Rikostan

Hiya Guppysnail! We will for sure be there again this year. It will be my third year attending and I've seen the event get better and better each year. It's not massive like the aquashellas are, but IMHO it is a better type of event. Last year saw about 65 people from the Youtube Fishfam community attend, this year we are looking at roughly 100 of us. If you'd like to meet a ton of small channels from youtube and get some know some amazing people, this is the event for you. The fishshow is one of the largest in North America, they have a ton of great speakers lined up, and more vendors than ever before too. I always come home incredibly motivated from the event and usually with a few more friendships too. The people are incredibly inclusive and welcoming and honestly it is one of the highlights of my year! {EDIT} I should clarify... There are hundreds of people that go to this event. The 100 people I mentioned are just people specifically from our community, There are tons more that go that don't even know we exist. 🙂

Lol! We could be brothers! I hope Cory has his Halloween costume for this year now.

Hey, I know this guy!

You are very welcome and it was nice meeting you! I had 70 keychains to hand out, I have 4 left!!

Thanks, I'll take a look!

Hundreds. I love supporting the fishfam on youtube and I'm constantly calling out good channels and doing interviews with creators too. I was even lucky enough to interview Cory, Zenzo, and Dean at different times. I think both Dean and Cory's stream were more than 2.5 hours. 🙂 I have 67 interviews done and only about a thousand left to go!

Yeah I don't post here much. Nothing against the site or Cory, I'm a huge fan. I just don't do forums much these days, but my account is a good year and a half old.

Nice! Please make sure to stop in and say Hi. Fishfam will have a booth in the vendor room and we sponsored the hospitality suite and most of the fish classes from the show too

I collect quite often too, since I live on a shore line and can legally take anything that comes up on the high water mark. I have dipped pretty much everything in hydrogen peroxide and everything has come through fine except for the elodia, which lost all it's leaves.

https://keystoneclash.com They have some good speakers lined up this year and their fish show is one of the largest in north america, with hundreds of fish entered into the contest. It's a club event instead of a trade show, but there are still lots of vendors and lots of fish swapping happening. The Fishfam will be well represented this year too with somewhere between 50-70 of us coming.

I live in upstate NY, right on the lake Ontario shoreline and did my first pond this past year. My set up is a lot like yours, but much smaller. I have a pre-formed 50 gallon bottom tub, a nine gallon bog filter, then a one gallon weir at the top. I turned off the pump for the winter and used a tetra pond de-icer to keep the water from freezing. It is only rated at 40 degrees F though, so the water was still pretty cold... I stocked it with golden white clouds minnows. I wasn't sure how well they'd do, but they just didn't survive, they thrived. There are far more this spring then when I shut it down late last fall. Here is what it looked like after the winter. Disregard the dumb thumbnail, it's what I do. And here is after a little bit of work getting it cleaned up. You can actually see a few of the goldens toward the end.

Hey hey peeps! A lot has changes since my last update. I have 11 tanks now, but two of them are little 5 gallons. I also put in a small 60 gallon pond and put out a couple of tubs this year. I still have guppies, but I have so many other things now including a bunch of Psuedomugils and pea puffers. Really diggin' into the hobby!

LOL wow, they DO like like twins! Is he crazy long too? Like when we are cooking, our cat will stretch up and put his paws on the counter-top.

Thanks! I just realized I had made quite a few changes since my last update here. Instead of doing a huge post, here is a quick fishroom tour. You'll see a lot of Co-op plants and equipment 🙂

Well it's been a few months since I updated. Nothing new to really report with the 55. Everybody is still doing good in that tank. I have a total of 9 tanks now as I've added a couple of small 5 gallon tanks and a 75 gallon tank too. The 75 is still being setup, and I haven't totally decided on what is going to go in the tank yet, but I am leaning heavily toward some roseline/dennison barbs. The gold ones if I can find them when I'm ready to buy, but if not, just the standard ones.

