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Not long ago, a Brown student with a big idea decided to bake cookies. A ho-hum sugar cookie wouldn't do. No, this budding baker wanted something a bit more exotic.
So he retired to the two-burner stove in his dorm room and got to work, pulling all-nighters until he emerged with a crispy waffle slathered in creamy caramel. The Van Wafel was born, along with a dream to sell the cookie across the state, maybe the nation.
Abhishek Pruisken, a 21-year-old Brown senior, is so revved up about his "little cookie business" he turned down a finance job with a London consulting firm after graduation so he could focus on Van Wafels, LLC.
"I really think this will work," says Pruisken. "I believe in it." Pruisken, a lanky young man with chin-length black hair, was sitting at a table at Blue State Coffee on the East Side the other day, talking shop. A large cardboard box of Van Wafels sat at his feet, proof that he had been up until 5 am that morning rolling dough.
Still recovering from baker's fatigue, he explained how Van Wafels began: Pruisken and another Brown student, Erik Ornitz, wanted to start a business — and why not? They mulled over a few possibilities and then Pruisken thought of stroopwafels, the cookies he grew up eating in his homeland, Holland. He remembered how his college friends had fought over the stroopwafels he brought back from Amsterdam.
A light went off: On this side of the Atlantic, stroopwafels — essentially paper-thin waffles with a caramel center — are as rare as frogs' legs. Pruisken thought there might be an opening in the sweets market, but would the Dutch treat appeal to the American palate?
With recipes he found online, Pruisken made a few cookies, but they didn't taste authentic enough. He went back to the kitchen: "You make pasta for the first time and you make eggs for the first time and you overcook the pasta and you burn the eggs and then you start to get an idea of what you're doing. That's how it was with the cookies."
Van Wafels (which means "of waffles" in Dutch) debuted on Brown's Main Green in the fall of 2008. When the students sold 200 cookies at a dollar apiece in three hours, they knew they were on to something. Still, Pruisken wasn't entirely satisfied; the waffle was too thick for his taste.
During a trip to Holland, he continued his stroopwafels studies by talking to bakers and although they refused to hand over their recipes (they're top secret), they gave him some helpful tips (also top secret). Pruisken also bought a heavy-duty waffle iron used by the pros.
This time, the product, created in a kitchen he rents at the Hamilton House, met his high culinary standards. Maybe it was the graham-crackery consistency. (Oops, secret revealed.) At any rate, he was so pleased with the outcome he baked hundreds of cookies and persuaded Brown's Blue Room and local cafes to sell them. Besides Blue State, Van Wafels are also available at the College Hill Café, the Coffee Exchange, the Edge, Farmstead, and the RISD cafeteria.
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English professor Liz Rosenberg signs a copy of her new children's book Tyrannosaurus Dad for Cali Kreb, 6, of Kirkwood, during a reading at Barnes & Noble in Vestal on June 12.
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More than a decade after honoring her mother in the children's picture book Monster Mama, English professor and author/poet Liz Rosenberg has returned with another out-of-this-world relative story: Tyrannosaurus Dad.
The 40-foot-high, 15-foot-long, necktie-wearing, workaholic title character was inspired by her father-in-law, George Bosnick.
"My father-in-law was an incredibly tough guy," Rosenberg said. "He was a longshoreman. He was in special ops in World War II. He was 6'4, built like a truck, worked two or three jobs and would wear this Russian hat that added a foot to his height. The first time I met him he was an intimidating guy. In his later years, he got much gentler, as I think ferocious people often do."
Rosenberg said the dinosaur dad also has characteristics of her own larger-than-life husband, David Bosnick, such as gentleness and protectiveness. The book, released in May from A Neal Porter Book/Roaring Brook Press, is dedicated to both men.
In the book, Tyrannosaurus Dad's young human son Tobias is trying to get his hard-working father to pay attention to him and take part in Field Days at his Elmwood Elementary School. T-Dad surprises Tobias by showing up for Field Days, umpiring a baseball game challenged by the Chickenbone Gang, and even providing shelter during a picnic that gets rained on.
Featuring strong visual details from illustrator Matthew Myers, Rosenberg's fun story and "family first" message will resonate with both children and adults.
"I still read children's books for pleasure myself," Rosenberg said. "A great children's book grows with the child. And I know that as a parent, if you have to read the same children's book over and over to a child, you owe it to the parent to give them something that's not going to make them crazy."
"Picture books are like poems because they are about the essentials: friendship, independence, family, loss, first love, things like that," she said.
Tyrannosaurus Dad is also resonating with booksellers and buyers. It is a Children's Book of the Month Club bestseller, has been featured as a top pick for Father's Day by Barnes & Noble and has landed in Amazon.com's Top 10 for children's books about dinosaurs, sports and family. After only a month, it's already gone into its second printing.
"I always say that I'm prepared for anything except success," Rosenberg said. "I've been stunned by the success of Tyrannosaurus Dad."
A key to the book's success, Rosenberg said, is her editor's discovery of Myers, a first-time illustrator. Rosenberg kept driving her editor crazy by turning down several illustrators until she saw Myers' work, which she said had a "great sense of humor, a clear vision and a wild energy."
"When I saw his work, I thought 'I trust this guy,'" she said. "He's smart, funny and fantastically gifted. I feel unbelievably lucky to be working with him. … I've literally looked at the book's pictures with a magnifying glass. That's how much great stuff Matt has put in it."
Myers, of Brooklyn, spent 20 years in advertising before turning his attention to painting. He got into picture books after galleries told him that his painting style would work well in the field.
"I was itching to have more people see my stuff," he said. "The idea of a child seeing something I created that would make the imagination grow a little bit is really exciting to me."
Myers said he was immediately impressed with Rosenberg's story and was surprised by how much freedom he was given to illustrate.
"I thought they'd be telling me what to draw and where to put it," said Myers, who added that he and Rosenberg were kept apart during the creative process. "It's almost like directing a movie. You're basically casting and figuring out what the kids look like. Then you run it by the editor and Liz sees it, too."
For Rosenberg, one of the biggest surprises came when she saw the cover Myers created: Tyrannosaurus Dad carrying Tobias on his shoulders while mowing the lawn.
"When we saw the cover (my husband) asked me: 'Did you tell him about that?' Our son rode on his father's shoulders while he mowed the lawn. We looked at that cover and said, 'Matt Myers really got it.'"
Rosenberg and Myers have become friends and are even doing Tyrannosaurus Dad readings together.
"Liz keeps sending me e-mails like 'It's No. 634. You don't know how good that is,'" Myers said. "I don't know. It sounds worse than 633 to me!
