The "natives" get such a tiny sum per fish that there is little economic incentive for them to treat wild fish as a sustainable resource. I have had the impression that the earnings by the natives, involved in the fish collecting, has kept those people away from other industries, such as ...

there also exist a Finlandian translation of Olafs site, isn' it.. Yes, at least parts of it has been translated into finnish (with Olaf's approval, as fas as I can tell). Should you, or any of the other readers, be interested, they are at http://www.aquahoito.info/suomi/akvaario/matto/index.html ....

Strawbx: the mat filter is getting all the more popular here in Finland also. I've used it some of my tanks and it seems to do the biological filtration extremely well. I have no plans to buy expensive extrenal filters anymore. Couple of issues though: if you build it (which you should), according t...

Steen: From which kind of an shop did you purchase your piece of bamboo? Here in Finland, the selection is various gardening, aqurium etc stores for the bamboo is very limited.