Most wanted fish - Page 2

Tiny Turtle · 03-17-2003, 11:38 AM

I meant that there already is a ** The SereneScreen Freshwater Aquarium WISHLIST ** thread in this sub forum. Lots of the fish wished for here are discussed there.

/Tiny Threading

IXNAY · 03-17-2003, 12:35 PM

I agree tiny... my aim was just to see the wishlist in statistics

CephaloP · 03-17-2003, 12:54 PM

Tiny:

I requested an arrowana back near the announcement of the freshwater tank too, and I remember your posts on it. I'm kind of surprised that more people haven't clamored for them.

Anyway, this reminded me of a time way back when I was actually bored enough to pound out a little poem emphasizing the screensavers need for this fish. At the time I figured I would post it here on the forum and it would be good for a laugh. However, once it was done and I saw that it was the MOST PATHETIC THING EVER WRITTEN I decided it should never see the light of day, and tucked it away in a corner of my computer. Where, of course, I found it just now.

So, here it is, for your comedic enjoyment! Calle, this one's for you!

I want a arrowana
with a silver shiny sheen
gliding graceful and majestic
across my 'puter screen

I wanna arrowana
one that's pretty big, not small;
a little aro's not much better
than having none at all

I wanna arrowana
I know tetras can be pretty
but pint-sized pisces never moved me
to compose a tribute ditty

If I don't get an arrowana
I'll take it with aplomb
by calling you late in the night
to make jokes about your mom

In this bleak unhappy life
filled with uncertainty and strife
we look up to our screen savers
to provide uplifting flavor
that our existences have so long lacked

And though I really can't condone
getting trigger-happy like Al Capone
In these dark and desperate times
(a cliché but hey, it rhymes)
when our kids can't spell "Botswana"
because they're hooked on marijuana
my desire cuts like a katana
and burns hot as a sauna
for my favorite aquatic fauna
of all time

I wanna arrowana
it will help promote world peace
give us an arrowana
that we can feed live meese

/ ducks waves of hurled tomatoes

Tiny Turtle · 03-17-2003, 01:30 PM

And I thought you were cool for picking a name related to octopods... – Wow, Ceph! Wow squared with sugar, a cherry and hot fudge on top. Talk about making my day...

/Tiny Banana Dancing With Joy!

P.S.
I wanna arrowana too

CephaloP · 03-17-2003, 01:37 PM

aww! (blushes)

Thanks Man!

Liath · 03-17-2003, 02:39 PM

Thanks for the poem Ceph! You made my day.
---Go Molluks!

wetmonkey · 03-17-2003, 09:24 PM

hey great poem, i noted too in the may 15th discussion wondering if an arowana would make an appearance, i have had a 3 foot silver as well as my current 11in black or some would call it blue arowana. it would be a great variation from the other free swimmer, and cruise at the surface level, i assume its length causes some calculation challenges =( but even a more exotic x cross back asian would be fantastic, something that only a special few can obtain.

patscarr · 03-17-2003, 11:29 PM

I Wanna Arrowana

That's a classic!

Tiny Turtle · 03-18-2003, 02:00 AM

Wetmonkey,
I got two words for you:
"Pictures" and "Please!"

Tiny I.W.A.

Mutters to himself: Three feet of Dragonfish – Perhaps if got a third tank in my apartment and threw out the bed and...

CephaloP · 03-18-2003, 07:34 AM

Originally posted by Tiny Turtle
Mutters to himself: Three feet of Dragonfish – Perhaps if got a third tank in my apartment and threw out the bed and...

lol I know this feeling! Only about a third of my old bedroom was walking space, the rest was fishtanks and bookshelves!

I'm still wondering how to explain to the wife that someday I'm going to need to take up half a room with a tank for both an arrowana and an Amazon red-tail catfish.

wetmonkey · 03-18-2003, 05:13 PM

hey i can snap some pics of my lil black one, i also may have some older pics of my 500 gallon with a massive breading pair of redtail cats, pair of peacock bass, very large gold nugget and some other buddies. the old pics arent that high of res. though i try and clean them up and post them by this evening. hope this pic loads heres a teaser with some of them

Yellow Tang · 03-19-2003, 03:44 AM

Something is wrong with this image. Can't see anything here.

drfish · 03-19-2003, 05:38 AM

I can't either.