"It's a great feeling to have someone who has invented a nice story and wants to see if you can pump it up. And it's a lot easier for me: She has to come up with something out of thin air, while I have something to go by."
Rosenberg is preparing a third "relative" picture book and is hopeful that Myers will illustrate that, too. She also is finishing a more somber adult novel about a medical legal case. Her first adult novel, Home Repair, was released in 2009 to strong critical acclaim.
"I'm a writing addict," she said. "When I'm between projects, I feel like a lost soul. I don't know what to do."
Rosenberg said she would someday like to write non-fiction and perhaps a movie screenplay. A children's novel also is high on her wish list.
"That's how I survived – reading books like A Wrinkle in Time, Little Women and Charlotte's Web," she said. "I owe this generation a novel, but I'm not going to do it unless I can do a great one."
Until that time comes, Rosenberg is delighted to continue to bring happiness to children and adults through her picture books.
"If you get to do what you love and you get to entertain, amuse or comfort a key part of the population, you are extremely lucky," she said. "To be able to write for kids and have kids as an audience is a huge blessing."
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I tend to use my tablet pen in spurts, and there's things I really like to use it for. Problem is, with my 4 lovely children sharing the computer, my pen occasionally wanders to parts unknown.
After its most recent vacation & return home, its not working properly. When I try to click on the screen it acts like the mouse does when you click on the screen & drag, trying to create a box on the screen. I don't know if something is mucked up with my buttons so it thinks I'm holding the button down, but it's really frustrating, because right now the pen is completely useless! Anyone have any thoughts? I may end up having to see if I can get a new pen, but I'd rather not if I can avoid it!
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Sheri, not sure which tablet you have, I have a Bamboo. In my Programs listing, I have Pen Tablet >> Pen Tablet Properties. In that screen, I can tell my pen to track in "pen mode" or "mouse mode," etc. Maybe try looking there to see if the pen modes are correct?
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My pen has done that sporadically -- mostly when my pad has gotten wet from water on the counter. It is very stressful! Sometimes a driver needs to be reinstalled... have you tried that? Give it a try, and see. Or wait a day or so.
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Go to the Wacom site and make sure drivers are up-to-date. After that, go into Pen Tablet Properties > Pen Tab > Hit the Default Button. If you still have problems with the pen after doing those 2 things, then you may need a new pen.
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THE DAILY JOURNAL continues its year-long "State of Our Schools" series with the third installment of a six-day look at the importance of improving teacher quality in Mississippi.
Today's stories explore two programs trying to bring top graduates from universities across the country into Mississippi classrooms and at another initiative that allows people from other professions to become teachers. The next three days will look at teacher evaluations, critical needs schools, high-performing educators and retention, among other topics.
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Elizabeth Towle's passion to be an educator has roots in her past.
The eighth-grade reading teacher at Byhalia Middle School admits her local public schools in rural New Hampshire "were not of the highest quality," but thanks to great teachers and supportive parents, she was able to be admitted to and later graduate from Harvard University.
Her experiences there led her to eventually join the Mississippi Teacher Corps program, which sent her to be a classroom leader in the rural Marshall County town.
"(Teaching) was something I thought I could be good at, and it was something I thought I needed to do," she said. "Coming from the background I came from, I knew teaching was important, and I wanted to try."
A former Fulbright Scholar, Towle, 25, is now in her second year as a teacher. She discovered the Mississippi Teacher Corps program from a friend at Harvard who received an e-mail about it and sent it to Towle.
"As a first-year teacher, she did what is almost never done, which is go into a critical needs school and not only control that classroom, but get almost 100 percent engagement or buy-in from the kids," said Byhalia Principal Landon Pollard.
Towle is among hundreds of top-performing college graduates from universities across the country who have been attracted to become teachers in Mississippi by either MTC or the Teach For America program.
"Teacher Corps and Teach For America are enormously important to our state," said Hank Bounds, former state superintendent of education and now head of Mississippi's university system. "Without them, we do have a teacher shortage, and we don't talk about that enough."
As Mississippi tries to attract more of its best and brightest young citizens to become educators, those two programs can provide an important case study.
Both are highly selective, a process that makes acceptance into them more impressive and prestigious. They each require participants to make a two-year commitment to being classroom teachers.
Andy Mullins, who co-directs the Mississippi Teacher Corps program, said it appeals to recruits by selling them on the difference they can make.
"We play on their idealism," said Mullins, who also works as the chief of staff to the chancellor at the University of Mississippi, where the MTC program is housed. "We attract many because of that idealism. They want to make a difference in the world and they want to have a meaningful work experience."
Ron Nurnberg, the executive director for TFA's Mississippi Delta Region, had a similar message, noting the organization appeals to applicants with its mission that every child deserves access to an excellent education and that too many children in low-income communities do not have that.
"It is obviously a profession, but it is an even larger mindset," Nurnberg said. "They see it as civil rights. They just think it is an injustice that all kids aren't getting what they got. So they are actively working by trying to give other people an education, that equity."
The vision and selectivity are important parts of the recruitment, said Billy Crews, vice president, strategic partnerships for TFA's Mississippi Delta Region.
"It strikes me that the highly competitive recruitment process and the prestige associated with that has helped Teach For America attract this very competitive pool of achievers and folks who are willing to take on the challenge and persevere where others have not been successful," Crews said. "So there is something in the formula that is attracting folks in our recruitment process that is not occurring in the traditional school of education."
That same mindset can be used to market the field of education beyond the TFA and MTC programs, Nurnberg said.
"The future of democracy depends on having an educated populous," he said. "The part they are paying forward on is that promise, something much bigger than themselves, much bigger than their students."
Richard Blackbourn, dean of Mississippi State University's College of Education, agreed the opportunity to make an impact is an appeal to today's students.
"One of the things about this current generation of students is they seem to have a stronger sense of duty in the area of service and public service," he said.
Towle, however, said the issue is more complex. A desire to serve does draw students to both programs, she said. But that alone is not enough to meet long-term needs for teachers.
"They are not attracting prestigious college graduates to teaching, they are attracting them to these programs and to this community service that most people parlay into something else," she said. "We need to get people who want to be teachers and who want to stay in teaching for more than five years, who want to be administrators or superintendents and not jump over to consulting and policy work."
Critics argue that the two-year commitment makes it easier for both programs to recruit individuals looking to serve or to bolster a résumé but not ready to commit to a demanding career as a teacher. Students entering schools of education are making a much larger commitment, they say.
Although a 2008 study by the Harvard Graduate School of Education found that nationwide, more than 43 percent of Teach For America teachers stay at their schools for more than two years, the same study found that only about 15 percent stayed at the same school for more than four years.
