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Subject: sci.aquaria.birdfeed (was: Guppies)
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Date: 10 Feb 90 14:44:44 GMT
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In  article <##701$@rpi.edu> michelob@pawl6.pawl.rpi.edu (Michael   R.
Shea) writes:

= I posted before about my guppies  having babies.  I have  heard some
= discussion  about selling fish back to   stores for credit.   I have
= looked in the capital district  (of New York).  Unfortunately, there
= have been no stores in the area that will  buy them from me.   Is it
= that fancy  tailed guppies are too common?    I am  getting annoyed,
= because the fish are getting crowded where they  are.  I  have about
= 15-18 fish in a ten gallon tank.  When  they were  just born, it was
= fine,  but now they  are  up to 1/2" or bigger.   Does anyone in the
= capital district want some guppies?

= Also, the male that spawned these babies is having some trouble with
= tail rot.  The other fish in the tank seem to be  okay, but his tail
= keeps splitting.  What could I do to help him?

I think we can kill several aviforms with one lithoform here.

Build a large cage  around your aquarium, and  populate it with one or
several  green herons    (the  compact, downscale,  apartment-suitable
version of the  blue heron).  This  will  associate some birds with an
aquarium,  allowing  the  recent  condemnation    of  sci.aviary to be
sidetracked into  an   expansion  of  the  fastest  growing  redundant
newsgroup lowarchy on the net,  *.aquaria[.*].   At the same time, the
green herons, being  wading piscavores,  will save  you the trouble of
finding outlets for your excess swimming stock,  and also save you the
trouble of disposing of the less fit, slower swimming (and more easily
speared) members of your captive fancy fish.   Everyone will be happy,
your overabundance of inches of fish per square inches of tank surface
will repair itself, and  the herons will grow fat  and  perhaps assume
breeding plumage.

[What you   do  with the  subsequent  crop  of baby  herons is  _your_
problem!]

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