Original YT playout date: 16 April 2009
Duration: 6:08
A little look at my fishes, the collection as per 2009, that is. None of these are with me now in 2020, although I do have some that are 7 years old or so. The offspring of the Ancistrus might be still in the tank, but I took Ancistrus at different times so it is hard to say on that one. You’ll recognise some if not all of them from earlier videos.
Continue reading “Office Aquarium”
Original YT playout date: 29 August 2008
Duration: 20:13
This concludes one of the most detailed looks at London Zoo done by a visitor currently up on YouTube – but don’t miss the ZSL’s own channel and subscribe to them. You can also support the conservation projects at ZSL London Zoo and ZSL Whipsnade by joining http://www.zsl.org
Continue reading “Uncle Davey’s Herts Content S2 E14, London Zoo 3/3”
Original YT playout date: 10 May 2008
Duration: 7:23
This is a new aquarium in the “Business Shark” bar in the departures area of the new terminal at Warsaw airport.
They have a snail problem – nothing a few clown loaches couldn’t solve, but then they might have to kiss their shrimps goodbye too…
Statistics and Credits
Views at the time added to HTV: 1,416
Likes at the time added to HTV: 4
Dislikes at time added to HTV: 1
Popularity % ” ” ” =L/(L+D): 80.0%
Comments at time added: 0
Total interactions at time added: 5
Total interactions to views 0.4%
Location: Warsaw Chopin Airport – Business shark café.
Other people featured: None
Genre: Aquarium
Music used: 出水清蓮 – 王珣
Languages used: English
Animals/plants featured: Numerous species of aquarium fishes, notably cardinal tetras and rummy nose tetras.
Playout date: 5 December 2006
Duration: 5:48
Views at the time added to HTV: 13,218
Likes at the time added to HTV: 20
Dislikes at time added to HTV: 1
Popularity % ” ” ” =L/(L+D): 95.2%
Comments at time added: 10
Total interactions at time added: 31
Camera: Logitech Webcam
Post Production: Windows Movie Maker – medium use
Location: Warsaw Zoo Aquarium
Other people featured: Sophie James
Genre: Zoo/aquarium
Music used: “Whole of the Moon” by Celtic Fayre
Languages used: English
Animals/plants featured: About 20 fish species, labelled with subtitles
Other remarks:
This is the way the Aquarium used to look, and is a document of something that doesn’t exist that way now. It is quite surprising looking back now over ten year old and eleven year old material, to see just how much things have changed. In the main you do get improvements, but always something is lost. Thus these films are particularly precious memories, their bytes outlive the reality they reflect.
This was a part of the lovely day in December 2006 in the Warsaw Zoo with Sophie which we saw most of in the previous film.
| Video number in my collection | 74 |
| Production date: | 3 September 2006 |
| Playout date: | 7 September 2006 |
| Camera: | Fuji Finepix |
| Post Production: | Windows Movie Maker – slight use |
| Location: | Hotel Irbis, near VDNKh, Moscow |
| Other people featured: | None |
| Genre: | Fish |
| Soundtrack info: | Oy, tvetyot kalina (The snowball tree in blossom) V. Golovtsova |
| Languages used: | Russian |
| Animals featured: | Leporinus, Notopterus, Labeo, Scatophagus, Monodactylus, Ancistrus, Puntius |
| Date added here: | 16 October 2010 |
| Number of days this video was up at time of posting: | 1 500 |
| Number of views at time of posting: | 2 560 |
| Number of views per day: | 1,7 |
| Number of comments at time of posting (don’t forget to click through to read the comments!): | 11 |
| Comments per thousand views: | 4,3 |
| Likes at time of posting: | 4 |
| Dislikes at time of posting: | 2 |
| Likes to dislikes ratio: | 2,0 |
| Votes per thousand views: | 2,3 |
| Ratio of comments to votes: | 183% |
The hotel I stayed in last weekend had this fishtank in the lobby. It had many technical things wrong with it, being overstocked, underfiltered, underlit, and with many issues in the mix of fish, but quite a pleasant film came out of it, with the vocal efforts of V. Gotovtseva singing “Oh snowball tree in blossom” as a makeshift soundtrack, mixed with the sounds from the lobby bar.
The Irbis Hotel in Moscow is quite well placed, and was quite cheap. I used it just for the one night after getting back from the Russian Far East. I was getting pressured to fly straight on, back to back to Warsaw to go to the baptism of my old boss’s new child, but I would have been ridiculously tired after the trip back from the far east and I wanted to go into Moscow and debrief the colleagues on the audit anyway, so this hotel was just the place.
“This tank is doomed” comments quite rightly one commentator you can click through to see. It is a text book example of people buying fishes and not understanding what they are doing. Some of these fishes will become seriously large, and they will be the only ones left.