"It is not like once they do this, they are in it for a career, so it is an easier choice for them," Blackbourn said.
The programs also are criticized for creating high teacher turnover and low stability in schools. Blackbourn noted that when he was a principal, his most successful years were the ones in which he had the least turnover in faculty. However, he said, Teach For America and MTC provide an important service to the state by sending teachers into critical-needs schools.
"They are filling a need," he said. "I don't think there is any doubt about that."
Others say that even if the teachers are only in those schools for two years, the schools and students benefit.
"As a principal my focus was always getting the best and brightest for that year," Bounds said.
Recently, Mississippi Teacher Corps has averaged 30 participants a year, but it increased to 35 this year. About 35 to 40 percent of them generally remain at their school for a third year, Mullins said
About two-thirds of the TFA's 33,000 nationwide alumni through its 23 year history are still working in the field of education, Nurnberg said. That number includes not only classroom teachers, but those in other positions within the field, including support roles for TFA.
Only 10 percent of students entering TFA say they plan to remain in education, Nurnberg said. The organization also tries to expose future leaders in other sectors to the needs of public education, he said.
Pollard, also an alum of Mississippi Teacher Corps, said many of his best teachers at Byhalia Middle come from both programs, which he said bring some of the most intelligent, creative and dedicated teachers into classrooms. However, he said, managing the high turnover rate is also very difficult.
Both programs place members in high-needs school districts, filling a hole by staffing the schools that have the greatest difficulty in attracting educators. That also presents a special challenge to participants.
"We were not the greatest teachers in the world and not what the kids deserve, but what they have," Towle said. "The kids deserve 20-year veterans who know how to teach, but they get kids just out of college.
"We teach at the hardest schools to teach in in Mississippi and some of the hardest to teach in in the country. It is not the easiest place to learn how to teach. And our kids deserve the best of the best. But we do our best for them."
Cortez Moss, a first-year teacher at Greenwood High School, is a member of the Teach For America program. The University of Mississippi graduate and Calhoun City native said he quickly had to alter his plans for teaching the class.
"When I gave my first test, I went home that night and said, 'I don't know if I'm cut out for this," he said. "I don't know if I can grow these children. I had a dream we would all do different texts, but I had to first get them on basic skills."
He persevered and has seen his students make significant gains throughout the year. He was even named Greenwood High School's Teacher of the Year in his first year as an educator.
"That moment when students actually get it is one of the most rewarding moments," he said.
Mississippi Teacher Corps was created in 1989 after a conversation between Amy Gutman, then a Harvard journalism student interning at the Greenwood Commonwealth newspaper, and Mullins, who was then working in the Mississippi Department of Education. Discussing the struggle in placing high-quality teachers in the Mississippi Delta, Gutman suggested some sort of Peace Corps-type program.
Today, participants teach one of the four core subjects in seventh- to 12th-grade. They also attend classes at the University of Mississippi during the summer and on weekends and receive a master's degree in curriculum and instruction at the completion of their two years. Their preparation to teach also includes running a summer school program in Holly Springs.
Through its history, it has attracted more than 500 teachers from 130 different universities.
"They bring energy, creativity, enthusiasm," Mullins said. "They bring a fresh spirit to some of the school districts."
MTC is trying to find ways to keep even more of its teachers in Mississippi, Mullins said, even exploring whether the opportunity to earn a specialist or doctoral degree would sway participants to commit longer.
"These good teachers, once they have demonstrated that they are very capable and competent teachers, in order to keep them in the teaching profession beyond two years, you have to pay them more money," he said.
Teach for America, meanwhile, is a national program that began with an idea proposed by Wendy Kopp in her Princeton University undergraduate thesis in 1989. It came to Mississippi in 1993 and has an office in Oxford to oversee the Delta Region, which currently includes both Mississippi and Arkansas. Next year, those will become two separate regions.
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Need help with my African Yellow Cichlid
Hoping someone can help me-please? Ok- I have a 110 gallon tank, 2 aqueon quiteflow 55/75 filters, heater, submersible UV sterilization light/pump and plenty of aeration. In my tank I have 2 blood parrots, 2 jeweled cichlids and 1 african yellow cichlid. I had 2 african yellows but about a month and a half ago tank ended up getting ick and the one died, despite treatment- everyone else did fine- tank has been fine since. So my problem is- I noticed my african yellow swimming erratically this afternoon, darting, swimming vertical, then this evening it did a death roll and then went into a little cave and was lying on it's side (I thought it was dead for sure then- but when I went to scoop him- though I'm not sure if male or female- he took off swimming and now is hanging out at the top of the tank underneath the filter and by the heater- and twicthing constantly- almost seizure like. There are no white spots, no velvet, nothing- just the erratic behavior. I just did a water change last week- my water parameters are normal and stable- pH 8.2 no ammonia, no nitrites or nitrates, temp 80-82 degrees. I put in the cichlid trace elements once a week, the lights are on a timer and they eat 2 times a day at the same time every day (autofeeder) so there has been NO drastic changes to the tank. The only thing I have done differently is added algaefix to treat a little bit of algae in the tank, but I followed the directions and the bottle said safe for plants and fish. All the fish entered the tank at the same time this past July, they all get along well. I really don't know what is wrong and I was planning on getting a new yellow next week to give him (or her) a buddy back- but now I'm not sure- and the reason I've waited in getting another one is because I wanted to make sure everything stayed stable with the tank. So- hoping someone can help me!! Thank you!!
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oh- and one more thing he came down from the top of the tank rolled a few times while in a vertical position, went belly up, leveled himself then sank to the bottom of the tank where he/she was lying on it's side for a couple of minutes then started swimming around again...I'm baffled...I'm thinking I'll be waking up to a dead fish in the morning :(
maybe he's particularly sensitive to the algaefix, since you say you didn't do anything else recently I can't really think of anything else. I really don't know african cichlids, but 82 degrees is quite high for most tropical fish. most tropical fish like it in between 73 and 79 degrees. If the poor fish still is alive I would change a lot of water to remove any chemicals in the water that might be causing it.
sorry for not having a better answer...
I'd say 82 degrees is the high end of acceptable temps for malawi. I am not sure what is wrong with your fish, but i do have some advice for you. The stock you listed is a mixture of Central/South American and african cichlids. While the jewels and african might be compatible temperamentally, they are from different habitats(they require different water parameters). The blood parrots are also much more mellow than either fish. I would suggest either going a central/south American route or an african cichlid route. While the fish may be ok in the tank, it's really not ideal.
An example of South American in a larger tank:
Typical South American community.
