Bio

[Erik Olson <eriko@wrq.com>]

Well, Mr. Sexton says to introduce ones'self...

My name is Erik, I've been keeping aquaria obsessively since about 1991, 
off & on before then.  I've mostly been interested in aquatic plants, but 
in the last year or so I've been bitten by the dwarf cichlid bug as well...

I've got one 75 gallon heavily-planted hi-tech(tm) tank in my living room,
currently housing a pair of Kribs, five _Dicrossus filamentosus_, and
other fish.  There's a 60-gallon with some Tanganyikans you're no doubt
uninterested in. :) I've also got a 20 long with no plants (a first for
me), currently raising a couple broods of _A. cacautoides_.  In my
bedroom, I have a low-tech planted 20 with some _Pelvicachromis taeniatus_
"Moliwe"  fry I'm raising for a friend.  Off in the kitchen, I have a
wooden rack set up with 6 10-gallon tanks & a 15.  Let's see... uh, two of
the tanks have pairs of _A. nijsseni_ that look nice & have produced eggs,
but no survived hatchings.  One tank has three _Nanacara anomala_ and four
kribs that I'm keeping quarantined because their original tankmates had
nematode infestations (anyone know how long I should keep them separate to
be sure they're not infected as well?  It's been two months, and I see no
sign of swollen bellies, stuff sticking out their anus, etc). One tank's
completely full of plants and about 2 inches of water (Seattle joke:  I
call it "Emerser Island"), and another is full of more Tanganyikans
(Julidichromis regani).  And the 15 gallon tank is housing four random
Apistos that came in as contaminants at the local fish store & we just
"had to" buy.  I call em "Apisto McMysterii".  Two of them are
currently off in opposite corners of the tank raising spawns, so
presumably at least one of the others is a male.  It does not help knowing
that they may be different species.  Sigh. 

One of my other hobbies is photography, so I have been spending a lot of
time & money taking fish pictures lately.  I'm also in the process of
building a video library of people's tanks, talks, etc (most recently, my
girlfriend and I took a detour from our normal vacation to see David
Soares in Oregon).  I'm also pretty active in aquarium societies (at least
our local one).  And I've maintained a bunch of web pages for about 2 1/2
years (which are mostly down right now but will be back soon). 

  - Erik

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Erik D. Olson                                                  eriko@wrq.com
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