He I am new and confused! :-S

Cheese Specialist · Post by **Cheese Specialist** » 01 Dec 2003, 19:49

Hello everyone,

I am new to this lovely site. I have a fair fair catfish in my community aquarium. I've got 2 albino corrys, 2 peppered corrys, 2 black top corrys, an up-side down catfish, 2 glass catfsh and I am getting a L134 pleco on Thursday. Wow, that is a few actually! I love bottom feeders in general and I have a few loaches too.

I just came accross this stie by chance when I was researching catfish before getting mine. All of them are fine and dandy by the way!

Anyway, can someone please tell me why there is a * in the word pleco? There it goes again! Hmmmm p l e c o? Ah, there we go! That is all that I am confused about.

Nice to meet you all!

magnum4 · Post by **magnum4** » 01 Dec 2003, 20:12

I think it's in the FAQ (an if it's not it probably soon will be)

Cheese Specialist · Post by **Cheese Specialist** » 01 Dec 2003, 20:37

Hello to you to! Friendly, eh?!

LOL

*Goes to look at FAQ*

JohnnyOscar · Post by **JohnnyOscar** » 01 Dec 2003, 20:44

I've never read an FAQ in my life and I'm not about to start now!

It looks like the mods don't read the FAQ either.

So how, precisely, will an FAQ entry stop punters from wondering out loud, on these forums, why the letters "ichli" disappear from the word cichlid? It happens just about every week.

Yes it adds "humour and character" to the site. Briefly. Then it "adds" bemusement and frustration.

Just a thought...

Cheese Specialist · Post by **Cheese Specialist** » 01 Dec 2003, 20:51

LOL

To be honest, I don't know where the humour is supposed to come in! Unless, of course, it goes over my head?! I don't see what's funny about replacing letters with *s. Smells like Dad humour to me!!

*Still trying t find FAQs*

Post by **Barbie** » 01 Dec 2003, 20:55

Actually I've personally spent the last two days reading the FAQ and working on new questions to go in there. If you ever have information you'd like to see in there that isn't, ASK! We're always happy to add things

The FAQ is the first link under the main Planet Catfish banner at the top.

The * in pleco comes from an original mailing list where it was considered bad luck to type pleco out in full, as then your pleco might die. Cichlids is a dig at the people that seem to want to talk about fish that aren't catfish, on a catfish board.

With that said, I don't think its asking too much to expect people to read the FAQ so that we can spend our time on the board helping people, and enjoying the dicussion, not answering the same question for the hundredth time. I'm not personally getting a christmas bonus of a new ferrari, unless something has changed drastically in the last day or two, and my time is just as much of value to me, as it is to the person that can't be bothered to read the FAQ we spend time working on.

Just my $.02 worth.

Barbie

magnum4 · Post by **magnum4** » 01 Dec 2003, 20:59

Notice how jonnyoscar didn't give the answer either it's funny to see newbies run round like headless chickens(adds character so i'm told). I've done it infact most of my early posts are "whats this about?"

Hello to you to! Friendly, eh?!

LOL

hello cheese specialist welcome to planet catfish enjoy the first week of confusion

and frustration

.

plesner · Post by **plesner** » 01 Dec 2003, 21:12

Cheese Specialist wrote:To be honest, I don't know where the humour is supposed to come in! Unless, of course, it goes over my head?! I don't see what's funny about replacing letters with *s. Smells like Dad humour to me!!

I find it quite appropriate. I never even mention cichlids unless I'm in the middle of a discussion on live food cultures for nice fish like snakeheads or on using frozen Discus rather than stones in skipping competions.

- come to think of it, I do like Pterophyllum altum...

Cheese Specialist · Post by **Cheese Specialist** » 01 Dec 2003, 22:35

Hmmm, well here goes...

Barbie wrote:Actually I've personally spent the last two days reading the FAQ and working on new questions to go in there. If you ever have information you'd like to see in there that isn't, ASK! We're always happy to add things

The FAQ is the first link under the main Planet Catfish banner at the top.

The * in pl*co comes from an original mailing list where it was considered bad luck to type pl*co out in full, as then your pl*co might die. c*****ds is a dig at the people that seem to want to talk about fish that aren't catfish, on a catfish board.

LOL, I didn't know that was what it was. I did ask, and that was the problem!

Barbie wrote:With that said, I don't think its asking too much to expect people to read the FAQ so that we can spend our time on the board helping people, and enjoying the dicussion, not answering the same question for the hundredth time. I'm not personally getting a christmas bonus of a new ferrari, unless something has changed drastically in the last day or two, and my time is just as much of value to me, as it is to the person that can't be bothered to read the FAQ we spend time working on.

Just my $.02 worth.

