Franken-Bar-Pond

[brewmaster15]

Elliot thats all fascinating ! but can you share more details on the important stuff like what beer were you drinking and what exactly are you painting?

[pastry]

LMAO... I know... I have a problem with typing novels too often

Beer: I'm a wuss and love a good wheat or white ale but I'm also a cheap date who's good to go with a budlight, milker lite, or coors

Paintings: Here's a few


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[brewmaster15]

Wow.. you are really good there Elliot! I cant paint worth a darn.. but thankfully I know my way around a camera.

After you get those paintings done for the homestead we should talk....lol.

Ever paint Discus?

[pastry]

Thanks Al! I've drawn/sketched discus, but never painted. I'd be willing to do a discus painting and if it turned out good enough, I'd donate it. Or if folks rather have something else painted if winning a contest, I'd do it.

[Second Hand Pat]

Darn Elliot, love your paintings. What medium are you using? I started out as an art student back in the day.
Pat

[pastry]

THANKS PAT! I'll use canvas or wood. Acrylics for now but soon will transition to oils (around November).

I wish I took pics of all paintings I did, but here are a few more (some that are not done... 1 in particular with the photograph of the scene)

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[pastry]

"It's alive... It's ALIVE!"

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[brewmaster15]

Cool Elliot .. congrats! Care to share what exactly did You stock it with? Bass?

[pastry]

Temporarily with baby bass as "coal miner's canaries". Still need to trim-out portions and install proper lighting, but it's functional.

Baby bass will be released next week. Unsure what I'll stock it with for the winter

[brewmaster15]

These are fun..
http://forum.simplydiscus.com/showth...pomis-gibbosus

[pastry]

Very cool . ...but I assure you
, Al... there WILL be discus in there (not with bass!). It may not be until next Spring, though. Unless I get a solid pair out of my current group of discus,... then I'll use it as a grow out.

[pastry]

Sorry it's been forever. Meanwhile, I told my son he had to put the juvenile largemouth bass back in the neighborhood retention pond before the first cold snap. So then it was empty and I was trying to figure out what to do and the next thing I know I see two mystery fish in there. Turns out to be a sun catfish and a bicher/*****er/bircher (?)... basically two fish I don't care I have my house the worst of all, they get too big in my opinion for even my big tank because I like to see tons of space and see Fish interact rather than have one or two giant fish in a ginormous tank that still seems to be a tiny prison cell for what they really need. Turns out my wife bought my youngest son those fish didn't even research them at a time. I just got rid of them tonight because my youngest son was dumb enough to say he would give up his mbuna colony in order to have a tank for those two fish. That thing still isn't big enough for them but whatever, not my problem. Plus, mbuna are my second love (discus numero uno!) and they'll look damn good in the franken-bar-pond!

Nothing worth taking a pic of just yet, but should have them PLUS 12 more (I ordered) by the 19th. I have white tops (afras), super red hongi, auratus, and ... crap... I can't remember the name of the new group that I just ordered.

Now.... should they do okay in my garage and drive, from the first time I have a another spawn from a pair of discus in the big tank, then the mbuna colony might be relocated for awhile (...and I have a newly formed pair! An awesome brilliant turq female which I always thought was going to turn out to be a male plus it's nearly solid and very bright turquoise
... with an Ica Heckle x Red Cover male).

[brewmaster15]

So to translate and abbreviate.. your new name is "fish shuffler"?

Looking forward to pics my friend and fingers crossed on those discus pairs!

Al

[pastry]

My youngest son literally has me doing way too much shuffling. He is a double edged sword: forces me lately to shuffle his fish around yet at least this time around, I get fish that I would love to have in my garage for Heathers to be entertained when having people over as well as just myself. But I cannot believe my wife is literally picking up a 60 gallon fish tank to keep in her garage for him for his upcoming birthday since a month ago she wasn't thinking and purchased four different predator fish that will be way too big for any of the Little tanks or plastic bins that he has filled up with water whenever I'm not looking and starts populating with any aquatic creature he can get his hands on. I asked her if she had taken any drugs while drinking when I found out she bought the bicher (and then a few days later I see two baby Oscars).

Remember, we have two separate garages. So I told her it is not going in his room because the only tank other than my show tank in Franken bar that I will maintain is the mbuna tank in his room. It's bizarre because when we got married she only allowed me to have one show tank and now she is a contributor to his addiction of tank after tank after tank. He definitely got my jeans but then he's even better because he can manipulate her when I can't even get her to get off a damn ipad.

[pastry]

Added a few more mbuna. 1 male auratus, 1 female auratus, 1 1" auratus, 2 white top afra males. There were already 6 baby auratus in there. I had to move them so 11 new 1.25-2" mbuna can grow in son's tank (4 super red hongi, 3 more white tops, and 4 Nkhomo Limes).

There are a ton

of rocks in Franken-bar-pond but can't tell in these pics due to adding more sand. The mom auratus has little ones in her mouth. Need to hurry up and multiply in order to dilute aggression.

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