Hello discus people!
Just thought I'd make a quick thread/post here so the folks that don't know me get an idea of my background.
I started this (aquarium) hobby about 10 or 11 years ago. Prior to that, my family (mainly my father) always had aquariums at home and his office but they were not "mine." I went from my first aquarium - a 12g Marineland Eclipse tank off CL - to SEVENTEEN aquariums (10 FW and 7 SW) in about six months. That was in my 1 bedroom apt on the third floor. One of my friends came by for a visit around that time and offered up his three car garage to use as a fish room... things got interesting at that point. At the peak, I ran 37 tanks averaging 60g each and the largest being 240g. The larger space allowed me to venture into monster fish keeping and I got into that community heavily around 2007-8.
To make a long story short, lets fast forward to today.
I am on the exec board for SCAPE (
www.scapeclub.org) which is a planted tank club in southern California. I serve on the board of directors at a parrot sanctuary/rescue (
www.thelilysanctuary.org) in Orange County. I am the adoptions chair and exec board member for the Orange County chapter of the California Turtle and Tortoise Club (
www.octortoisecttc.org).
Other aquarium clubs/groups I'm a member of include: MonsterFishKeepers, California's Organization of Aquatic Show Tropicals (COAST), Southern California Reef Keepers, and many others I'm less active in...
I currently have 1 dog, 2 bearded dragons, 1 tegu, 1 uromastyx, 3 sulcata tortoises, 2 giant leopard tortoises, 1 mata, 3 soft shell turtles, 5 razorback musk turtles, 1 CA desert tortoise, 1 African Grey parrot, 2 budgies (parakeets), 60g reef tank, 180g monster fish tank, 150g monster fish tank, 75g community planted tank, 6.7g planted shrimp tank, AND.... newly set up 80g DISCUS tank.
I'm in the process of adopting 4 parrots from the sanctuary where I volunteer and also have 10-15 turtles and tortoises that cycle through my house as they get surrendered in and adopted out that I do not consider "my" pets.
Yes, I have a wife. No, we do not have kids (yet).
I hope that gives you guys some info about me. I'm sure I know many of you from the SoCal area but I know there are many folks here from the rest of the world.
PS: If anyone plays StarWars Commander (mobile game), my handle is SgtJohnKim in the squad _NAMELESS_ (top rebel squad in the world!)
Reply With QuoteOriginally Posted by John7429
Re: Finally
Being a Red footed Tortoise guy myself... should you run into red footed, Yellow footed or Cherry heads that are in need of adoption. Please let me know. I will give them a great home.
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