Meet The Members

[JenJ]

Shamelessly hanging onto the coat-tails of the 'meet the mods' thread, how about a thread for those of us that have not attained the lofty heights of mod and thus remain as mere members

 
Yes, there are profile pages where we can add info about ourselves, but in this world of mass-consumerism, how about a mass profile overdose

 
If we can keep this thread for profiles only, and post banter relating to profiles on a separate thread, this should stay quite clean and readable. (Mod edit:  Meet the Members banter)
 
Over to you...

 

[TallTree01]

Let's kick of this thread!

Here is my stats:
Age: as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
Height: 7' 3 ( no I don't play basketball )
Location: middle of nowhere, Victoria, Australia
Preferred climate: hot with a breeze.
Preferred drink: blood ( mwahahahahahaha )
Favorite fish: bristlenose ( any variety but I like albinoes the most )
Favorite smiley:
Favorite countries ( sorry if yours isn't on here )
1. Australia
2. New Zealand
3. USA
Likes: pineapple, animals, games
Dislikes: idiots, broccoli, plants that die after I spend 20$ on them
Species: human ( I think... )
3 of my Favorite animals:
1. Fish
2. insects
3. lizards
3 of my least favorite animals:
1. Humans
2. Spiders
3. Aquatic snails


Pets:
2 dogs ( Lucy and penny )
5 cats ( milly, mo, max, meg, Molly )
Darkling Beetle colony ( has 7 beetles and 2 mealworms at the moment but its growing steadily )
Crickets ( to feed what's up next )
3 green tree frogs ( socrates, prince and aloha. I didn't name them lol. )
And of course my fish:
9 neon tetras ( only counted 8 today. other 1 is probably getting some )
1 albino brisltenose catfish ( spike )

Now here is me:

 

[Mamashack]

• Forum User Name: Mamashack aka Ros
• Location: Village outside Barnsley, South Yorkshire, UK
• Fishkeeping Experience:  My interest in keeping fish first sparked when I was 5 and found one on my dad’s old tanks in the cellar. My first foray was with sticklebacks found in a pond, but I don’t recall how long they lasted as it was so long ago! (TT take note! Lol) Then we got a fish-tank for my eldest son when he was about 10, but he didn’t really look after it – guess who did! It was a small community tank with probably too many fish in it from sunset platies which did breed to neon tetras and a siamese fighter called Sam. The neon tetras used to watch out for and protect the platy fry! I reactivated my interest in fish-keeping a few years ago and bought a couple of pearl-scale goldfish in the AquaOne tank that is now waiting for a betta. They wobbled about like fat golf-balls for a couple of years until the calico one succumbed to swim-bladder problems which became obvious shortly after I got it and the orange one had a tumour at the base of its tail for years, but it eventually just gave up and died.
• Current Tanks: Since then I got a pair of platies in similar colours to the pearlscales altho that was a coincidence as I’d only asked for 2 different ones. They happened to be a male and a female and you’ve guessed it! They have been breeding like rabbits since December last year true to their nature and were moved from the 30L to a 60L where they still keep breeding despite lowering the temperature a few °!! The AquaOne is awaiting the dragon betta I bought this week and possibly some shrimp. Can’t wait!!!
• Favorite Species: Don’t think I have one really
• Personal/Random Information: I love to read – have 100s books on 2 Kindles! Real books just take up too much space and I don’t miss turning the pages at all like I thought I would! I have a border terrier X dog aged 7½ yrs called Freddy and he is about to get the shock of his life when we get another border terrier X puppy (Ginger) at the beginning of May! Needless to say dog-walking features heavily in my life! I am a nurse on an out-patient dialysis unit and I really love my job!

 

[Ny82]

• Forum username: Ny82
• Age: It's rude to ask a woman her age
  
• Location: sunny scotland 
  
• Favourite food: pizza!
• Favourite colour: Pink
• Fishkeeping experience: Used to have angel fish years ago  gorgeous black ones. Then I gave up the hobby. I missed it all the time.  I started back up 2 years ago with guppies as I did not have the space for a big fancy tank-now I do!!! I love fancy guppies and I have learned masses being on this forum.
• Current tank: 64L with 10 guppy fry, an oto and an albino cory since a few days ago I woke up and everything else was dead.
• Favourite fish: Angel fish-they are so pretty!
• Pets: 4 month old kitten called Princess
• Personal Info: I am a feminine tomboy, I like cars and am a member of a car club, we go on regular drives. I am a self confessed geek and I am epic at COD! I play black ops2, I did play hardcore capture the flag but they took it away so it's domination now.  My name is XxNylahxX on PS3 so add me if you want, just let me know you are from here! 

 
Quickfire questions
 
Ps3/xbox? PS3
 
Hot/Cold? Hot!
 
