DP article in TFH

Boxermom · Post by **Boxermom** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 5:39 pm

March 2007 issue, about 5 pages long.

Boxermom · Post by **Boxermom** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 7:32 pm

And another excellent article by Neale, too!

Post by **Myaj** » Sat Jan 27, 2007 4:21 am

Okay, will someone explain to me how the heck I can get a subscription to this thing?

Everything is UK! I don't know even how to call them to ask with their weird phone numbers ROFL! (just teasing guys, but seriously, why can't they have a universal shopping cart that allows mailing to the US)

Rocker · Post by **Rocker** » Sat Jan 27, 2007 4:46 am

TFH is an american publication. We cannot get it over here.

Who wrote the DP article?

messy_da_legend · Post by **messy_da_legend** » Sat Jan 27, 2007 8:02 am

Our library at college subsribes to TFH especially for our fish course as we said it was vital to our education

Boxermom · Post by **Boxermom** » Sat Jan 27, 2007 11:52 am

Myaj, they have Tropical Fish Hobbiest at AU, Hoffers, and probably most bookstores. You can get a subscription online, but I'll PM you how to get a discount once I check to see if they are still available.

Rocker, some guy named Mike Hellweg. His bio says he's an aquarist and breeder for over 35 years, "working almost exclusively with fishes that mature at 4 inches or less in his 75 tanks." Grand Master Breeder of his local club, President of Missouri Aquarium Society and Vice Chairman of the American Livebearer Association and Historian for the Aquatic Gardener's Association. Currently owns and operates a retail fish business.

I have a few problems with the article, like him saying DPs are a good community fish, his description on how to sex them, and that aggression in them is rare, then goes and talks about them getting "nippy" with other fish, biting the bellies out, and even shows a picture of one with a chunk bitten out of its body from another DP - if that's not aggression, what is??

Related to a recent discussion here, he says that in order for puffers to make their toxin, they require both "both a certain bacteria and a certain type of algae that grows on the shells of certain mollusks. Both must be ingested in quantity by the puffer in question."

Post by **Myaj** » Sat Jan 27, 2007 2:19 pm

Ugh, got confused with TPF... too many publications, too many initials!

Rocker · Post by **Rocker** » Sat Jan 27, 2007 2:37 pm

TPF is available worldwide.

Have another go Myaj!

go on!

Boxermom · Post by **Boxermom** » Sat Jan 27, 2007 2:40 pm

Post by **Myaj** » Sat Jan 27, 2007 2:52 pm

Okay.. which one had the suvatti breeding articles? That's the one I want and that's the one who's website is only in UK and has no where to order for the US.

Post by **Myaj** » Sat Jan 27, 2007 2:55 pm

PFK? Right? Right?

Boxermom · Post by **Boxermom** » Sat Jan 27, 2007 2:58 pm

Yes, PFK but you can order it for US delivery.

Post by **Myaj** » Sat Jan 27, 2007 3:01 pm

HOOOOWWWWWWW???

(okay, that was my whine of the day)

And yes, apparently I'm a moron.. you just fill it out and select the country.

Oh, last time I was trying to order some backorders off their website and I think that's where you can't do any US orders...

Boxermom · Post by **Boxermom** » Sat Jan 27, 2007 3:04 pm

http://www.amazon.com/Practical-Fishkee ... =magazines

http://www.isubscribe.co.uk/title_info.cfm?prodID=3346

It can take awhile for them to start arriving though, so you probably won't get those. If you just want to read them and not keep them, I can loan you my copies.

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