Are there LFS's selling endangered fish?

[Colin_T]

Two things I like about Freddie Mercury now, he was a really good singer and he collected stamps

 

[GaryE]

Two things I like about Freddie Mercury now, he was a really good singer and he collected stamps

He also collected koi, and had a serious set up to keep them in. I was never a fan of Queen, but the man had nice fish.

 

[Colin_T]

He also collected koi, and had a serious set up to keep them in. I was never a fan of Queen, but the man had nice fish.

I went to Japanese guy's house to deliver some fish for his pond. OMG it was huge. This guy had build a pond/ creek around his house and had decking over parts of it. The pond was over 10 feet deep in some areas and had 2 foot long fish cruising around in groups of 6-10. It was really well done. A Japanese style house with a massive water feature around and under part of the house. We spent a bit of time admiring his fish before leaving.

 

[elephantnose3334]

I had an external hard drive in my room that had photos and videos of my pets and girls and that disappeared while I was on the street. I will never see any of them again because they are all dead.

1/2 @Colin_T, I am sorry to learn about your girls' and pets' death. You had great memories with them and more. I know this is sad for you, but bear with me, I will support you until the end. Your girls and pets were a shining light for you and without them, your life was much different than it was before. When I learned of the news, I was very sad. I wish I met your pets and girls. They were debonair as per usual. A question regarding your girls and pets, what were your best (and worst) memories of them?

I hope that I will wish you in the best of luck, Colin. Don't quit your favourite hobbies, including fishkeeping and stamp collecting. I might send you pics of stamps found in Australia Post if you like. Never give up on your dreams. TFF is here to support you. Thank you for telling us your stories about your hobbies and what happened in 2016.

 

[elephantnose3334]

@Colin_T, I am sorry to learn about your girls' and pets' death. You had great memories with them and more. I know this is sad for you, but bear with me, I will support you until the end. Your girls and pets were a shining light for you and without them, your life was much different than it was before. When I learned of the news, I was very sad. I wish I met your pets and girls. They were debonair as per usual. A question regarding your girls and pets, what were your best (and worst) memories of them?

I hope that I will wish you in the best of luck, Colin. Don't quit your favourite hobbies, including fishkeeping and stamp collecting. I might send you pics of stamps found in Australia Post if you like. Never give up on your dreams. TFF is here to support you. Thank you for telling us your stories about your hobbies and what happened in 2016.

2/2 Now that I knew how you felt about the year @Colin_T, I understand your sadness, as mentioned on an earlier comment of mine. Last question before I end the thread: About your family bible from the 1600's that I mentioned to you and that you mentioned earlier a few years ago, what does a family bible look like and how is it different to a normal Catholic bible? How did you inherit it in the first place? I wish my mum and dad owned a family bible spanning generations because they were raised Catholic but don't follow Catholicism. I just read a Wikipedia article on family bibles and they are interesting. Did your sister and/or mother threw away the bible that you inherited?

Colin, it was a pleasure talking to you about your items you had owned and the endangered salamanderfish. Thank you for giving me an insight to some of the items you owned, now I will start my stamp-collecting hobby in the near future.

 

[Colin_T]

A question regarding your girls and pets, what were your best (and worst) memories of them?

Worst memories were watching them dying slowly. Louise in particular when she was "climbing the stairs" in hospital. Climbing the stairs is a term they use when someone is grasping at the air whilst trying to breath. It resembles someone climbing a ladder and they reach out with their hands and arms trying to grab the air in front of them. She was wearing an oxygen mask but it didn't do anything to help.

When Chloe was dying she just refused to eat the day before. She was in pain and couldn't move. They gave her so much morphine she passed out and died.

Good memories were watching them play at the park with or without their friends, and when we went to the beach. Watching television with them. Talking about the fish and birds to them.

 

[elephantnose3334]

Worst memories were watching them dying slowly. Louise in particular when she was "climbing the stairs" in hospital. Climbing the stairs is a term they use when someone is grasping at the air whilst trying to breath. It resembles someone climbing a ladder and they reach out with their hands and arms trying to grab the air in front of them. She was wearing an oxygen mask but it didn't do anything to help.

