Is There A 'translation' Sheet Anywhere?

[denis coghlan]

just make sure you inform the person bagging that you'll be traveling a while.

The furthest LFS (about an hour an a half) from my location bag fish using a canister of oxygen. They pop the fish in the bag with a little normal air then they inflate the rest of the bag with the compressed oxygen. They only do this if you tell them that you are travelling a long distance. So like mamafish said, just let the staff know as maybe they also provide this service.

 

[McMurray]

I wrote a computer program called FishBase Client that helps you do searches by genus and common name much more quickly than the Fishbase site. So if you type in Pseudotropheus, for example, on the Genus (Strict) tab, you'll get all the different species for which that's the currently recognised name. It's pretty good with synonyms, too. Type Pseudotropheus zebra on the Species tab and you go straight to that fish's page, even though the current name is Maylandia zebra. You could also use the plain Genus tab for Cichlosoma and get all the fishes included under than name either currently or in the past. There's a Common Name tab, into which you might type "angelfish" and get all the different fishes with that as part of their common name. The Family tab is useful for finding out information on fish families or trying to identify something using the thumbnail view in Fishbase. It's for Macintosh and Windows, and is free.

Generally, I wouldn't trust an aquarium store that didn't know the Latin name. This is especially true with fishes likely to hybridise, like rare livebearers and mbuna. Right now, I'm into halfbeaks, and finding that it is more than possible to have three different species being sold in a single batch of "Celebes halfbeaks", and two different genera being sold as something like "golden halfbeaks"!

As a total aside, there's an excellent book called Botanical Latin that you might be able to borrow from a library. It helps you understand what all the different words mean. There's actually some art to many Latin names. Pterophyllum scalare, for example, means wing-leaf, like a flight of stairs, the first part a reference to the dorsal and anal fins, and the second part to the step-like arrangment of spines at the front of the dorsal fin.

Cheers,

Neale

if you go to fishbase.org
you can search for the common or SN.

Great set of tools

 

[mark7616]

I picked my fish up at 16:00 on the wednesday they had a small amount of water in the bag and lots of oxygen i had 13 bags of fish these were then placed in a poly box. I then drove to liverpool got there for 20:00 then boarded the ferry the fish stayed in my car while i was on the ferry we got of the ferry at 0630 and i arrived home for 08:30 i then messed around with my tank fishing out some fish that was going so put the last fish in my tank for about 9:30 so thats 17hrs in bags and not one death not one illness and all were eating with in the hour.

 

[GoinNuts]

17hrs in bags and not one death not one illness and all were eating with in the hour.

That's good to know, Mark. And here I've been worried if they are in the bag more than 30 minutes. It's wicked hot here, though. Never occurred to me to use a cooler, either. Sometimes, I'm mighty slow, lol.

Lisa

 

[Miss Wiggle]

great tools there nmonks

 

[mark7616]

Yeah that will be your problem the hotter it is the quicker the oxygen will be used up.

 

[McMurray]

the important thing was you had enough oxygen for the fish.
To be extra save from long distnace travel you can also buy oxygen tablets that fit into a slow release system.