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DP article in TFH
Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 5:39 pm
by Boxermom
March 2007 issue, about 5 pages long.
Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 7:32 pm
by Boxermom
And another excellent article by Neale, too!
Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2007 4:21 am
by Myaj
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)
Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2007 4:46 am
by Rocker
TFH is an american publication. We cannot get it over here.
Who wrote the DP article?
Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2007 8:02 am
by messy_da_legend
Our library at college subsribes to TFH especially for our fish course as we said it was vital to our education

Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2007 11:52 am
by Boxermom
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."
Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2007 2:19 pm
by Myaj
Ugh, got confused with TPF... too many publications, too many initials!
Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2007 2:37 pm
by Rocker
TPF is available worldwide.
Have another go Myaj!
go on!
Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2007 2:40 pm
by Boxermom
ROFL
Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2007 2:52 pm
by Myaj
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.
Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2007 2:55 pm
by Myaj
PFK? Right? Right?
Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2007 2:58 pm
by Boxermom
Yes, PFK but you can order it for US delivery.

Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2007 3:01 pm
by Myaj
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...
Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2007 3:04 pm
by Boxermom
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.
