Welcome

[horton44]

Nice to have you. I need to try to post more, I'm just busy.

[johnt501]

Hey ya'll,
well JD and Titans turned me on to the site here.
I'm a 53yo swm in Gallatin tn, (north of nashville) that has had some fish for about 15 years now. I started out with a garage sale 30g and LFS fish. Did that for quite a while. Couple years ago I got a used 125g and all the gear to go with it from a friend.

as far as fish... right now I have the 125g tank with:
2 6" to 8" Blood pariots, a male and a female
2 young red spotted severums 4" and 6"
1 6" male Roktiel
1 6" to 8" male red spotted severum
1 5" african knife
1 8" sailfin catfish
1 8" albino chocolate Placo
1 2.5" Bolivian ram ( had 2, 1 is gone)
6 2 to 3" Giant danos
2 walnut sized mystery snails
lots of baby snails
2 4" crawdads

the pariots use to try to mate all the time, laying eggs. The male is quite a bit smaller than the female. I got the largest red spotted male sev for free from a woman a while back and the female pariot took a liking to him. they have laid eggs 3 times but no babys yet. the smal male pariot now has a complex and hides a lot. Sev stole his woman...

At work i have the 30 gal that has 1 of each of like 5 diffrent kinds of gourmies and small fish that the guys here buy for it.

So very glad to have found my way here ( thanks JD and Titansfan) hope to get to know all ya'll...

[jgentry]

Glad you joined up John. Now post us some tank and fish shots of those great looking sevs that you got ;D.

John has great looking rotkeil!!!!!!!

I'll be around this weekend if you want to check out my fish or want me to swing by and check out your tank.

[fishme]

Welcome John. And yes, I need pics of the severum.

[angel]

I wanna see!!!!!!!!! Welcome to the forum John. It's excellent to have you here and I look forward to your pics and fish chat!

[johnt501]

pictures ?






did it work ? nice fish, bad photographer

[angel]

It worked great and those are some gorgeous fish

[tomtom]

them are some very nice lookin severums and parrots

[pegasus2200]

Very nice color on the parrots! We used to keep them and it seemed that most were dull colored in stores around Knoxville.

[angel]

Ours started out black and now is almost all orange. Go figure!

[fishme]

Very nice. I'm in major envy state over red severums these days. What's the fish in the last pic. Love that one too.

[titansfever83]

Welcome John!


Mike that is a beautiful Rotkeil a.k.a Redheaded Severum or Red shoulder Severum. They are very beautiful fish, pictures don't do them justice.

[jgentry]

Great looking fish John. You might want to take a good look at the red sev in the second to the last pic. I think it might be a female. Might need to vent it to make sure.

[jon carman]

Looks good john glad to have you join

[pegasus2200]

Hey Angel, I "think" Blood parrots are similar to Red Devils, they get brighter when they reach about 4 or so inches in size. They are all kinda dull at first.