Hey Mahesh!
I still have that "friends invite" you sent, I just haven't figured out how to reply to it. Every time I think I have it right it still isn't replied to.
Now Brisbane Tropical was open 10 AM to 10 PM, six days a week, closed Wednesdays. As such it was often interesting at night due to drunks wandering out of the local bars and seeing a light on. That and our regular customers often resembled a Fellini casting call to begin with. It was a widely varied customer base. From Genentech Ph.d's to some serious underworld types from the 'hood. I'm talking about limos pulling up and bodyguards coming in and checking the place out prior to their boss coming in to hobnob with my boss, as we had several rivals who were regular customers and they took rivalry differently than let's say Hostess Cupcakes and Little Debbie Cupcakes. Least ways I presume as much.
I got into tropical fish keeping as soon as I had gotten out of the Navy in '82. Used part of my mustering out pay to buy my first twenty gallon tank which has been up and running ever since. It's in my kitchen housing a Nigerian bicher and a trio of mature
Ctenopoma acutirostre http://www.aquahobby.com/gallery/e_C...cutirostre.php at the moment.
I'm going to move them on to a friend with a bigger tank. I have to move them on because I'm seeing small signs their health is being impacted from being in too small a tank. Plus the tank they are in could use a break from the high nitrate output a carnivore tank often sees. Though the main issue is actually lipids fouling the tank.
I've got to start using carbon filtration again as I've slowed down the water changes considerably. Didn't see a need to run carbon when I was changing the water twice a week. I've slowed down a wee bit and until a week ago or so I was too proud to admit I can't maintain the tanks like they should be kept.
So I'm going to simplify things a bit and move away from the delicate, soft acidic water guys and go for saline, alkaline loving fish like livebearers. As the salt suppresses most diseases before they start and my tap water is so hard I've been getting carbonate chunks since that 4.0 earthquake a couple of months back, I'm thinking of wild form guppies and black mollies. Maybe a couple of the better behaved gobies like the butterfly or bumblebee.
When selecting black mollies look for silver irises in their eyes, a sign of wild caught or close enough to it, fish. They tend to be hardier. (Sounded like a green grocer there for a second.) Don't thump the mollies though, unlike cantelopes the fish don't like it.
Okay, I had planned this to be longer but I have to rest yet again. Typing makes me dizzy of late. So I'm going to quit before the room turns sideways and/or gravity becomes irresistable.
Hey, flying cow!
wait a minute...why would my new meds make cows fly?