Hey my name is Jimmy-actually signed up yesterday but didnt bother to give a formal intro, my fault-

been keeping reptiles for many years now and ball pythons for a couple of years now-this is my fourth season breeding-working with mostly basic morphs right now-both codoms and recessives (caramels, pin, lessers, pastel, spider, axanthic, etc)

in addtion to the balls, i do have some more display type animals such as an amazon basin emerald, fly river turtle, and numerous large tropical freshwater fish (monsterfish such as arowanas, stingrays, plecos, cichlids etc).

i have met a lot of cool people over the years in dealing with ball pythons and hopefully i will get to meet some more.

thanks Jimmy

:welcome: aboard, let's see some pics!

http://justmorphs.com/images/group.jpg

http://i478.photobucket.com/albums/rr145/aznfish919/IMG_4505.jpg

http://i478.photobucket.com/albums/rr145/aznfish919/IMG_4269.jpg

some old pics of my fish collection

http://homepages.nyu.edu/~jm948/cichlidcity/Picsofmycichlids1.htm

http://justmorphs.com/images/group.jpg

http://i478.photobucket.com/albums/rr145/aznfish919/IMG_4505.jpg

http://i478.photobucket.com/albums/rr145/aznfish919/IMG_4269.jpg

Cool pics...Welcome to the board...

Welcome, Jimmy.

hello and welcome to the forum jimmy

Damn Jimmy theres two strikes! That second pic is too big sucka..:) No sweat man I'll fix it.

Welcome to the Bush-League

Welcome, nice fish collection!

I used to have a Silver Arowana about 15in... also trimacs, barred midas from Big Head lineage, Carpinte, etc.. I really like your rays...always wanted to keep them, but for the size tanks they need...never wanted to blow that much money on them.

thanks Larry for fixing the pic, sorry again

Jason, i used to have barred midas from big head lineage too-a few years ago, barred midas were one of the holy grails of the central american cichlid world, i paid a ridicolus price for one of jeff rapps first available F1 barred midas (from wild lineages)

Welcome!!!

thanks Larry for fixing the pic, sorry again

Jason, i used to have barred midas from big head lineage too-a few years ago, barred midas were one of the holy grails of the central american cichlid world, i paid a ridicolus price for one of jeff rapps first available F1 barred midas (from wild lineages)

I think mine was F3...outbred to non "Big Head" lineages... but still carried his genetics... I raised up a group of 6 and kept the nicest male. All came from Ken Davis as did my trimac pair.

Thanks everyone for the warm welcome.

I think mine was F3...outbred to non "Big Head" lineages... but still carried his genetics... I raised up a group of 6 and kept the nicest male. All came from Ken Davis as did my trimac pair.

i wish i had some more room to raise cichlids again. had to downsize quite a bit to make room for snakes. had some huge and rare centrals a few years ago, from large haitiensis to pea**** bass. got any pics of your trimacs? had a couple of large males too.

i wish i had some more room to raise cichlids again. had to downsize quite a bit to make room for snakes. had some huge and rare centrals a few years ago, from large haitiensis to pea**** bass. got any pics of your trimacs? had a couple of large males too.

I don't...old computer crashed, and I don't have the fish anymore either, I gave them to a friend when I moved in October. He has 5 different spawns growing up right now.

My real passion is for saltwater reefs, but the reptiles take all my time and money now.

I don't...old computer crashed, and I don't have the fish anymore either, I gave them to a friend when I moved in October. He has 5 different spawns growing up right now.

My real passion is for saltwater reefs, but the reptiles take all my time and money now.

understood, i snakes take up most of my time and $ as well.

Welcome aboard!:yessir:

Welcome Jimmy.

Welcome aboard Jimmy.

:welcome: to the Bush-League

Nice pics. I was looking over the fish and a blue tree pops up! He's cool you still have him?

I used to keep fish too. Not nearly as elaborate as your collection. I just had a few tanks going with whatever oddball stuff caught my eye. I had a few weird plecos. Love the plecos. I had a bunch of clown loaches, always liked them. Had some discus.

I used to work in a pet shop and people were always shocked at how big plecos can get!

