celestialdude
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Atlantis — Verdana is an excellent font to use, try it out and see if you like it.
Also, I recommend this : create your flyer in a word processor like Microsoft Word or Adobe Acrobat, then print it straight. Don’t print it out, then re-scan it back as a JPG. Whenever you scan something, you lose some sharpness. So, always keep things in the digital realm until your final “output”, that is, your final print.
Good luck with the campaign and keep us posted!
OK folks, here’s a second video of my Celestial Pearl Danios :
http://celestialpearldanio.com/media/celestialpearldanio.com_20070924.wmv
Atlantis — great job, well-written and informative. Just needs some refinements — I found two typos (enclosure, habitat), and the font could be more readable — I think it could be the compression format you used when saving the image — try less compression for the JPG. Other than that, it is great, very commendable effort!!
Happy birthday dude!!! And welcome to the Thirties’ Club of which I’m part (that’s not a bad thing). Wishing you a blessed day and many more happy fishroom days to come.
Awesum. Thanks for the info Ste. What better than a slightly concave surface to nestle the eggs in.
When I have more space later I’ll definitely look into breeding German Blue Rams.
Ste — those rams are beauties!!!
I see you have some coconut shell in there — so that works as an egg-laying surface for these fish, I see… not a spawning mop?
Cheers
Yeah that is cold-blooded, flushing them down the toilet. It stinks that there are people like that out there. On the bright side… there are people like us, who love fish!!! And living things in general, I hope!
Awesome tank Chris!!!
I see you have healthy Hygrophila polysperma as well as Java moss. Keep the great pictures coming!!
I had a 5G tank with 2 males, 2 females, when I had my first batch of fry.
I highly recommend live plants — I have a hunch that the fish actually do notice the difference… for one thing they “smell” different. And more oxygen in the daytime. Lots of benefits with real plants! One of them might be, depriving algae of nutrients so the snails have less to feed on, thus reducing their population. Experiment with it, just my humble suggestion.
Snails are not that bad… they’re actually quite beneficial for the tank. Not sure if they’ll eat fish eggs, there might be some natural protective egg coatings that help prevent this (pure speculation)… I had tons of snails in my tank and had a first batch of fry. Granted, it wasn’t a HUGE batch but that may have been due to other factors… possibly getting sucked into the filter (I hope not). I wouldn’t worry too much about it. I think if you have lots of Java moss (spawning mops?) then everything will be OK as the eggs/fry can hide easily from all kinds of threats.
Also, in my large tank somehow there aren’t a lot of snails, they seem to die off when they get to a certain size — I think this may be due to the low algae growth — I have lots of plants of different varieties and I think they rob the algae of growth nutrients, thus robbing snails of their food supply.
Now as for shrimp… could that be a bigger threat to fish eggs? I mean, they’re a lot more dexterous and everything, with those many agile arms and pincers. I have some Yamato shrimp in my Celestials tank so that’s a bit of a concern. I’m just hoping that all the crazy Java moss and hair algae will help hide stuff.