When Chloe was dying she just refused to eat the day before. She was in pain and couldn't move. They gave her so much morphine she passed out and died.

Good memories were watching them play at the park with or without their friends, and when we went to the beach. Watching television with them. Talking about the fish and birds to them.

Poor Louise and Chloe. I finally know your girls. I wish I have met them in person before they died, but I was 10 years old (3 years before going on forum age) during the time and was in primary school in a different suburb.

 

[Colin_T]

About your family bible from the 1600's that I mentioned to you and that you mentioned earlier a few years ago, what does a family bible look like and how is it different to a normal Catholic bible? How did you inherit it in the first place?

The family bible is a big hardcover leatherbound book about 15 inches high x 12 inches wide and about 3.5 inches thick. There was gold edging to the pages. The pages were paper but some bibles had pages made of vellum (thin calf or lamb skin). The first part of it had the family tree and there were pages for each person in the family. So when a person got married, they would start their own page and their family tree would go on that. About 1/4 of the book was for the family tree and other information. After the family tree there was the normal bible, just a version from then and not today's version, which is slightly different.

There were lots of hand drawn pictures in it, most were colour. The books were pretty expensive to buy at the time and most families had them but they cost a bit and put a huge burden on the budget. It's one of the reasons they were family bibles passed down from generation to generation (the price).

I got it from my aunt after one of my uncles was going through a heap of books from my grandmother (on mum's side) after she died. I don't know if my mum and sister threw the book out or what they did to it. If I go to mum's house to find out I am liable to kill everyone there. So I'm avoiding the place. As far as I'm concerned, my mother and sister are dead.

 

[elephantnose3334]

The family bible is a big hardcover leatherbound book about 15 inches high x 12 inches wide and about 3.5 inches thick. There was gold edging to the pages. The pages were paper but some bibles had pages made of vellum (thin calf or lamb skin). The first part of it had the family tree and there were pages for each person in the family. So when a person got married, they would start their own page and their family tree would go on that. About 1/4 of the book was for the family tree and other information. After the family tree there was the normal bible, just a version from then and not today's version, which is slightly different.

There were lots of hand drawn pictures in it, most were colour. The books were pretty expensive to buy at the time and most families had them but they cost a bit and put a huge burden on the budget. It's one of the reasons they were family bibles passed down from generation to generation (the price).

I got it from my aunt after one of my uncles was going through a heap of books from my grandmother (on mum's side) after she died. I don't know if my mum and sister threw the book out or what they did to it. If I go to mum's house to find out I am liable to kill everyone there. So I'm avoiding the place. As far as I'm concerned, my mother and sister are dead.

You know your family bible well, Colin. I go to a Catholic school, so I do mass every few months, even though I'm not Catholic. It's a surreal experience when I have school mass where everyone (students and staff) go to. How do you remember such things (i.e. lost objects, first time seeing fish and birds, etc.) very well? You must have a good memory of some sorts. I do remember some things, but not to the point to your memory count.

 

[Colin_T]

You will remember highlights from your life too. People live boring lives with a little bit of excitement thrown in every now and then. They remember the exciting bits but don't really remember the average day to day boring bits. The brain does remember things but when you are at school or work and you do the same thing day after day, the brain says these things don't really need to be stored in the long term memory, so they get put in a storage box somewhere.

Every now and then something different happens in your life and the brain puts it in the archive box. It might be a bad experience or a good experience but because it's different, the brain remembers it. Things that happen to you and you think about for several hours of even days after it happened, are move likely to become part of your long term memories.

My life has been boring, go to school get picked on, go home, stress out, back to school the next day repeat repeat repeat. Then it was work, work, work. Same job day in day out and the only difference was the customers. You might get a really good customer that brightens your day, or a piece of work that pushes your blood pressure right up and makes you go out the back and smash a few foam eskies. You remember those 2 customers but most of the others are just a blur. Then I was hit by a car and I remember all of that. Then it was rehab after the accident and a boring painful life. Then Chloe and Louise turned up and life was fun and interesting. Then we got poisoned and that sucked and I remember these bits because they are major factors in my life, albeit some are really bad ones.

Basically you will have good and bad memories and they will be things you can recall quite clearly, but most of your day to day life will be forgotten.