I tried Oscars for a little while since they were fun and had a lot of personality for a fish. But whooooo are they dirty!

:cheers:

Welcome to the site

Welcome to the forum :welcome:

[QUOTE=justmorphs;21964]some old pics of my fish collection

dude
next time post a "sandwich and a soda" warning before luring innocent bystanders to a collection of photogs like that...
beautiful pisces bro ! apparently moved by plecostomas (spelling?) love the rays and the discus, arrowannas were impressive, did they mate for you ?
if they did, that had to be something to behold.
we had a thread awhile back about fisheads converting to herps.
great stuff,
ck

:welcome: to the Bush-League

Nice pics. I was looking over the fish and a blue tree pops up! He's cool you still have him?

I used to keep fish too. Not nearly as elaborate as your collection. I just had a few tanks going with whatever oddball stuff caught my eye. I had a few weird plecos. Love the plecos. I had a bunch of clown loaches, always liked them. Had some discus.

I used to work in a pet shop and people were always shocked at how big plecos can get!

I tried Oscars for a little while since they were fun and had a lot of personality for a fish. But whooooo are they dirty!

:cheers:

yo bud,
did you work at a long island pet shop ?
i worked at petland in baldwin back in '83/84. also had clown loaches, now i'm lookin' for killer clown balls !
had oscars too..."tropical goldfish" they were. had to run the diatom twice a week for those crapsters !
ck

I know where Baldwin is, sure. Yeah I worked at 2 shops both on Long Guyland

I worked at Gardener's Village Pet Shop from 86-89 and at The Pet Barn in Franklin Square from the rest of 89 to 91.

Gardeners Village didnt have much. The Pet Barn was a fully stocked shop. We had everything from chinchillas, to parrots to albino burmese to reef tanks. It was a great, fun place to work. I learned a TON working there and also got first dibs on lots of choice animals. I met wholesalers, some breeders and kinda got my first taste of the other side of the hobby besides just the random accumulation of creatures.

I remember the all mighty Diatom. Saved our neck more than once when some of the big boys decided to redecorate.

We had some arrowannas. Some pretty big ones. I never had them myself but they sure were cool.

I know where Baldwin is, sure. Yeah I worked at 2 shops both on Long Guyland

I worked at Gardener's Village Pet Shop from 86-89 and at The Pet Barn in Franklin Square from the rest of 89 to 91.

Gardeners Village didnt have much. The Pet Barn was a fully stocked shop. We had everything from chinchillas, to parrots to albino burmese to reef tanks. It was a great, fun place to work. I learned a TON working there and also got first dibs on lots of choice animals. I met wholesalers, some breeders and kinda got my first taste of the other side of the hobby besides just the random accumulation of creatures.

I remember the all mighty Diatom. Saved our neck more than once when some of the big boys decided to redecorate.

We had some arrowannas. Some pretty big ones. I never had them myself but they sure were cool.

good times them pet shop years.
that's where i developed my dislike for birds...29 cages, every sunday mornin'...ugh, foul creatures.
ck

:hijacked:............:hijacked:

Sorry, Boss :yessir:

Great pics! Welcome to the forum, Jimmy. See you at the chat..

Welcome to the Bush League Jimmy.

thanks everyone for the comments

i don't have many of the fish anymore-some have passed on and others were sold-same with the tree monitors, sold all of them after getting into ball pythons.

the tree monitors required huge cages, and having only 6 tree monitors (bohemei, macaraei, prasinus, reisingeri -probably all spelled wrong) took up the whole room. each needed a 5' tall cage.

With fish, had 13 tanks at one time, with the smallest being a 75 gallons.

I still have the large silver arowana (they did lay eggs several times), some of the plecos, and as for stingrays just marble motoros left. i do miss having all the fish, but they require so much time and care-makes keeping ball pythons relatively easy. i would spend my entire weekend doing maitenance and water changes on all the tanks.

right now the room is being used for ball pythons-have about 60 or so adult/subadult snakes and about 40 hatchlings from this year. this takes up most of the time and financial resources right now.

thanks everyone again, Jimmy

hello and welcome.