An example of African in a larger tank:
The african tank I linked is an all male peacock(aulonacara, stuartgaranti, and jacobfreibergi) and hap(Haplochromis) tank.Coastie-to-be... hopefully.


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Really good, and very very rich, even after I added a big package of fresh spinach and lots of mushroom, garlic, green bell pepper and jalepeno. Even with taking the advice in these reviews to revise to a 1:1 broth/milk ratio and leaving out the eggs it is quite rich. I think it needs acidity, ironically, tomato sauce would help it in this area. In the future I will use this as a side, perhaps instead of a scalloped potato, rather than a stand-alone main dish, would be good served with a green salad with a tangy vinaigrette. Could probably sub the noodles for sliced potatoes and make another very good variation.
So good. Good ingredients are key, but I subbed pinot noir for marsala and it was tasty. Also added additional sharp, salty cheese (one time white cheddar, one time 2-yr parm-regg, and closer to a cup) and garlic cloves to sauce, and probably an additional 3/4c of my cheese mix to the layers. Based on other reviews, I did split stock/milk more, to 2c/2 3/4c, respectively, and it was still super creamy and lovely. I also added spicy sausage (about 3/4lb), and shredded zucchini and spinach that I sauted/wilted in the leftover sausage fat. (I also squeezed out the zucchini of excess liquid in papertowels, otherwise you get too much liquid in the baking). Have made twice, and it is so, so good. I even had leftovers for breakfast!
This is a fantastically simple recipe which relies on having great, quality ingredients. This recipe will be bland if you reduce the amount of shallots or use a poor quality cheese. With the right ingredients, it is simply delicious. You can use half the amount of butter and a 1:1 ratio of milk to high quality stock for the same results. I also use this as a base recipe for a creamy vegetable lasagna. Just add any vegetables you want between the layers -- kale, squash, sundried tomatoes, mushrooms -- and it becomes a very healthy vegetarian dish. Since there's no cheese its not loaded with fat.
I made this for a birthday dinner last Saturday. The only change I made was to add some sauteed mushrooms in the layers. It was very good.
This was delish! I agree with other reviewers though that it needs some vegetables between the layers. Next time I may try mushrooms or spinach. I will be making this again for Easter Sunday!
My non-vegetarian, meat and potatoes spouse loves this, especially when baby spinach is inserted between the lasagna sheets.
Great, but very rich! It goes well with a green side like broccoli however.
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I've been watching Echo, the Amazing Color-Changing Betta, swimming around the tank half she shares with Ruby for a while now, and I don't think she sees too well. It's not bad when she's swimming slowly, but she aspires to be the boss female of the two, and that's when I start noticing things.
Echo keeps "charging" at Ruby, trying to nip her fins, but she consistently misses, overshooting or running smack into the tank wall. During chases, she runs into the tank plants, the log ornament, and even the tank heater. If it's there, she's run into it.
There are more hints at feeding time that she can't see very well. The pellets I feed are the floating type, and when she tries to grab them off the surface she misses far more often than she catches one. When they finally sink to the bottom, she finds them by doing her best impression of a cory cat, cruising along the tank bottom and snapping them up as she runs into them.
If her vision is that bad I don't think Echo will be able to go back into the main sorority tank; she'd never be able to compete for food with the other females if she can't quite see what's going on. They'd tear her to pieces before she saw it coming. At the moment she shares half of a divided 5-gallon with Ruby, who's an active but docile she-betta.
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Poor fish. She does sound blind to me. Probably best to keep her out of sorority like you said. I suggest also with blind fish, dont rearrange the tank. My goldfish Petri has been blind for several years, so she's used to it now and has memorized the layout of the tank, but i cant help that she runs into other fish sometimes. And if the fish decide to remodel anything even just a few centimeters she gets all flustered and messed up. Eventually they learn other ways to find their food easier, Petri became an exclusive bottom feeder, and seems to smell for food and aim and rapid fire picking up anything near the smell until she gets it, which only takes a few tries.10gal Betta Tank - Skye the crowntail and Squiggles the deformed albino cory
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I don't think she's completely blind, since she responds - somewhat - to the pink lunatic on the other side of the tank divider and to movement outside the tank, but even if she's partially blind it would explain a few things. Like why she spent all her time hiding when she was in the sorority tank.
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|Yea, the tarpon should start showing up there in numbers any time. Another good place to try would be Boca Grande right off the seawall breakers.
Clearwater sounds interesting, beautiful beach, restaurants and nightlife as well as a boat rental firm just inside the break to the outside not to mention lots of structure all around the area.
The key is timing the migration. Probably getting pretty close by now.
Hey Juro. I have a reliable inside source tell me that guys are getting tarpon on conventional gear in the surf in Clearwater.
The tarpon should be making their runs down the coasts now. You'll probably find a lot of tarpon if you go onto any of the piers...thing is, they don't allow fly fishing on the pier.
IMO, right now your best bet is Clearwater off the beaches. Last year a friend of mine was on fire with conventional gear, catching tarpon out of the surf. He would nail 4-5 ever few hours!
|Juro, easy with the 'tude, it is not conducive to sharing information and experience.
Sure, I understand the dynamics of getting a guide pretty well. As I've said in the past it depends on what you're after. Fish numbers and local advice, get a guide. Discovery and a sense of totally self-sufficient success, don't.
A guide is often a good teacher, and you learn a lot. However it's also a proof of your own tools to apply them with your own intuition.
Both good, but sometimes I am after one and not the other. In fact I am always looking for that feeling of discovery, with a few rare exceptions.
Juro, the main reason the discussion always start with , "get a guide" is the fact that tarpon are most often in water that is hard to get to by foot. The bottom is soft in many areas, much of the shoreline is private and hacking through mangroves is tough. Guides have boats. The second reason people recommend guides is that most people don't have a ton of time to look for fish, and guides know where they are.
I suspect that many locals or those in the know would rather not share their spots on the web.
So here goes:
1) fish the canals off the Tamiami trail. Hop out of the car where ever it looks fishy and throw in a fly. You never know what will hit. I there are tarpon in there.
2) Rent a flats boat and pole along contours in the 4-6' range. If it is clear you will see them clearly. If not, look for rolls, bubbles and water being pushed.
If you can't get a flats boat, anchor up along a likely spot. Look for points and areas that would compress schools of migratory fish.
In the back country, look for laid up fish. Bubbles, nervous water, rolling fish etc. This is especially productive in low light.
I have seen more than a few rental boats aground so pay attention to where you're going.
You could do this in a kayak, but visibility will be poor, so sticking to the back country might be a better bet for this.