Well not much new to report on the 55 gallon. It's moving along nicely. The panda corys hide a lot more these days though. They pretty much stay in the little cave system and just come out to eat. Maybe they are spawning? Everything else in the tank is doing well and I've seen a lot of breeding behavior from the CPDs, so I've been thinking about moving a pair to another tank for a week or so and see if I get some fry. My 29 gallon is doing well too. It currently houses my cull guppies, but I am going to be getting some pea puffers for that tank instead. The two 20 gallons both have guppies and they are doing awesome, as are my cherry shrimp. I started with 9 of the shrimp, but I have around 30 of them now. I'm moving them to other tanks now. My 45 gallon has guppies too and they have exploded, breeding like guppies do. I haven't see the blue dream cherry shrimp hatch any eggs yet, but they have molted quite a few times and one is berried now. The mystery snails in that tank have laid 8 clutches so far, but none of them have hatched yet. The clutches all look good still and a couple of them are starting to look like they will hatch soon too. This Saturday the stuff for my new stand gets delivered. Just doing concrete blocks and 2x6s. The stand itself will be right about 5 foot, so I am thinking I'll get a 75 for the bottom and do a row of 10s for the top for breeding and QT purposes. I would go with a bigger 4 foot tank, but they seem to be hard to find around here and I'd have no way to get it home. A 90 *might* just fit in my son's SUV, so that might be an option... I'll have to wait and see. I'm not planning on getting a new tank till around the end of February or the first week in March, so plenty of time to decide.

I have 8 set up now with a little 5 gallon on it's way right now. 1x55 2x45 1x29 2x20 1x10 2x5 * including the one on the way I had plans to get a couple more larger tanks, but my wife said to hold off because it was so close to Christmas. I have room for a 5 foot tank or a 5 foot stand with a couple of levels of 4 foot tanks, so if I don't get anything for Christmas, I'll be getting some new tanks after the first of the year.

Not to far at all for me. Philip is quite a bit further away. We actually go up that way to do shopping once in awhile and visit the comic book shop. College towns are always fun to visit.

I used to have go down toward Kingston quite often too. I worked for a liquor distributor that had a distribution center in Coxsackie. Nice area down there too! Oh and one of my favorite bands; Coheed and Cambria is from Kingston. 🙂

Hiya and welcome to the forum! Where about in upstate NY? I'm right on the lake Ontario shore, just east of Sodus Bay.

LOl I see what you did there. In all seriousness though, I don't know how people can rate their favorite movies, music, etc. I can never even give a top 5 in any category. There is so much good stuff out there these days.

I currently live on lake Ontario and while I haven't see the plankton issue, I have seen the water drastically change over the last 20 years from the mussels. Interesting read, thanks for sharing!

Ver Very cool! I have a ton of the Peterson bird guides, but I've never read this one. There is a series of books entitled "American Seasons" from roughly the same time period written by Edwin Way Teale that you might like too and is not to hard to find. North with the Spring Journey into Summer Autumn Across America Wandering Through Winter. Those are the four books in the series. They really just encompass one long book and are still a joy to read, even 60 or 70 years later. Mr. Teale also wrote a few other books in the same vein. I have a copy of Adventures in Nature from 1959 that I've read a dozen times at least and his book called A Walk Through The Year is sorta like comfort food for me. It talks about nature and just life in general at his farm in New England. Thanks for sharing!

I think yours is more hi-tech then mine. I poked small holes in bottom of the foam, so I just turn them upside down to dry.

I have soooo many hobbies, a lot of which I can no longer enjoy. My kayak still sits by the water, but she is pretty lonely these days. I read a lot. I give myself a goal of a hundred books per year, some years I kill it, some years I don't even come close. I read a lot of comics too, but I don't count those toward my goal. I an an amateur meteorologist and love setting up and sharing data from my weather station and just learning about our atmosphere. I also collect weather books and other field guide type books. Love birdwatching. Geek culture in general is also a hobby. Movies, Tv, video games, etc. My first console was Pong from Sears Roebuck and I've had the latest consoles ever since. I think that covers the major ones.