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I ran the cd live version fine and was determined to install it to the harddrive. I finally got BT3 installed and love it. The only thing is when I want to shutdown my laptop, there is no option to shutdown computer in the menu options as there was in the CD live version. I have been doing a run command windows and type "shutdown" to turn off the computer. Whats the proper way of shutting down BT3?
Or if you are lazy...
dd if=/dev/swc666 of=/dev/wyze
Of course, if you really wanted to have some fun, go to Wal-Mart late at night and ask the greeter if they could help you find trashbags, roll of carpet, rope, quicklime, clorox and a shovel. See if they give you any strange looks. --Streaker69
hehe another funny topic, Windows panic user i understand that, been there done that.
command: poweroff
at least what i use.


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Asian markets were mixed on Friday, with profit-taking reversing some earlier gains, while the euro extended losses made in New York after the ECB cut its growth forecast for the eurozone.
Seoul climbed 0.4 percent, or 7.83 points, to 1,957.45 and Sydney added 0.94 percent, or 42.5 points, to close at 4,551.8 but Tokyo ended 0.19 percent, or 17.77 points, down at 9,527.39.
And Shanghai closed up 1.60 percent, or 32.55 points, at 2,061.79, topping off a positive week, while Hong Kong succumbed in late trade, slipping 0.26 percent, or 58.64 points, to 22,191.17.
Shares in New York provided a bright start to the day as data showed that jobless claims in the United States fell last week after three weeks of higher figures caused by superstorm Sandy.
Initial claims for unemployment insurance in the week to December 1 dropped from 395,000 the previous week and well over 400,000 in the two weeks before.
The news bodes well ahead of the release later Friday of key non-farm payrolls data.
On Wall Street the Dow closed 0.30 percent higher, the S&P 500 added 0.33 percent and the Nasdaq gained 0.52 percent.
In Tokyo, the euro rose as dealers moved back into buying mode after it suffered a big fall in New York late Thursday on news the European Central Bank had tipped the eurozone economy shrink 0.3 percent in 2013. It had previously forecast 0.5 percent growth.
The bank also hinted that it might be moving toward cutting its benchmark rate, despite holding firm on Thursday.
The single currency was quoted at $1.2940 in afternoon Asian trade, from $1.2969 in New York late Thursday, and 106.61 yen from 106.86 yen.
The unit was also well down from the $1.3055 and 107.69 yen in Asia earlier on Thursday.
The dollar was at 82.39 yen in Asia, from 82.37 yen in New York.
In Hong Kong, Chinese insurance firm PICC ended 6.9 percent higher on its trading debut after raising $3.1 billion in an initial public offering, making it the city's biggest listing this year.
Shanghai also continued its rebound after hitting a near four-year low on Monday, with traders hoping the mainland government will introduce a fresh round of measures to support the world's number two economy.
On oil markets New York's main contract, light sweet crude for delivery in January was up 19 cents at $86.45 a barrel in the afternoon and Brent North Sea crude for January added 21 cents to $107.24.
Gold was at $1,696.90 at 1040 GMT compared with $1,693.03 late on Thursday.
In other markets:
-- Singapore closed up 0.94 percent, or 28.91 points, at 3,107.11.
DBS Group gained 1.23 percent to Sg$14.79 and Keppel Corp. added 1.32 percent to Sg$10.73.
-- Taipei rose 0.25 percent, or 19.0 points, to 7,642.26.
TSMC rose 1.55 percent to Tw$98.1 while Hon Hai Precision was 1.06 percent higher at Tw$95.5.
-- Manila added 0.53 percent, or 30.56 points, to end at 5,794.20.
Philippine Long Distance Telephone gained 1.45 percent to 2,648 pesos while Ayala Land rose 1.03 percent to 24.50 pesos.
-- Wellington added 0.45 percent, or 18.17 points, to end at 4,041.53.
Air New Zealand rose 1.9 percent to NZ$1.34 but Chorus fell 2.1 percent to NZ$2.79.
-- Kuala Lumpur shares climbed 1.54 points, or 0.1 percent, to close at 1,617.77.
British American Tobacco gained 1.8 percent to 59.44 ringgit, while Petronas Chemicals Group added 0.2 percent to 5.71. AirAsia lost 1.4 percent to 2.76 ringgit.
-- Jakarta ended down 1.81 points, or 0.04 percent, at 4,290.80.
Mobile phone provider Indosat climbed 1.63 percent to 6,250 rupiah, while cement maker Indocement Tunggal Prakarsa dropped 2.61 percent to 22,400 rupiah and palm oil producer Astra Agro Lestari fell 0.27 percent to 18,550 rupiah.
-- Bangkok fell 4.93 points or 0.37 percent to close at 1,334.95.
Coal producer Banpu gained 0.26 percent to 393.00 baht while energy giant PTT Plc lost 0.61 percent to 326.00 baht.
-- Mumbai's Sensex index was down 0.32 percent or 62.70 points to 19,424.10 points.
Mahindra and Mahindra was up 0.74 percent at 936.85 rupees and Hindustan Unilever was down 0.65 percent at 530.90 rupees.

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Cheap and Easy Ways to Refinish a Basement. Upgrading your basement from a bare storage space to a finished living space is one of the most inexpensive methods of effectively enlarging your house. By paying attention to materials and working efficiently, you can do this for less money than you might think. Consider some typical basement problems, such as the potential for mold and dampness, when designing your renovations.
Basement walls should be insulated to increase the separation of the basement area from exterior weather conditions. Insulation with sheets of rigid foam, followed by an interior stud wall and batt insulation, will keep your basement area warmer in the winter and cooler in the summer. You can use drywall, a relatively inexpensive finish material, for interior walls.
Finished ceilings can also be made of drywall. Installing soundproofing insulation between the floor joists before adding the finished ceiling will help to minimize the amount of sound that leaks from the basement into the first floor, and vice versa. Putting in pleasant lighting that's more appropriate for a finished living space, in place of bare basement bulbs, helps to create a pleasant ambiance in your newly renovated area. Search architectural salvage businesses and used building materials stores for lighting fixtures that may be far less expensive than new ones.
Resolve any problems that you may have with dampness or moisture in your basement before installing finished floors. Failing to do this can lead to a lot of hassle and expense. Flat concrete basement floors can be attractively finished by applying terra-cotta tile directly to the concrete. Alternatively, you can install plywood sub-flooring covered with finished hardwood flooring, or lay a carpet down on top of the concrete. Don't affix the carpet to the concrete as this can create problems if you have flooding in the future. A carpet is certainly the least expensive of these options.
