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www.noclownsin.cube.net is inching ever closer to being ready to publish on-line. We need a photo of a "big" clown to marry to a small tank. We will take creative license with the photo. but, the better the photo--the more license we can take--lol.

Anyone have a crisp, well lit photo we could use to help build a lgogtype around?

thanks,
sully

http://forums.loaches.com/viewtopic.php?t=2625

Have a look at that and pm Emma

I just added a "crisp" picture to the profile, but it's not a big fish.

I made up the smiley picture. It could always be edited to and a frame put around it to represent a tank. Could make a nice Logo. Emma's call though. Her original photo which I played around with. She has her fish very well trained

Martin.

I appreciate the changes you are trying to bring about here, but I'm afraid I'm not happy to let my photos be used for this project. I cannot agree to having any pictures of my large clowns super imposed into small tanks - sorry.

I have a big poster in store underneath our clown loach sale tanks that is entitled "Clown Loaches - Think Before You Buy", which has a photo of one of my large clown specimens (which came out near enough to actual size) and it didn't need playing around with because the sheer size of it underneath the little 2.75" clowns has a lot of impact. The rest of the poster goes on to explain how to keep clown loaches properly and the reasons why we will not even sell juveniles for tanks less than 4ft long.

Good luck with your campaign,

Emma

Thanks anyway, Emma. We'll find one.

As a retailer who is the epitome of the type of fish care we'd all like to see in stores, you are already way ahead of the places we are hoping to influence.

If we can bring one of the major chains in the US closer by simply supplying correct information in their in store signs...well, it's a small step, but it's a beginning.

Maybe we can get them to make up a poster for their store...

Now that's a BRILLIANT idea Emma!



A picture is worth a thousand words.



Get that Goldfish out of the bowl too!

Martin.

Emma Turner wrote:I appreciate the changes you are trying to bring about here, but I'm afraid I'm not happy to let my photos be used for this project. I cannot agree to having any pictures of my large clowns super imposed into small tanks - sorry.

I have a big poster in store underneath our clown loach sale tanks that is entitled "Clown Loaches - Think Before You Buy", which has a photo of one of my large clown specimens (which came out near enough to actual size) and it didn't need playing around with because the sheer size of it underneath the little 2.75" clowns has a lot of impact. The rest of the poster goes on to explain how to keep clown loaches properly and the reasons why we will not even sell juveniles for tanks less than 4ft long.

Good luck with your campaign,

Emma

I wish I lived a few thousand miles away from where I do so I could come buy loaches at your store... You obviously care more about them than quite possibly anyone I've yet to meet....

Crappy for me because you're so far away but great for you

Martin Thoene wrote:Now that's a BRILLIANT idea Emma!



A picture is worth a thousand words.



Get that Goldfish out of the bowl too!

Martin.

Actually that goldfish is dead. It was the record holder for the oldest fancy gold fish on record at I believe 47 years...

Harold had that up in his 'office' behind the desk 2 years back

Martin Thoene wrote:I just added a "crisp" picture to the profile, but it's not a big fish.

I made up the smiley picture. It could always be edited to and a frame put around it to represent a tank. Could make a nice Logo. Emma's call though. Her original photo which I played around with. She has her fish very well trained

Martin.

I once trained a fish to go get me a beer from the fridge but he never made it back



Im here Tuesday's till 10 folks

Go and get me a beer then...

emma,
i understand the reticence. What if we just used a big devil so people appreciated the size they can attain? Might be as effective.
sully

sully wrote:emma,
i understand the reticence. What if we just used a big devil so people appreciated the size they can attain? Might be as effective.
sully

Hi sully,

I have had another think about this and am happy to let you use my photographs as long as they are used in their original state (no artistic messing about with them, 'adding them to small tanks' etc) and that you state that the photographs are copyright Emma Turner.

Here is a copy of the poster that we have had up in our store for a few years now, to give you an idea of how much impact the photos have without any fiddling with:

When printed out, the small fish comes out at approximately 2.75" which is the minimum size I will import my clown loaches at. Stuck underneath the stock tanks, people can make the connection of the size of the little fish pictured with the size of the fish in the tanks. Then they can see the 9" fish below (which is not even one of my biggest specimens any more ) and see the point I am trying to make.

I think Marge & co would be happy knowing that they might be helping to save hundreds or thousands of other clown loaches from misery or death.

Emma

I know I wish I could aquire clowns from you...have had little luck with local stock here in the us so far.

That is a great poster, Emma. I just wish every store had something like that.

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