My Report on Fish, Fish Lore and Why I Joined Fish Lore by Saccade, age 29
I'm joining because I've been reading this forum a bit recently since getting a bigger fishtank and a few more fish.
Well, Claire got it really. She just needed me to carry it home from the shop. In a blizzard. Through the frozen underpass (only a little yellow snow there), up the icy steps of Archway and finally tackling, "the Hill"...
Treacherous stuff.
I like the pleco best. (t)s/he(y) are like armoured prehistoric giants, but in miniature and proportionately less fearsome. Probably with fewer teeth, though not having yet taken my pleco to the dentist, I couldn't say for sure.
The canary one is pretty cool, too. He's pretty strong and a good swimmer.
The tank got a bit dirty once - we went away - and a few were gulping because of that.
The canary developed a red sore from exposure to air (i assume) much like the nancy fancy goldbulbs (at least, that's what they're called in
Fish Tycoon idk what they're really called. i don't like them) developed when they had inflated swim bladders for being such lame fish.
It's getting better now they're in a new tank, but they are all breathing really fast. Except the pleco.
I read here that I need to run a load of tests and now have some inkling as to what the possible causes of all this could be. Will complete these at earliest opportunity. stop. Have shopping list. stop. ETA: next weekend. stop.
Claire or I (Pete) will ask about it then, if what is already suggested doesn't resolve matters re: hyperventilating fish.
(maybe the solution is to make tiny paper-bags and hold one over the fish's mouth with tweezers, constantly assuring it that everything will be okay so long as it focuses on its breathing..?)
So that is why I am joining this forum.
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Also, for any site staff reading this:
I would like to say thank-you for sending me the PM to which I could not reply. It contained a number of interesting and useful links.
I figure I need to post a certain number of times in order to have access to that privelidge. I will say here instead, as I have a suggestion for you.
The links that you give, I think that if you put a
www.fishlore.com instead of making it so that copy and paste is the fastest option to click-thru.
Maybe it is my browser or something. I'm on a Macbook this evening.
From my experiences as updater and moderator on other forums, the easier it is for someone to do something, the more likely it is that they do it.
I often work on software so you can imagine the type of innane questions that are received. Especially as there is an FAQ and a search tool. Patience is a virtue, so they say. I can't say I really know what that means.
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Anyway, so concludes my report.
Thank-you for your time.
(that one is so funny ^^)
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