Re: [APD] Small diameter fish food binders?-a bit off-topic.

[Chris Hotte <ecwh at cogeco_ca>]

Richard J. Sexton wrote:

> bottles if you have a LOT of mouthes to feed but 4 chambers
> feeds a helluva lot of fish. One chgaber is for harvesting
Harvesting.... it sounds so cold and cruel.

Poor little sea monkeys. I used to keep them as pets.  Ordered them from 
the back of a comic. They looked nothing like the picture indicated they 
would. Little king and queen, with all their children floating on the 
backdrop of their under-sea kingdom. Still very cool however. 

I'm poking fun above, but it's funny how things change. I myself used to 
be one of those kids that would take an animal, fish for example and 
pull it's eye out with a hook so you could catch another (Perch). This 
was for no other reason other than entertainment purposes, as I was not 
gonig to eat the tiny perch.  And just to note for anyone who wants to 
know, Perch definitly prefer an eye to a kernel of corn. They will even 
eat their own eye if placed back in the water and tanted with it. Now 
it's that's not sick... I'm going to have to re-think the definition.

I remember my friend and I leaving them on the road for traffic to hit 
and laugh and hoot in absolute extacy in the disgust of it.  We had put 
their little Perch corpses up on main street up far away from the water. 
I remember that little stint getting written up in the local paper by 
someone expressing their outrage. We decided to time-capsule this 
historical event and scrapped up the remains "King fishie" who was now 
inside out after a 4x4 had done it's work. This was archived by way of 
jamming the tin can between two brick buildings where no one could 
access but a very thin child. Years later I did go to attempt to 
retrieve, but the can was gone.  I immagine it must have been a nasty 
surprise for the kid that did go and get it.  No, it's not two tickets 
to the policemans ball.... but....

I grew up on farm, so many animals of every sort met their demise in 
every concievable fashion.  Moving to the city and many years later I 
took up fishkeeping. Now I can't even stomach the idea of sport angling 
anymore. I've tried it a couple times in recent years and find myself 
sympathizing with the fish. I could never stomach eating it, even with 
the absence of pollution.

Now we all know that if we were stuck in the wilderness the fish would 
have to die because we gotta eat. I'm okay with that. However, short of 
a collaps of civilization or I get lost in a very large wilderness, that 
just isn't going to happen. I'll just keep eating my packaged meats and 
not think of the source thank-you-very-much.

Anyone know where I can get my hands on some Tardigrades? I think I 
would like to keep some on my desk. If my faith in modern consumerism is 
correct, then there should already be a pre-packaged "Sea-Monkey" 
version for kids.

- Chris.

P.S.  Aquatic plants are cool.
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