hi zallyn and welcome to my home forum

You will find it easy to use :lol:

Hi and welcome Zalyn. You will get lots of help here - or if you are experienced you will get lots of chances to offer help :lol: :lol: :lol:

Cheers

Jude

Hi Caryl and others

Nice place you have here.

I figured you'd find the decor similar

Hi Zallyn... welcome to the bottom of the world (almost)

Nice fish, and a great pic.

Look forward to your posts

Welcome Zallyn

join us in the chatrooms if you happen to be still up 9.00pm NZ time

welcome zallyn

would like to see some photos of your fish.

i hear that you can have any fish up there.

we get next to nothing down here.

c u on the forum

Hi all

Thank you to everyone for the warm welcome.

I followed a link that Caryl posted on another site to your fine forum in hopes of making a few new friends. Thats one of the things I like best about this hobby (obsession) folks are for the most part just plain nice, and always willing to help a fellow hobbiest.

My name is Alain. I'm 41 and live in northern Vermont, USA I've had the same wife and job for over 20 years, we have 5 children ages 23, 16, 15, 14 and 5. I do industrial piping for a living. I keep fish and compete in mixed martial fighting for hobbies.

The fish addiction started a little over 6 years ago when Mrs. Z bought me a 29 gallon tank, stand and canopy for my birthday, I was quite content with the one tank for about a year and then one day I found myself doing a fish search on the internet.....boy was that ever the begining, I found cichlids, african cichlids to be exact, seems like the tanks just started accumulating after that

I've gone through most of the stages since then, too many tanks, too many fish, buying too much stuff I really did not need, all has seemed to settle down a little over the past few years. I currently run 9 tanks, 2- 125, 3-75, 3-55, a 40 breeder and of course the original 29 at Mrs. Z's office, we don't count that one since it is not at home.

I keep Frontosa, Tropheus, Synodontis and fancy plecos, theres usually some haps peacocks and mbuna around but they come and go, the aforementioned stay.

I've taken an active part in the management of a site called www.nycichlids.com over the past year, not your typical fish forum site by any means but then again I'm not considered to be very typical, stop by and say hi if you should so choose to.

Got a pretty nice place here Caryl, I think I'll stop in from time to time and see whats up

Just another pic

You take great pics...how do you get your fishies to coperate and pose for you?

What is that one in the last pic?

I tease them with scooby snacks :lol:

Just lots of patience

Its a vampire pleco...L007

Vampire pleco...but he's so pretty...MYSTIC do you have these????

if Mystic would jump into her New big tank... she could act like one.... just get ballistic to get a photo of her in the tank sucking the sides :lol: