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Hi All! have just joined your lovely little website, have viewed some of the topics as a guest before joining and am very impressed by the general atmosphere and the help offered to new fishkeepers. it was refreshing to see and a welldone all round is richly deserved. My name is Richard, I'm just the lower side of 40 and have been keeping fish since I was 4 (albeit very limited at the time :-) I had m first proper glass tank 24"x12"x15" when I was 7, my uncle donated it to me when I won 2 goldfish at the local fair (called R2 and D2 lol) he told me that I could only have it if I cared for it completely, water changes, cleaning the filter beds with a gravel cleaner, feeding etc. At the time I thought........ OMG but he was teaching me the correct way. My Uncle (actually my great uncle) was an assistant editor on fleet street before he retired, he and my aunt moved back near to us, he used to write on the staff of PFK in the early to late 70's. I used to love visiting with them, he had 50 tanks spread about various outbuildings and the house, breeding just about everything you could care to imagine, everything I learnt, I learnt from him. reading articles nowdays his methods seem old and severly antiquated and sometimes downright wrong according to some genius or other but yet all those little fish all made babies! half the equipement we read about nowdays he had never had or did ever hear of, these newfangled "necessities" would be a mystery to him! I miss him dearly, he'd have something to say about it I'm sure. I left home joined the army and now work for a local authority's highways department, I fear I've forgotten most of what that dear man taught me but I've always had a tank, and its always been sucessful to varying degrees. Anyway enough of me, pleased to meet you all and I look forward to "speaking" to all of you.

What Sue said 

Hello All
I am Chris from the Salford area, Girlfriend has sort of agreed to let me start up a tank again after 18 years or so, last tank I had to give up as I was never home to manage it (was always at the Girlfriends).
So with the area of the living room assigned (allowed) it seem I will be going with the Jewel Trigon 190 aquarium (Dark Wood) once some DIY jobs have been completed I can get the tank and cycle up etc, Great info on here and the fish less cycle seems worth the wait.
Still have time to think about the stock, so far my list is Banded Gourami -  Fiveband barb -  Dwarf Rainbowfish - White Cloud Mountain Minnow - Bulldog Catfish - Assassin Snail - Bleeding Heart Tetra

But will be open to ideas.

Look forward to the chats.

Regards
Chris

Hello everybody.  Just wanted to introduce myself.  As my user name might suggest, I am interested in Cichlids and am slowly building up my aquariums.  Currently have 5 Honduran Redpoints, a few fry from some Convicts and intend getting some Bolivian Rams before too long. 

Have just returned to the UK after living abroad for a number of years during which time I was unable to keep any fish.  Things on the fishkeeping front seem to have changed quite a lot during the last 15 years and it seems I have a lot to  catch up on.

Nice to meet you all
Regards

hello there,just been reading through your site here,and thought it looked
a nice place to join and say hi to you all. 
so, hi i'm Elaine....nick name lainey...so feel free.
i have kept fish over the years,starting with fairground fish in the bowl,that the pingpong
landed in !......how wrong was that !
i have....an impaired memory    (has it's advantages) so i might ask something that i should already know,
but i look stuff up usually before i bug people
umm anything else,just ask.
 

do i have to fill that little section out at the bottom of the page every time i write a post ?
my brother started around the same time i guess,he impressed us all with a 4ft tank,all lovely
and planted...and it's gone on from there.

  it's gone !  whoooohoooo i must be past the egg stage 

Hi Elaine, 

What fish do you have?

Anne

Hello, I'm Beckie, been using the resources on here for awhile as a guest & decided to join properly! I've got a 200litre tank with live plants (no idea what sort), 4 clown loaches, 3 coolie loaches, 3 hill steam loaches, 9 platys & 9 male guppies.

To be honest, when I started out with this tank (6 or 7 years ago) I had no idea what I was doing! I've learnt by reading, trial & error and by looking at forums. There's a lot I would do differently if I was starting again, knowing what I know now!

Anyway, hello and thanks for all the knowledge I've already gleaned just from reading posts here!

Hello Beckie. Welcome aboard

I can certainly relate to the sentiment about doing things differently ...