Tropical Fish Forum
Tropical Fish Keeping => General Fishkeeping Chat => Topic started by: Richard W on August 01, 2015, 07:35:50 AM
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Here's an interesting article :
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-33716589
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Good article! Definitely some truth in the "more fish = more relaxed". Ever since I eventually added shrimps to my shrimpery, I have been fascinated by the newcomers, and have to make sure that I don't neglect the 125L. I spend hours staring into the shrimpery watching the feeding behaviour ...... so much so that I want to go through the process again. This is MTS defined ......... and all this recent discussion on here about breeding dwarf cichlids is making me wonder where I could put a cichlid tank (again) ....... oh dear ...... aaaargh! ........it's back! Perhaps visiting a commercial aquarium is the antidote?
Skittler
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Interesting article. I'm not surprised though.
Many dentists have an aquarium in their waiting room because it helps relax the patients/victims.
PS. I had to look up MTS, after scrolling through a long list realised it's Multi Tank Syndrome. :wave:
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Hello Simon.
That's a good point about the abbreviation ..... sorry! I too had the same problem about 6 months ago. I was wondering how on earth a Malaysian Trumpet Snail could be contagious! :rotfl:
Perhaps a "sticky" list of popular abbreviations would be a good idea in the Beginners Section? I think I have seen one on another site, but can't remember where. I am thinking of terms like: pH, KH, CO2, NH3, mulm, clean up crew, soft water, livebearer, etc.
Skittler
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I am a member of another fish forum which has a useful feature.
There is a list of abbreviations and when they are typed in a post there is a dotted line underneath and when you hover over it a small window comes up explaining the term. Those of you who know about computers will know the correct terms for this, I don't :-\
I'm just about to start another thread about acronyms, feel free to add your own. When we get enough, I'll sticky the list.
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I like that article - definitely think it has a point, and aquariums are a good way to focus in on another world to take one's mind off everyday problems and/or health problems. (Having said that, often I look into it and see situations uncannily similar to office politics!)
As for the other fish forum, I think that may well be the one I stumbled across the other night when doing a quick google search to see if there might be any chance that Tail-less Cory (who's doing well now) might ever grow back his tail. I was looking at that forum on my phone, and I found it really annoying that I couldn't read the responses properly because the acronyms kept flashing up the meaning - so I'd be keen for Thinkfish not to go down that route. A separate thread on acronyms, and the list "stickied", sounds good though.