Catch all category for general discussion.
My local club had their annual Swap Meet a couple of Saturday’s ago. What a great time! And to think, I almost didn’t go. I had decided it was just too far for me to go, about 3 hours round trip.
Lucky for me, Cory the club plant guru, posted on the C.A.F.E. forum that he was looking for someone to split a table.
At any rate, I renewed some old friendships, sold some stuff, made some new friends, and had some great conversations.
I bought myself a Christmas present this year. It’s a copy of Pete Cottle’s “Danios and Devarios”.
It’s a fantastic reference if you’re interested in these fish. For more info, or to purchase a copy of your own here’s the link to Pete’s site… http://www.danios.info/content/book.aspx
What a great day! I spent the best part of today over in Columbus at Swiss Tropicals. It’s owned by my friend Stephan Tanner, what an asset he is to the aquarium hobby!
Stephan is the US distributor for the Poret® Brand Filter Foam & Jetlifter lift tubes. That was part of the reason for the trip over. I bought enough foam to put dividers in two 55’s and a 75. The cool thing about using foam is that it works as a filter as well as being a tank divider.
I’m planning on using the tanks for grow-out tanks for fry and this looks like a great option to get more bang for my buck when it comes to maximizing tank space.
Wow, what a great time I had at the CAFE, (Columbus Area Fish Enthusiasts), Convention today. I went with my daughter Darcy, and my 8 week old grandson Chris, (he’s on the home page looking at the turtle).
They had some great speakers. Ted Judy talked about a collection trip to Africa. Rusty Wessel spoke about livebearers and auctioned some very cool swordtails. Brian Zimmerman had a great presentation on native american fish.
My friend Stephan tried to get me hooked up with some very cool Danio tinwini. I even got to meet Dave Hale from Something Fishy up in Cleveland. Check him out on the Blue Zoo…..
We had a tasty lunch and purchased some very nice plants for Darcy’s tank too!
I see it described both ways on all the forums, but which is correct?
Back it the day, we would always talk of successfully getting our fish to spawn. Wikipedia says,
“Most aquatic animals, apart from aquatic mammals, reproduce through a process of spawning.”
It also states,
“Breeding is the reproduction, that is, producing of offspring, usually animals or plants.”
I think I’m going to stick with my “old school” ways and use the term spawning here in the journal.