Hello to everyone! New to the site here, though not new to being fish addict, I got started at age 4 with my first tank of my own as a bit of a family tradition; grampa built tanks of his own well before I came along as did my father after him so I guess it was fate. Or screwball genetics like my hairline. Anyway, I've had fish actively for MOST of the last 26 years, generally of the self-sustaining-population varieties like guppies, danios and rainbows with some of the odd looking ones like kuhli loaches (one of my favorite species) and glass catfish. Oddly enough, I have never, ever owned a goldfish of my own though I have babysat a few for a winter.
After last summer losing the last of my Australian rainbows and giant danios after a 5 year run of "just one tank" I decided to get a new species or 2 and then.. my brain blew up and I wanted them all. I am currently running a 20g tall Green swordtail (6+expecting) tank with a 1.5" inch rainbow/red finned "shark" growing out, a 10 gallon tank with 2 filters,8 Beckford's pencilfish (sp?) and a pair of SMALL corys, a 10 gallon hospital/newcomer tank currently doing baby duty, and a 55 gallon community tank with 5 (aka 50000...) sailfin mollies (see baby tank reference), 3 red-tailed "sharks" (I know, I know, but the mollies keep them from fighting! really!) and 2 upside down catfish that I suspect are NOT the small Synodontis nigriventris I thought...
Oh, and the three australian rainbows I used to cycle that will be moving again eventually. I prefer planted tanks, though in the hospital and 20 gallon I only have free floating plants as these tanks are either newer or not often used.
In the NOT up and running category I have another 10g and a 5.5g that I would LOVE to slap a few killifish into should I ever find some of the little ones I love, as well as a 54 gallon wide tank that might just become a bichir tank for one of the small senegals... still not sure it's big enough though; I have heard the max size of these neat little critters as everywhere from 8 inches to 16, with the average range being listed as 10-12 inches. If not then it might just have to house those "Upside down" catfish that COULD fit the pics of the nigriventris if you squint yet PERFECTLY match the pic of a young eupterus I saw. Bit of a adult size difference there, oh LFS mine
And that's all for now.. or so says She Who Must be Obeyed. AKA Mrs. dzirit.
Edited due to 5-year-old like grammar. And I bet I still missed some.
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sounds like you've got a good case of MTS going there! 
