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Re: [Killietalk] list problems
Christine there are inconsiderate boobs in every organization, but I can
tell you for sure that most of us are super guys a lot like Tony. Joe
Scanlan in Alabama
----- Original Message -----
From: "Christine" <christine at wildaboutbettas_com>
To: "killifish discussion list" <killietalk at aka_org>
Sent: Saturday, May 06, 2006 10:21 AM
Subject: Re: [Killietalk] list problems
>I too am a newbie and I also found a lack of newbie information.
>
> I did find the article you are speaking of and I did note the shortage of
> links but thats manageable. I'm wondering tho, shouldn't a beginners
> guide
> include photos of the fish its recommending? That was one of the biggest
> problems I had. I found myself going to aquabid to see pictures even tho
> I
> know pictures there are often doctored. When that didn't turn up the fish
> I
> was looking for I ended up using this site:
> http://www.killifish.f9.co.uk/Killifish/Killifish%20Website/Genera_Index.htm
> . On that site, I found information specific to each fish including
> breeding notes as well as photos of each fish. This combination led to me
> doing a LOT of research on their site. On the AKA site, you have to leave
> the beginners guide, go to the gallery and maybe you'll find a photo of
> the
> fish... but then there is no specific information about that fish listed.
> I
> still don't know if there is anywhere on the site that gives fish specific
> information. The site looks incredible imo. Just the information I kept
> trying to find was either not there, not accessable to the public or there
> in such a way that I couldn't find it.
>
> So I joined AKA in hopes of finding some secret treasure of information ;)
> The booklets that I received are excellent and I was very impressed by how
> professional they are. It would be wonderful to see the difficulty level
> charts from the back of the beginners guide available on the website
> (including the pictures) to the general public.
>
> One other thing worth mentioning... I joined this list right in the middle
> of apparantly a bad time. Some poor guy was getting flamed left and right
> for asking questions. Someone else kept complaining about posts... I dont
> remember the exact words but the complaint combined with the flaming of
> that
> person left me with the feeling that I just shouldn't say anything on this
> list at all unless I was a seasoned keeper - which I'm not. So instead of
> digging in and becoming involved, I chose to sit on the sidelines and
> watch
> for a while. I'm still watching and gleaning bits of knowledge from posts
> when I can. I would however like to thank Tony Terceira for supplying me
> with my first beautiful killies and having the patience to answer my
> questions about them without making me feel inferior for having asked
> them.
>
> So, I left the sidelines for a minute to try to be helpful... I hope that
> I
> don't regret it.
>
> Christine Pirtle
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ken Simolo" <Simolo at chem_chem.rochester.edu>
> To: "killifish discussion list" <killietalk at aka_org>
> Sent: Saturday, May 06, 2006 10:09 AM
> Subject: Re: [Killietalk] list problems
>
>
>> Hi Becky,
>>
>> I just went to the AKA site to look to see how hard it would be to
>> find the information you are looking for since I have never done so.
>>
>> I went to www.aka.org On the left it says "The Basics". I thought,
>> okay you want information on fish so I moved my cursor over "The
>> Fish" listed below "The Basics" and up popped text including
>> Beginner's Guide so I clicked on "The Fish". The menu expands to
>> include an option to click on the Beginner's Guide. I did so and the
>> new window has the Beginner's Guide starting with the table of
>> contents. The only shortcoming I see is that the Beginner's Guide is
>> a scrollable window instead of the table of contents being a set of
>> links to the appropriate pages. You just need to scroll down to the
>> incubation and fry sections for soil spawners.
>>
>> Ken
>> Join the AKA at http://www.aka.org/aka/modules/content/index.php?id=9.
>> Archives are at http://fins.actwin.com/killietalk/
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>> http://www.actwin.com/mailman/listinfo.cgi/killietalk
>
> Join the AKA at http://www.aka.org/aka/modules/content/index.php?id=9.
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>
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