Barbie

IT'S NOT IN THE FAQs unless it's very well hidden. Which would be appropriate on a catfish site, pmsl. So, I did spend time reading the FAQs! I know what TL, SL and FL mean thanks to it.

Also, earlier in this your post you said "ASK" but in the second section you say "answering the same question for the hundredth time". What is going on there then?!

With such a thing as a forum there will always be people asking the same questions as someone else has, due to new people registering. Who is going to read through every post on a site before asking a question? Also, asking a question is a good way to introduce yourself to people.

Just my Â£0.02 worth.

Post by **Shane** » 01 Dec 2003, 22:42

Given the last few postings I realize that the pleco (note the star) thing has gone from a widely held superstition to an inside joke. There was a time when all catfish people knew that you could never write pleco without leaving out the "e" or your fish would get sick. I now see that those of us that now understand the joke are small minority.

Also, for you cichlid people (yes, it is a dirty word just accept it) we will let people type c i c h l i d when the American Cichlid Association stops changing all references to catfishes in their shows and literature to "scavengers." The fact is that it is all in fun and many catfish hobbyists started with cichlids before graduating to catfish. Even Lee Finley once told me that he started out breeding Tropheus and other Tanganyikans before advancing to catfishes. In fact, I recently visited one of the other MODS when I was in the U.S. and was surprised to see cichlids! Being a good guy, I will not divulge her name so that nobody will know her secret.
-Shane
PS Any cichlids in my own tanks are just feeders for my Corydoras that have not been eaten yet.

plesner · Post by **plesner** » 01 Dec 2003, 22:42

Barbie wrote:The * in pl*co comes from an original mailing list where it was considered bad luck to type pl*co out in full, as then your pl*co might die. c*****ds is a dig at the people that seem to want to talk about fish that aren't catfish, on a catfish board.

I agree with Cheese Specialist. This particular piece of information ought to be in the FAQ.

spiny · Post by **spiny** » 01 Dec 2003, 22:47

I actually laughed the first time I saw your C******s ban here! Does that make me insane? Bad bad C*** word!!! Maybe you have to be a bit bottomfishish to see this humour?

I just felt like coming home?

Catfish is able to eat all cichlids anyway! This is a dangerous site for them!

Post by **Coryman** » 01 Dec 2003, 23:54

JonnyOscar,

I've never read an FAQ in my life and I'm not about to start now!

I don't supose you look at previous post to see if what you want to know is there either!

Remind me not to answer your repeated questions.

Ian

Post by **Barbie** » 02 Dec 2003, 00:18

As I mentioned, I've been working on two or three additional entries in the FAQ. A moderator didn't send you there for the information you needed, and I did actually answer your question. It's a work in progress is all

As a direct quote, I said if you don't see information that you want in there (hence, assuming you read it already)

And thanks alot Shane! LOL!

Barbie

Post by **Rusty** » 02 Dec 2003, 01:16

Barbie wrote:It's a work in progress is all As a direct quote, I said if you don't see information that you want in there (hence, assuming you read it already)

And if you do take a look at the FAQ, there is even a handy dandy question submission form! I automatically get emails pestering me to answer submitted questions, so they definitely won't be overlooked if submitted that way.

Rusty

Yann · Post by **Yann** » 02 Dec 2003, 17:17

HI!

Welcome to the board!
Oops I sort forgot about that FAQ stuff...
Cheers
Yann

Sid Guppy · Post by **Sid Guppy** » 02 Dec 2003, 18:48

The fact is that it is all in fun and many catfish hobbyists started with c*****ds before graduating to catfish.

That proves AGAIN (like it needs to be proved...) that I'm decidedly different from the lot of you.....

been keeping catfishes since 1974, but got the riverine c i c h l i d bug in 1990; adding fish like Pelvicachromis, Aequidens, Chromidotilapia or Hemichromis to different biotope-tankss. Main inhabitants were catfish though.

Still liked those tanks. Next to the cats and the "dirty fish" there were occasional characins, barbs, Spiny eels,Knife fishes, Polypterids etc in there; the weirder, the better!

Since 4 years I've been bitten by a certain bug from a certain Lake (notice the Capital

) located in the East African Riftvalley......

incurable disease, alas.
good thing, next to all those pretty Cichlids

that this particular lake is teeming with catfishes, that are almost taylormade for the hobby and even breedable!

michelle56 · Post by **michelle56** » 02 Dec 2003, 23:16

hi! welcome!

Cheese Specialist · Post by **Cheese Specialist** » 03 Dec 2003, 09:10

Thanks for the welcome Yann and Michelle!

He I am new and confused! :-S

He I am new and confused! :-S

C**** words and Pl***co words

C** words and Pl*co words