In terms of DIY, tarpon fishing can be tough, if from out of state. The reason I say this is that you would at least need a yak to get to most of them. What size fish are you interested in as that would be helpful. Big fish will be on the Beach. medium and small sized fish can be found in waters that are inland. Did you have a particular place in mind?
A great place to yak for tarpon is the Sebastain river, the north fork has a more and bigger fish but it's in deeper water. The south fork, when they are there tend to eat better. It also a gret place for snook.
Another place that is great this time of year is the Everglades out of Flamingo. This can also be done by yak but don't have any personal experience on this one in recent years specifcally targeting tarpon. Also the closest lodging is Florida City unless you want to camp.
Once again, if you let me know what place you are interested in I can focus in on what's available for you.
P.S. The gulf side beaches previously mentioned is probably your best bet for big fish that you can get to by yak.
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You can kayak fish for rollers of various size in the Faka Union Canal (on Rte 41 between Naples and Everglades City) complex of canal/creeks/hidden back ponds, and all the way out to the passes. You can also fish on foot there the Rte 41 canals and some quarries that are full of Juvie fish 5-25 #.
Juor- My understanding from Rick Grassett a guide a CBs Outfitters on Siesta Key is that the prime action is mid June to mid July. He fishes right of the beach in his flats boat, but I know locals down there that beach fish and fish tarpon in yaks off the beach. Supposedly, all along "Shell Beach" and Turtle Beach on Siesta Key the fish are within fly range during tha period. They are definitely cruising the passes from the intercoastal into the gulf at that time as well.
I've not been there then, but I go to Siesta Key for April vaca every year and fish the beach each and every day for snook, jacks, trout, ladyfish, etc. Also lots of cobia around in June as well. Check out Rick's site for more info
www.flyfishingflorida dot net
He's a very helpful guy.
Plus, if you can't get tarpon, 25 lb jacks will tear up your stuff.
I've seen them tearing into pilchards off the east side of Bahia Honda in spring several years ago but only had a 7wt bonefish rod with a crab pattern at the time.
What is peak timing of the migration for beach shots?
|Gulf Coast- Sarasota and Venice areas will actually give you beach shots at fish, plus the beach snook and jacks are tremendous.
|Juro, best recommendation from me is not the Keys but rather the Gulf Coast and renting a boat. Along the beaches north of Pine Island and Boca Grande Pass are beach tarpon that you look for and intercept with a trolling motor. Much more doable than flats where you need to pole to the tarpon. Unless of course you are good a poling a boat in which case you can get it done in the Keys but you may come up with some goose eggs until you learn the various areas. I have friends who went DIY but they live in the Keys and spent a number of years fishing with guides - and as much as they know the areas, I still see more poons with my guide than they manage on their own.
Eric -
To my fellow collaborator/commiserator in pursuit of pacific northwest steel I admit that when hooked my mind envisions the steelie's mutant cousin from hell. When it runs and goes airborne in a blur of silver a steelheader can't help but see a world record 36 pound Lewis River summer run on the line... until you realize that it's just a $%&*^# giant herring. Amazing animals, primitive yet no need to evolve further and smart as they are strong. A must to experience on the fly, tremendous sport.
There's a fly shop in Stuart. I'd contact them and see what they have to say. We went there on a Sunday and found the shop closed.
Great snook and jack fishing along the sea wall to add to the attraction.
Next spring, on the cusp of summer, I hope to be back in Florida to try to do what you're trying to do. Tarpon are eluding me and I want to catch one of those buggers more than anything.
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years old info but while fishing a blitz of Spanish Macs on Hutchison Island (sp) area... a fellow fisherman told me that there were lots of baby Tarpon in the canal systems in the area... I never got to check it out but it sounds like the Ft. Pierce / Stuart area advice is pretty good....
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SEATTLE - Christmas came three weeks early for the Huskies.
The consistent effort depleted Washington needs to overcome its injuries? That came way later Sunday evening. But ultimately, fortunately, not too late.
Desmond Simmons rescued UW from an ugly, first-half snooze with a career-high 18 rebounds to go with a career high-tying 14 points.
"That was Jon Brockman-esque," grateful coach Lorenzo Romar said -- and indeed it was the most rebounds for a Husky since Brockman against Purdue in the second round of the 2009 NCAA tournament.
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Senior co-captain Scott Suggs and low-post force Shawn Kemp Jr. were still out injured. Then painful leg cramps forced senior co-captain Abdul Gaddy to the bench for the final 5 minutes.
Romar called it a "big win" because the Huskies were just trying to get by before Suggs and Kemp attempt to return to practice this week in advance of Saturday's home game against Nevada.
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"It was a scrappy win," Wilcox said with a wry smile after his almost, quiet 21-point night on 7-for-21 shooting. "They definitely gave us opportunities to get it done, fouling us late in the game. We took advantage of the opportunities.
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Simmons sparked the second-half rally from the first possession after the break. He got two offensive rebounds - five fewer than the entire team had in the first 20 minutes - then made two free throws. He had three of his 18 rebounds in the first minute after halftime.
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"He's the consummate glue guy. The consummate intangible guy. ... He gets stuff done."
Sunday Andrews did, too. When the fearless redshirt freshman, running the offense with Gaddy bent over in pain on the sidelines, bulled his way into the lane with a hard dribble for a deft assist on a two-handed dunk by Aziz N'Diaye, UW led 67-65 with 2:57 remaining. Egged on by N'Diaye's fist-pumping, the previously silent home crowd of 7,200 awakened with roars over the Huskies' first lead since 2-0.
That capped a 30-15 run that got UW back from 13 down with 17 minutes left. Fullerton, with 13 transfers on a 17-man roster and an interim head coach, finally cooled off in its shooting - in the same span Washington ditched that zone for a far more active man-to-man defense.
The lead stayed at two until Stewart deflected a pass by D.J. Seeley, a transfer from California, for a Titans turnover with 13 seconds to go. Andrews made one of two free throws while in the double bonus to make it 72-69 Huskies. Fullerton's Harris tied the game at 72 with a 3-pointer with 7 seconds left.
But then Seeley, apparently not realizing Harris' shot was a 3 that tied it and not a 2 to keep his team behind, fouled Wilcox with a back hug just inside the baseline opposite the Huskies' basket with just 3 seconds remaining.
Wilcox calmly swished both truly charity shots for the winning points.
Wilcox missed 11 of his 14 field goals in the first half as UW fell behind 17-4 right away. The opening 20 minutes were so bad, the Huskies gave walk-on sophomore guard Quinn Sterling of Mercer Island, Wash., the first playing time of his career late in the half to invigorate the team.
