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I've been a member for a little over a year now but I never really introduced myself. My name's Kate and I'm from Perth in Australia. I study aquaculture at TAFE and have my own business(very very small!!!) where I breed fish. I also work at a wholesale outlet for cold and tropical fish.
I started off my hobby with oscars, then grew to expand with all sorts of weird and wonderful fish. I tend to be more interested in the more exotic and rare fish species, such as giant gourami and alligator gars, and also hybrids attract my attention. (I love that Manaconda!!!)
I've only been interested for about 3 years now in fish, being only 20, but I'm learning heaps as work with new fish every week.

So, that's me. Hi!!!

Welcome Kate!
We love all you weird people from down-under (or should be spinning the other way? )
By the way, Tony (admin on here, oscar2001) is a proud Aussie as well!
Great to have someone studying aquaculture (though you may want to spell out TAFE for us ignorant Americans!) I'm sure there'll be plenty here to pick your brains

ahh, warning for those looking up manaconda, you should enable family filter on google else could end up with some unwanted links or images. Do you have any pictures of your fish?
Here's one I found of manaconda
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LOL, you gotta be kidding though, I just looked up alligator gar, don't tell me you have one of those as a pet at least better watch your back so you're not lunch

cichlidfish Joe

Well, for you Americans, TAFE over here is Technology and Further Enterprise...or something. I quit actually studying at TAFE about a year ago while I work and prepare for university (Maybe). I still study aquaculture just don't pay anyone to teach me.

I have multiple pictures of my fish, I'll dig them up from wherever I've put them. There's not just my fish but a lot I work with too that I take care of.
My favorites are Clare and Itola, two giant pink Gourami, I love handfeeding them banana.
Two alligator gars Horatio and Hackeysack (very small don't worry, maybe 30 - 40 cm long, I don't really measure them haha)
A shovel nosed cat fish
Salmon tailed catfish
eeltailed catfish
Western freshwater eel ( aka Jack the ripper, who's in solitary confinement)
Tyre track eel
Sailfin plecos
gold spot plecos (mine)
hartweigi
jack dempsy
venustus (mine)
hongii (labidochromis) (mine)
bristlenose cats (mine)
clown loaches (mine)
kuhli loaches
spiney nose eels
featherfin catfish (mine)
pictus
ocellifer (mine)
angel fish (mine)
butterfly fish( aka batman and jaws) (mine)
pearl gourami (mine)
rainbow sharks, red tail sharks, silver sharks, (mine)
nearly every kind of barb
oscars ( Of course!!!) (mine)
vieja fenestratus (window cichlid, aka Bristo) (mine)
elephant nose (mine)
discus
black ghost knife
kribensis
peacock cichlids
parrot cichlids
firemouths
texas
convict
white knight
comprecciseps
a few different breeds of corydoras
electric yellows and blues, you call the yellows yellow lab...
virginalis
archer fish
yoyo(pakistani) loach (mine)
red forrest jewels (mine)

Plus many other types of catfish and cichlids and little tetras and what not. I'm sure the list is long enough lol. Plus goldfish. Hahah.

I've been working in the industry for 2 years so I have built up a bit of a collection of fish and gotten to know quite a few different species behaviourally etc.

So for any behavioural problems that anyone has or advice with community tanks etc I'm more than happy to try help.
Nothing more scary than walking in to find all your clown loaches are lying on their side and not knowing it's natural haha.

Anyway, Pic hunting, I'll see what I can find.

lol, list not long enough!? that's a nice collection.....strange, i think bbcode for image insertion isn't working right for some reason..will try and fix..