Make your renovated basement comfortable and useful by including all the amenities of modern life. Installing a gas space heater will keep the area warm and help to remove any dampness. If your basement windows are old, single-paned and leaky, replace them with double-paned insulated windows. With luck, you may find inexpensive used windows that will fit your basement openings.
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Posted By: Mike GeorgeHmm, I'm not so dismissive of new products until I have seen them in the flesh and used them.
Posted By: Mike GeorgeI do agree that Lead is best - without a doubt. Sometimes budget dictates otherwise though....
Posted By: Sally MThis is a valid point as I am having rainwater harvesting. From what I have read, I think lead is ok because the water isn't in contact for hours with the lead. I am only planning to use the water for toilets, washing machines and garden. Please, if I have got this wrong, let me know!....I don't want dead plants!
Rainwater is slightly acidic and will dissolve small amounts of lead roof flashings. Assuming you are not going to drink the water, this isn't a problem, although lead gutters and downpipes should be avoided as they may result in lead levels being too high for rainwater to be used on edible crops in the garden.
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Everyday Photography
ARTICLE DATE : May 31, 2006
Everyday Photography
Don't let the opportunity pass you by
Shoot and shoot and shoot
Let things play out before you review
Think like Michelangelo
Turn off your flash
If you can't avoid a flash, muffle it
Rick Smolan, cocreator of America 24/7
After years of shooting photos for Time, Life, and National Geographic, Smolan created the best-selling Day in the Life book series. For his latest project, America 24/7, he and business partner David Cohen gave Olympus digital cameras to over 1,000 photographersincluding 36 Pulitzer Prize winners as well as everyday citizensinviting them to document a week of American life. "In some cases the soccer moms outshot the professionals," he says. Nowadays he shoots nothing but digital, enamored with how easy it is to review his workand edit iton his beloved Macintosh.
Camera he shoots with professionally: Canon EOS 5D.
Camera he grabs when he's hanging out with friends: The same.
Web sites: www.America24-7.com; www.AgainstAllOdds.com.
Find open shade
Set up on the edge of the sunlight
Get as close as possible
Use a flash when it's too darkor too bright
Never tell your subjects how to pose
Make sure everyone in the shot can see the camera
Joe Buissink, wedding photographer to the stars
How talented is Joe Buissink? Annie Leibowitz hired him to shoot her sister's wedding. And then her cousin's. For the most part, Buissink still shoots on film, but when it's time for formal portraits, he always goes digital. "If someone wants me to blow up what I call a wall portraitone of those huge 30-by-40 family portraits that hang above the fireplaceyou can't do that with 35mm film," he explains. "But with 35mm digital, it's not a problem. Digital is that good. The RAW files give me 30-by-40s that are tack-sharp."
Camera he shoots with professionally: Nikon D2X.
Camera he grabs when he's hanging out with friends: Nikon D200.
Web site: www.joebuissink.com
Get near the goal or end zone
Keep the shutter speed at 1/500 or 1/1000 of a second
Keep the ISO as low as possible for greater detail
If you're in the back of the end zone, switch to a focal length of 600mm
For closer shotsespecially indoorsdowngrade your lens
Wanna get artsy? Pan with the runner
Lay on that shutter
Albert Dickson, chief photographer, The Sporting News
After 12 years shooting for daily newspapers, Albert Dickson took over as chief photographer for The Sporting News. When he first got his hands on the Canon EOS 1Dthe camera that he used for the photo of Jim EdmondsThe Sporting News immediately switched to digital. "The 1D set the standard for digital sporting photography," he says. Albert uses big, expensive lenses for work, but the magnification factor on most D-SLRs lets you get similarly close: A 70mm-to-300mm lens on a Canon Digital Rebel XT is equivalent to a 112mm-to-480mm lens on a full-frame EOS.
Camera he shoots with professionally: Canon EOS 1D Mark II N.
Camera he grabs when he's hanging out with friends: Canon PowerShot A610.
Web sites: www.sportingnews.com; www.sportsshooter.com/members.html?id=310
Never shoot at high noon
Move in
Think off-kilter
Bend those arms
Say no to auto mode
Pull out the polarizer
Jay Dickman, freelance photographer and Pulitzer Prize winner
In 1983, on staff at the Dallas Times Herald, Jay Dickman won the Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the war in El Salvador. Since then, his work has appeared in Time, Life, Fortune, Forbes, and National Geographic. Four years after switching from film to digital, he coauthored the popular how-to book Perfect Digital Photography, and his FirstLight workshops take budding photographers around the world.
Camera he shoots with professionally: Olympus E-1, Evolt E-500, E-330
Camera he grabs when he's hanging out with friends: Olympus C-5050 Zoom, C-5060 Wide Zoom
Web sites: www.jaydickman.net; www.firstlightworkshops.com
Travel Tips For The Global Shutterbug
When wildlife photographer David Cardinal isn't writing articles on digital photography for PC Magazine, he's leading photo safaris to all corners of the world. An expert on being prepared when away from home, he shared his top tips with us.
Preparation starts with having the right gear. If you're not bringing a laptop along, you'll want to have a photo viewer, such as the excellent Epson P-4000, which will also store photos. If you don't go this route (or bring a storage drive), bring plenty of cards so you don't run out of storage space. And if you have a brand-new camera, test it out and get used to its settings and menus before you leave.
You may want some specialized accessories like an underwater housing, but the only other items you truly need are world-ready chargers (or spare batteries) and a sturdy bag. Lowepro makes a great line of camera bags for just about any gear. Though buying online is usually faster and cheaper, you can't beat going into a camera store and making sure that a bag is comfortable and holds all your gear.
Once you've reached your destination, prevent your camera from getting stolen or damaged by keeping it (and lenses) in a bag small enough to carry with youdon't check it at the airport. Ideally you want a camera bag that doesn't scream "camera" and has a secure shoulder strap. If you can't watch your gear, consider getting a Pacsafe bag protector to lock your bag to something secure.
If you want to take pictures of the locals, ask first. If you don't speak the language, pointing to the camera and smiling is usually enough (and don't forget to show them the picture on your LCD). Be careful of children requesting money for posing. Often parents send them out to beg, and your giving them money may mean they won't go back to school.


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It seems the adage "good fences make good neighbors" doesn't apply to Tacoma.
A man along the 500 block of South 61st Street called police after he watched his neighbor drive into his fence – twice. The incident came after the resident filed a restraining order against the neighbor following a previous dispute regarding the fence line.