It worked. Sterling immediately forced a Titans turnover. He then turned to the Dawg Pack students' section and roared. His former colleagues roared back, providing the most noise of the otherwise snoozing half.
"Quinn got on the floor without any hesitancy. That's him," Romar said of another potential "glue guy" who has been slowed early this season by a stress fracture in his foot.
As for the current, dependable glue guy, Simmons almost blushed over his coach comparing him to Brockman.
UW's rugged all-time rebounding leader, a recent Milwaukee Buck and Houston Rocket, is now playing professionally in France.
"Oh, that's a HUGE compliment," Simmons said after his career night. "Played against `Brock,' he is a load to rebound against. So getting a compliment like that means a lot me."


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- I write well researched but readable historical and contemporary novels and some non-fiction. I live in a Scottish country cottage with my artist husband. I love gardening and I also collect the fascinating antique textiles that often find their way into my fiction. This blog is about all these things and more!
Wednesday, December 07, 2011
Some Thoughts About Literary Agents
Essentially, the piece is a reflection on the changing role of the literary agent, and since I've lived through those changes, (the UK is not so very dissimilar from the US in this respect) and know a bit about them but had never quite clarified it all in my own mind, the whole piece gave me serious food for thought.
When you're asked to give talks and workshops these days, the most frequently asked question is usually 'how do I find a literary agent?'
With extreme difficulty, is the answer, but that doesn't deter writers, because received wisdom is that no publisher will look at a submission unless it comes via a literary agent. This is generally true. But what most agents won't tell you is that many if not most submissions will now be rejected out of hand, even with the backing of a literary agent.
What strikes me most forcefully, though, is how afraid we writers are. We are afraid of not getting an agent and we are afraid of not finding a publisher, or losing the agent and publisher we have, no matter how badly we have been treated in the past. We are afraid of saying 'no' to requests to work for commercial organisations for no money, lest we should be thought troublesome when anyone else in this position would be thought businesslike. But most of all, we are afraid of being without an agent in what seem like (and frequently are) shark infested waters. We are afraid that if we send multiple submissions to agencies, we will upset potential agents - and this is true. Some agents can get remarkably (and ridiculously) huffy about this. So we spend (waste) years submitting one application at a time, and waiting and waiting and waiting. If we are lucky enough to secure the services of an agent, we become remarkably humble, are terrified of rocking the boat with even mild complaints about lack of communication or lack of progress, or suggestions as to how we might want our career as a writer to develop. I know all this because I've been there, done that and got several tee-shirts in the art of supplication.
Let's pause for a moment, and think about it. As I write this, I'm waiting for our accountant to come and finalise our annual accounts - myself and my husband are both freelances. To be honest, we probably don't earn enough to pay an accountant, but our books are complicated by the fact that we do so many different things, and we've been with this small company for years. We pay a reasonable sum monthly, up front and he is efficient and friendly. Would I ever, in a million years, be afraid of upsetting him by making a suggestion about the way our business might go in the future? Why should I? We're both acknowledged professionals and he has a set of skills for which I'm very happy indeed to pay. The only time I'm afraid of my accountant is when he phones up and asks me if I can remember what I paid £53.47p for, a year ago and what was this sum of £28.73p which I lodged eleven months ago.
Unfortunately, the relationship between writer and agent is clouded with all kinds of other emotions, and I think - like so much to do with writing - there is a certain unsatisfactory imbalance about it that prevents it from being truly professional.
One of the most interesting observations made by Dean Wesley Smith was about the way in which agents started to demand rewrites, to become - in effect - our editors. He linked this with a seismic shift in publishing which threw a number of young editors onto the market - editors who then became agents, because they thought they knew 'what the market wanted'.
I can distinctly remember that shift myself - my old agent for plays, back in the seventies and eighties, would buy me the occasional lunch, chat to me about how my writing was going, make suggestions for industry openings, negotiate contracts skilfully and ruthlessly - but would never have dreamed of offering detailed script re-writing suggestions. That was not his job.
Move forward some years and when I finally secured an agent for my prose, she asked for (and got) rewrite after rewrite after rewrite. Publishers, she said, 'demanded an oven-ready product'. She was a good editor, and I learned a lot from her, for which I'm very grateful - but I was and still am a natural 'mid-lister'. I spent (wasted) a lot of time blaming myself for not being able to give her what she wanted, when in fact she wasn't looking at what she could do with what I so clearly was. There was, I now realise, an imbalance in the relationship. But when we parted company - with the triumph of hope over experience - I still looked for another agent.
I don't know what the solution is, but it strikes me that it might be healthier all round if we paid our agents a fee, just as we pay our accountants or website developers - without giving them any 'equity' in our product. But I can't see that working, can you? And we writers are curiously reluctant to pay professional fees for a professional job. Instead, we are content to relinquish equity in our intellectual property in the innocent belief that some day - with the help of our magician/agent, we will strike it very very rich. This is unfair in all kinds of ways - not least to agents themselves who, whatever else they may be, are not magicians, but it's probably because so many of us are poverty stricken and don't have much confidence in the value of our own work. We'll believe practically anyone who tells us that if we do this, this or this, all manner of things will be well.
It ain't necessarily so.
Don't get me wrong. A good editor is a pearl of great price. If he or she asks the right difficult and searching questions (rather than attempting to rewrite for you, always a crime, in my book) you - in answering them - will become an infinitely better writer. If your editor is a friend or colleague who loves your work, and has your best interests at heart, there is no relationship quite like it! I've known it once or twice with radio producers, and theatre directors.
For fiction, there are excellent professional editors who - for a flat fee - will analyse your work, and put you on the right track. As usual, the trick is in identifying the genuine pearls. I don't have any easy answers, but it's something we should certainly be discussing. Before embarking on the long and frustrating search for an agent, we should certainly pause and ask ourselves why, these days, that generally means any agent at all, not the right agent for us - and that being the case, why is our opinion of ourselves so low while our expectations of them remain so unrealistically high?
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- KarenG said...
It's been a long time since I visited your blog, Catherine and glad I stopped by today because this post was brilliant. Will RT it. I like your comparison to the accountant. Not sure why we writers devalue our work so much. I don't see that in artists or musicians but it's widespread in writers, even published ones of talent. Maybe it's because the industry has been a certain way for so long, and then agents came in and as you say became slush pile editors for publishers, and took more and more control of the writer's future. Don't know but glad to see things changing.
- December 07, 2011 11:30 pm
- Melissa Ann Goodwin said...
Boy, lots of good stuff here. I had an agent too, and decided to go my own way ... too. I didn't take that long to make the call. My agent was a good editor, but she had ideas that I didn't like too. I think the fear has been instilled over a long time by agents and publishers - god forbid you should make some mis-step that would get you in trouble!
