celestialdude
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Right now… my 3 CPDs (one died) are with 2 female Florida Flagfish (they’re a kind of killifish) and the 1 male guppy. They have their own 5-gallon with lots of plants (CO2-supplemented) including java moss and string algae so hopefully that will help induce breeding and make it a safe place to raise fry.
Ha haa…
I should build a section on the site where we can have live chat…
And call it….
THE FISHROOM….
How cool would that be? Hoho…
Thanks, ste12000!
All you moderators deserve a big pat on the back too… tx for being patient and valiantly fighting off the spam posts during the Spambot Wars which we’ve just lived through.
Haha… not going to be blingingly rich from the ad income, but if this new clickrate keeps up, it could pay for the hobby and then some.
I’m all for a genuine online community and am very grateful for this site. I love you guys!!!
As for the Amazon ads… it’s some clever technology where it understands the books you’ve looked at, and tries to offer you related books. As an Amazon Affiliate, I don’t directly get access to any of this data at all, so don’t worry, rest assured your privacy is intact. All I do is plant a piece of code in the pages and the rest is automagically liaised with Amazon.
On the downsize, NOBODY has bought any books through these ads. Zero, zilch, nada. I’ll leave them on for a while though and see what happens.
Ho ho… OK now for some clarification.
Look around this site and you will see ads that say “Ads by Google”. Every time someone clicks on an actual ad link in one of these boxes, Google keeps track of it and pays me X number of cents.
However, the downside is that any website owner can just click away and make him or herself rich. Google is very good at sniffing this out, however, and takes this very seriously. So, while I welcome the sudden surge in ad clicks, I’m concerned that these might be false clicks because I’m going from something like 3 clicks per week to now around 15 per day (average for the past 3 days). That is really a HUGE jump.
If it’s because this site has suddenly been promoted and more people are visiting and it’s real traffic, then woohoo! I am happy. But if it’s some disgruntled spammer who’s trying to get me in trouble, then that’s not good.
By the way, as you’ve noticed, there’s zero spam these days because I’m manually approving registrations now, as well as having implemented textual confirmation in registrations, which has greatly reduced the number of new registrations.
Anyways, yeah, hope you are all enjoying the site, it’s good to see a lot of healthy growth since I launched it…
Cheers…
Thanks Peter.
That would make sense… I guess since these pores are tiny it would be impossible to rinse them thoroughly.
Just trying to see how much of it is marketing hype, and how much of it I can avoid (thus saving money). Oh well, I guess I shall have to do it then.
Well, there’s the Pearly Gates… up in the celestial realms… there’s your cheesy connection, sorry but I couldn’t help point it out…
Besides…Pearls are whiteish, not gold. Now that I know for sure!
Ha ha… that’s why they’re “celestial” pearls!
Oo… apparently that’s a myth. I just Wiki’d up here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siamese_fighting_fish and it’s set me straight. I’m now a believer in sufficient aquarium space for bettas!
I read somewhere that bettas in the wild actually sit around in a mud puddle for most of the year until it the annual floods make it possible for them to find others to mate with, before it’s back to the old mudhole. Is this true?
Oops, I just remembered that with this type of forum setup, there’s no way to upload files to the server though. You’ll have to host it someplace else (Photobucket? Imageshack?) and link to it from here. Sorry, that’s how it goes…
Nice. There’s always space on the server for fish photos, don’t worry. And if we run out, I’ll make sure there’s more…
Yeah I totally agree, selective breeding is OK but genetic manipulation is not, simply because we don’t know enough about the impacts of these manipulations. If we fully understood DNA and its intricacies, and if there was some kind of global consortium in charge of approving specific changes to organisms, then *maybe* it would be OK. But this kind of rampant, haphazard genetic manipulation of genes is very bad. It’s like changing someone’s software without knowing what the full impacts of those changes are, and selling it on the market as if it was the original software.
