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From: willil@mentor.com (Willi Lohmann)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: ****   Call for Discussion  --  Creation of Sci.Aquaria   ****
Message-ID: <1989Oct9.143231.2894@mentor.com>
Date: 9 Oct 89 14:32:31 GMT
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(I got a msg saying this didn't get posted in news.groups, so here it is.
If it did make it to news.groups, ignore it.)

When I set up an aquarium, I set up an environment which fish are just
a part of.  I agree with the idea that plants aren't exactly pets and
since plants aren't specifically necessary to "keep fish" but are a 
large part of aquaria, I don't agree with the pets part of any naming
convention.  I don't know that the simple chemistries involved in
maintaining an aquarium contain enough hard core science to warrent
the sci hiearchy.  But natural environment reproduction and breeding
can become as scientific as you want to make it.  So...  I guess I'd
vote for rec now and see if it needs to be changed in the future or
maybe even add sci.aquaria as a second group.

Conclusion? --> 1st choice:  rec.aquaria
                2nd choice:  sci.aquaria
                   
bye - willi