I think this is the perfect time for writers to be reclaiming our power. Not that there is no purpose to either agent or publisher, but that the balance of power swung ridiculously one way, and now it's time to swing back. I could see that even though my book had a lot of appeal, it would be a long hard road to get a traditional publisher. And if I got one, I wouldn't necessarily be better off than I am now, having done it myself. In fact, I can almost guarantee that I'm better off this way, because I feel great about my book and how it's doing.
I say, the hell with fear. Let's just take a deep breath and dive in. Let's create the change we want to see.
Now I feel like John Belushi in Animal House, when he says, "Are you with me??"
- December 08, 2011 12:52 am
- Rosalie Warren said...
Thank you, Catherine, for this interesting post. I write for children, YA and adults and have so far not managed to find an agent, in spite of years of trying and a near miss that reduced me to a useless jelly and stopped me writing for months. Never again! On my own, I've managed to find good publishers for each of 3 novels so far, and one of them has just accepted my next book, possibly a series, for children. I'm also thinking very seriously about e-publishing some of my work. I've come to the conclusion that, although it might well be useful to have an agent at some point, my time is better spent (a) writing (b) networking and (c) looking for publishers on my own. It's a very freeing thought and I suddenly have a lot more time and a lot less anxiety to deal with.
- December 08, 2011 9:52 am
- CallyPhillips said...
Of course I agree with so much of what you say Catherine, as you know, I lost the 'fear' many years ago - and changed my definition of 'success' along with it. That's the bit that I think many writers may not want to do. Once one starts the redefinition it takes you on a journey many don't want to go.
However, something that strikes me out of this is that yes, I agree, a good editor is a great thing (a bad one an absolute nightmare) and perhaps we need to open a debate on exactly WHAT skills a good editor needs, because I'm thinking that in the same way that writers can be good 'readers' they can also be good 'editors' of other people's work and that in the current set up it's something writers baulk at for 2 reasons: when another writer asks you to read their work they are usually NOT asking you to be an editor so the fear is that one will offend them... (their work may not be to your taste - but if you were editing it this isn't as relevant) and if they ARE asking you to be an unpaid editor then the difficulty is that you are being unpaid.... maybe there is something in the idea of setting up some kind of editors co-operative where writers CAN act as editors (all straight and out in the open) for each other in a helpful way, for a fee or some other non monetary exchange based mechanism Obviously linking the writer to the editor is a skill but I do think that many writers have good editing skills. I believe we CAN edit our own work well given time and space (isn't that what we do during rewrites and maybe why agents etc always ask you to do that) but having someone else edit your work when they know what they're doing is a time saver if nothing else and opens up other possibilities. Anyway, I think this is an interesting debate to open up!! Count me in. It's another blow for writers taking some 'power' and that is not believing that editors are some special breed apart. It's part of the same skill set isn't it?
- December 08, 2011 9:53 am
- Catherine Czerkawska said...
I'm certainly with you, Melissa! And I also recognise that sense of freedom, Rosalie.
Cally, these are all good points and essentially, I agree with you. My only problem with this is that whenever I've spent any time editing other people's work or reading and advising, I haven't wanted to do my own! I entirely agree about writers knowing about editing, and I spent several years doing this for the Royal Literary Fund, helping students with their academic work. I found I was good at it - could give good advice, ask the right questions (we weren't allowed to rewrite, of course!) but their marks definitely improved. It's just that although I loved doing it, and finished a big piece of non-fiction while I was on my fellowship, I didn't write much fiction. Somehow, it ate into the energy that I would otherwise have used for it.
- December 08, 2011 12:48 pm
- margaret blake said...
Excellent post, Catherine. This was something that needed to be said.
- December 08, 2011 5:16 pm
- Catherine Czerkawska said...
Hi Karen, glad you enjoyed it - and we do devalue ourselves, don't we? In fact sometimes, it seems as though it's only the people who are too inexperienced to know how little they know who have an inflated sense of their own abilities. I know so many good writers who will take everyone's opinion except their own as gospel, changing their work time and again to the demands of a succession of people, until there's little left of it.
- December 11, 2011 3:36 pm
- Linda Gillard said...
Terrific post, Catherine. I've always thought having the wrong agent is worse than no agent, yet authors will say yes to anyone who offers to take them on. The relationship is (or should be) a partnership and since an agent is going to give you some of the best and worse news of your life, they should also be some kind of friend. Yet I know authors who will readily admit they are afraid of their agent and feel guilty for "troubling" them. I know one author whose self-confidence was all but destroyed by her agent's denigration of her work and demand for constant rewrites (none of which secured publication as it happens.)
I've only ever had one agent and I've had her for years. She's seen me through some very bad times and totally believes in my work. She even backed me to withdraw a ms when my publisher demanded rewrites which entailed turning the novel into a different kind of book altogether.
What I learned from that experience (which threw me out into the professional wilderness for years) was that the book was/is my property. It had its own identity and integrity and it still had that, even if no one wanted to publish it (and no one did.)
It was all very depressing but I eventually came to accept that I didn't need anyone else's validation - not even my agent's. I believed in my novel and trusted that its time would come. Even if it didn't, it was still a good (and unadulterated) book.
A few years later, I e-published it myself on Kindle with my wonderful agent's encouragement. It became a Kindle bestseller and has sold 15,000 copies in 9 months.
I'm not sure I need an agent now but I wouldn't be without mine because we're a partnership. But if someone asked me why I think my agent is such a gem, I'd have to say because she realises there are some things more important than being published. The integrity of one's work, for example.
Or, as I often say to students in my workshops, "There's writing... and then there's publishing. Try not to get the two confused."
- December 11, 2011 5:30 pm
- Sally Spedding said...
Great blog, Catherine. I had a near-death experience in hospital 3 years ago and when out, decided that no, I couldn't write like Martina Cole, as my agent wanted,so sadly (as we are still friendly)I decided life was too short to write what wasn't in my heart. Have found a fab new publisher, Sparkling Books, and the future's looking good. Be brave, and trust yourselves...Good luck.
- December 11, 2011 7:28 pm
- Barbara said...
Linda Gillard shared this post on Facebook and I'm so glad she did. I wonder why it is that most writers are, like me, so lacking in self-confidence that we put up with such nonsense. I've heard many authors, even successful ones, say they feel like a fraud, like any day someone will discover they are no-talent nobodies. Maybe it's because we're also readers and can still be amazed at another author's spell-binding prose. Anyway, I think the day of an agent being necessary is over.
- December 12, 2011 2:43 pm
- Catherine Czerkawska said...