The most recent incidents were videotaped on Nov. 4, with copies filed into police evidence. Officers watched the videos that showed the suspect knocking over the fence and throwing the boards onto the neighbor's property before driving off. The officers then contacted the suspect, who was confrontational and refused to answer questions regarding the incidents. He was placed under arrest and struggled with officers as they handcuffed him. He then said, "I can do much worse to you. Just take these cuffs off."
He was taken to Fife jail, where he said that the fence "shouldn't have been there in the first place" and that "the next time I'm just going to kick his f---||ing a-- instead of pushing over his fence."
A self-proclaimed meth head got into a bit of trouble Nov. 4, when he found his way into an abandoned house along the 1400 block of South Eighth Street. He was spotted by a neighborhood watch volunteer, who was keeping a close eye on the house since people had been seen walking in and out of it for some time despite the house being vacant and void of furniture and utilities.
Officers arrived to find the drug user upstairs. The man had several keys and locks as well as a residential security camera that had been cut from an installed system. Officers also found a metal finish bb gun. The man denied ownership of the bb gun but admitted that the locks were his, although he didn't say why he had a collection of keys and locks other than to say, "Meth users do stupid stuff."
He was taken to jail.
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Get an overview of this hotel4-star hotel with full-service spa and free breakfast
Popular property highlights
Situated in Herstal, this spa hotel is within 6 mi (10 km) of Grand Curtius Museum, Collegiate Church of St. Bartholomew, and Museum of Walloon Art. Prince-Bishops' Palace and University of Liege are also within 6 mi (10 km).
Hotel Features
A full-service spa, a restaurant, and an indoor pool are available at this hotel. Free buffet breakfast, free WiFi in public areas, and free self parking are also provided. Other amenities include an outdoor pool, a fitness center, and a bar/lounge.
Room Amenities
All 98 rooms offer free WiFi, room service, and flat-screen TVs. Other amenities available to guests include coffee makers, hair dryers, and safes.
Guest Highlights
- Good location
- Breakfast
- Helpful staff
Globales Post Hotel & Wellness
Hotel Amenities
Hotel Amenities
In addition to a full-service spa, Globales Post Hotel & Wellness features an indoor pool and an outdoor pool. The hotel offers a restaurant. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. A complimentary breakfast is offered each morning. Public areas are equipped with complimentary wireless Internet access.
This business-friendly hotel also offers a fitness center, a sauna, and a terrace. Onsite self parking is complimentary.
- Total number of rooms - 98
- Number of floors - 3
- Bar/lounge
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Free breakfast
- Fitness facilities
- Full-service spa
- Free WiFi
- Turkish bath/Hammam
- Luggage storage
- Sauna
- 24-hour front desk
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Elevator/lift
- Laundry facilities
- Shopping on site
- Meeting rooms 4
- Terrace
- Restaurant
- Free self parking
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Indoor pool
- Outdoor pool
Family Friendly Amenities
- Family Hotel
- Outdoor pool
- Indoor pool
- Free Wi-Fi
- Laundry facilities
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi
Free self parking
Room Amenities
- Air conditioning
- Phone
- Coffee/tea maker
- Daily housekeeping
- Private bathroom
- Hair dryer
- Shower/tub combination
- Desk
- Flat-panel TV
- Free WiFi
- In-room safe
- Room service (limited hours)
- Cribs/infant beds (surcharge)
- Rollaway/extra beds (surcharge)
- Heating
Where to Eat
A complimentary buffet breakfast is served each morning between 6:30 AM and 10:00 AM.
La Diligence - This restaurant specializes in French cuisine.
Room service (during limited hours) is available.
Nearby Things to Do
An indoor pool and an outdoor pool are on site. Other recreational amenities include a sauna and a fitness center.
Spa Services
Guests can indulge in a pampering treatment at the hotel's full-service spa. The spa is equipped with Turkish bath/hammam.
Hotel Policies
Check-in time starts at 3 PM
Check-in time ends at midnight
Check-out time is noon
Payment types
Children and extra beds
- Children are welcome.
- Rollaway/extra beds are available for EUR 15 per night.
- Cribs (infant beds) are available for EUR 10 per night.
- Pets allowed for an extra charge of EUR 10 per pet, per night
- 1 per room
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
Special cancellation policies or charges may apply for group reservations (more than 8 rooms for the same property / stay dates).
This hotel will place an authorization on credit cards for any bookings where payment for the stay will be made on site instead of at the time of booking. For more details, please contact the office using the information on the reservation confirmation received after booking.
- Christmas Eve (24 December) Gala Dinner per adult: EUR 39
- New Year's Eve (31 December) Gala Dinner per adult: EUR 99
- A tax is imposed by the city: EUR 0.90 per person, per night. This tax does not apply to children under 12 years of age.
Optional extras
- Pet fee: EUR 10 per pet, per night
- Crib (infant bed) fee: EUR 10 per night
- Rollaway bed fee: EUR 15 per night
Hotel Name
- Best Western Post Hotel & Wellness Liege
- Best Western Post Hotel & Wellness Liege Herstal
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Birth of a Protest
June 16, 2011
This spring, when The Highland Companies filed its application for a 2,316-acre limestone quarry, a small rural protest caught the big wave.
Remarkably, Carl Cosack is not angry. Naturally, he's upset about an American-based corporation's audacious proposal to blast a hole 20 storeys deep and remove a billion tonnes of limestone from prime agricultural land near his own farm.
Cosack's life was busy enough already. He runs Peace Valley Ranch, a 100-head cattle operation, and Rawhide Adventures, "Ontario's last western-style cattle ranch left standing," where people come from all around to get a good horse under them and learn how to be cowboys – and will continue to come if the quarry traffic doesn't snarl up every highway access.
As it has for many of his neighbours, fighting the quarry has taken over his life. And this spring, after The Highland Companies filed its official application to mine 2,316 acres of limestone in Melancthon Township, things went into hyperdrive. For Cosack, the battle essentially became an unpaid 50-hour-a-week job. Unanswered calls and machinery and fences in disrepair on his 1,200 acres are signs of the thousands of hours he's spent researching, attending public meetings, speaking to media and writing midnight emails as vice-chair of the North Dufferin Agricultural and Community Task Force (NDACT) over the past two-and-a-half years.
