My name is Jeff Carpenter I am 39 years old married with two boys, ages 6 and 10, and we all live on the family farm in Sapulpa Oklahoma just outside Tulsa. I have always had tropicals, usually SA cichlids, and the past year or so have been very active in the hobby trying to expose my boys to it. Recently I traded into a 100 gallon tank 60X20X20 that I am now resealing. I have decided instead of running it as a tropical tank I am going native with it. So now I am here researching your threads trying to absorb some knowledge that will help me with this new 100 gallon tank. At any rate they say pics are worth a thousand words so I will show you all a few. You will probably understand why I am going native. I'm looking forward to good year in 2010 and if anyone wants to do some collecting get in touch with me.
First my house. The farm is 120 acres adjoined to public land of about the same acreage and located in the elbow of a creek formed by a dam built in 1904. This creek is named Euchee and was once the municipal water source for the town of Sapulpa. It is a small very old body of water that has an incredible assortment of wildlife avians, fish, herps, mammals, etc. Everything indigineous to Oklahoma is here! Not literally but you'd be surprised.
Edited by JCarpenter, 26 December 2009 - 06:52 PM.