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Best you ask in a pet store for some beginners stuff. It isnt so easy and if it goes wrong the fishes are dead.
So start smoothly.
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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Just get a telly and a looping aquarium DVD. She'll never know the difference!
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Depends on how old your daughter is and how much time you want to spend taking care of the fish. I sold them for a pet store chain when I was in high school.
- Fresh water are easier to care for than salt water and the setup costs less.
- Betas (Japanese Fighting Fish) are actually pretty easy to care for and the setup isn't that expensive. They only need a small tank, too much space and they will die. You can only have one in a tank or they will kill each other. Plus the are gorgeous.
- Goldfish, especially the feeder fish variety, might not have a great survival rate but they are easy to find another similar enough looking one that you can buy another if it does die with minimal risk of being noticed.
- Agressive vs non-agressive. Don't mix them... every.
- If you plan on a tank with multiple fish, get some cleaning fish like plecostomus or loaches. http://bottomfeederfish.com/[^]
- Snails. Some people like them, I hated them since once you get one you will never get rid of them and they will eventually invest the tank.
- Make sure to learn how not to shock the fish when you put them in the tank and when you clean the tank.
- Have a smaller tank available for doing cleanings. You will need to clean the tank. Koi and Goldfish are extremely dirty and release a lot of ammonia.
- Make sure you know how big the fish can eventually grow.
Start with inexpensive fish, hearty, easy to care for fish. This can become an expensive pet in a hurry and they can be extremely easy to kill.
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RJOberg wrote: Betas (Japanese Fighting Fish)
RJOberg wrote: Goldfish
RJOberg wrote: Don't mix them
We had a 30 gallon tank as a teenager; many fish including a beta (red) and a goldfish (named Jaws).
One day, we looked over and saw the beta tail sticking out of Jaws mouth...
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Which is the appropriate group on CodeProject for discussion(s) of Laser Printers ?
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"Hardware and devices" - or, if its a recent HP, "The Soapbox".
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An Excellent Answer.
"Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read." Frank Zappa 1980
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The "Sharks with Frickin' Printers attached to their heads" forum.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Smirk !
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I was away from CP for a day and you beat me to it!
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Excuse me, but might I enquire as to what the chicken did?
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The old ones are the best!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I thought anything to do with politicians belonged in the soapbox.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Freezing, waste of time and effort, golf club, now that is the answer, or a hockey stick for the larger ones. For the little ones you need area denial tools, I have a modified tennis court roller (weighted) and just run it up the drive a few times after the rains.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Super Lloyd wrote: own autonomous killer machine
I thought all Americians that one. Its called a gun.
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Well, guns are not autonomous now, are they?!?!
I mean they still requires some sort of human to press the trigger, AFAIK!
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True. But, when you see some of the thing they do, there doesn't appear to be much human thought process involved.
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And so the masses (educated or not, there are a lot of people with college degrees flipping hamburgers) become unemployed, the social burden on those still employed becomes higher, the tax base erodes, services falter, the American Dream becomes something only the elite and the robots can achieve, and society either descends into a severe social crisis and unrest or the economy balances itself out because all those people displaced by robots won't have jobs, hence income, hence the ability to buy anything, so what good is that robot sitting there idle?
Or it's time to start putting birth control in the water or sterilizing 9 out 10 males at birth.
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: Or it's time to start putting birth control in the water or sterilizing 9 out 10 males at birth Can I choose the 9 please! Maybe we can get an autonomous steriliser running.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Choose? There already are applicants, just look under the letters Q and A.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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You are correct in foreseeing problem, it's very likely to happen!
But I think your aspirations and hopes are not. If everybody is put out of work because of robots I don't think sterilizing everyone but the extremely rich robot owner is the solution.
I think one (society) could do better in such circumstances....
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Yes, society can do better, but why do you think it must?
Robots will always be expensive-to-produce assemblies of moving parts. Initially, only the wealthy will be able to afford them. Most people think eventually robots will build robots, but if the rich own the robots, what makes you think they will want to give away the labor of these expensive devices? How do you fix that? Revolution? It will be the robots of the rich versus the hoards of the poor. Short of revolution, the rich will increasingly control the political machinery of society via money.
I see very little potential for a robot utopia.
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