LOL British meeting 18/08/2006

[pedzola]

I want a loach shirt. 0__0

Maybe just a regular t-shirt tho, instead of the girly one. :X

[Dr. Momfish]

wow emma you are really cute and i love the shirt .....sorry if i ever upset you

she's married, ya twit!

it's alright to upset women who are not, in your opinion, really cute?

[LES..]

Hi all,

Well it was a very long drive home for Susan and myself, lots of traffic but we made in it the end :-)

I would like to say thank you to Emma and Steve for their hospitality, it was second to none! I think that Martin's comments on the store are spot on, certainly we have not seen one better!

Any way a few photos:

Yes, i had a w-i-d-e angle lens ;-) which is why this is a little distorted but it does give a wonderful impression on just how but this display tank is, it's just a shame there are so many people in front of it!


A shot of the loach section. So many beautiful specimens here it was not hard to see why Graeme went home with 3 boxes of fish...

Meeting up with everyone was a real pleasure, it was great to put faces to names and get to talk loach all day.

I also have a video of Marge, quality is not that great, it was taken with my phone... In any case there are two versions:

large:
17Mb
and a scaled down version:
4.2Mb
Again i'm hosting these on my home machine, they will take a while to download and are linked as torrents.

[Martin Thoene]

Emma's shirt is really neat. The Clown is all beaded, not painted.

Martin.

[DarrenMnaples]

Dr.momfish ...............wow that store must be unbeleavable what a dream come true

[Graeme Robson]

Nice pictures and Video, Les. You just reminded me to upload mine.

*edit* I only had two box's. One of them was Mark's. Dog-house would of been a definate, if there was three!!

[Emma Turner]

she's married

Heheh! Not yet, I'm not!

[Jim Powers]

Just seeing the few pics I have so far, its no wonder you all look so happy in the pics. That is one impressive store!!!
I still think you need to open another store in the Midwest US.

[mikev]

Just seeing the few pics I have so far, its no wonder you all look so happy in the pics. That is one impressive store!!!
I still think you need to open another store in the Midwest US.

An excellent idea to consider...of course, after you open one on the East Coast.

Darn...I cannot see the fish, but the way the tanks are set up is already the best I've seen anywhere. Great job! (and great photos)

[Graeme Robson]

Here's one tank.

[DarrenMnaples]

wow

yes i seconed the east coast store

really emma unbelevable store where is it again in the uk??
i will be going to poland next year to meet my wifes parents but we will be traveling all over europe i would love to stop bye........that is if you dont mind

[Dr. Momfish]

she's married

Heheh! Not yet, I'm not!

does that mean if Darren asks you out on a date, you'll go?

somehow i doubt.

i did remark to Martin in a private email that indeed and truly you are extremely eye candy. he says the pictures don't do you justice.

[Jim Powers]

I've never seen that many striata at one time. Very cool!
And that garra.....

[Emma Turner]

The store is in Crowland, near Peterborough. Our web page is here: http://www.fishkeeper.co.uk/store_detai ... storeid=33.

And Momfish, stop it, you're making me blush!

[Mark in Vancouver]

I've never seen that many striata at one time. Very cool!
And that garra.....

So many of the loaches we keep would be so much better in large shoals like this. Emma's going to inspire a lot of keepers. How I would love to have 20 striata instead of the three I have now... And darios, and clowns, and kubs... Urgh.
The concept of keeping numerous medium sized tanks for species-only stock is really rather good.