Photos of the downstairs Fish Room...my bat cave.

Ornate Bichir

Picture:  Catfish at The Shark Aquarium.  All were three to four foot long. 

Picture:  Male Salvini.  Someone said the common name for this should be "the Yellow Menace" because of it's attitude.

Picture:  Haplochromis Polystigma.  One of the few African Cichlids I've owned.  They hunt their food by playing dead lying on their side motionless at the bottom of the tank.  When food swims by they snatch it.  Very cool and hardy fish.

Picture:  Female Salvini.

Picture:  Herotilapia Multispinosa.  The Rainbow Cichlid

Picture:  Juvenile Salvini

Picture:  Fredrichsthali

Picture:  Male and female Salvini

Picture:  Juvenile Buttikoferi

Picture:  More tank shots.  I like to get as creative as possible with the tank decor.  This is partially because I can't keep live plants.  
I have found that garage sales and flea markets provide the best assortment of usable junk.

Picture:  Tank shot with a definite theme.  You can see the Salvini in the foreground.

Picture:  Dormitator Maculatus.  The Spotted Sleeper Goby.   I saw these for sale in a Chinese supermarket for seven bucks a pound.

 

Picture:  The Convict.  I call them "rats with fins" because of their breeding.  There is also a photo of a Marbled Convict with fry and an  Pink Convict as well.

Picture: Juvenile Gold Severum

Picture:  A contradiction in theory.  What's wrong with this photo?  Note the variety of fish that are not "supposed" to be able to live together.

Picture:  Aequidens Tetramerus

Picture:  Pike 

Picture:  Hoplias Malabaricus...the Wolf fish.  This is the most voracious eater I own.  I had two.  This one committed "death by floor".  They are notorious escape artists and can breath for a time out of water.

Picture:  Tank shot with breeding Archocentrus Centrarchus

   

Picture:  Jewel Cichlid

Picture: Here's a photo of a friend's Oscar.  It has a particularly nasty case of hole-in-the-head.  Oscar's are very susceptible to this disease.

Picture:  Basket Mouth Cichlid

Picture:  Transparent Knife Fish

   

Picture:  Juvenile Lyonsi.  Very pretty fish.  I have included a photo of an adult male taken by the webmaster at the Cichlid Scene during a visit to a breeder,

 

Picture: Facetum - This fish is wild caught,  It is also know as a Chanchito.  It's been around in the hobby a long time but not available until recently.

Picture:  Hemichromis Elongatus - Five Spot Cichlid.  Another one of the few African Cichlids I own.  Impressive male specimen.

Picture:  Blue Gourami - With all of the large aggressive fish I own this might seem a bit odd to have five of these.  A friend gave them to me and I put them in the pond expecting them to be "food" in a day.  Surprisingly they are all still alive after five months.

Picture:  Nicaraqua Cichlid.  I am going to devote a page to this Cichlid, but in the meantime decided to post them here.

Picture:  I can't tell you how many of the "Festae" I have purchased over the years that have turned out to be Urophthalmus.  

Picture:  Loiselle Cichlid

Grammode

Juvenile Tetracanthus and Clown Knife

Istlantum: Far right two photos illustrates what happens 
to all "target fish" eventually.

C. Tomosopoensis