Froggie

At the moment George is in a 48 gallon, when he gets a little bigger he will move to a 120g and next year he will have an indoor pond after the house is built.

It's quite possible that "next year" won't be quick enough for that cat. You might want to source something to keep him in when he outgrows the 120 before he moves to the pond.

I want to hear you tell me how sexy it is when you have a 24" malabaricus hanging off your hand.

I might find them sexy but I subscribe to the well honored look but don't touch code of conduct. They're not attractive enough to be let near any of my bits. Mind you all my toys seem to end up biting me eventually. *sighs*

So big he cannot fit it all in one picture -roll-

I have that trouble too sometimes

Nice Hop...from the silicone bead, I am going to estimate 16"-18"...scary big.

I'd never call an Hoplias scary, the correct word is "sexy".

Awesome fish, how big?

I don't mind you giving him suggestions, but keep the hostility at a low ok? Reading crap like that ruins my day, and I'm a freaking Granola!

The language you chose for this post is far more incendiary then anything was said earlier to. The prior comments were spot on. These are fish that have the potential to get quite large and will require a volume of water which would be a multiplier of most reasonable fish rooms. It would be my suggestion that you read a bit more thoroughly before misplacing your moral outrage in the future.

Far from new rechnology, though...this is a concept that has been in use for a century.

Algae-scrubbers come to mind.

I pretty sure everyone knows that the Germans are fifteen to twenty years more advanced then us humble North Americans when it comes many things, including the Aquarium Sciences.

So how's that German-made shrine to Germany coming along? Has it been shipped from Germany to this backwater land yet?

what are you thinking he might be?

Well, I took a better look at that spot and have revised to say the genus is wrong too. It looks more like a Copadichromis borylei then anything. Yet even that is a bit off. Given the fact it was mislabeled, I’m tempted to just write it off as a Protomelas/Copadichromis hybrid. I definitely would not suggest breeding or selling this fish.

I really don't know what to expect out of that red empress...I would assume he'll be quite colorful right? I'm kind of new to this dominance thing, but I just can't see how any other fish in the tank could be the dominant male with him in there, he's litterally over triple every thing elses size

I'm debating currently if that is indeed a Protomelas taeniolatus, the genus is right but the body-shape and coloration disagree on the species.

drunk krystle seem really funny too bad i missed it

Drunk Krystle causes the more innocent amongst us horrible nightmares.

I'm not quite sure of the point of this thread to be honest, however I'll go ahead and state definitively that hybrids ought be culled. I'm not against culling those who create monstrosities such as the blood parrots in the name of profit either.

Overstocked much?

Chewere is probably most accurate,only species I can think of that is similar is labidochromis "mbamba" . The number of stripes , however , would indicate it is most likely of the elongatus variety.

The head shape isn't correct for a Labidochromis. The fish is certainly Pseudotropheus elongatus "chewere", or at least until they finally get around to separating the elongatus complex.

Hope you enjoy!

I do! It's a very moody tank with an awesome lone predatory fish. Have you considered trying to do a large school of cardinal tetras or something with him? It would look awesome, assuming of course he ignored them or snacked slowly.

The first is one of my D. azureus (female, I have about 20 or so tadpoles from her right now)

I'd be interested in getting some of these from you in the future, PM me please.

Does anyone else dress up their pets for halloween????

I sometimes glue little legs to my fish.

you could feed the rest of him to this guy -roll-

I have a P. endlicheri endlicheri actually, as well as another 6 bichers... -roll-

Can't do much in photoshop with blown exposures on those mountains, however.

Nope, but soon as you figure out how to properly expose both dark-green trees and white snow in one shot on a extremely sunny afternoon call me.

Did you use neutral density grads to get the proper exposure for the sky or was that corrected in photoshop?

Neither actually. I don't even own any filters it was just my best case metering. If I had a tripod I'd probably have taken multiple shots so I could do a combination for full dynamic range. I've been thinking about going back and reprocessing some of the raws at different adjusted exposures for a similiar effect but haven't bothered.

Since Molino posted a few of his summer shots, I thought I'd follow with a few of the touristy snapshots I took while I was in the mountains with Ellie a few weeks back. Nothing too great but it really was a vacation and I didn't drag along a tripod.

...... I meant pics of THAT.

That would be evidence sir, evidence. You must think little of me to believe that I would make it so easy to trace heinous murder back to me.

If it gets too big for the new owner, you can send him this way.

It's potential size is still quite a bit smaller then many of the other mean bitey fish I own!

Just make sure to take pics.

We'll see, I haven't taken any aquatics in a long time.

Hey, glad to help.

Just remember that when the police are knocking on your door, regarding what happened to that little Saskatchewan kids left arm.

I believe that the price tag on the tank was $40 something.

Now if only that price could be put back on the fish when there are buyers waiting?