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Old 04-22-2003, 09:12 PM
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Thanks, but you were not the problem. Something else on page 3 is driving my computer nuts.
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Old 04-22-2003, 09:15 PM
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Maybe it's because you quoted Brad's original post, Bob.

Oh, and in keeping with the thread......how 'bout them mandarins, eh?
I participated in that original poll that Brad referred to, but no conclusions were ever drawn, were they?

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Old 04-22-2003, 09:26 PM
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Mitch, I believe a second poll was generated by the first and some conclusions were drawn. I'll see if I can find it again.
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Old 04-22-2003, 09:31 PM
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Here is the first poll/survey thingy

http://ozreef.org/reference/mandarin_survey.html

Go to this page and click on the alive/dead links in the paragraph re: mandarin survey. Some comprehensive charts there.

http://www.reefs.org/library/past_surveys.html
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Old 04-22-2003, 09:56 PM
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very interesting data, thank you for posting the links.

once again i must ask how accurate this data can actually be, as it appears to be drawing from the experiences of fourty individuals. perhaps one confounding variable would be as follows - respondents were individuals who had access to a large information pool, ie. the internet. therefore we can logically deduce that they know more about proper mandarin care than individuals who do not have this resource. if i wanted to be nitpicky, i would say that this survey is invalid, as it does not reflect the entire gamut of individuals who keep mandarins.

that said, i have certainly learnt a lot throughout the course of this discussion. i did some searching on RC (what i understand to be the largest saltwater aquarist community), and discovered that many individuals have successfully kept a mandarin in a ~40 tank. therefore i feel better about the chances of the mandarin which was the topic of this entire thread.

i still feel that it is essential to educate oneself on potential livestock before making the purchase.

thanks to the vast majority of you for keeping this at least partly sane, and for keeping me on my toes, and coming back to this thread every few minutes to see the latest response (read: attack).

edit - apparently the second survey included over three hundred individuals. therefore my first argument above may not be as strong as i believed.
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Old 04-22-2003, 10:07 PM
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Old 04-22-2003, 10:14 PM
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i thought we canadians liked the letter U.

bob i think from now on, rather than have you edit my canreef posts, i'll send you my term papers before i hand them in, and you can go over them for errors. in a past life were you:
a. a critic
b. a failed english major
c. stuck in freud's anal stage

just kidding
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Old 04-22-2003, 10:23 PM
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in a past life were you:
a. a critic
b. a failed english major
c. stuck in freud's anal stage

just kidding
All of the above. You provide me with more fun than I can handle. And BTW,I did not know you had an inferiority complex, as we usually capitalise the "I" when we talk about ourselves.
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Old 04-22-2003, 10:54 PM
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just humbling myself, that's all
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Brad: thanks for the links - valuable stuff. Hopefully it will help kgb's buddies out. ("MORE LIVE ROCK!!!")

teevee: thanks for being a good sport.

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