Photo for July 2009 (Competition CLOSED)

Cool idea!

So enter a photo then!

Laura gave me the idea by pointing me at http://www.dfwfishbox.com

Those cichlids are sweet! No idea what species they are. Probably a Central or South America species. Cichlasoma genus maybe?

My entry lol

Great! What is it though?

Kurt, they are (wild caught I believe) Red Headed Severums (Heros Rotkeil). They are south american. They have just had their first spawn. Gorgeous fish! I am trying to get my hands on some fry

Good luck with that, they are gorgeous! Thanks for the info, its been a long time since I worked professionally with fish. There are a few new fish that have popped up in the aquarium trade since then and I have noticed that a lot of the taxonomic name I knew are no longer valid.

this is my entry kassina maculata she is also known as teatimey
sorry about the hand lol

Nice.

That is a cute frog.

Originally Posted by daydreaming

this is my entry kassina maculata she is also known as teatimey
sorry about the hand lol

Originally Posted by Kurt

Good luck with that, they are gorgeous! Thanks for the info, its been a long time since I worked professionally with fish. There are a few new fish that have popped up in the aquarium trade since then and I have noticed that a lot of the taxonomic name I knew are no longer valid.

That is a possibility- names change in and out all the time. There are several "new" fish. Many selectively bred or hybrids that I am not fond of myself for the most part.

Originally Posted by Kurt

Those cichlids are sweet! No idea what species they are. Probably a Central or South America species. Cichlasoma genus maybe?

Cichlasoma's long gone (a lot like Bufo ) It was broken up into an absolutely incredible number of genuses (geni?). I like the change, it was like Dendrobates, an ever-expanding genus that was bound to shatter.

Originally Posted by lraulston

That is a possibility- names change in and out all the time. There are several "new" fish. Many selectively bred or hybrids that I am not fond of myself for the most part.

You mean like parrot cichlids?

Originally Posted by bobberly1

genuses (geni?)

genera

Yep. Parrots (though I have owned a couple through the years that I ended up returning) and Balloon Rams and such. And of course dying fish or tattooing is just sad in my opinion. I can't be too against selective breeding though, or I can rule out any freshwater angelfish etc. which I have owned and bred many of. The wildcaught angels are very particular to water quality and I am not on well water anymore, so I have no tried my hand at those yet. I mainly like south american fish, though I have bred african shell dwellers (brevis) over the last couple of years and enjoyed them as well.

I use to work for a place called Tropic Isle, its a huge aquarium store here in Massachusetts, over four hundred tanks. I worked with all kinds of stuff there, from guppies up to nurse sharks, discus, African cichlids, clown loaches and so on. That was in the early 90's. Never tried to breed anything though.

Sounds like a blast. Speaking of that I need to get me a few clown loaches- I have a major snail problem. I'm a fish nerd at heart. Frogs have their special place to as well. I just realized that we jacked this thread. Back to the contest!

Originally Posted by lraulston

Sounds like a blast. Speaking of that I need to get me a few clown loaches- I have a major snail problem.

I have one, need more. My I am hesitant to get more as it lives with my White's and I am afraid of introducing chytrid to that tank. So I need to find a store that never has stock clawed frogs in their fish tanks or that doesn't keep every thing on the same system.