| 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.
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