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Re: In the spotlight

Posted By: Wight <Wight@mindspring.com>
Date: Friday, 13 August 1999, at 9:09 p.m.

In Response To: In the spotlight (kiss my fish)

You caught your fish out in nature? I'm impressed!

Personally, I just go to the LFS for my Clown Loaches and stuff. It's cheaper than a plain ticket to Sumatra, even if the Clowns there might be free. All of my fishies come from the pet-store, I don't expect wild conditions to necessarily matter.

In reading Loaches are a low-light fish, I remain relatively unconcerned... I *do* try to provide "low light," but this seems a bit subjective. What's "low"? I also don't worry much about temperature ranges -- I did, enough to ask about cooling my tank recently -- but got much of the same response as I'm giving you now, that in many ca