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Old 04-05-2002, 01:03 PM   #1
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** The SereneScreen Freshwater Aquarium WISHLIST **

Please post your suggestions and pictures of fish, frogs, plants you would like to see in the SereneScreen Freshwater Aquarium. There are no guarantee that items you post will be added, this is purely to give Jim ideas about what people would like to see.

Jim already plans to add "Angelfish, black mollies, neon tetras, swordtails, algae eaters, etc., possibly frogs" and it will possibly have a treasure chest that fills with air and opens and closes.
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Old 04-05-2002, 01:29 PM   #2
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I had a freshwater tank for years and the most interesting of all the fish I had was my "Electric Catfish". He would come to the surface when I came close to the tank, he never tried to shock me unless I got to close to his territory while cleaning the tank, then he would give me a little warning tingle. They dont get along well with other fish but it wouldn't matter in a virtual tank, below is a link that gives some interesting facts about electric fish. I don't know if many people would want this guy in their tank but it's just a suggestion .



http://www.people.virginia.edu/~mk3u...ric_fish_E.htm

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Old 04-05-2002, 01:46 PM   #3
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Black Ghost Knife Fish

I have had two of these and I love them so very much. I would enjoy seeing these in a virtual environment.

http://www.aquahobby.com/gallery/gaptero.html

http://www.concentric.net/~Akthurst/Aalbifrons.shtml

http://www.concentric.net/~Akthurst/Aalbifrons2.shtml
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Old 04-05-2002, 01:52 PM   #4
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Another difficult fish: (More "normal" fish will surely follow)

How about an Arowana (Osteoglossum bicirrhosum)?
You don't see too many of these guys in normal aquariums due to the fact that they grow to ~4 feet in length and have a mouth large enough to swallow small birds wich it can jump out of the water to catch!

One thing that makes this such an interesting fish is the way it swims – it slithers almost like a snake, just below the surface.

My favorites:
Terrarium – Snapping Turtle
Marine Aquarium – Lionfish
Freshwater Aquarium – Arowana
Anybody see a pattern here?
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Old 04-05-2002, 02:13 PM   #5
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I would like Kissing Gourami ^_^

http://www.animalnetwork.com/fish/pr...p?RecordNo=230

As well as:

Bettas
http://www.starpoint.net/~dave/bettap/bettap.html
http://www.cs.utk.edu/~bdeane/betta.html
http://bart.northnet.com.au/~cycen/bettainfo.html


Bala sharks
http://fins.actwin.com/species/index.php?t=9&i=236

Shark catfish
http://fins.actwin.com/species/index.php?t=9&i=253

Any kind of gourami
opaline gourami: http://fins.actwin.com/species/index.php?t=9&i=231

blue gourami or paradise gourami: http://fins.actwin.com/species/index.php?t=9&i=218

pearl gourami: http://fins.actwin.com/species/index.php?t=9&i=232

flame gourami or red dwarf gourami: http://fins.actwin.com/species/index.php?t=9&i=225

convict fish (the bottom pic is the type I have owned before)
http://www.petfish.net/convict.htm
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Old 04-05-2002, 05:05 PM   #6
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as posted in that other thread:

Rift Lakes, Tanganyika Specifically:
Lots of rocks, few plants, tons of caves for the likes of Neolamprogous Brichardi to live in. Maybe some shells for a colony of N. Brevis. A couple Juliedacromis Dickfieldi swimming upside-down underneath said rocks (they don't orient themselves to gravity, rather their surroundings). Add a few L. Leleupi, a Cyphotilapia Frontosa, and a small group of Trophues Moorii, *grin*. If you can find it, the PBS special "Jewels of the Rift" will make you want a Tanganyika SereneScreen as much as I do. Maybe it's just because I have such a thing for cichlids. Hey, I can dream can't I?

Australian River tank:
Visible current from the right side of the monitor, bubbles traveling from right to left "down" stream. Different species of Rainbows swimming against the current and dropping back to rest behind rocks. Maybe more the idea of a river tank, not the population I described.

Amazonian Tributary:
I'm thinking the Rio Negro, Cardinal Tetras, Corydorus catfish, Discus, you name it, hundreds of beautiful fish live here! Slow flowing water, lots of plants... Maybe the occasional turtle, eh? I've got a video documentary from the discovery channel about the aquarium trade out of the Rio Negro, fascinating!!!

Asian Rice Patties:
Gouramis, Bettas, you get the idea... I don't have much experience with fish from this location.