IXNAY · 03-20-2003, 09:25 AM

me too

wetmonkey · 03-20-2003, 06:38 PM

heres a pic from a few days after we got this guy in, still needing to find some old pics of our large silver, will post that guy as well as some new pics of this guy when i get a chance.

wetmonkey · 03-20-2003, 06:43 PM

here all

wetmonkey · 03-20-2003, 06:53 PM

first day pic

EddieWan · 03-20-2003, 06:53 PM

Clown Loach gets my vote. One of my favorite fish

CephaloP · 03-20-2003, 09:37 PM

Lookin' good Wetmonkey

Tiny Turtle · 03-21-2003, 02:35 AM

Looks neat, WM.

/Tiny Envy

View Poll Results: Wich fish do you want to see in the Freshwater tank?
Guppy	3	5.66%
Kuhli Loach	3	5.66%
Green Terror	2	3.77%
Neon Tetra	5	9.43%
Black Angel	3	5.66%
Clown Loach	5	9.43%
Betta	7	13.21%
Blue Ram	4	7.55%
Firemouth	0	0%
Plec	2	3.77%
TigerBarbs	8	15.09%
Tri-color Bala Shark	0	0%
Rasbora Trilineata	0	0%
New Guinea Rainbow	2	3.77%
Figure 8 Puffer	3	5.66%
Green Tiger Barb	0	0%
Frontosa Cichlid	1	1.89%
Archer	0	0%
Boesemans Rainbow	0	0%
Glass Tetra	5	9.43%
Voters: 53. You may not vote on this poll

03-17-2003, 12:35 PM	#22
IXNAY Green Frog Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Germany Posts: 840	I agree tiny... my aim was just to see the wishlist in statistics IXNAY dreaming of the serene terrarium - My Private Homepage -

03-17-2003, 01:30 PM	#24
Tiny Turtle is pleased Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Stockholm, Sweden Posts: 7,365	And I thought you were cool for picking a name related to octopods... – Wow, Ceph! Wow squared with sugar, a cherry and hot fudge on top. Talk about making my day... /Tiny Banana Dancing With Joy! P.S. I wanna arrowana too Last edited by Tiny Turtle; 03-17-2003 at 04:42 PM.

03-17-2003, 02:39 PM	#26
Liath Still here in spirit Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Ann Arbor, Michigan Posts: 637	Thanks for the poem Ceph! You made my day. ---Go Molluks! Liath Appleton University of Michigan Museum of Zoology My Homepage Why I've been gone

03-17-2003, 11:29 PM	#28
patscarr Pet Shark Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Back in Buffalo Posts: 5,455	I Wanna Arrowana That's a classic! Patrick

03-17-2003, 11:38 AM	#21
Tiny Turtle is pleased Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Stockholm, Sweden Posts: 7,365	I meant that there already is a The SereneScreen Freshwater Aquarium WISHLIST thread in this sub forum. Lots of the fish wished for here are discussed there. /Tiny Threading

03-17-2003, 12:54 PM	#23
CephaloP lurking in the shadows... Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: just a few paces south o' the old willow Posts: 151	Tiny: I requested an arrowana back near the announcement of the freshwater tank too, and I remember your posts on it. I'm kind of surprised that more people haven't clamored for them. Anyway, this reminded me of a time way back when I was actually bored enough to pound out a little poem emphasizing the screensavers need for this fish. At the time I figured I would post it here on the forum and it would be good for a laugh. However, once it was done and I saw that it was the MOST PATHETIC THING EVER WRITTEN I decided it should never see the light of day, and tucked it away in a corner of my computer. Where, of course, I found it just now. So, here it is, for your comedic enjoyment! Calle, this one's for you! I want a arrowana with a silver shiny sheen gliding graceful and majestic across my 'puter screen I wanna arrowana one that's pretty big, not small; a little aro's not much better than having none at all I wanna arrowana I know tetras can be pretty but pint-sized pisces never moved me to compose a tribute ditty If I don't get an arrowana I'll take it with aplomb by calling you late in the night to make jokes about your mom In this bleak unhappy life filled with uncertainty and strife we look up to our screen savers to provide uplifting flavor that our existences have so long lacked And though I really can't condone getting trigger-happy like Al Capone In these dark and desperate times (a cliché but hey, it rhymes) when our kids can't spell "Botswana" because they're hooked on marijuana my desire cuts like a katana and burns hot as a sauna for my favorite aquatic fauna of all time I wanna arrowana it will help promote world peace give us an arrowana that we can feed live meese / ducks waves of hurled tomatoes

