Pedro Nuno Ferreira
Liquid Breathing
- Location
- Portugal - Vila Nova de Gaia
Hi Everyone :flower:
Recently I met in person Sanjay Joshi when he kindly accepted our invitation to come to Portugal and speak to our reef keepers. During his visit he spoke enthusiastically about Manhattan Reef's and latter introduced me by e-mail to Joshua L. Saul and Randy Donowitz in the perspective of collaboration between Manhattan Reef's of which I'm now a happy member, and Reefforum.net
I started to browse Manhattan Reefs and Reef's Magazine and realised shortly after the reason of the enthusiasm of Sanjay Joshi (not that I ever doubt it but I didn't know), as both the forum and the magazine are very good. I feel home here.
And now a bit about me...very little as I'm a very simple person who likes to help for the jazz of it...
I'm Portuguese and live on parallel 49 but on the other side of Atlantic Ocean, Europe, in a City called Vila Nova de Gaia where Port wine is in fact produced. The city sits on the south bank of River Douro, which separates it form Porto City. Thus shall we say, I live on the opposite side of New York
and had it been some 200 million years ago, we would be neighbours :lol:..well then again, not exactly:lol:. Vila Nova de Gaia is washed by the Atlantic Ocean as you may see here Viagem ? volta do mundo (
1 2) in some photographs of the beach 7 km from my place where I collect natural sponge to feed Zanclus, Pygoplithes, etc and collect natural sea water for the water changes...I think Paul Baldassano (Paul B if I'm not mistaken) might remember the two videos I once sent him about my Zanclus feeding on live local sponge (which you also have in your rocky shores and piers for that matter...small world after all...).
It's been 21 years now that I keep marine fauna and flora and presently I'm www.reefforum.net moderator with some administration tasks, a forum now having more that 7000 members, where among other tasks I translate with their permission, Sanjay Joshi's, Ron Shimek's, Anthony Calfo's, etc. articles and publish them so that their valuable work and knowledge is better divulged through out the world, namely the Portuguese speaking world which I believe to have around 600000 people now a days. I'm also translating Anthony's Calfo Book of Coral Propagation to Portuguese and possibly to French and Italian...about those two last we will see....
Well there's more, like I'm not a millionaire ...I have an almost 8 year old son who is my image like I was when I was a child...I work as a manager of 5 manufacturing plants...I speak and write several languages...well that's becoming more than writing very little about me
Well thank you all for receiving me, thank you Joshua L Saul, Randy Donowitz, Jonathan Hale, KathyC, Sanjay Joshi, Sil3ncio, duke62, thank you everyone, I look forward to help whenever possible like hands on approach and divulge both Manhattan Reefs and Reef's Magazine (the latter by translating it to Portuguese and possibly to French if deemed a good ideia by the responsible people).
Kind Regards
Pedro Nuno ;-)
Post Scriptum. One last thing, almost everyone here uses a nick name so its difficult for me to know if I'm writing to a girl/lady or a boy/man, any way it does not matter, however should any person want to register at reefforum.net, please use your real names as it is a mandatory requirement and feel free to contact me for help any time both here or there.
Recently I met in person Sanjay Joshi when he kindly accepted our invitation to come to Portugal and speak to our reef keepers. During his visit he spoke enthusiastically about Manhattan Reef's and latter introduced me by e-mail to Joshua L. Saul and Randy Donowitz in the perspective of collaboration between Manhattan Reef's of which I'm now a happy member, and Reefforum.net
I started to browse Manhattan Reefs and Reef's Magazine and realised shortly after the reason of the enthusiasm of Sanjay Joshi (not that I ever doubt it but I didn't know), as both the forum and the magazine are very good. I feel home here.
And now a bit about me...very little as I'm a very simple person who likes to help for the jazz of it...
I'm Portuguese and live on parallel 49 but on the other side of Atlantic Ocean, Europe, in a City called Vila Nova de Gaia where Port wine is in fact produced. The city sits on the south bank of River Douro, which separates it form Porto City. Thus shall we say, I live on the opposite side of New York
and had it been some 200 million years ago, we would be neighbours :lol:..well then again, not exactly:lol:. Vila Nova de Gaia is washed by the Atlantic Ocean as you may see here Viagem ? volta do mundo (
It's been 21 years now that I keep marine fauna and flora and presently I'm www.reefforum.net moderator with some administration tasks, a forum now having more that 7000 members, where among other tasks I translate with their permission, Sanjay Joshi's, Ron Shimek's, Anthony Calfo's, etc. articles and publish them so that their valuable work and knowledge is better divulged through out the world, namely the Portuguese speaking world which I believe to have around 600000 people now a days. I'm also translating Anthony's Calfo Book of Coral Propagation to Portuguese and possibly to French and Italian...about those two last we will see....
Well there's more, like I'm not a millionaire
...I have an almost 8 year old son who is my image like I was when I was a child...I work as a manager of 5 manufacturing plants...I speak and write several languages...well that's becoming more than writing very little about me Well thank you all for receiving me, thank you Joshua L Saul, Randy Donowitz, Jonathan Hale, KathyC, Sanjay Joshi, Sil3ncio, duke62, thank you everyone, I look forward to help whenever possible like hands on approach and divulge both Manhattan Reefs and Reef's Magazine (the latter by translating it to Portuguese and possibly to French if deemed a good ideia by the responsible people).
Kind Regards
Pedro Nuno ;-)
Post Scriptum. One last thing, almost everyone here uses a nick name so its difficult for me to know if I'm writing to a girl/lady or a boy/man, any way it does not matter, however should any person want to register at reefforum.net, please use your real names as it is a mandatory requirement and feel free to contact me for help any time both here or there.