 

[elephantnose3334]

You will remember highlights from your life too. People live boring lives with a little bit of excitement thrown in every now and then. They remember the exciting bits but don't really remember the average day to day boring bits. The brain does remember things but when you are at school or work and you do the same thing day after day, the brain says these things don't really need to be stored in the long term memory, so they get put in a storage box somewhere.

Every now and then something different happens in your life and the brain puts it in the archive box. It might be a bad experience or a good experience but because it's different, the brain remembers it. Things that happen to you and you think about for several hours of even days after it happened, are move likely to become part of your long term memories.

My life has been boring, go to school get picked on, go home, stress out, back to school the next day repeat repeat repeat. Then it was work, work, work. Same job day in day out and the only difference was the customers. You might get a really good customer that brightens your day, or a piece of work that pushes your blood pressure right up and makes you go out the back and smash a few foam eskies. You remember those 2 customers but most of the others are just a blur. Then I was hit by a car and I remember all of that. Then it was rehab after the accident and a boring painful life. Then Chloe and Louise turned up and life was fun and interesting. Then we got poisoned and that sucked and I remember these bits because they are major factors in my life, albeit some are really bad ones.

Basically you will have good and bad memories and they will be things you can recall quite clearly, but most of your day to day life will be forgotten.

I do want to give a good insight to your pets and plants (especially fish) before they too disappeared: How often did you care for your fish and birds and clean their enclosures? Did you watch TV shows of fish and other animals on ABC? If you did, what was/is your favourite animal-related show to watch and would you recommend the show to me? I would love to watch old TV as you did, but I'm from Generation Z, the internet generation. What did your sister do to your pets before she got rid of them?

The Australian native sundews: They are more interesting than normal American or European sundews. Where are they found? How are they unique to other sundews? How big were they and how do they eat? I haven't heard of native sundews or even seen them before. What species of native sundew did you keep? Vebas sold some sundews in their store for a while and may be Aquotix too. What happened to the sundews in 2016? I have been in the sundew wagon for a while.

 

[Colin_T]

I do want to give a good insight to your pets and plants (especially fish) before they too disappeared: How often did you care for your fish and birds and clean their enclosures? Did you watch TV shows of fish and other animals on ABC? If you did, what was/is your favourite animal-related show to watch and would you recommend the show to me? I would love to watch old TV as you did, but I'm from Generation Z, the internet generation. What did your sister do to your pets before she got rid of them?

My freshwater tanks got a 75-90% water change and gravel clean every week. The water was made up a week before and the pH, GH & KH were adjusted for each tank.

The aviaries had dirt floors that got turned over every few weeks. The smaller bird cages were cleaned a couple of times a week depending on how dirty they got. They got cleaned daily when there were baby birds in the smaller cages. The birds got green feed every day and this usually included green grass seeds, as well as soaked & sprouted seed, fruit and various plants. They had mineral grit and their water was changed at least once a day, usually several times a day in hot weather.

I loved the Jacque Cousteau and Ben Crop documentaries from the 70s & 80s. They were mostly marine based and showed some lovely underwater footage. There was Harry Butler in the wild, The Leyland Brothers, The Barefoot Bushman and a couple of others I can't remember. I had most of them on video tape. I also had most of the BBC documentaries by David Attenborough and a heap of National geographic documentaries.

My birds were dead in the bottom of the aviaries. The remains of my dog's were in a pile in the backyard and the loungeroom wall was painted in their blood. She wrote your dogs are here on the wall in their blood. The fuplie cops wouldnt do anythign about that. My tanks had all been turned off at the power point and everything in them was dead. My plants were missing as was most of my stuff.

The Australian native sundews: They are more interesting than normal American or European sundews. Where are they found? How are they unique to other sundews? How big were they and how do they eat? I haven't heard of native sundews or even seen them before. What species of native sundew did you keep? Vebas sold some sundews in their store for a while and may be Aquotix too. What happened to the sundews in 2016? I have been in the sundew wagon for a while.

The sundews were found in a CALM reserve in Riverton near my home. There was a small red one that grew about 8 inches high. There were two gold ones, a small one about 6-8 inches tall and a big one that grew to about 2 ft tall. There was a tiny little one that grew in clusters on the ground. It was red & green and each plant was smaller than an Australian 5 cent coin in diameter and about 5-10mm high.

