Tropical Fish Central http://www.tropicalfishcentral.com Aquarium Information Fri, 03 Dec 2010 19:28:47 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Tropicalfishnews.net http://www.tropicalfishcentral.com/tropicalfishnews-net/ http://www.tropicalfishcentral.com/tropicalfishnews-net/#comments Fri, 03 Dec 2010 19:28:14 +0000 admin http://www.tropicalfishcentral.com/?p=371 You’re here because you are wondering what happened to tropicalfishnews.net. Here is the story:

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]]> You’re here because you are wondering what happened to tropicalfishnews.net. Here is the story:

I started tropicalfishnews.net as a toy.  I am an avid fish keeper and active on a number of aquarium forums.  I am also an old IT guy with my own web server at a colo.  I had an idea for consolidating the posts from many different aquarium forums on the Internet, and uniformly categorizing them.  So, I set up WordPress with the FeedWordPress plugin and spent a lot of time mapping RSS links from those forums into categories on tropicalfishnews.net.  I also configured the posts to very clearly link back to the source forum.  Since RSS only gives the original post, a visitor would have to follow a link to back to the source site.    It worked really, really well.

At the end, the site was bringing about 200 visitors per day.  There were about 80,000 “posts” in the wordpress database.

So, what happened?

In short, it was more trouble than it was worth.  I’ve gotten very busy at work, and picked up a new hobby (photography) and don’t have as much time to spend on it as I have in the past.  One of the few problems was that FeedWordPress would capture a lot of spam posts – spam that is deleted by mods of the forums, but since RSS is a one way bridge, the spam would remain in the TFN database, requirement me to sort through and delete them, lest the spammers get the advantage of links from TFN.  The large number of posts was also beginning to put a substantial load on the server.

So, I decided to discontinue it and redirect it to this site.  My apologies for the inconvenience.

Note: there have been some spirited debates over the months I have had the site up, but I can say that I have not gotten rich off that site (<$10 total over the year that it was up).

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]]> http://www.tropicalfishcentral.com/404/feed/ 0 Video Of The Day – October 19, 2010 http://www.tropicalfishcentral.com/video-of-the-day-october-19-2010/ http://www.tropicalfishcentral.com/video-of-the-day-october-19-2010/#comments Tue, 19 Oct 2010 13:00:57 +0000 admin http://www.tropicalfishcentral.com/?p=362 These diving videos from the Red Sea contain some amazing shots of fish…

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]]> These diving videos from the Red Sea contain some amazing shots of fish…

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]]> http://www.tropicalfishcentral.com/video-of-the-day-october-19-2010/feed/ 0 Video Of The Day – October 18, 2010 http://www.tropicalfishcentral.com/video-of-the-day-october-18-2010/ http://www.tropicalfishcentral.com/video-of-the-day-october-18-2010/#comments Mon, 18 Oct 2010 13:43:27 +0000 admin http://www.tropicalfishcentral.com/?p=360 This is a video of a Humphead Wrasse in the Red Sea.

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]]> This is a video of a Humphead Wrasse in the Red Sea.

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]]> http://www.tropicalfishcentral.com/video-of-the-day-october-18-2010/feed/ 0 Video Of The Day – October 17, 2010 http://www.tropicalfishcentral.com/video-of-the-day-october-17-2010/ http://www.tropicalfishcentral.com/video-of-the-day-october-17-2010/#comments Sun, 17 Oct 2010 13:00:45 +0000 admin http://www.tropicalfishcentral.com/?p=357 This is an underwater video taken at a coral reef in the Philippines.

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]]> This is an underwater video taken at a coral reef in the Philippines.

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]]> http://www.tropicalfishcentral.com/video-of-the-day-october-17-2010/feed/ 0 Video Of The Day – October 16, 2010 http://www.tropicalfishcentral.com/video-of-the-day-october-16-2010/ http://www.tropicalfishcentral.com/video-of-the-day-october-16-2010/#comments Sat, 16 Oct 2010 13:00:50 +0000 admin http://www.tropicalfishcentral.com/?p=353 This video is from the Travel Channel and shows the diving opportunities around the Great Barrier Reef.

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]]> This video is from the Travel Channel and shows the diving opportunities around the Great Barrier Reef.

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]]> http://www.tropicalfishcentral.com/video-of-the-day-october-16-2010/feed/ 0 Video Of The Day – October 15, 2010 http://www.tropicalfishcentral.com/video-of-the-day-october-15-2010/ http://www.tropicalfishcentral.com/video-of-the-day-october-15-2010/#comments Fri, 15 Oct 2010 13:00:10 +0000 admin http://www.tropicalfishcentral.com/?p=349 This video is from a snorkeling trip in Hawaii.

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]]> http://www.tropicalfishcentral.com/video-of-the-day-october-15-2010/feed/ 0 Video Of The Day – October 14, 2010 http://www.tropicalfishcentral.com/video-of-the-day-october-14-2010/ http://www.tropicalfishcentral.com/video-of-the-day-october-14-2010/#comments Thu, 14 Oct 2010 13:00:41 +0000 admin http://www.tropicalfishcentral.com/?p=344 This video comes from the Tennessee Aquarium in Chattanooga, TN.  One of the staff members explains that Piranhas are not as menacing as their reputation would have you believe, but that you do have to watch out for the peacock bass

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]]> This video comes from the Tennessee Aquarium in Chattanooga, TN.  One of the staff members explains that Piranhas are not as menacing as their reputation would have you believe, but that you do have to watch out for the peacock bass

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The Tennessee Aquarium has a YouTube page where they have posted hundreds of videos.

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Video Of The Day – October 14, 2010

]]> http://www.tropicalfishcentral.com/video-of-the-day-october-14-2010/feed/ 0 Video Of The Day – October 13, 2010 http://www.tropicalfishcentral.com/video-of-the-day-october-13-2010/ http://www.tropicalfishcentral.com/video-of-the-day-october-13-2010/#comments Wed, 13 Oct 2010 13:00:23 +0000 admin http://www.tropicalfishcentral.com/?p=341 This is a video of some rather large paddlefish taken at a quarrey in Illinois.

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]]> This is a video of some rather large paddlefish taken at a quarrey in Illinois.

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]]> http://www.tropicalfishcentral.com/video-of-the-day-october-13-2010/feed/ 0 Video Of The Day – October 12, 2010 http://www.tropicalfishcentral.com/video-of-the-day-october-12-2010/ http://www.tropicalfishcentral.com/video-of-the-day-october-12-2010/#comments Tue, 12 Oct 2010 15:13:39 +0000 admin http://www.tropicalfishcentral.com/?p=338 This video comes from the Niigata City Aquarium in Japan.

I am struck by how many fish are in this tank. Clearly, it is a large tank, likely a good bit larger than it appears in the video, but I don’t think I have ever seen a saltwater aquarium so “busy” before.

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]]> This video comes from the Niigata City Aquarium in Japan.

I am struck by how many fish are in this tank. Clearly, it is a large tank, likely a good bit larger than it appears in the video, but I don’t think I have ever seen a saltwater aquarium so “busy” before.

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