Merry Christmas

[anglerfishuk]

Hi All,
Well it looks like we have Survived the End of the World.
So I would like to Wish All Members & Managers a Merry Christmas
& Happy New Year.

Hope everyone has a peaceful time with lots of Fishy type
presents.

Regards
Andy

[NetMax]

The only certainty is our world comes to an end when our sun starts
expanding, but seeing as how that's not due to happen for a few
billion years, we should just plan to get to 100 years and live one
day at a time.

Happy holidays everyone.

NetMax

[denizen]

Merry Christmas to Andy, Netmax and all group members!

For New Year I resolve to perform aquarium maintenance at least once
per month in 2013.
d.

[NetMax]

... and Happy New Year to all 3 of us ; )

... and of course - all lurkers & foreign readers (I've seen our posts
go up in other-language forums)

cheers
NetMax

[Gill Passman]

Happy New Year to you all....this year, like Denizen, I resolve to do regular tank maintenance!!!!
Also to continue putting my 6 footer back together with new plants and some replacement fish
for all those that have gone to the big tank in the sky over the past few years
Gill

[tr...@prismnet.com]

On Jan 2, 9:17 am, NetMax <computeral...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> ... and Happy New Year to all 3 of us ; )
>
> ... and of course - all lurkers & foreign readers (I've seen our posts
> go up in other-language forums)
>
> cheers
> NetMax

Likewise, Happy New Year to all. I'm still here -- can one's status
turn to lurker after a long quiet period?

I have had little opportunity to post as I've had no tank issues. I
guess I could have kept up my running count of how many fish went to
the LFS.

No tank maintenance NY resolution for me, because breeding livebearers
gives me overcrowded tanks which *must* have maintenance every two
weeks or else.

I'm giving up on raising guppies. They're pretty, but it's just too
much trouble having a male-guppy-only tank so their tales don't get
damaged (and even so sometimes they damage each other).

I still have a few hundred sword tails in the pipeline. They're
finally starting to yield a largish percentage that I'd call
Pineapple. If I'm happy with the latest broods when they mature,
I'm going to stop breeding swordtails regularly and just run off a
couple broods a year and maybe only keep eight or ten on hand at a
time.

Then, once I've reduced all the populations through LFS trips or
attrition, I resolve to do less tank maintenance this year.

Frankly, MTS syndrome burn-out is making me think seriously about
exiting the hobby. Three to six hours out of every other weekend is a
pain.

Jeff Walther