awe, dancin bananas are great, I luv em. And the chearleader is pretty cool too.
Lots of great people out here for the majority.
Beth, you were a tremendous help when I put my puffer through hyposalinity. He survived the whole ordeal and I almost lost him one night and my friends at this site cheered me up and on forward, I will never forget that.
Mudplayer, your a bright person and have lots of good posts and things to offer to help.
I also apprecaite mimzy and so many others.
I send so much time on this forum that I get protective and defensive if someone comes on the board that is a complete idiot about a topic that is not even related to the aquarium world and the person has offered no other usefull posts or questions. It is rare, but I do try to scare off people that are so far out in left or right field that they aren't in our ball game. One person started a thread and all they could talk about what how to bulk up his dog and make a chow chow pull cement blocks to bulk up. What a bozo. We don't need people like that on the forum. I sensed trouble with him.
Sometimes people on the forum have been in the fish hobby for a very long time and I can understand their frustration when they hear of people who have not tried to learn, read and study before they do something. However, on the flip side of the coin, I can honestly say that for many things in the saltwater hobby, there are always multiple opinions and it can get scary and frustrating sometimes as a newbie - not sure which is right and if there is only one or few ways to do something, why then is there so many different opinions.
For me, I found that I read all I could, everywhere, internet sites, books galore and then nestled my saltwater home here. On the freshwater world, I enjoy oscarspot.com
But, to be honest - the one source where I have learned the most and forumulated my opinions is on this forum. Great place and I thank the mods for managing it, and the people who belong this family on the swf forum that we all enjoy. I wish I new in memory peoples first names at least when I see their screen name and/or avitar. It would help to make the friendships even better.
I will say this much, (not like I don't blab on and on as it is heheheh
, there is no book that I own that even mentioned hyposalinity for treating ich. What a godsend this forum has been. I was hit with that within the first month I got my first fish. Very stressfull, but what folks said here on the forum was right on the money, no book told me about it, or how to administer it. I took twice as long to bring my fish salt level down and twice as long to come back up, but it didn't hurt him. I think I took a week to go down to hypo, stayed in hypo for about 6 or 7 weeks, and then took my sweet time coming backup, like 2 weeks. In fact, he has another couple notches to go before he is in full hypo. The slow process, extra slow I thought made the treatment work for sure and low stress on the fish, my presious puffer that I use as my avita. That is my little Ipo, we love him so much.
Anyow, I love to talk to you all - gotta zipper it and let someone else chat now.
I thank you friends, your awesome.