03-17-2003, 01:37 PM	#25
CephaloP lurking in the shadows... Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: just a few paces south o' the old willow Posts: 151	aww! (blushes) Thanks Man!

03-17-2003, 09:24 PM	#27
wetmonkey Registered Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 24	hey great poem, i noted too in the may 15th discussion wondering if an arowana would make an appearance, i have had a 3 foot silver as well as my current 11in black or some would call it blue arowana. it would be a great variation from the other free swimmer, and cruise at the surface level, i assume its length causes some calculation challenges =( but even a more exotic x cross back asian would be fantastic, something that only a special few can obtain.

03-18-2003, 02:00 AM	#29
Tiny Turtle is pleased Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Stockholm, Sweden Posts: 7,365	Wetmonkey, I got two words for you: "Pictures" and "Please!" Tiny I.W.A. Mutters to himself: Three feet of Dragonfish – Perhaps if got a third tank in my apartment and threw out the bed and... Thanks to Morgan, Tiny Snapshots is up and running again with "Tiny Järvafält" as the latest addition – Go have a look and tell me what you think. "We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita. Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and to impress him takes on his multi-armed form and says, 'Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.' I suppose we all thought that, one way or another." /Robert Oppenheimer on witnessing the first thermonuclear detonation in history.

03-18-2003, 07:34 AM	#30
CephaloP lurking in the shadows... Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: just a few paces south o' the old willow Posts: 151	Originally posted by Tiny Turtle Mutters to himself: Three feet of Dragonfish – Perhaps if got a third tank in my apartment and threw out the bed and... lol I know this feeling! Only about a third of my old bedroom was walking space, the rest was fishtanks and bookshelves! I'm still wondering how to explain to the wife that someday I'm going to need to take up half a room with a tank for both an arrowana and an Amazon red-tail catfish.

03-19-2003, 03:44 AM	#32
Yellow Tang YT Join Date: Jan 2002 Tournaments Won: 1 Location: Germany Posts: 729	Something is wrong with this image. Can't see anything here.

03-19-2003, 05:38 AM	#33
drfish the Doc Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Zeeland, MI Posts: 5,357	I can't either. I don't watch commercials.

03-20-2003, 09:25 AM	#34
IXNAY Green Frog Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Germany Posts: 840	me too IXNAY dreaming of the serene terrarium - My Private Homepage -

03-20-2003, 06:38 PM	#35
wetmonkey Registered Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 24	black arowana heres a pic from a few days after we got this guy in, still needing to find some old pics of our large silver, will post that guy as well as some new pics of this guy when i get a chance.

03-20-2003, 06:53 PM	#38
EddieWan JediMaster Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Tallahasse, Florida Posts: 183	Clown Loach gets my vote. One of my favorite fish If it ain't broke, fix it till it is!

03-20-2003, 09:37 PM	#39
CephaloP lurking in the shadows... Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: just a few paces south o' the old willow Posts: 151	Lookin' good Wetmonkey

03-21-2003, 02:35 AM	#40
Tiny Turtle is pleased Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Stockholm, Sweden Posts: 7,365	Looks neat, WM. /Tiny Envy Thanks to Morgan, Tiny Snapshots is up and running again with "Tiny Järvafält" as the latest addition – Go have a look and tell me what you think. "We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita. Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and to impress him takes on his multi-armed form and says, 'Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.' I suppose we all thought that, one way or another." /Robert Oppenheimer on witnessing the first thermonuclear detonation in history.