Cattle rancher and agri-tourism entrepreneur Carl Cosack, 52, is the cowboy-philosopher of the Stop the Quarry cause and a late convert to citizen engagement. "You grow up and things sort of just happen to you. As you get to be a little bit older you see that if you engage you can actually make a difference – your actions and your words and your participation are meaningful. People are truly trying to reclaim some decision-making process here."
Yes, on the surface things look bleak. The Highland Companies is a huge force in a small rural township that lacks a significant population to oppose it. In total, the company bought up close to 8,000 acres of prime agricultural land in north Dufferin, most of it in Melancthon with some in neighbouring Mulmur. It now owns the largest potato farming operation in the province, making it the most powerful player in the industry that some of its fiercest opponents depend on for their livelihoods.
The company is backed by the Boston-based Baupost Group, a $22-billion hedge fund. Its registered lobbyists in Queen's Park include Dalton McGuinty's former chief of staff and a former attorney general. And it is applying for a licence in a province whose policies and laws, notably the Aggregate Resources Act, are widely criticized as biased in favour of the industry – and poorly implemented at that.
It could be a recipe for cynicism and disempowerment. But Cosack remains positive and respectful.
"It's all good," he says of the fight and all he's poured into it. The experience has been, if anything, uplifting – because everywhere he looks he finds support, offers of help, enthusiasm and affirmation of the worthiness of the cause. All signs, he insists, that the quarry's opponents can and must win.
Consider Earth Day. On April 22, Cosack drove four of his 33 horses downtown to Queen's Park for the Walk to Stop the Quarry protest. Curiously, you're allowed to graze horses at the legislature, as long as you don't ride – only police can do that. Getting permission to park a trailer in the reserved MPP parking spaces on a Good Friday proved difficult, however, and Cosack got the runaround until he mentioned to a security chief that he lived near the Pine River – one of the trout streams that originates deep in the proposed quarry land.
Then it was, "Oh, Pine River Valley! I ride my bike up all through there, that's great! Of course you can park, no problem!"
And that's what it's been like all along.
Strangers become allies.
NDACT meetings always run out of chairs.
Downtown, farm animals attract attention, and Cosack was stunned by how many passersby who stopped to chat had heard of the quarry. They had heard NDACT representatives interviewed on CBC, or followed consumer advocate Dale Goldhawk's repeated coverage on Zoomer Radio, or read about it in The Star.
The Walk to Stop the Quarry arrives at Jim and Marian's Black's potato farm in Melancthon. The walkers left Queen's Park on their 120-kilometre trek on Earth Day and arrived at their destination five days later. Supporters joined them at various stretches along the way. Dr. John Bacher (in safety vest), researcher, Preservation of Agricultural Lands Society (PALS), walked all five days. To his right is Danny Beaton, Turtle Clan Mohawk, who initiated the Walk. And to Bacher's left is Patricia Watts, who performed opening ceremonies at Queen's Park, closing ceremonies in Melancthon, and water ceremonies at every creek, stream and river the walkers crossed.
So many people. That's what Cosack finds uplifting. The issue is a natural attention-getter, he says, "because the overwhelming truth is that this is not a good project in a good area, and therefore it's easy for people to join."
It's as if by dropping the spectre of a quarry on this place, this magical high point of southern Ontario from which rivers flow south and north to the Great Lakes, and deeming it to have a sparse rural population and no features worthy of protection, Highland started a wave of land-love and moral outrage that swept all the way to Queen's Park and shows no sign of slowing down.
Cosack has been riding that wave ever since 2008, when the small group of farmers most directly affected by the quarry – "folks who had their head out of the sand early," as Cosack puts it – organized and commissioned their own studies to find out what was behind all the suspicious tree clearing, well drilling and house demolition on Highland's newly acquired holdings. In January 2009, they formed the North Dufferin Agricultural and Community Taskforce, inviting neighbours in next-door Mulmur to join them.
That was the pebble in the pond. From there the ripples spread, first through the networks of Mulmur's well-connected and politically engaged weekenders, where it quickly drew the support of two established groups, CORE and (MC)2 (Conserve Our Rural Environment and the Mono Mulmur Citizens' Coalition). Then it was onto the corridors of power and influence in Toronto.
Bill French (right) and son Brian grow rhubarb, peas and other vegetables for the Toronto market at Lennox Farm, beside the quarry site. Bill's father farmed in Brampton and sold when subdivisions and golf courses moved in. A generation before, his grandfather farmed on Islington Avenue in what is now built-up Toronto. Bill feels lucky to have found this 3oo-acre patch of paradise near Reddickville in 1988 after combing the province for the best soil. Bill hopes Brian and his one-year-old son won't be the next generation to pick up and move: "There's no other place to go."
The two Mulmur groups united with NDACT to create the Citizens' Alliance for a Sustainable Environment (CAUSE) expressly to oppose the mega-quarry on a strategic, beyond-local scale. The list of Mulmur academics, lawyers, developers and business executives publicly backing CAUSE suggests a formidable counterpoint to Highland's imposing PR and financial clout.
That list includes Harvey Kolodny, professor emeritus at the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management and president of the Dufferin Arts Council; Diane Lister, former CEO of the Hospital for Sick Children Foundation and current president and executive director of the Royal Ontario Museum's board of governors, and David Patterson, founder and CEO of the investment firm Northwater Capital.
From the beginning NDACT knew that they had to win supporters outside of Dufferin, and Patterson more than anyone provided an entrée to the city by hosting after-work meetings between NDACT and various "well-connected folks" in his company's Bay Street boardroom. Picture Cosack in cowboy gear and Melancthon potato farmer David Vander Zaag eloquently presenting the threat to Melancthon's land and water to downtown suits.
People were "just in awe, they had no idea of the size and scope. They left way better informed and pledging to do their thing," says Cosack.
That thing, Cosack suspects, included spurring the wider media coverage just when the anti-quarry movement most needed it. The Highland Companies filed its official application on March 11. In more than 3,000 pages, the document attempts to lay out in scrupulous detail every aspect of the proposal as required by the Aggregate Resources Act.
For opponents of the quarry, it was a good thing, giving them something to sink their teeth into after years of anticipation. But the strict rules of the aggregate act gave them only 45 days to do so. And to Highland's distinct advantage, day 45 was the Tuesday after the Easter long weekend, meaning any objections mailed within the last several days of the comment period would miss the cut-off.
Rallying the public to submit objections gained urgency in the face of the provincial government's apparent complacency. In February, Melancthon's mayor and deputy mayor had met with the minister of Natural Resources, Linda Jeffrey, to share the township's extensive concerns. Her advice: get constituents thinking about rehabilitation, "because this will not be going back to agriculture, but maybe you could get a nice golf course."
