William

[Full3R]

William, you said you travel around alot so i was curious if you have yet been to the amazon and seen the fish that live there because if so and if you have pictures you wish to share i would like to see them if you wouldnt mind

[William]

No. I havent but I am moving to Nicaragua near the border to Costa rica in 1.5 months and I will than hopefully get a lot of pictures to post here (will post in the blog). I'm guessing that I will go to Costa rica quite often as it is a fish and cichlid paradise.(I'm also hoping to get to dive with whale sharks and Manta rays.)

I posted some pictures in my blog from Guatemala and a swamp there but did unfortunatly not get any UW pictures that time (williams blog at the bottom of the menu)

[DemonShark]

Hey I just thought what if William was eaten up someday then who will be master of the website?

Cant wait to see the pictures

Ps:Dont get eaten Willaim lol

[Full3R]

If by some unfortunet event of william being eaten the master shall be determined in a three roundgame of paper, scissors, rock

JJ william we couldnt replace ya ;)

[DemonShark]

No we cant ever replace William

Ps: I heard we can clone people now maybe we can clone William lol then we can replace him with himself Jk william

[Full3R]

yeah the clone william wouldn't have a belly button just like on the simpsons

[DemonShark]

lol

[William]

Don't worry. I don't intend to be eaten. Losse a arm or a leg to a shark maybe, but don't get eaten.

[Full3R]

good plan

[Full3R]

William, before you started travelling when u had alot of fish what was the biggest tank/pond/aquarium that u had

[William]

Only about 300 gallon. Couldn't fit anything larger in my apartment. I also had two 145 gallons, 1 70 gallon and 2 40 gallon tanks and a few small 10 gallon tanks.

[Full3R]

i see, well good luck with settin the new ones up

[William]

In due time. I am afraid it will be atleast a year before I get new tanks :-(

[Full3R]

thats gotta be depressing, well atleast when ya finally can get the tanks you'll have been around the world and decided wat u want aye?

[William]

Yes. But on the other hand it's almost worse since I get to se a lot of great fish that isn't available in the trade. Would like to be able to catch some of them and keep them.

[Full3R]

if ya allowed that is

[William]

Who said I would ask for permission ;-)

It's usally not a problem as long the fish isn't Cites listed and even than there is usually legal ways to get them in their native countries.

[Full3R]

o like your style, now i gotta find a "legal" way to get Restricted fish into aus

[William]

Well. You got a nice predatory fish that is hard to get out of aus. The Australian lungfish.

[Full3R]

yeah the protected one, wouldn't it be hard to look after tho?

[William]

So so. It's not a good beginner fish but is not that hard either. The problem is usually the price.

[Full3R]

is he on your list of fish to buy when ya tanks a set up?

[William]

Yes, but a bit down on the list. There are a lot of other nice fish I can get for less than 750$ which an Australian lungfish usally cost.

[William]

If it is large and predatory it's probably somewhere on my list ;-)

[Full3R]

You gotta get yaself a barra aswell there the life of the party and they go great with oscars of similiar size

[William]

A few barramundi is definitely on my list: I just have to get a few 10 000 gallon tanks to keep what I want in.

[Full3R]

it seems so weird for me coz i 10, 000 gallons to me is alot but your so casual

[William]

Yes. It's a lot, but I have just come to the conclusion that I will have to get atleast that size to be able to keep the kind of fish I want like the Arapaima. I have simply gotten used to the thought ;-)

[Full3R]

wish i could get use to the thought, Arapaima are said to not survive long in captivity

[William]

Spending time in cheap/poor countries help one to se new things as possible, and to egt use to the thought that you can get things you didn't think you could get before.

Arapaimas do survive in captivity with the right care but most peopla who get them does unfortunatly not have the capacity to keep fish like Arapaimas. Especially not when they start to grow. Much of the fish in trade is today pond breed fish so one doesn't have to hurt the wild population by trying to keep them.

[Full3R]

William if u havent been here all ready this would be a place to for some good fish shopping

http://www.aquarticles.com/articles/travel/Norfolk_1cChina_.Beijing_Arcade.html

Wow, long link, sorry, but copy and paste it to a new window and look at the fish and the prices of them

[William]

Yes thats a nice store. A little crowded but nice assortment of fish.

I edited the link to be a little shorter. Most of the original one was just the google query not the link to the actuall site. You can choose to just displaying a link text instead of the entire url if you want when you create a link by using the following code
[url=http://www.aquarticles.com/articles/travel/Norfolk_1cChina_.Beijing_Arcade.html] fish stor ein china [/ url]

the above code will create a link that simply looks like the text below

fish store in china

if you remove the space between [/ and url]

Just a little tip that you can use if you want to. Both ways are fine with me.

[Full3R]

i see, thanx and sorry

[William]

No problem. Thanks for sharing.

[Full3R]

William i sent you a picture of my oscars tank with the new things i added could you possibly post it in south american cichlids - Occar spawning? please?

Thak you (ara)

[William]

I have allready done so. Took me some time as I was out when you sent it.

[Full3R]

Yeah, no problems and thank you

[Full3R]

William Have you ever thought of having your own TV show like a documentary where u travel to different parts of the world and look at all different fish ??? thatd be neat

[William]

Not really but you are right. that would be nice. Might have to unpack my camera.

[Full3R]

Do it! you should carry around a small tank of about 20 gallons and where ever you go try and catch some wild specimens and keep them in the tank whilst you want to and take pics then realease them back when you leave that way you can have more easier shots to take and plus you can still have an aquarium

[Lindsay_D]

did you know for the past 3 pages its only been you two talking???

[DemonShark]

What if its a 10 foot catfish lol?

[Full3R]

Oh he'll Fit demonshark, he'll fit

And yes, yes i do no now it was only us talking

[William]

Jupp. But I welcome that you two make a guest apperance in it ;-)

Full3R: I would prefer to have a UW vidoe camera before doing domething like that but they are unfortunatly rather expensive.

[Full3R]

well, poker your lil heart out

[William]

lol, I'll try but there are a lot of other things I want more.
You know things like a nice car, my own island .... ;-)

[Full3R]

oh yeah, you can have one of my 25 islands, they live on jupitar

[DemonShark]

lol

[William]

lol. Actually a carribean island isn't "impossible" to get and i checked cameras and that actually was cheaper than I thought. who knows, maybe I end up getting one after the summer.

[DemonShark]

the camera or island?

[William]

Perhaps both but I meant the camera. My guess is that the island will have to wait a year or two more.

[DemonShark]

lol

[William]

but to perfectly honest I would be happy just finding a nice house in this part of the world that I could live in more than maybe 6 months before moving.

[DemonShark]

I hope you get it

[Full3R]

William ive sent you a picture of a fish that got sold to me as a blue acara but it seems rather agressive and to me it looks like a juvenile green terror the seconds one i have is exactly the same in looks only its the most peacful fish i own apart from my ghosts

[William]

Hi.
I just answered this in a pm. I think it looks like an acara but might be rong and t might very well be a green terror. Would need a better pic to say more.

[Full3R]

well i would need a better camera so ill see if my mates works any better

[Full3R]

william from the last time i remeber speaking of this u said u would be settling down in about a year i presume thats getting pretty close? so how long till u get your tanks back up

[William]

Well. I was hoping to do so but I'd say it will be some time yet.

[Full3R]

well good luck with it all

[Full3R]

well good luck with it all. dont forget you wanted a pool with a bull shark, just make sure the people u DONT like go swimming in that one