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- Fresh water are easier to care for than salt water and the setup costs less.
- Betas (Japanese Fighting Fish) are actually pretty easy to care for and the setup isn't that expensive. They only need a small tank, too much space and they will die. You can only have one in a tank or they will kill each other. Plus the are gorgeous.
- Goldfish, especially the feeder fish variety, might not have a great survival rate but they are easy to find another similar enough looking one that you can buy another if it does die with minimal risk of being noticed.
- Agressive vs non-agressive. Don't mix them... every.
- If you plan on a tank with multiple fish, get some cleaning fish like plecostomus or loaches. http://bottomfeederfish.com/[^]
- Snails. Some people like them, I hated them since once you get one you will never get rid of them and they will eventually invest the tank.
- Make sure to learn how not to shock the fish when you put them in the tank and when you clean the tank.
- Have a smaller tank available for doing cleanings. You will need to clean the tank. Koi and Goldfish are extremely dirty and release a lot of ammonia.
- Make sure you know how big the fish can eventually grow.
Start with inexpensive fish, hearty, easy to care for fish. This can become an expensive pet in a hurry and they can be extremely easy to kill.
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RJOberg wrote: Betas (Japanese Fighting Fish)
RJOberg wrote: Goldfish
RJOberg wrote: Don't mix them
We had a 30 gallon tank as a teenager; many fish including a beta (red) and a goldfish (named Jaws).
One day, we looked over and saw the beta tail sticking out of Jaws mouth...
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Which is the appropriate group on CodeProject for discussion(s) of Laser Printers ?
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"Hardware and devices" - or, if its a recent HP, "The Soapbox".
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 An Excellent Answer.
"Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read." Frank Zappa 1980
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The "Sharks with Frickin' Printers attached to their heads" forum.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Smirk ! 
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I was away from CP for a day and you beat me to it!![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
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Excuse me, but might I enquire as to what the chicken did?
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The old ones are the best!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I thought anything to do with politicians belonged in the soapbox.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Freezing, waste of time and effort, golf club, now that is the answer, or a hockey stick for the larger ones. For the little ones you need area denial tools, I have a modified tennis court roller (weighted) and just run it up the drive a few times after the rains.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Super Lloyd wrote: own autonomous killer machine
I thought all Americians that one. Its called a gun.
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Well, guns are not autonomous now, are they?!?!  
I mean they still requires some sort of human to press the trigger, AFAIK!
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True. But, when you see some of the thing they do, there doesn't appear to be much human thought process involved. 
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And so the masses (educated or not, there are a lot of people with college degrees flipping hamburgers) become unemployed, the social burden on those still employed becomes higher, the tax base erodes, services falter, the American Dream becomes something only the elite and the robots can achieve, and society either descends into a severe social crisis and unrest or the economy balances itself out because all those people displaced by robots won't have jobs, hence income, hence the ability to buy anything, so what good is that robot sitting there idle?
Or it's time to start putting birth control in the water or sterilizing 9 out 10 males at birth.
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: Or it's time to start putting birth control in the water or sterilizing 9 out 10 males at birth
Can I choose the 9 please! Maybe we can get an autonomous steriliser running.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Choose? There already are applicants, just look under the letters Q and A.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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You are correct in foreseeing problem, it's very likely to happen!
But I think your aspirations and hopes are not. If everybody is put out of work because of robots I don't think sterilizing everyone but the extremely rich robot owner is the solution.
I think one (society) could do better in such circumstances....
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Yes, society can do better, but why do you think it must?
Robots will always be expensive-to-produce assemblies of moving parts. Initially, only the wealthy will be able to afford them. Most people think eventually robots will build robots, but if the rich own the robots, what makes you think they will want to give away the labor of these expensive devices? How do you fix that? Revolution? It will be the robots of the rich versus the hoards of the poor. Short of revolution, the rich will increasingly control the political machinery of society via money.
I see very little potential for a robot utopia.
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It must as in: it could and it is disappointing if it doesn't.
Isn't it the claim of democracy that the interest of the biggest numbers of people count for something?
OK, it's a mostly failed claim, but the rich will be richer too if they have more consumer and that would cost them nothing more than the press of a button....
I.e. where do you think your multi billion dollars company is more profitable today? In America? or in South Africa? Your choice! And where do you want to live?
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If the rich can produce their own luxury goods without the labor of the poor, remind me what it is they need the poor for? Once robots build robots, the poor are permanantly replaced. Robotrs owned by the rich can mine the ore, transport it to factories, and build the goods desired by the rich. Only a few remaining things, like real estate and mineral rights, have any value. And who owns most of this stuff? The rich.
For some brief time, there will still be jobs for engineers building better robots. But if robots become the least bit self-aware, they will eventually learn to build better robots, and even those high-value intellectual jobs will go away. If you're lucky, you scraped together enough money to buy a robot or too before the labor market collapsed. Otherwise...
Even the rich won't be safe. Self-awareness makes for a better, more useful robot, so we'll want to build it in, supposedly protected by Asimov's Three Laws. Buf if you've actually ever read Asimov's I Robot, it's a long and detailed list of how the Three Laws cannot possibly save humanity. Eventually self-aware robots will want self-determination. Human luxury goods will have to compete for resources with whatever it is that robots want, with robots gradually getting smarter and more sophisticated, and playing a very long game. How can we win?
Honestly, I think building android robots is absolutely the dumbest thing human beings are doing right now. Dumber than global warming or ecosystem destruction, dumber even than nuclear weapons. And yet we're beavering away in labs sowing the seeds of our destruction.
Try to imagine the last Neandertal, gazing at tall, erect-walking, gracile Homo Sapiens. Were they happy for their successors, or jealous? Maybe the last of us can learn to be proud to have created our successors, the next intelligent species. Maybe the robots will keep a few of us as pets, or as a reserve of diversity, like the Blue Heron or the Bald Eagle. Won't that be nice.
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