I have a friend with a large tank he constantly remodels, creating world class aquascapes in an apartment with no space for a second tank.
I met a guy my age returning to the hobby the other day, and he asked where all the mbuna had gone. They were all people seemed to keep when he was last into fishkeeping.
I know people who linebreed fancy guppies. People who maintain endangered species. People who have kept the same species for decades. People who want to see new things all the time. People who don't care about fish, and want plants. People for whom shrimp are everything. People who like snails. People who are artists with tank design.
A lot of experienced people I know would be aghast if I put an Asian fish in the same tank as a South American - they'd probably dislike seeing plants from one continent with fish from another. They're geographical or biotope purists. Other good fishkeepers keep communities with fish from all over the world.
I'm a mess - I put whatever plant grows in with my fish. Plants are green things to me. But I don't mix fish from different continents, and try to have fish from the same regions. I'm an impure geography purist.
I keep South Americans and West/Central Africans apart, but I love keeping both. I like my killies, my dwarf Cichlids and my corys most of all, but I'll always have South American tetras.
So what kind of fishkeeper are you? Specialized? A sampler? Trying things as they catch your fancy? Working with a goal? Mad about plants? Mad about fish?
And, considering the near collapse of the East African Cichlid group's once dominant popularity, what do you see as the incoming trends?
I met a guy my age returning to the hobby the other day, and he asked where all the mbuna had gone. They were all people seemed to keep when he was last into fishkeeping.
I know people who linebreed fancy guppies. People who maintain endangered species. People who have kept the same species for decades. People who want to see new things all the time. People who don't care about fish, and want plants. People for whom shrimp are everything. People who like snails. People who are artists with tank design.
A lot of experienced people I know would be aghast if I put an Asian fish in the same tank as a South American - they'd probably dislike seeing plants from one continent with fish from another. They're geographical or biotope purists. Other good fishkeepers keep communities with fish from all over the world.
I'm a mess - I put whatever plant grows in with my fish. Plants are green things to me. But I don't mix fish from different continents, and try to have fish from the same regions. I'm an impure geography purist.
I keep South Americans and West/Central Africans apart, but I love keeping both. I like my killies, my dwarf Cichlids and my corys most of all, but I'll always have South American tetras.
So what kind of fishkeeper are you? Specialized? A sampler? Trying things as they catch your fancy? Working with a goal? Mad about plants? Mad about fish?
And, considering the near collapse of the East African Cichlid group's once dominant popularity, what do you see as the incoming trends?
however I’m starting to enjoy biotopes, the more I read and watch online