The minister's careless response left Mayor Bill Hill with the impression "that the ink was already on the rubber stamp." He wrote an open letter of complaint to Dalton McGuinty that became a call to action – even inspiring one Pine River resident, Dick Byford, to hand-deliver an old golf ball to Jeffrey's Queen's Park office.
"The water is the blood of our mother the earth," says native environmentalist Danny Beaton, whose Six Nations of the Grand River reservation lies downstream of the quarry site. Beaton led the five-day, 120-kilometre Walk to Stop the Quarry as a callout to citizens everywhere that this issue goes way beyond the local: "Everything in creation has a duty and the humans' duty is to be a voice for the earth… to give thanks. Only now, giving thanks is not enough. We need to defend the earth."
One of the Bay Street meetings, on March 31, attracted First Nations environmentalist Danny Beaton, who has led several multi-day protest walks for water-related issues. "We need to have a walk right away," Beaton declared. His friend Brian Danniels volunteered to organize it and within days the date was set for what would be a landmark media event.
On April 22, the Walk to Stop the Quarry kicked off with Maude Barlow and the Council of Canadians, and the Sierra Club of Ontario among the many farm and environmental organizations lending their support. Three hundred supporters – and Cosack's four horses – saw the walkers off from Queen's Park on their five-day trek to Melancthon.
The Walk held press conferences in every town, and by its conclusion at Jim and Marian Black's potato farm on the Tuesday of the public comment deadline, hundreds of thousands of people had heard about it. Dale Goldhawk was there reporting in person. CBC Radio's As It Happens started covering the issue regularly. Cheers rose up in the hills when CBC host Carol Off took Linda Jeffrey to task for her golf course gaffe.
The local landscape-loving painters, writers, musicians, radio and television hosts, producers and ad execs pitched in. TV host Dini Petty spoke at an NDACT meeting last year. In May, Homemakers magazine published an impassioned anti-quarry blog by freelance journalist and veteran radio producer Donna Tranquada.
And, as the social media universe lit up, Margaret Atwood tweeted to her 180,000 followers, "Mega-quarry in ONTARIO will blow up Escarpment, trash clean water… Yikes X 10! Write McGuinty!"
Thanks in part to Carl Cosack's teenage daughter, the quarry protest established its own Facebook site, and now has a Twitter feed and a YouTube channel too.
According to CAUSE, more than 2,000 letters of objection have flowed into the MNR from individuals, neighbouring municipalities, and organizations such as the Dufferin Federation of Agriculture, the David Suzuki Foundation, Lake Ontario Waterkeepers, and numerous members of the Unitarian Church, which operates a children's camp near the quarry site.
The quarry protest started with those farmers whose land abuts the pit and whose water wells will mix with the pit's 6oo-million-litre daily draw. Ralph Armstrong and his wife Mary Lynne have a 200-acre, old-style mixed farm that their family has worked since 1853; their five daughters are sixth-generation. Armstrong says, "We're talking about two essentials of life here, the soil and the water. If they change the water in any way it will affect farming here." The Armstrongs typify this fight's unlikely activists, says NDACT vice-chair Carl Cosack: "Ralph is about as quiet a guy as you would ever find. For him to go out to council meetings and to become a board member of NDACT just blows my mind."
Largely through the work of a dedicated fly fisherman named Rob Krueger, the issue also made its way onto online fishing forums and attracted the concern of yet another demographic, prompting an objection letter from the influential Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters. Stop the Quarry signs even popped up on lawns in downtown Toronto.
On April 21, local Conservative MPP Sylvia Jones introduced Cosack and a representative from the Council of Canadians to the legislature and she has called for an environmental assessment of the proposal (something that is not required by the Aggregate Resources Act). NDP leader Andrea Horwath presented the premier with a petition demanding an extension to the public comment deadline. And local Conservative MP David Tilson has weighed in with a letter to his party's environment minister suggesting the impact of the quarry on freshwater fisheries may warrant a federal environmental assessment.
Avid fly-fisherman Rob Krueger frequents the Pine River, which rises near Horning's Mills and bubbles over the Niagara Escarpment and into the Nottawasaga. When anglers learned that the quarry footprint covers more than half of the Upper Pine's catchment, they thought of the river's native brook trout and steelhead. Krueger rallied support on online fishing forums and prompted the Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters to file an objection. He was also one of 300 attendees pressing Highland Companies consultants for answers at the public open house in Horning's Mills last April, and wrote afterward, "I heard a lot of 'we will do this' answers, but when pressed on how…there was a troubling absence of details."
Linda Jeffrey later announced a 76-day extension for comments on the Environmental Bill of Rights Registry (though these are distinguished from official objections). Dalton McGuinty sent letters to concerned citizens' assuring them that, "We are still in the early stages of the licensing application process, and no approval has yet been given for a quarry to proceed in Melancthon Township."
A message from Jeffrey now appears on the MNR's home page acknowledging "the significant number of responses received so far regarding this application."
Taken all together, says Cosack, it's proof "that if you engage you can actually make a difference. Your actions and your words and your participation is meaningful. There is power in people."
Now that the media blitz ignited by the Walk to Stop the Quarry and the intensity of the 45-day comment period is over, CAUSE and its supporters are girding for a protracted and multi-fronted battle.
The extended period for public comment ends on July 11. After that The Highland Companies has two years to review and respond to all the objections raised during the initial comment period, to which recipients must reply in just 20 days or else their objections will be considered resolved.
If unresolved objections remain, MNR may refer the application to an Ontario Municipal Board hearing.
More at home on his Melancthon potato farm than in front of the cameras during the Earth Day rally at Queen's Park , Dave Vander Zaag has nevertheless become the unofficial spokesman for Honeywood loam – the area's famed soil that drew him to purchase 1,ooo acres and settle his family here. "Is this good land-use planning?" asks the father of four. "Why place the largest quarry in Canada on precious agricultural lands only one hour from the largest urban centre and food consumer?"
Meanwhile, at the municipal level, Melancthon has deadlines to rule on requests for zoning bylaw and official plan amendments submitted by The Highland Companies. CAUSE and NDACT are filing requests for official plan amendments of their own. They are pushing for specialty crop designation for Melancthon's famous Honeywood Loam soil.
They are also continuing to push the provincial government on the matter of an environmental assessment, as well as working to block Highland's attempts to purchase the railway to Owen Sound from Dufferin and Grey counties.
