Category: General Rambling

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Time for a change…..



Red Cherry Shrimp
Photo by Dennis Ball

While I’m laid-up on light-duty, I thought it might be a good time to make some changes to the website.

No more “Welcome” page.  We have the Fish Room Journal right on the front page.

I may do away with my Danionins.com website, so the stock list is going to list all of the fish in my fish room.  Clicking on the fish name will take you to a page with info about the fish and any sales info.  It’s a “work-in-progress”, so it may take some time to complete.

I will most likely add an Articles page and move the articles from the Danionins site over here as well.  I’ve got some articles on freshwater dwarf shrimp that used to be on the now defunct Arizona Inverts site.  I might resurrect those here too.

 

Feeling so much better



Devario pathirana
Photo by Dennis Ball

It has been a long cold winter here in central Ohio. Just about the time the weather was breaking I came down with the flu or some other nasty respiratory ailment.  Today is the first time I’ve really felt good in just over a month.

At any rate, my plans for first-of-the-year spawning projects went right out the window.  I have been wildly successful with spawning some ABN’s though.

My very good friend Bob, also a C.A.F.E. member, gave me an extra male ABN he had.  This was around the end of February.  After about 6 weeks of sweet talking one of my female ABN’s they set-up house keeping.  They seem to be a very good match as they are producing about 40 fry every 30 days now!

Male Albino Bushy Nose with fry.
Photo by Dennis Ball

Even though my spawning projects have suffered, there’s been lots going on.  I’ll try to get caught up here in the next few weeks.

Nannostomus mortenthaleri
Photo by Dennis Ball

We had another Convention at C.A.F.E., I picked up some super cool fish at the silent auction, etc.

Be back soon!

Intellectually Stimulating



I’ve waited months for this on-line class I signed up for to start.  It’s over at Coursera, (https://www.coursera.org/course/humanevolution), and called “Human Evolution: Past and Future”.  It’s one of those subjects that my grandfather got me interested in when I used to spend the summers with them.

At any rate, I was watching one of the introductory videos and this lady was stating how her field studies were “Intellectually Stimulating” by making her broaden her interests.  That’s when it hit me.  That is exactly what has kept me in the fishkeeping hobby all these years…  it is very Intellectually Stimulating. Continue reading Intellectually Stimulating

Happy New Year!



SwissTropicals WebsiteWell another year is in the books, and what a year it has been. Back in February, at the GCAS swap meet, my good friend Stephan Tanner and I began talking about a website make-over for his http://www.swisstropicals.com website.  Ta da….. the new site when live today!  While I may be a bit jaded, I think it’s beautiful. The site is loaded with tons of great information, links to some of the best hobby related websites, and Stephan’s great line of products. Continue reading Happy New Year!