The three taller plants had gold sticky dew on little hairs around a bell that would trap small insects. The insects died and decomposed releasing nutrients into the ground around the base of the plant.

I don't know what species they were, but the big gold ones used to shine in the sun. They were spectacular. The small gold ones did too but nowhere near as much as the big ones did.

 

[elephantnose3334]

My birds were dead in the bottom of the aviaries. The remains of my dog's were in a pile in the backyard and the loungeroom wall was painted in their blood. She wrote your dogs are here on the wall in their blood. The fuplie cops wouldnt do anythign about that. My tanks had all been turned off at the power point and everything in them was dead.

1/2 Ugh. That was a gross act done by your sister. It looks like something out of a horror film. Now I see why she tormented you for the rest of your life. You were a dog lover like you and me, and if I were you, I would be grossed out by this hideous sight. What breeds were they and what did they look like? What was the nicest dog in town you owned? How often did you do walkies with them? I have two dogs, Stella and Indi, and they're labradoodles. Stella's the oldest one, while Indi is younger.

My freshwater tanks got a 75-90% water change and gravel clean every week. The water was made up a week before and the pH, GH & KH were adjusted for each tank.

The aviaries had dirt floors that got turned over every few weeks. The smaller bird cages were cleaned a couple of times a week depending on how dirty they got. They got cleaned daily when there were baby birds in the smaller cages. The birds got green feed every day and this usually included green grass seeds, as well as soaked & sprouted seed, fruit and various plants. They had mineral grit and their water was changed at least once a day, usually several times a day in hot weather.

I do a 50% water change in my tank now with a gravel vac. As I mentioned earlier, you know your stuff and their routine well. You gave your budgies and cockatiels the best care possible.

I loved the Jacque Cousteau and Ben Crop documentaries from the 70s & 80s. They were mostly marine based and showed some lovely underwater footage. There was Harry Butler in the wild, The Leyland Brothers, The Barefoot Bushman and a couple of others I can't remember. I had most of them on video tape. I also had most of the BBC documentaries by David Attenborough and a heap of National geographic documentaries.

I would definitely give these a watch. They're cool because of their love of animals. How long have you kept the docos?

The sundews were found in a CALM reserve in Riverton near my home. There was a small red one that grew about 8 inches high. There were two gold ones, a small one about 6-8 inches tall and a big one that grew to about 2 ft tall. There was a tiny little one that grew in clusters on the ground. It was red & green and each plant was smaller than an Australian 5 cent coin in diameter and about 5-10mm high.

The three taller plants had gold sticky dew on little hairs around a bell that would trap small insects. The insects died and decomposed releasing nutrients into the ground around the base of the plant.

I don't know what species they were, but the big gold ones used to shine in the sun. They were spectacular. The small gold ones did too but nowhere near as much as the big ones did.

The gold ones are beautiful to watch in the sun. I wish I saw them in the Riverton area like you did

 

[elephantnose3334]

1/2 Ugh. That was a gross act done by your sister. It looks like something out of a horror film. Now I see why she tormented you for the rest of your life. You were a dog lover like you and me, and if I were you, I would be grossed out by this hideous sight. What breeds were they and what did they look like? What was the nicest dog in town you owned? How often did you do walkies with them? I have two dogs, Stella and Indi, and they're labradoodles. Stella's the oldest one, while Indi is younger.

I do a 50% water change in my tank now with a gravel vac. As I mentioned earlier, you know your stuff and their routine well. You gave your budgies and cockatiels the best care possible.

I would definitely give these a watch. They're cool because of their love of animals. How long have you kept the docos?

The gold ones are beautiful to watch in the sun. I wish I saw them in the Riverton area like you did

2/2 @Colin_T, what was your favourite freshwater fish species you kept before they died in 2016 because of your sister and mother unplugged the tanks when you were ousted from your own home due to the law? Are you okay? I am worried that you might leave the forum again. I love you, and TFF loves you too. I feel sad when you buried your own fish when mentioned in one of my threads. I am grateful to have you in TFF. Thanks for helping me wherever I need it. And a big thank you for welcoming me into the forum.