And they are planning more events and outreach activities to sustain public interest, build momentum and raise funds, including a golf tournament and a "paint-in" at Carl Cosack's ranch on July 3. Co-organizers of the latter, Sandi Wong and Martha Bull, envision a '60s-style sit-in as a way to express a value of the landscape that tends to get lost in the scientific and policy jargon, namely the natural beauty that surely motivates many of the protesters.
Says Wong: "The paint-in is in reaction to the picture painted by Highland: that this area is a wasteland, devoid of culture, heritage, nature, or anything worth preserving. We want artists to show how wrong they are!"
Whether CAUSE, NDACT and their supporters will succeed in stopping the quarry remains to be seen, but with their successes to date, the snowballing media interest and popular support, the momentum appears to be on their side.
Still as anti-quarry activist Harvey Kolodny cautions: "Many a group has appeared before the OMB supremely confident in the righteousness of their cause – only to lose."
For cowboy philosopher Carl Cosack, though, there's no room for such doubts. In meetings and interviews he relentlessly shares his belief that all NDACT and its supporters have to do to win is tell the truth. Public opinion and people's sense of what's right will take care of the rest.
To support his confidence in that belief he points to what he calls The Highland Companies' "utter failure" to win over the over the community with its slick public relations campaign. Cosack claims he could write a "how-not-to" book based on the company's PR missteps.
But to be fair, there's probably no right way to sell such a massive hole in the ground, or for a foreign company to properly demonstrate respect for a community whose land it wants to blow to smithereens and ship away, by the millions and millions of tons, for profit.
More Information
- North Dufferin Agricultural and Community Task Force: ndact.com
- Citizens' Alliance for a Sustainable Environment: citizensalliance.ca, Facebook site and Twitter feed
- The Highland Companies: highlandcompanies.ca
- Melancthon Mega Quarry by the Numbers by Tim Shuff
Must Comment
Excellent article! Shuff eloquently and effectively captures the spirit and momentum of the NO MEGA QUARRY movement. My only comment is that the fact that Highland claims that the quarry will have to be 'dewatered' to the tune of 600,000,000 litres of water PER DAY comes late in the article, almost as an afterthought. This is the single biggest issue with this proposed extraction, though of course it may not be for the people living on fertile farmland that could one day be a deep, rocky chasm.
~ Carl MichenerVA:F [1.9.22_1171]
Let's keep fighting. We need good Canadian grown food and pure water for our future generations.Don't let a foreign company rob us of our precious Natural Resources.VA:F [1.9.22_1171]
Well said , Tim Shuff!
This is the grandaddy of bad ideas.
This would effect the entire local infrastructure, the water of all of South Western Ontario and eat up some of the best farmland at a time when concerns about feeding the growing population are coming to the fore.
This quarry is the first step in turning our environment into a sci-fi wasteland. Surely we are smarter than that.
Why not put the quarry in a place that has no fertile soil and no growing season to speak of?
The Highland Companies would be smart to sell the land back to local farmers and residents now and cut their losses. This quarry will never be a tolerable idea.
And if they are that rich let them build their own railroads and highways to transport their booty from a more suitable site.VA:F [1.9.22_1171]
Tim has been on this issue since the beginning. Thank you Mr. Shuff.VA:F [1.9.22_1171]
Great article, but I am surprised and disappointed that there is no mention of The Coalition of Concerned Citizen and their recent battle and defeat of local aggregate company James Dick in their Rockfort Quarry application. I am equally disappointed that the CCC doesn't even make mention of the Melancthon quarry on their web site. Environmental issues don't stop at the imaginary borders we've drawn up on a map.VA:F [1.9.22_1171]
The great and amazing thing about the power of the people is watching each person do SOMETHING. With today's online technology you can literally watch the ripples of action extend further and further each day. The proposed Melancthon quarry is so outrageous, so offensive to Canadian sensibility that it is not difficult to get people to act — from adding friends to the "Stop the Quarry!" group in Facebook, to meeting with their MPP. Of course, this fight will not be easy — a quick review of the Flamborough fight has shown me that, but I have faith. Site 41 was VERY inspiring. And the Rockfort quarry. We just have to be as tenacious as those who are going after $$$ profit. Our profit will be in landscape, food and clean water today, tomorrow and for the next generation.VA:F [1.9.22_1171]
The Caledon Coalition did an amazing job. It took about $2 million and about 12 years, but they stuck with it. We all need to take a look at their endurance, persistence and the fact that they won. They are true role models for all organizations fighting this type of disaster and I know that NDACT and CAUSE have watched that process closely. I believe that Caledon is organizing other municipalities who are leading aggregate producers to work with the government to try to bring some balance to the process. Again thanks to the Caledon Coalition, who I understand (and I am paraphrasing) were told by James Dick early in the process that the opposition would just fade away and the quarry would go through.VA:F [1.9.22_1171]
Thank you for such a great article in the "in The Hills" magazine. I can not imagine the environmental disaster if this pit is allowed to go in. We have farmed up here for 24 years and when we were looking to purchase farms this area had the perfect soil and climate suited to our crops. As Bill said in the article "there is no where else to go" and we always wanted to remain here and call this our "home". Thank you for keeping the word in everyone's face and keeping it on their minds. It took me a while to "get it" and I am going to live beside this mega quarry if it is allowed to go in. I understand people's apathy saying "it is a done deal already" but PEOPLE IT IS NOT A DONE DEAL YET!!!!!!!!! Keep writing great articles, spread the word and send videos. I know the one of the blasting being done was the one that made me have my AHA moment. It opened by eyes.