Fake plants/Live plants? live plants all the way!
 
Sweet/Sour? Sweet
 
Indoors/outdoors? Outdoors
 
Can't think of anything else right now oh this is me

 

 
Thanks!

 

[JenJ]

Forum User Name: JenJ

Location: Surrey, UK


Fish keeping experience:

My dad had always had a pond when I was growing up and kept various fish, but I was never very interested in them. Even these days, I struggle to be interested in watching fish from above Id much rather look at them side on in a big tank. When I was a naive teenager, I saw painted glass fish in my local pet/fish shop, and fell in love. At the time I thought tropicals were far too difficult to keep, so settled for a couple of goldfish. They lasted about 10 years until I had an accident one day and smashed the tank

Moving on 20-odd years from first seeing the painted glass fish, when I finally moved into what I hope will be my forever house last summer I figured it was about time I realise my ambition of keeping tropicals. After some research I then realised that the only complication compared to goldfish was adding a heater . Armed with a little more knowledge, I abandoned plans to search out the unethical painted glass fish, and settled on a more acceptable combination of guppies, harlequins and cories. Being a fickle sort, with this whole new world of fish selection opened up to me, I did go through lots of stocking changes, by advertising fish on here and giving some to friends. I also acquired another 60 litre tank within a month, then a 160 litre a month later, and a 240 litre after that, selling one of the 60 litres along the way.

Im now pretty happy with all my stocking, and am not planning to get any new fish. I say that now...but...!


Current tanks:

I ended up with just lampeyes in my 60 litre, which I loved as a simple tank set up. However I then moved my panda cories into there as they seemed to be getting lost in the bigger tank. Since the pandas moved, theyve been breeding and I currently have 3 babies growing up in there. Im not sure what my long term plans are for the pandas I may rehome them at some point.

My 240 litre is probably my second favourite possession. I always wanted (and still do) clown loaches, but dont really have space for a suitable tank. After a suggestion on here I got polka dot loaches, and I love them to bits. My tigers look quite stunning against the blue background of the tank and the bright green of the swords, plus theyre very active and make the tank so entertaining. The firemouth is my compromise on getting an Oscar - again, Ill never really be able to keep a suitable tank. He is my favourite, possibly because hes the only one I can definitely identify the others all look alike . He throws regular Im hungry tantrums when Im near the tank, and Im trying to train him to be an oscar . My plec was bought as an afterthought on in the mild hope of aiding a sudden algae problem. He has had absolutely no effect on the algae. However he is cute, if a little lazy and shy.

My 160 litre has gone through a lot of changes, but Im now happy with the stocking. The fairy cories were an accidental buy when I saw them in the lfs I thought they were schwartzi cories, but I think it was a very fortuitous mistake and love their character. The banded gouramis are lovely they remind me of my old honeys in terms of their polite character - I previously rehomed the honeys as they just didnt fit with my stocking. I have a love/hate affair with my diamonds. Most of the time I love them, but they are quite skittish, and when one starts, it winds all the others up so they start bombing around scared witless. Im adding more plants to try and make them feel more secure


Favourite species:

Clown loaches and oscars. Want.


Personal/random information:

I recently moved out from the suburbs of London to the slightly greener pastures of Surrey, and am loving it so far. I have a horse called Tilda, who is my favourite possession, I ride her most days after work. Shes 15 and Ive only had her for 2 years, but hopefully weve still got many years left together. I used to do a lot of endurance running and have so far run more than 40 marathons and longer races, but since Ive got back into horses I am doing a lot less. I dont drive, so cycle everywhere Ive arranged things so that work, home and horse are all within a few miles of each other, with a couple of pubs en route!

Having been a chain-smoking, alcoholic couch potato for most of my twenties, I am now a teetotal non-smoker. I do still spend too much time sitting down at the computer, where I am quite active on a few running and equine related forums and of course facebook. I dont have a TV, but all of the above means I wouldnt have much time to watch it anyway! I currently live alone in a 200 year old cottage smack bang in the middle of a town centre, but having recently persuaded my boyfriend to marry me, hell be moving in shortly.

Edit - sorry for punctuation errors, am on iPhone and it's correct on my text box but when I post, it disappears. Yes, I am a grammar pedant.

