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[b]CichlidFish.com is happy to announce a CONTEST for the BEST FISH PROFILE or ARTICLE, the WINNER will take up to $100 or $150 dollars (based on number of contestants, to be sent via paypal or an online purchase made on winner's behalf). There is NO COST to join contest, it is FREE for all[/b], you just need to REGISTER on the forum and POST your ARTICLE or Fish Profile which will be VOTED on by the forum members, moderators, and Admins. More details to follow! (It must be your own work, of course, not just copied from other site. You may submit to us as an MS Word file or PDF or other method if you wish. Articles must have at least two pictures. The more contestants, resulting in more article submissions, the higher the prize money.)
Start working on your Article [url]http://www.cichlidfish.com/cichlid-fish-article-contest-f71.html[/url]

[b]Cichlid Fish Forum UPDATE, if you NEED HELP LOGGING IN OR Registering:[/b]

If you're having problems logging in let us know please, or if can't register. Moved the forum to http://www.cichlidfish.com/thinkingfishtank from the old http://www.oscarsfishtank.com/discuss so will take a little adjusting. So if you're having problems with this new setup leave a message at livechat link below (login user guest pass is chat):
[b][url]http://oscarsfishtank.com/livechat/[/url][/b]

You can post to the chat link above by [b]logging in with user "guest" and password "chat" [/b] (without the quotes)
Once you are in the LIVECHAT you can change your Nick by just typing in the box that says Guestxxx and replacing with desired nickname.

[b]HELP FIND THE LOST OSCARS PAGE! OSCAR EASTER EGG HUNT![/b]

Also, I'm on the hunt for "the original" cichlidfish.com OSCAR page which had what was at that time very unconventional info since it tried to debunk the notion that it is impossible to visually sex oscars to choose a breeding pair. Well, its almost Easter right, time for an egg hunt, who can find the old page cached in some search engine? I believe the path from the root of the website was /oscars/ or /oscar/ or /oscars.html /oscar.htm or even /oscars.shtml or /oscars/default.shtml or somethink like that. Its likely easier to search by "content" of the page so see my post here which gives part of the content from that page:
[b][url]http://www.cichlidfish.com/finding-old-oscar-breeding-and-sexing-info-page-t23372.html[/url][/b]
thanks,
Joe

[quote]HELP FIND THE LOST OSCARS PAGE! OSCAR EASTER EGG HUNT![/quote]
It's been found wheres my egg

LoL, and don't tell me it was still on the server somewhere right under my nose But GREAT, the eggs are in the mail

na didn't find it on the server I had a friend help me grab the catched code

Ah, cool, that's great! I guess it has 'sentimental' value to me, it (oscar sexing from a distance, pairing and breeding) was kind of the motivation and roots of this website

I think the site is great. Excited about the contest I have one Cichlid for 4 years he is 12 inches long. What is the deadline for the contest?

[quote="CDBoger"]I think the site is great. Excited about the contest I have one Cichlid for 4 years he is 12 inches long. What is the deadline for the contest?[/quote]

Great, thanks, and good to hear you like the contest! I'm open to suggestions as to a good deadline, not really sure, maybe one month for contest? too much? too little time to write one? Also as far as rules, one person CAN submit MORE than ONE article. The prize is bigger of course if your article wins out against other people's article and the more the competition the higher the prize. What do you guys think is a fair breakdown of the prize and should there maybe be a 2nd and 3rd place prize? I welcome any ideas....

Does the article need to be about cichlids or may we choose others such as gourami, catfish, plecostomus etc??? Or is it possible to do a profile on a community?

Hmm, that's a very good question, the preference would of course be an article about any 'cichlid' fish but I think we can make exceptions to the rule if there's something exceptional written about other kinds of fish, after-all we do have a general freshwater section on here. So my vote is yes, it's ok, go for it! If any other admins object to this please speak up

So the main thing is, it doesn't matter what kind of fish or fish topic the article is about, if it isn't factual and well written or have an interesting personal experience that people will find amusing it probably won't win. The good thing is that each person can submit more than one article (if i didn't allow this people could just create different new member accounts and pretend it was another person posting )
LoL, I miss the old smilies setup, the : D (without space) used to be this I think.

still some time left , get your articles in ASAP!

Worst that can happen is people will learn a little more about a fish your interested in.
Best that can happen is you can take cichlidfish's money

do i have to write just cichlid fish profiles or any fish will do,
plannin to write on the INDIAN native fish
badis badis or maybe puntius denisoni

I think especially because we're actually curious about your native fish, yes, native fish articles are fine. Looking forward to learning about some of your Indian native fish!

Just posted mine . http://www.cichlidfish.com/the-ram-cich ... 23705.html