Barbara - you're so right. I had a conversation with a friend who is a professional artist, recently - I know artists and musicians have to put up with all kinds of rubbish, and we find that we have a lot in common (it's one of the reasons why we are such good friends!) but one thing she was certain of - as a seasoned professional, with a good track record, she would never expect to be told to change a piece of work to the demands of somebody who was perhaps not even an artist at all! This didn't mean that she wouldn't expect - and sometimes need - help or a different point of view, or discussion and debate. All these would be welcome and necessary. But nobody would presume to tell her to change her practice. That was an eye opener for me too - because it happens to writers all the time!
- December 12, 2011 3:20 pm
- Augustina Peach said...
Ann Turnbull suggested your blog to me, and I'm so glad she did! Both your post and the comments have encouraging thoughts for me to ponder. I've been in the process of trying to find an agent for my first novel for the past two or three years. I've tried to make it a targeted search with agents I thought might be more likely to be interested in the type of project I've written. So far, my efforts have yielded three outright rejections, one request for a full that resulted in a rejection unless I wanted to rewrite the book to be something substantially different (which I didn't do), and many submissions that have had no response whatsoever, which I assume means "no." (I really hate that "no response means no" policy.) Finally, I did get a response from a query contest which said my work wasn't "commercial" enough for the current market.
I have known for quite some time that my book (historical romance for young adults) won't be published by traditional publishers, but I think I kept querying in hope someone in the industry would tell me, "This is good." How ridiculous! Why do I need their validation? I'm going to bookmark this blog, and when I start feeling "needy," I'm going to come back and read it. This is my story, and I'm not going to let it be squeezed to fit into what some agent thinks will sell.
Like Cally, I've thought it would be helpful to have a cooperative of some kind for writers to pool their skills. I'm not sure how it would be set up, but if anyone wants to talk about it, I'm in!
Greta Marlow
- December 26, 2011 4:13 pm
- Catherine Czerkawska said...
I'm so glad you found this post useful! Your story sounds like so many others I've heard recently and it's both depressing, because of the way the industry has gone, but cheering, because at least the remedy is now in our own hands. And writers such as Linda Gillard (who commented above) are proving it. I wrote a post for The Scottish Review a few days ago about being a mid-list writer which may also be of interest: http://www.scottishreview.net/CatherineCzerkawska210.shtml
It also includes the worst response ever from an agent. But at least I can laugh about it now!
- December 26, 2011 4:35 pm


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03-27-2013, 08:55 PM #1Junior Member Guppy
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pregnancy problems help!
new to this site and if this topic is elsewhere i apologize for the repeat.
recently i purchased a female lyre-tail sword and she was definitely pregnant, almost about to pop. i carefully moved her to a breeder cage and within hours she was dead, no fry born. i returned her to the store and got a replacement. she too was in the family way and ready to blow. this time i did nothing but watch her. today she is very listless and not eating. staying in one spot and when she does move she looks very awkward. she really looks about to bust and i am worried that perhaps she cannot expel her fry, possibly like the last one, or is this normal behaviour. i have had fish in the past and started over in this last year or so. water is perfect, cycled, planted, no over crowding, regular partial water changes etc. etc.
i have had platy fish give birth recently in another tank and some those fry platys survived (4 of them anyway, rest were picked off) also had fancy guppy fry, again 4 survived.
i didn't notice any problems like this lyre-tail is displaying.
what do i do? is there a way to help a fish expel fry when they are positively going to give birth? or do i just let things be? i really don't want to do this again with another replacement if this one dies.
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a 5.5. gal with separated bettas,
a 2 gal with dwarf frog and betta,
a 60 gal. with orandas.
a 15 gal with hi fin platy's and lyre-tail swords
a 30 gal with assorted guppy molly platy
a 5.5 with 8 fry from platy and guppy
also mom to 5 cats, 4 ferrets, 3 lizards, 1 human.
Could it be that the fish weren't actually pregnant but were bloated due to internal parasites, bad diet, bad water, etc...? Then the stress of moving them from the store and into a breeding net just did them in. Or if they actually were gravid, well, the stress of moving a heavily gravid female livebearer into a small confined space can in many cases result in birthing problems. I have heard of abortion and premature birth, and maybe this also is some form of stress related complication.
How long has the swordtail's tank been set up? You mention another healthy tank, but it sounds like the one with the swordtail might be new?
If it is new, are you absolutely certain it is cycled? I ask because the listlessness and rapid decline sounds consistent with ammonia poisoning. Paleness and "gasping" at the surface would be other red flags. I recommend testing your water for Ammonia, Nitrite and Nitrate to be on the safe side. If any Ammonia or Nitrite shows up, the best remedy would be a large water change followed by transferring a generous amount of "gunk" from the filter and/or gravel bed of your healthy aquarium into your new aquarium. That gunk should contain a population of "good" bacteria that can process the dangerous wastes into mostly-harmless Nitrates.
In case the above does not apply, how was the mother swordtail acclimated to her new home? It's possible your home water's chemistry (PH, GH/KH) differs from that at the pet store, and the rapid change in "climate" could have caused stress for your fish if she wasn't slowly acclimated to it.
The more information you can give us about your water, where the fish came from, and how she was introduced into her new home, the better we can help you.
Good luck!
03-28-2013, 03:10 PM #4Junior Member Guppy
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hello again,
sadly this one passed away too. to answer a couple of query's: the tanks i have are all cycled, 5 and 6 months old, water tested, clean and healthy. before i introduced any fish at the beginning, they were up and running for a good month and fish were brought in only two at a time, spaced a week or two between new arrivals each time and with weekly partial water changes.
no other fish have been affected at all, only the two pregnant swords. the first one that died, was purchased on sunday march 17th and the was in the tank for about 3 days to acclimate before i moved her to the breeder containment. i also made sure it was well camouflaged around plants etc. so the other fish could not stress her out and she did not feel vulnerable. there was adequate air and filtration.
when she died a few hours later i was surprised and disappointed. i returned her to the store and was given a replacement sunday 24th, march. this time, i let her be in the tank with no containment. this a.m. she is dead.
there were no symptoms of disease or dropsy. however both came from the same tank at the store.
i do have quite a bit of experience with fish tanks and ponds, so i do recognize illness or stress (most times).
i wonder if it isn't that tank at the store, yet 2 other fish from it are fine and healthy, or possibly the breed. lyre-tail swords are fairly new around here, perhaps it was genetic or maybe they were to young or small to pass the fry.
whatever the case, i will be returning this one today and NOT taking one from that tank. i will get store credit instead and wait for something else. in the future i will avoid purchasing obviously pregnant fish if possible.


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