We recently added the Koi profile to the website. This species, Cyprinus carpio, is recommended for the backyard pond or extremely large aquariums only. They simply grow way too big for most home aquariums. We get receive lots of correspondence from Fish Lore visitors and it’s worrisome how many are keeping koi in a fish tank. Yeee-ikes! (more…)
There had been some talk about coming up with some new member names for the fish forum. We have been using the default names that come with the software since the beginning. So we came up with 6 different groups of names for the members to vote on and they decided that they liked the following: (more…)
We recently finished adding some cool new mods for the forum. One is the Google member map for the SMF forum software. You can place your pin and keep zooming in until you can see your house! For the younger members, please, please, please don’t use this feature or if you do, don’t put your pin on your exact location.
Also added some new smiley sets and new forum avatars. The previous smileys were getting kind of old and it’s always good to add new stuff.
One last thing before I go, we are voting on new member names on the forum. There are six groups/options to choose from, so if you haven’t already, get over there and vote. I’ll keep the voting open for a few days so more members can participate.
Thanks,
Mike
The winners of the June 2007 Fish of the Month and Aquarium of the month photo contests have been determined.