Planet Catfish Announcement: 21 December 2003

[Silurus]

All~

As 2003 draws to a close we're ramping up improvements and new features to the site. That's because we're so clever we've done all our Christmas shopping online and are spending the freed up time working on the site. Nice theory


Anyway, after a slow start to the month we've got a few things to squeeze in at the end to give you something to do while you digest Christmas dinner.

1. Announcing the inaugural Planet Catfish photo contest ( our first is online and running ) get your votes in now! You have to be registered user to vote but please take the time to vote for your favourites. Who knows if you get that digital camera for Christmas it might be your catfish winning the plaudits next time around. We hope to run these at least every two months from now on.

2.

( one of the best hacks I've seen in a long time ) regular forum users will LOVE this new, planet exclusive bbcode tag that Rusty has created. Instructions on its use can be found at the link below.

3. All cat-elog pages that have the details of who described a species now link to a http://www.fishbase.org search so you can go find the reference for that particular description el pronto.

4. We've added some cool new images mainly from Shane but from a few others too. Personally I think the highlight of these are the two pictures of what we think might be Chaetostoma leucomelas ? you can see all the recent additions at the updates page.

All the very best for the festive break, whatever you're doing and have a truly catfish filled 2004.