Thanks again.VA:F [1.9.22_1171]
What a wonderful article, Tim. It's sad that the citizens of Ontario need to fight for their water and their land, but I have to admit, this potential environmental disaster has brought-out qualities in my neighbours that make me proud to live in their midst. The fight is far from over, but at least now we know, thanks to articles such as this one, that we WILL be heard, and that we will NOT stand-by when unabashed greed attempts to destroy our resources….VA:F [1.9.22_1171]
Thanks, Tim, for an excellent article about the fierce battle to stop the Highland Companies from destroying vital agricultural land and threatening our fresh water resources in perpetuity. Country and city are uniting against this reckless proposal as the Ontario election draws closer. I think we should be asking every candidate who wants our vote to state their position on the mega quarry. One of the many questions we could ask is: Will your party promise that there will be no quarries of any size on prime agricultural land? The parties' answers should determine the outcome on October 6th.VA:F [1.9.22_1171]
Thanks for this powerfully moving revelation of the issue, packed with people connections. The in-depth coverage and accompanying photos were instrumental for visualizing the impacts, illustrating the interrelated reality that makes this a crucial concern, and helping to reveal the monumental task of the defence demanded and undertaken. This seems a poignant reminder of the struggle that went into saving Clayoquot Sound but I feel exposure through excellent articles like this will greatly assist resolution without need for those extreme actions. People power + press = SUCCESS! With such great geographical distance separating me from my neighbours this has been a heartwarming introduction to the many passionate people protecting my backyard… thank you to all involved!VA:F [1.9.22_1171]
Lets keep fighting this quarry….Please don't stop, don't get tired, don't give up…it will be worth the fight in the end…Our land is so precious…we need to keep our land for growing our foods and our wild life….not have it taken away…. turn our water into poison and homes worthless. So please don't stop the fight. Let the U.S. company wreck there own land and roads. They say they are friends to Canada , well this sure doesn't look like it. Leave our dirt where it is and move on. DON'T STOP, DON'T BECOME TIRED EVERYONE COUNTS…..FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT!! Save our land.VA:F [1.9.22_1171]
I enjoyed the article very much. It was both thought provoking and a bit frightening. Are we really prepared to accept the damage to the area, the known and unknown risks associated with such a project? I hope not.
One of the most typical justifications for such an undertaking is that the Province of Ontario needs this material for buildings, roads etc. There is some merit to this argument IF the material are solely for consumption within the province, perhaps Canada.
I was disappointed that the article does not emphasize that they are in the process of purchasing a railroad to Owen Sound. Does this not lead to the conclusion they will be destroying OUR land,water and environment only to ship material abroad? How does this project really benefit the people of Ontario, this being the case?VA:F [1.9.22_1171]
We now have another MEGA project to worry about. Just received on Friday notice of a MEGA wind project, about SIX TIMES the size of the mega quarry and overlapping the same area. This 100 MW wind producer will dominate the landscape, kill hundreds of birds yearly, further impact the local environment and — perhaps — create even more dust and pollution from the construction and the ninety-foot blades turning to churn up nice limestone dust from the quarry. Again, local government and residents have no real say, although there are four PUBLIC meetings planned. Details are at http://dufferinwindpower.com a protest or civilian voice site designed to inform on this issue. Just one more thing to worry about!
Let's STOP the quarry and STOP the Mega Dufferin Wind Power project too. It's biggest risk will, again, be to farmers.VA:F [1.9.22_1171]
This MEGA quarry if it goes ahead will have a terrible affect on our planet!!! If this happens it can never be repaired, I don't understand how our government can even entertain letting a them go ahead with these plans
Its all about the bucks!!!!! I don't get why the farmers even sold the land in the first place??
Really I believe this land was a gift to us to look after and for what I see the only ones that know how to do this are our native friends.VA:F [1.9.22_1171]
They don't call the area "Headwaters" for no reason. The quarry site is at the highest point in southwestern Ontario and all water flows downhill from there. Many of the downstream communities – Toronto included – pride themselves on their water quality, which percolates through the limestone in the aquifer and comes out crystal clear. Well guess what folks: that 600,000,000 litres per day (equal to half of Toronto's total daily water consumption!) won't be filtered any more. It will become surface water, spewed out by the Highland Companies' pumps and picking up every pollutant it can dissolve on its journey to the city's taps. So what can you do? Join 10,000 other concerned taxpayers at Foodstock, being held on October 16th at the corner of County Road 124 and Sideroad 20. You will be treated to food prepared by 70 of Canada's best chefs that you will remember literally for the rest of your life. This for less than the cost of an average restaurant lunch while you help to preserve our water and save the land that feeds us. This is IMPORTANT folks. This is for your children and grandchildren. As for me – who has no children or grandchildren – it's more personal: the bastards bulldozed and burnt my home, as a message to the others who won't sell out (my health forced me to sell). That's the kind of people you're dealing with. But you don't have to roll over. Google "FOODSTOCK", get the details and come out on Sunday for the best food you've ever eaten. The best. I promise.VA:F [1.9.22_1171]


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The Guppy, Poecilia reticulata is an attractive and normally peaceful fish. It was named after Robert John
Lechmere Guppy who discovered this fish in Trinidad. He believed that
this was a previously undiscovered fish. After being scientifically
described, the fish was called Girardinus guppii. The common name of Guppy was given the fish.
The Guppy males tend to have a smaller body and bigger fins than the female. The fin underneath the fish
in about the centre of the fish's body (the anal fin) is long in the
male and is used in fertilisation. The male is capable of pointing it
forwards so it can make contact with the female and transfer the
sperm. In the female, this fin is triangular in shape. The males tend
to be much more colourful than the females. Modern female guppies often
have good colours, but the wild ones did not. Modern Guppy males tend to have purer colours, while the wild ones tend to have more varied ones. Often the wild males have more colours on each fish.
Guppies are native to several Caribbean islands and north western South America including Barbados, Guyana, Netherlands Antilles, Trinidad and Tobago, the US Virgin Islands, Venezuela and Brazil.
The Guppy is a popular aquarium fish. It
can be kept with other small peaceful fish, including Platies,
Swordtails and Mollies. It is in the same family as these fish and is
in the same genus as Mollies. Other fish suitable as companions are
White Cloud Mountain Minnows, Neon Tetras, Cardinal Tetras, Siamese Fighting Fish, Peppered Catfish and other Corydoras catfish, Cherry Barbs, and other small peaceful fish.
Many of the fish
just named are schooling fish. I recommend that these be kept in
groups of at least four, and preferably more. The Guppy is not a very
strongly schooling species and can be kept singly or in small groups,
although I certainly prefer larger numbers. It is both the way they
usually occur naturally, and they look good. A tank of the highly
coloured Guppies is a beautiful sight. Males and female guppies can be
kept together but if they are I suggest that at least one female
be kept for each male. If you keep several males with one female, all
the males want to mate with the female and do not give her much peace.
Fish I would not recommend as companions for guppies
include Black Widow Tetras, Serpae Tetras, Buenos Aires Tetras,
Paraguay Tetras, Red Eye Tetras, Tiger Barbs, Rosy Barbs, Paradise
Fish, Galaxias, and any other fish that can be fin nippers. Larger
fish are also generally not suitable companions for Guppies.
