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Jools,

The new look is very nice and all...but the purple fish sure don't look like catfish to me.

Heok Hee

I think it looked better before.

I thought they were bubbles at first Jools claims they're L18's. I liked plain old subSilver better too.

Hmm, maybe if the fish weren't purple. You seem to have an inordinate fondness for purple, Jools. That your favorite color?

Heok Hee

Even a puple gradient would be better than purple gold nuggets!

Hmm...I'm not sure a purple gradient would be good, unless the words were made some other color. The purple fish get in the way of the (purple) words sometimes, so I think something's gotta give.

Heok Hee

You should have seen some of my earlier attempts! It's not finalised, I am also planning to change lots of the gifs to be more "planetcatfishy". The purple plecos do appear to be unpopular. Yes, I do like purple but also quite fond of my greens. There are two forces at work here:

I don't want to use subsilver 'cos it doesn't fit in with the look of the rest of the site and it makes the forum look like every other.

The forum has to look reasonable on a number of operating systems and browsers and remain fast to load.

I think it might be the death knell for the purple plecos though.

Jools

There are some very cutesy gifs of catfishes (and other stuff) here: http://www.linkclub.or.jp/~tarot/gift/gift2.html. Can't read Japanese, though, so I'm not sure how one goes about obtaining permission to use them (or if they even can be used in the first place).

Heok Hee

The current solid grey actually looks quite nice! Now, about that forest canopy...

Rusty wrote:The current solid grey actually looks quite nice! Now, about that forest canopy...

The forest canopy stays. You guys have no taste!

Jools

Silurus wrote:There are some very cutesy gifs of catfishes (and other stuff) here: http://www.linkclub.or.jp/~tarot/gift/gift2.html. Can't read Japanese, though, so I'm not sure how one goes about obtaining permission to use them (or if they even can be used in the first place).

Anyone speak Japanese and can persue this? Would be nice to make these available as avatars.The gifs (,,,,,,,, and for Pete) are very lovely.

Did you notice that C. barbatus had a common name of space shuttle cory? Now that I have not seen before!

Jools

Jools,

I have dibs on the <i>Kryptopterus</i> for my avatar! (I think I'm entitled to first crack as the "discoverer").

Heok Hee

Jools,

How about a naturally purple catfish somewhere to go with this new purple-based look?

Heok Hee

I don't speak Japanese either but this web site is sooooo cool!
http://www.linkclub.or.jp/~tarot/index.html
You can see a different fish every time you click on him.
Just saw the S. nigriventris and C. schwartzi. So cute! Thanks for the link.

Heok Hee

great link!!!!! uber cool. (erm ... off topic ... but any more of these uber cool links?)

yo peeps!!!!

here's the translation that I got hold off ... though I wasn't the one to translate it! hehhe ... and don't ask me what it is exactly that they're trying to say!



top right hand corner it says this

The fish illustration which is here is the free material. Please carry back favorite ones.
Because we do not abandon copyright, processed * as for redistribution * sale please be modest.
It does not link to the material directly, the sea urchin we ask. Frequently we correcting and revising, (laughing)
With " with alias retention please adjust cursor to the picture and retain the picture " in your own HD.

So basicly, it says you can use them as long as it's not for commercial use

Yup. So now it's open season on the gifs.
There are actually quite a few cute non-catfish ones.

yeah there is...i like that asian and black aro one...only if the black aro didnt have yolk thingy!

Jools, don't let these guy's ragg'in ya get you off track The logo's cool the purple is a bit to much though. but other than that you'r doing a bang up job great work on the site in general and the new look as well.

Silurus wrote:Jools,

How about a naturally purple catfish somewhere to go with this new purple-based look?

Heok Hee

The only one I have seen is Heteropnestus fossilis. Are there any others?

<i>Rita rita</i> ? Some of those I have seen look pretty purplish to me.

Synodontis garnulosus! It has a definite purple sheen. (See the January 2003 Catfish of the Month, if you haven't already!)

Dinyar