Introduce Yourself!

The old Thinkfish forum had many active members, who will hopefully soon find the new forum is now active, and there will be many new members joining. I thought that it might be an idea for members, both old and new, to introduce ourselves.


I’ll go first

I started keeping fish in 1995 when my teenaged sons came home from the fair with 4 goldfish. I gave the goldfish away after 9 months, bought a heater and got tropical fish. I signed up to Thinkfish in 2006 after finding the forum while researching a fish I wanted to buy.
Back in ’06 the forum did not have the facility for user names; we had to use our real names. So although we can now choose user names, since I was known on the old Thinkfish forum by my real name I will continue to be known as Sue.

I have a rather old degree in chemistry, and one of my sons worked for several years for a water testing company, so I am usually able to help with water chemistry problems, even if I have to consult my son occasionally.
I was well known on the old forum for my lack of plants growing skills so I leave planted tanks to other people.


I currently have 3 tanks.

125 litre
Green neon tetras, male endler/guppy hybrids, dwarf chain loaches, trio cockatoo cichlids, trio honey gouramis, amano (japonica) shrimps, zebra nerite snails.
Sand substrate
Java fern, anubias, salvinia

50 litre
Male plakat betta (moved), female and fry endler/guppy hybrids, pygmy cories, cockatoo apisto juveniles (swapped for the killifsh) and 2 red and 1 bumblebee nerites. And the occassional male endler/guppy visitor for breeding purposes. New: 10/10/12 a trio of Aphyosemion striatum, a type of killifish
Sand substrate
Java fern, hornwort, salvinia

25 litre
Male plakat betta
Sand substrate
Java fern

Just to prove I do have other interests besides fish, I have collections of African violets, thimbles and minerals in the shape of eggs. I’m also interested in family history/genealogy.

Hi narp, nice to see a new face. I'm so jealous of your tank. 125 litres is the biggest I'm allowed - for some reason my husband thinks that furniture is important

 

Hi Chucklett - you've managed to move I see. I'll bet that's a relief. I think 'filtration and cycling' is the section for pH's since it does say water chemistry too. We'll soon get the hang of the new layout.

You found the forum was back pretty quickly, it only reappeared yesterday. I had advance notice  While I was waiting I looked through the shop database and noticed there were some updates for my area, so I emailed the site owner - who said he'd email me back when the forum was active again. I got the email on Tuesday evening so I was ready waiting yesterday.
Oh, and that validation thing every time you want to post - I asked, it disappears when you've made a few posts. Forums these days have problems with spambots and I presume this is a way to deter them.

My tanks have moved on a bit since the forum was last active. I've broken my own rule and put a betta in with other fish! Though you might notice that most are not very colourful - grey, black and white cories, grey endler females and even the apisto juveniles are grey and black for the time being. I do have a male endler in there at the moment but the betta ignores it.
Speaking of apisto juveniles, my cockatoo apsitos bred just before the old 60 litre tank started to leak. 5 fry survived being moved around, 2 males and 3 as yet unknown. But my gorgeous gold male cockatoo got dropsy and died    And my bolivian rams have died. I wasn't surprised at the female, she was never right after getting gravel stuck in ther throat and she just got thinner and thinner. After she died, the male just went downhill till he died as well.



Edit - I have discovered that if you want a notification email when there's a new post on a thread, you have to click the notify box at the bottom of the thread. There are a few differences from the old forum - we now have a personal messaging system for instance.  I spent a while in my profile settings getting it set up how I want!

Hi all, (all 3 of you! lol).

Good to see the forum is up and running at last. It's been so long I can't remember what my user/nick name was on the last website.

I have the 4 foot tank which I got for free a couple of years ago. I cleaned and revamped it and I've loved it ever since. I started off with 2 internal filters and 2 internal heaters. I now have a 1400 lph pond solutions external filter and a Hydor external heater.

I used to have a cichlid tank (until they all matured at around the same time and all hell broke loose). I then changed to a pair of large red severums which laid numerous eggs which either weren't fertilised or got eaten.

I now have guppy's, neon tetra's, a bristle nose plec, a horse faced loach, angel fish (which have just started to lay eggs) and Kribensis (a male and 50-60 large fry in the main tank and a female and 50-60 small fry in my 60 litre quarantine tank).

I am having to give the large fry away tomorrow, as the store I have been selling (50p per fish) will no longer take kribs due to the market flooding (no pun intended). If anyone wants some krib fry, I'm in Buckinghamshire!

Hope to let you help me soon Sue!

Stuart.

Hi all again, I can't remember what user name I used back on the old forum but it was either Fluffter or Murf I used.  Anyway I'm back again and with bigger and better tales to tell as I bought a Juwel 400 back in july and still have my 3ft tank that I originally started with back in February.  Really got into growing plants and now have a well planted 5ft tank which I will get blogged as soon as I get a bit of time to update. 
I have kept checking back for the forum and Im really glad you are back online 

Yeah Sue that was me then lol .... now under the guise of Fluffter

Ahh so that was you ('wonky steve') on a certain other forum! I did wonder with the user name but they don't like mention of rival forums on blank.net (the owner here might not like rival forums either!) and you didn't have enough posts to pm you. I'm essjay over there.
Your health problem sound really awful, I'm glad you're finally on the mend. Your fish tank was the least of your worries.

Did all your fish die or were there some survivors?

Your health problem sound really awful, I'm glad you're finally on the mend. Your fish tank was the least of your worries.

Did all your fish die or were there some survivors?

Hi Sue!  "Newbie" eh, can't be the Sue I know. 

'Wonky' was me.  When I escaped from hospital (big thanks to Eric from the Escape Committee) I had 1 surviving Cherry Barb!  Sadly, it perished soon after I started repairing the water.

Hi Sue!  "Newbie" eh, can't be the Sue I know. 

That's the worst thing about us all starting again from zero, I had a postcount of 4000+ on the old forum. You'll notice I'm well on the way to the next 4000  I think Peter must have agreed to me posting so much as soon as the forum was open to encourage new members to join. Nothing more off putting than a forum with no posts 



Steve, what are your plans for the tank? Same again or something completely different?

Edited for terrible spelling

Hi Marjan, nice to have a new member. Don't worry about any language mistakes, so long as we know what you mean that's all that matters.

We had a very friendly community on the old forum, so don't forget to join with all the chatter as well as fish stuff