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    A quick introduction from Matt Ford, Barcelona

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    Hi everyone. I joined this forum a few months ago but now think it's time to say hello following a poke from HW Choy.

    I am 30 years old, from England and have always had a passion for the natural world. I have had fish of one kind or another since my 11th birthday when my father bought me a tank. I instantly fell in love with the hobby and by 15 years I was working in a local aquarium store and had 8 tanks in my bedroom at home. Went on to study Environmental/Conservation Biology at university and built a fish room that eventually contained 31 aquaria.

    Sadly earlier this year the room had to be dismantled as I relocated from England to Spain. I now reside in Barcelona and take as many trips into the countryside to find wildlife as I am able. I have also recently become involved with the Iberian Cyprinodontid Conservation Programme but I will start a thread elsewhere about this.

    Anyway I hope to be of some use here and more importantly learn new things! Thanks for reading if you made it this far! Here is a picture of my old fish room to finish:
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    Hey Matt,

    Welcome and great to know you're finally posting.
    From the look of your old fish room, I would say you have an terrible addiction there

    Cheers!
    - eric

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    Hi Matt,

    Welcome to AQ!!!

    The fishroom is a luxury that many of us in Singapore don't have. You setting one up in Spain as well?

    Anyway, glad to see you becoming more active and the introduction is a great way to start.

    If you need help with our forum or it's interface, just shout for us.

    Cheers,
    I have dwarf cichlids in my tanks! Do you?

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    Welcome,

    I always wanted to do a part-time working in a fish store.

    Cheers, Christophe
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    Matty,

    show us the pix of that museum!
    why I don't do garden hybrids and aquarium strains: natural species is a history of Nature, while hybrids are just the whims of Man.
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    Sir, yessir! Will do later today Mr Choy, and thanks for the welcome all. I´m not sure that I´ll set up a room as big as that again for a while benny but there will be tanks for sure!

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    Hi Matt,

    Welcome to the forum.

    Wow.. it will be a dream to have a setup like you.

    Cheers
    Nicholas

    Newbie en el cichlid enano

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    Hi Matt,

    Welcome to AQ! You have a nice fish room that many of us can only dream of.

    Anyway, are you the one who did the write ups on www.seriouslyfish.com? I have been looking up the knowledge base for some time now, great information you have there!

    Glad to have you onboard here in AQ.

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    To HW Choy...mission accomplished m´lud...sorry it took a few days.

    Wackytpt and Quixotic, thanks for the nice welcomes and Quixotic yes that is my website but please note that it is very much a work in progress and the vast majority of the database remains incomplete at present. Really glad you have found it useful even in its current state!

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    oh, excellent, peasant

    you may go back to attending your lil' fishies
    why I don't do garden hybrids and aquarium strains: natural species is a history of Nature, while hybrids are just the whims of Man.
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    ...very good m´lud....

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    Re: A quick introduction from Matt Ford, Barcelona

    Hello Matt,

    I am the president of the "Belgische Killifish Vereniging" and editor of the magazine "Killi Kontakt". Could you give me permission to use your articles "the fiorgotten killis of spain", "killis of Spain 2 and 3" (and the one on Valencia ?) please ?

    I hope you can help me.

    Thanks and kind regards
    Herman
    [email protected]

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