Ichthyology

[Dragonslair]

Further to my obsession and the fact that I want to run before I can walk, I have enrolled on a course at our local college. It's only 3 nights a week and I hope to get a certificate at the end to say that I am a qualified Ichthylogist.
Then I will get myself a hut...not a fish hut..but a fish lab hut.
Anybody else STUDIED fishkeeping?

 

[Davy Reynolds]

No m8. Sounds good though, whats involed in the course then

 

[adeyc]

Rose' hobby is fish disease and I'm the mad sceintist, you don't want to know what comes out of my tank and goes straight under the microscope. oh yeah I bet you to it. I have a lab in the flat and a fish hut :laugh: all I need now is an electron microscope and a particle accelerator.

 

[Great Lakes]

I am among the studied...I feel so . . .normal..

 

[Dragonslair]

Beam me up "Scottie" lol
Nah,nah nah ,nah nah :laugh:

 

[Dragonslair]

Davy,
I'll let you know as soon as I begin the course. I've enrolled I need to get some reddies to pay for it and then I will begin.

 

[Rose]

I have the particle accelorator beam if you need to borrow it. You can't have it till next thursday as it's in use on a couple of the aliens that have been abducting me. This'll show em who's boss.... BTW I need to borrow the atom splitter again if you don't mind. Mine's in the shop again. My assistant droped it and well you can imagin what happend then. Rose

 

[adeyc]

No problems Rose. It's those damn igors. you cant get a good one these days. I'll send mine round with the atom splitter asap.

 

[Dragonslair]

I have the syllabus now.
1. Indroduction to fish and fish anatomy.
2. Importance of fish within the ecology.
3. Fish welfare
4.Health/euthanasia
5 Types of fish/Habitat
6 Water chemistry
7. Available treatment for commercial and industrial fish farms
8 Nutrition/Breeding
9 I.D. fish on sight
10. Write a thesis on what you have learned.

 

[Davy Reynolds]

So what Qualification do you end up with

 

[Dragonslair]

It's an NVQ in fish husbandary.

 

[Davy Reynolds]

Well I just looked at my local college to see what courses they do. It looks like I'm going back there soon. Just found out I'm out a job next month :laugh:

Is this the local college your doing this course

 

[Dragonslair]

Yeah Davy, hope to start in September. They run a number of out of the ordinary courses. You can practically take an NVQ in anything these days. I have one for Customer Services.
I'm sorry to hear that you're out of a job next month. This may sound a silly question, but how did that happen?
It's none of my business, but have you thought about how you are going to manage financially, especially if you go to college full time? You will probably need to finance your own college- from either a loan/grant which is repayable. Unless of course you have a secret stash of greens hidden away.lol
If neither you nor your good lady wife are working, how will you manage. There are no state benefits to help you out if you are attending F/T college. O.K tell me to mind my own business.... :laugh:

 

[Davy Reynolds]

We I've worked for the mod since school, but after my aprenticeship I've never had a full time contract and this is the end of a fixed term contract.
I was only thinking about part-time courses. Maybe some computer ones for the internet and stuff. Plus I noticed on the site that the fees are waved is your on income support. I'll use this to prop up my CV to hopefully get a better job than the last one. I'd love to work for myself but would have to find something with no capital

 

[Dragonslair]

To get Income Support you need to be registering for Job seekers alowance. Then depending the amount of contribution you've paid will determine if you receive JSA (IB)income based or JSA(CB) contributory based. OR of course the alternative is Incapacity Benefit.