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Re: Fish and Egg Listing and pictures

It is possible to put more pictures on the AKA site if people give them to 
me. However, I put one caveat on that. They have to be of very good 
quality. I don't want to step on toes either, but some of the pictures I 
see online are just not excellent.

The good news is that I am working with Tony Terceira to add more of his 
pictures to the site and to replace some of the images with scans from his 
original slides, which we are sure will improve the quality. I'll let you 
know when they are up.

I will make the point that I am fairly confident that the pictures on the 
AKA site are accurate in terms of the identity of the fish. That is another 
issue I have to deal with. I need to be fairly confident that the person 
submitting a picture of a particular fish can accurately identify it.

Finally, a major effort is being made to get the AKA's slide sales program 
up and running again, with an infusion of new slides. Our plan is to offer 
these through the AKA online store as well as through the BNL. Images will 
be available satisfying both the need to see what you are buying and 
extending the number of pics on the site. I hope that many of you will take 
advantage of the opportunity to buy some of these photos in order to give 
talks at local aquarium clubs and so on. All of these things help promote 
the hobby and the AKA.

Barry

At 04:10 PM 7/21/00 -0400, you wrote:
>For the many of us who have limited numbers of different killies, adding a
>new fish is either incredibly hard or incredibly easy.
>When the F&E listing comes, I stop the world and study. So many really neat
>sounding fish that I know I can take care of but I have no idea what they
>look like. So off I go to the AKA and check the gallery. While a good
>source, so many fish are missing, and many of the fish there don't look
>right to me. I said that wrong. When I look at my fish and then look at the
>picture at the AKA, they don't always look the same. Part of that problem is
>that I don't know the age of the fish in the picture. So then I head to a
>couple of other sites with pictures and look for the fish. If I can find it,
>then I can decide. But what about all those fish I can not find a picture
>of?
>Is there anyway to either get more pictures up on the AKA site? Not just
>more species, but more than one picture of a given species? Or if not more
>on the site itself, how about a link to someone else site that has pictures?
>If I have just stepped on someone's toes, I apologize. It is just so hard to
>see pictures of the fish that are current and have even close to the right
>names on them.
>
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