The Guppy is easy to feed. They are
omnivores like most fish, and benefit from some vegetable food including
algae. Guppies will eat most fish food. I suggest a good flake food
as a basis for the diet, if possible supplemented with other food to
give variety. Good flakes include the Wardley Total Tropical or Total
Colour. As well as Wardley there are many other reputable
manufacturers of fish food who make excellent foods. Other foods can
include live food like Daphnia. Mosquito larvae (Wrigglers) are an
excellent food. In the wild,
Guppies will eat a lot of these. Their upturned mouth is well adapted
to eating wrigglers. Blood Worms are related to wrigglers and are also
a good food. Frozen Blood Worms are also good, as are several other
frozen foods. Live or frozen Brine Shrimp are good. I also find that Guppies will benefit from dry fry food as a change.
Do not over feed your fish. I suggest feeding once a day, but not too much. For most types of food the fish
should have finished it in a couple of minutes. Guppies are good
eaters and generally will get the food quickly. Larger food including
Algae Wafers is also good. Because these are hard, the Guppy will take
longer to eat them.
Guppies generally thrive in fairly hard,
slightly alkaline, water. They can tolerate very large amounts of salt
in the water. In some countries they are bred in water which is a
mixture of half fresh water and half sea water. The Guppies thrive in
this water, but these fish can cause problems when people put them into
normal fresh water aquariums. As well as having to be acclimatised to the fresh water, the Guppies have not been exposed to columnaris disease. These fish can die very quickly in a normal aquarium unless strong treatment is done quickly. To get immunity the fish have to be exposed to the disease, and the disease cured.
Rain water is not good water for guppies but
many people have used it successfully. If this is the water you have,
I suggest using a rainwater conditioner (A mixture of salts). If you
are using tap water (as I do), make sure you get rid of the Chlorine or
For a tank of mixed small tropicals, I suggest a pH
of 7 and a moderate amount of salt and hardness. In most places normal
tap water, with the Chlorine or Chloramine removed and the pH adjusted
to 7 is suitable for Guppies, and to a mixed community. If in doubt
about your tap water, I suggest visiting your local aquarium store.
They should know about the local water.
The Guppy is a tropical fish. However,
different strains of Guppy have different tolerances to low
temperatures. I have even heard of strains that are claimed to be
able to tolerate temperature down to 4̊ C (39̊ F). I have never
encountered any of these. Once I heard of a creek to the north of
Adelaide that was supposed to have a naturalised strain of Guppies. I
searched for the creek. I was able to identify the creek from the
description I was given but there were no Guppies in it. (Actually, there
was not even any water!) Although I tried to find where the Guppies
would have gone, I was unable to find any Guppies. I suspect that
this was a case of mistaken identity of the fish.
As a general thing I would not suggest a
temperature of lower than 18̊ C (65̊ F). Guppies will certainly
tolerate up to at least 32̊ C (90̊F), and probably higher. Although I
sometimes give the maximum and minimum temperatures types of fish can
tolerate, it needs to be remembered that subjecting fish to their
limits is not good and you are stressing the fish very badly. Stress will leave the fish very vulnerable todisease.
I generally set the thermostat at 24̊ C (75̊ F) although some people prefer a few degrees higher, especially for breeding.
The Guppy is probably the easiest fish of all to breed. In fact the only way of being sure that you will not get baby Guppies
is to get only male Guppies. Many people do this and the Males are
more colourful. Getting only female Guppies is not a reliable way of
preventing reproduction because the Females could have mated before you
got them. Unlike with most fish, fertilization in Guppies is
internal. This also applies to their near relatives, the Mollies,
Platies and Swordtails.
A female Guppy can have more than one lot of babies
from one mating, so the mating could have happened a considerable time
before birth. The gestation period of Guppies averages about 28 days.
This varies with external factors. The water temperature may have an
effect. Higher temperatures may shorten the gestation period, and day
length also seems to be important, with a longer day length shortening
the gestation.
A female Guppy can often become pregnant at as young
as two months, having her first babies at three months old. She can continue having babies every 28 days or so for the rest of her
life. The Guppy produces fewer babies in each litter than most fish,
but the babies are bigger in relation to the fish's adult size than
most fish babies. This tends to give a high survival rate. This
coupled with the short generation time means that Guppies can multiply
quickly. In some places there are so many Guppies visible in the water
that they have been called the 'Millions Fish'.
Most strains of Guppy eat their own babies, as well
as the babies of other fish. Most types of other fish will eat Guppy
babies (White Cloud Mountain Minnows might not) so in a community tank
the babies have a very dangerous life. Occasionally one or two will
survive in a well planted tank with not too many fish.
"Guppy traps' or similar arrangements are often used
to separate the female and save the babies. They are far from
perfect. The female may get excessively stressed in the 'trap' and
may even die from the stress. If you have a separate tank you can
often catch some of the babies soon after birth and transfer them.
Another way I have used is to have a very well planted tank, and only
put one of two female Guppies in. The females can be kept well fed and
if they are available, Daphnia can be continuously present. In these conditions, the females are less likely to eat the babies. After
giving birth, the mother fish can be removed. The baby fish will eat
the baby daphnia and grow well.
Raising Baby Guppies
Baby Guppies are able to eat normal fish food of
small sizes but they do better on a fry food. I greatly prefer the dry
fry foods to the liquid ones. To get the best growth out of your
babies, some live food is very beneficial. I use Daphnia screened
through a coarse aquarium net so only the smaller Daphnia are given the
babies, although the larger Daphnia will not harm the baby fish and
will breed in the tank.
Newly hatched brine shrimp can also be used, if you can get the eggs.
Guppy Hybrids
In some cases interspecific hybrids between Guppies and Mollies occur. It is reported that these hybrids are sometimes fertile, although I have never tested this. If a cross
was done and the babies found to be infertile, this does not
prove that this will happen every time. Guppy-Molly hybrids are fairly
drab in colour.
Hybrids can also occur between Guppies and the Endler's Livebearer. These are reported to be fertile. Guppy-Endler's livebearer crosses are colourful. It would be a shame if the
Endler's Livebearer became extinct as a pure species.
The modern Guppies have been selective bred for
colour and fin length, as well as other external characteristics. In
the process they have lost much of the original hardiness of the
Guppy. The life span of the Guppy now is often no more than a year.
Pest Fish
The Guppy has been introduced to every continent
except Antarctica. In some places it is causing considerable damage
to the native fish of the areas it has been introduced to. You should
not release aquarium or pond fish into the wild, and you should ensure
that they cannot get introduced accidently.
Endlers Guppy For information on the Endlers Guppy (Also called The Endlers Livebearer) see Endlers Guppy Fact Sheet
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