Ornamental Fish Breeder (home industry), hatchery manager (recently graduated).
Music:
Led Zep, ZZ Top, Uriah Heap, Jethro Tull, Jack Johnson.
Movies:
All of them
Who I'd like to meet:
Filipe Oliviera (Aquascaper extrodinaire)
Books:
Five quarters of an Orange, Bad Place, Supernature and anything by Robert Pirsig
Heroes:
Nelson Mandela (Madiba!).
TV:
Boston Legal, Broken Bad and War at Home.
Gender:
Male
Orientation:
Straight
Ethnicity:
Caucasian
Smoker:
Yes
Marital:
Live in partner
Drinker:
Occasionally
Education:
University Degree
Why do you like AC Tropical Fish:
Advice (sometimes the novices hit on new ideas). A busy forum. Oh, and a place to share with kin...
Children:
No
Hometown::
Knysna, South Africa
Aquarium 1:
A mish-mash of decor, but a true representation of an Amazon riverbed.
Aquarium 2:
A tropical island (underwater)
Aquarium 3:
...the other 63 tanks?
typeof:
Freshwater
Rest of Your Aquariums:
Breeding / Rearing Tanks
How I got started with aquariums.:
I bought a 60L, then upgraded to a 90L... then got a goof deal on a bow-front 300L... the other 60+ tanks were an (un)natural progression.
Favorite fish:
P.scalare (great Characters)
Fish I have bred:
Everything I have, 'cept Clown Loaches - But I will.
Why I like fish::
Grace. Beauty. A replacement for TV.
Best advice:
Your fish probably know you better than you know them - don't let them down.
Other pets:
4 cats, 9 birds, 3 dogs and a wife (oops!).
Signature
The Metaphysics of Quality would show how things become enormously more coherent--fabulously more coherent--when you start with an assumption that Quality is the primary empirical reality of the world....
...but showing that, of course, was a very big job...."