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Subject: Noob from SE Oklahoma! 2/21/2011, 11:16 pm
Hello everyone! My name is Matt, but in most forums/games I use the handle "brokeashell". I'm 27 and currently living in McAlester, Oklahoma. I am a fish noob. I bought my first aquarium about a year ago and have managed to keep my fish alive! I don't know all the species of cichlids in my tank... maybe you guys/gals can help?
BTW, Whoever thought it was a good idea to post ads in craigslist... You sir are a genius! That's how I found this site.
Here is my 55 gallon setup, enjoy!
Keelo Major
Posts : 899 Location : Springdale, AR Favorite Fish: : Mollys, BN plec, and Thoracochromis brauschi
Subject: Re: Noob from SE Oklahoma! 2/21/2011, 11:20 pm
Welcome! Craigslist has been bringing alot of people in its great! Glad to have you :)
Snookemz Sergeant
Posts : 104 Location : Oklahoma Favorite Fish: : believe it or not, I just love guppies.
Subject: Re: Noob from SE Oklahoma! 2/21/2011, 11:21 pm
Subject: Re: Noob from SE Oklahoma! 2/21/2011, 11:30 pm
WOOT! Other people from Oklahoma! haha!
I also have my tank planted with anubias hastifolia and java fern.
ornate12 Lieutenant Colonel
Posts : 1340 Location : New Iberia,Louisiana Favorite Fish: : Ornate Bichirs, Synodontis Angelicus, Filamentosus barb,
Aristochromis Christyi, Ptychochromis Grandidieri and all other Madagascar cichlids.
Subject: Re: Noob from SE Oklahoma! 2/21/2011, 11:36 pm
Hello and Welcome to the Box!
CajunGator Moderator
Posts : 5845 Location : New Iberia, Louisiana Favorite Fish: : Cichlids, WC Syn Petricola, Shellies, Festae, Mbu Puffers, Koi Angels, ABN, Piranha, Mermaids
Subject: Re: Noob from SE Oklahoma! 2/21/2011, 11:48 pm
welcome Matt... enjoy the site...
Snookemz Sergeant
Posts : 104 Location : Oklahoma Favorite Fish: : believe it or not, I just love guppies.
Subject: Re: Noob from SE Oklahoma! 2/22/2011, 1:11 am
brokeashell wrote:
WOOT! Other people from Oklahoma! haha!
I also have my tank planted with anubias hastifolia and java fern.
if you have an overgrowth, let me know -my gups are poppin pups! I need fry cover! I have some java fern and its taking off nicely with some fertilizer but I don't have near enough coverage in my tank!
Snookemz Sergeant
Posts : 104 Location : Oklahoma Favorite Fish: : believe it or not, I just love guppies.
Subject: Re: Noob from SE Oklahoma! 2/22/2011, 1:13 am
ooo and there are several okies here - most in the OKC area (and I'll be moving back there soon! WOOT!! I miss my OKC house and friends! just a few more months!)
Subject: Re: Noob from SE Oklahoma! 2/22/2011, 11:18 am
welcome
Ben Moderator
Posts : 1878 Location : Sandston, Virginia Favorite Fish: : Venustus and Catfish
Subject: Re: Noob from SE Oklahoma! 2/22/2011, 3:53 pm
BFinley Admin
Posts : 4498 Location : Fort Worth,Tx Favorite Fish: : Frontosa and Red Tail Catfish and All Africans
Subject: Re: Noob from SE Oklahoma! 2/22/2011, 5:35 pm
cwillis Sergeant Major
Posts : 285 Location : Florida Favorite Fish: : all of them that the problem but I do favor the shubunkins.
Subject: Re: Noob from SE Oklahoma! 2/22/2011, 6:56 pm
I agree with the Craigslist comment, that's how I found the site as well.
Great looking tank, and decor, welcome to the site
proyect01 Captain
Posts : 1196 Location : Fort Myers Fl Favorite Fish: : Aulonocara species
Subject: Re: Noob from SE Oklahoma! 2/23/2011, 12:06 am
Welcome
strikingthematch Captain
Posts : 1118 Location : Virginia Beach, VA Favorite Fish: : Discus, Stingrays, Arowana, Rams, and Angels
Subject: Re: Noob from SE Oklahoma! 2/23/2011, 6:55 am
welcome to the box! Great looking fish!
Guest Guest
Subject: Re: Noob from SE Oklahoma! 2/23/2011, 7:43 am
Welcome to the box! Anyone going to identify his cichlids for him? I don't know Africans yet!
KMX Admin
Posts : 16094 Location : Mansfield, TX Favorite Fish: : African Cichlids of all kinds.
Subject: Re: Noob from SE Oklahoma! 2/23/2011, 7:52 am
Melenchromis Aruatus Electric Blue Ahli Hybrid Peacock Yellow Lab Some sort of Female Peacocks. Pse. Albino Socolofi OB Peacock (Hybrid)
FYI: If your peaocks breed dispose of the fry/babies. They are no good.
lifeisgood Captain
Posts : 1154 Location : Beaverton , MI Favorite Fish: : My Favorites are the Pleco's and Cory Cats . BUT , I have 44 running Tanks at this time . I keep 3 kinds of Shellies , several types of Pleco's ( mostly Ancistrus ), Cichlids , Crays , Angels , LB's , and some local species .
Subject: Re: Noob from SE Oklahoma! 2/23/2011, 8:07 am
I agree with the fish ID except , I believe that is a Melanochromis Johannii not an Auratus
just my two cents ,, Ray
KMX Admin
Posts : 16094 Location : Mansfield, TX Favorite Fish: : African Cichlids of all kinds.
Subject: Re: Noob from SE Oklahoma! 2/23/2011, 8:28 am
Subject: Re: Noob from SE Oklahoma! 2/23/2011, 8:37 am
Yeah, he was an Auratus... But the albinos are peacocks (or atleast that's what the store owner told me). I will try to take a better picture of them so you can see the stripes on their sides. Also, I think I have a hybrid electric blue ahli... from pictures I've found, my female looks like the blue ahli, but my male has an orange tint over the blue (which looks wicked in the right light).
2/21/2011, 11:16 pm
Please don't make my head any bigger then it already is 