 

[Brilly91]

·  Forum username: Brilly91
·  Age: 21
·  Location: Ipswich, England
·  Favourite food: Pizza
·  Favourite colour: Red
·  Fishkeeping experience: Hmmmmm…. Well my dad had 2 ponds for as long as I can remember, so I always helped taking care of them. I also always had a small goldfish tank growing up. Once I hit my teens (I may have been younger) I got a 50L tropical set up in my bedroom, I never really took enough care of it and lost pretty much every fish I had in the tank and also mixed fish that shouldn’t be together. I gave up on my tank when I was 15/16 as I knew the fish didn’t get the care they deserved. As we had moved from my childhood home we no longer had a pond so i decided to set up a new koi pond in my garden when I was 17 but yet again we moved and the pond was shut down and the fish moved on to new homes. Then December of last year I decided to research and learn more about fish keeping and brought a new tank and here I am now.
·  Current tanks:  27L fry tank with guppy fry in, 100L with guppies and platies, 200L with cardinals and zebra danios
·  Favourite fish: Koi (if I must decide)
·  Pets: Rocky the yorkie/pom and Marty the hamster

 

[NickBFC]

Username: NickBFC
Age: 30
From: Sussex
Other interests besides fish keeping: Playing football/watching, cars in particular Porsche, hifi, collecting watches, fashion, mountain biking and art/design.
Current tank: Juwel Rio 125 community, although thinking of poss Malawi set up at some point
Favourite fish: Mbunas
Favourite food: Pizza, Steak
Pets: Besides fish, two female Siamese cats (Suki and Momo)

 

[Shelster]

Ok, I have had my large 180litre tank for about 12 years now. (Only the past six months have I had a decent few shoals in it) and would admit to being now a little overstocked - although tank maintenance is frequent and plentiful.

Since joining this site last year (when Fluttermoth helped me in the emergency section due to ph issues) I have somewhat acquired MTS and now also have a 54litre and a 22 litre betta set up.

Some may think therefore that I have a very understanding husband - well yes, I kinda do I suppose, but I put up with a lot also

We have busy lives what with three children under three, a farm with 350+ cattle (dairy) - they are lucky and have waterbeds and robotic car wash scratchers

Here is their man:

A red tailed hawk - "RT"

Beagle "Hasler"

Three ferrets "Thor", "Little Miss" and "Flight"

Horses "Lara" and "Lunar"

Kakariki "Kaka"

Cockerel "Merlin" and his harem "Copper", "Rockette", "Mrs.D", "Aggie" and "Rusty" - mixture of dorkings and ex batt types.

Before qualifying as a VN I worked in motor mechanics and did an NVQ level 2 at college.

I have worked in veterinary practice as an RVN for twelve years but am now a stay at home mum - but here is proof:

(yes the poor guy was castrated - such a sweetie though)

Hope I'm not posting too many pics lol, just thought I'd make it a bit interesting

I now live in Cornwall but our ultimate goal is a move to Canada

I won't bore you anymore, but thought I'd give you an insight!

 

[attibones]

Suppose I shall do one of these too.

User: Attibones, name is Atticus, but everyone calls me Atti
Age: I'm a strapping 20
Location: Columbus, MS, USA (I hate it here, one day I'm going to move to Massachusetts)
Favorite food: All of it? I dunno, I really love falafel, hummus, spaghetti, pizza, spinach, and prunes
Favorite color: Toss up between blue, green, and grey
Fish experience: One massive pond in the backyard with (initially) twenty comet goldfish and two koi fish. The comets all spawned several times, eventually doubling our numbers. We probably had more than fifty at one point, but a heron caught on to our set up and ate several of the comets (by this point the length of my forearm) and one of the koi fish. In my dorm room I was unable to take my dog, so I settled with a terribly stocked five gallon (2 male kissing gourami, 1 goldfish). Then when I moved out of the dorms, I bought myself a ten gallon as a birthday present. It now keeps my favorite betta (until my new one arrives a week from today). I eventually added more tanks until I had one 2.5 gallon, two 5 gallons, two 6 gallons, two 10 gallons, one 29 gallon, one 55 gallon, plus a single gallon that keeps a betta at work, as well as an empty 1.6 gallon which I'm considering making a shrimp tank or something. I have two cycling tanks, and one tank about to start cycling.
Favorite fish: probably albino corydoras or mikrogeophagus ramerizi. I think. I dunno. Can't choose.
Pets: I currently have only the aquaria and three and a half dogs. I have a 10 year old pit bull, Ruca, a 4 year old dachshund mix, Dylan, and a 2 year old beagle mix, Theodore. The half comes in the form of a now five week old pit bull named Huxley who will be joining my pack in a few weeks. I'm meeting her today!
Personal/weird stuff about me: I'm a college student. I'm studying for a creative writing degree. I love writing and reading. I'm a but obsessed with Harry Potter (particularly that fine Draco). I'm a bit of a movie buff. I love cooking and settling down at night for a good movie. When I'm not studying, I'm probably playing The Sims 3. I have all the expansion packs. I live with my older sister, Skylar (27), who works full time at a vet clinic where I am the on-call replacement tech. I don't like to go home very much, but as it happens, I am currently staying at my father's for the weekend. Also, I kind of have this problem where I fall in love with presidents. I dunno why.