Small African Lake/Pond:
One word: Killifish.
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Old 04-05-2002, 05:40 PM   #7
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Embarassed

I had at one time 8 tanks in my home . 2 of them were 55gal an the rest were 3 20gal an 2 10gal . The small 10's had neons an swordtails , the 20's had cichlids ( mixed) and the 1 55 had Blue an red Discus , an Angelfish . The other 55 had my favorit , A Silver Arowana . I had him for a few years . He was about 2" long when I got him an when he died he was about 28" long an weighed about 3 lbs . He ate about 40 minnos a week . An when it would rain I would feed him worms . Having a freshwater tank would be great since I started out with a 10 gal tank when I was 11 years old an I had tanks ever since . And I'm 46 now . I probably had every freshwater fish you can get one time or another . Then I went to Salt water .

This will be great .
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Old 04-05-2002, 10:20 PM   #8
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Red tailed sharks would be cool. Also, along with the treasure chest, some other fun accesories would be great too. Some type of diver with bubbles.
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Old 04-06-2002, 11:13 AM   #9
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What I would like is more audio clip variety. I'm a big fan of Impressions Games, and I love how they have a variety of natural sound loops 3-7 seconds long, each associated with an object that you add to the screen. These are *all* very serene!

There's actually 2 levels of sound:
1) Primary screen action sound. In serene screen terms, are we near a bubble tower, the filter wishing sound, or other dominating sound depending on the current view.

2) Background jukebox rotation sound clips playing underneath. Say the 15 objects on screen each have their own sound association. Rather than playing them all at once, there's a gentle rotation between them one at a time. In this case I'd say each "ornament" have it's own sound association, and rotate between them. (A soft sonar ping for the sub, a air pump glub-glub for the diver, a leaves swish-swishing sound for a small kelp forest, a soft, distant jingling of change for the treasure chest)

Most of there are taken from sound effect libraries sold to game developers for $80-$120.

If you're not sure what I'm talking about here, pick up the games Pharaoh or Zeus for $15 on amazon, or get the whole "Great Empires Collection" for $30. The sound rotation is fairly easy software, as is drawing up two volume sliders for "foreground sound" and "background sound". The designing of the audio clips themselves is the trick --main thing is making sure they're serene. Think "reverb and echo".

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Old 04-06-2002, 03:28 PM   #10
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...a leaves swish-swishing sound for a small kelp forest...
These are underwater, you know...

(And plants, not kelp if we are to be picky)
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Old 04-06-2002, 04:25 PM   #11
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Yeah. Kelp goes in the other forum!

And as for audio, I keep my speakers busy with Tangerine Dream nearly 24/7.
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Old 04-07-2002, 05:34 PM   #12
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The three that I love the most are: Neons, fan tail goldfish, and Gourami's, in that order.
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Old 04-07-2002, 11:24 PM   #13
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A school of Neons will be great
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Old 04-08-2002, 02:44 AM   #14
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I don't have any pictures of one, but I've always like the Red-Finned Catifsh. I beleive they're from South America. They get quite large & are just cool. I also like any of the Gouramis & some of the South American Cichlids, along with the African Cichlids.
Gotta have a Pleco tho, )
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Old 04-08-2002, 03:13 AM   #15
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In my tank I had some of these guys, always diggin in the dirt, very funny:
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Old 04-08-2002, 03:19 AM   #16
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Just found this one:
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Old 04-08-2002, 10:31 AM   #17
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The Gibbiceps, aka. Sailfin Pleco is IMHO a better choice than the regular Plecostomus without looking too extreme
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Old 04-08-2002, 11:16 AM   #18
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Cardinals are so much prettier than Neons... I REALLY hope Jim goes with them if he's going to add one of the two.

Do people agree with me on that one?
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Old 04-08-2002, 12:10 PM   #19
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I just have to applaud grape_Jellyfish for the electric cat post. I used to have one named Sammy- actually "The Sammy" as this became a title for the coolest critter I had at any given time. He inherited it from my mangrove monitor when I got rid of him, who was the successor to my octopus, the original Sammy.

Anyway, even though they're fun to have in RL, electric cats wouldn't be as exiting in a screensaver, as they're not that flashy and you can't actually see them zapping things (unless all the other fish suddenly died or went streaking in panic to the other end of the tank).

I would rather see the silver arowana as an option. But it would have to be big, you can't get the "arowana effect" from a 4" juvenile. Watchin a 3' aro snaking across the top of a tank is mesmerizing, it would be the closest thing Coelocanth would get to having his "dinosaur fish".
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Old 04-08-2002, 07:23 PM   #20
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I would like to see maybe some Pinfish or Gar. Oscars are my favorite though.
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