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Re: Puffer compatible fish
Posted: Sun Jun 23, 2013 7:12 pm
by casc
My LFS said I should get 2. They haven't given me any reliable advice. I'm happy to have found this place. And sorry to have learned the hard way. I don't wanna lose anymore.
Re: Puffer compatible fish
Posted: Mon Jun 24, 2013 7:20 am
by RTR
There is no such thing as a school of 2 fish. But too many LFS people have never seen fish in the wild, and few have been to the tropics. Wild schools can be many hundreds to thousands of fish. Some years back, Pufferpunk shared a great shot of a human sand walking neck-deep in a lagoon or shallow area, with a cylindrical school of many thousands of fish arcing around the human and stretching from one edge of the shot to the other. Even FW schools of fish can be thousands of individual fish. We don't have the room to do that in most tanks, but schools still do require numbers, not just a handful. Schools can confuse predators, which is their survival value.
Some of us are guilty of calling what manyLFS suggest as "Noah's Ark Tanks": all the fish, 2 by 2...
Re: Puffer compatible fish
Posted: Mon Jun 24, 2013 9:10 am
by Pufferpunk
One of my best shots!
Re: Puffer compatible fish
Posted: Tue Jun 25, 2013 7:05 am
by RTR
Definitely a winner! Thanks for bringing it out. Even if I remembered it imperfectly, it does show a real school on the move! Obviously that could confuse a predator. Thanks again!
Re: Puffer compatible fish
Posted: Tue Jun 25, 2013 7:12 am
by Arny
Is that yu in the photo pp? Nice pic
Re: Puffer compatible fish
Posted: Tue Jun 25, 2013 12:43 pm
by casc
Wow, that must be an amazing thing to experience! Very cool
Re: Puffer compatible fish
Posted: Tue Jun 25, 2013 4:10 pm
by Pufferpunk
Arny wrote:Is that yu in the photo pp? Nice pic
LOL, I couldn't take & be in that photo at the same time!
Re: Puffer compatible fish
Posted: Tue Jun 25, 2013 4:36 pm
by Arny
Pufferpunk wrote:Arny wrote:Is that yu in the photo pp? Nice pic
LOL, I couldn't take & be in that photo at the same time!
Haha. Derrrr. Sorry about that
What sort of camera did you use?
Re: Puffer compatible fish
Posted: Tue Jun 25, 2013 4:46 pm
by Pufferpunk
Olympus 5060 w/Ikelight housing.
Re: Puffer compatible fish
Posted: Thu Jul 04, 2013 11:57 am
by purplecandle
Pufferpunk wrote:One of my best shots!
I could stare at that pic all day...So surreal!
Re: Puffer compatible fish
Posted: Thu Jul 04, 2013 5:31 pm
by Pufferpunk
The "wave" is used in our banner, above.
