I don't see the issue. I actually saw two cold-water tanks
at MACNA this year, and posted some images of those on my
MACNA page.

http://www.melevsreef.com/pics/macna16/

Look on the Aquariums page.

Marc


Tidepool Geek wrote:

"Pszemol" wrote


While r.a.m.r. is an outstanding resource for general information as well
as reef specific material it has no mandate to deal with the special
challenges of keeping temperate and cold water species.

What about news:rec.aquaria.marine ?
Isn't it a good place for such discussions ?


Hi Pszemol,

I subscribe to rec.aquaria.marine.reefs & rec.aquaria.marine.misc and have
for some time (several years on r.a.m.r). I'm a recent subscriber to
rec.aquaria.marine.tech. In my memory none of those fora have had threads
concerning cold water aquarium keeping. My server doesn't seem to carry
rec.aquaria.marine so I just did a Google search of the rec.aquaria.marine
hierarchy on the following terms: cold, temperate, & "cold water" - there
were zero relevant hits. I then did a Google searches on Anthopleura &
Metridium which are the genus names for the two of the most common anemones
in cold water environs. [Anthopleura are mainly North Pacific species while
Metridium is pretty much everywhere the water is cold.] This time I got a
total of 12 hits but virtually none of them were really concerned with cold
water aquarium keeping and the most recent was more than two years old. BTW:
All 12 hits were from r.a.m.r. The only other cold water related thread that
I can recall is one from about a year and a half ago (also on r.a.m.r.) in
which you inquired about putting the quasi cold water species Crassostrea
gigas (Pacific Oyster) into a tropical tank; how did that work out?

FWIW: In looking at rec.aquaria.marine via Google it appears to be a pretty
inactive group with a low signal to noise(spam) ratio.

So, what this tells me is that, while it might be nice to have such
discussions on an existing newsgroup, coldwater aquariums are not presently
a part of the conversation. Further, the Coldwaterfish list has, as I
mentioned earlier, been in existence for four years now; hardly what you'd
call a 'Johnny come lately'!

In any case, if you prefer to discuss cold water husbandry on one of the
existing newsgroups, please do so. I never intended to coerce you or anyone
else to join our list, but merely to inform you of its existence.

BTW: I should have mentioned this in my earlier post but forgot. As
configured, membership in Coldwaterfish is subject to prior approval by the
list owner. It's just a routine process to help keep the spammers at bay but
it does cause a delay between when you sign up and when you're able to post.

Since I've sort of broken my promise about not promoting the list for at
least a month by posting this message, I will now shut the h*ll up for at
least two months.


Defensively yours,

TPG



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