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Okay, I love these two channels, and I love the ocean as much as the next person, but they do shows on the ocean all the time---can we get them to do shows on freshwater bodies and the fish that live there?

You know, Lake Malawi, Lake Tanganyika, Amazon River---whitewater, blackwater, etc., and any other locale where freshwater aquarium fish live. I would love to see how my fishy friends' wild cousins live.

How 'bout it? Let's start a lobbying campaign shall we?

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~~Melissa~~
"Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder."

Discovery already has something on the Amazon River called "Amazon Abyss".

It's pretty good. I liked it because it had fish I have heard of before and some of them I actually know stuff about.

Just saying

I dont have Sky

Last edited by tiny_clanger at 23-Dec-2005 13:47

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I like to think that whoever designed marine life was thinking of it as basically an entertainment medium. That would explain some of the things down there, some of the unearthly biological contraptions

I saw that Amazon Abyss thing. We got to see altum angels, angels, neon tetras, plecos, other catfish and tetras, BGKs and other knives.

It would be cool to see more underwater footage of our familiar fishy pets. Still, something tells me that the network execs aren't really gonna care about what a few fish geeks would enjoy seeing.

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They shade the glow of it with their mossy-misty costumes,
They wear masks of silk, porcelain, brass, and silver,
So as not to mislead with their own, ordinary faces.

theres also the "jewles of the rift" show its realy cool ,and has some great parenting footage like mouthbrooders and ry, shellies, some cool males flashing off their colors, but yea, i would love them to do a show on bettas i would have to tape something like that

Whitewater's gonna be quite a hassle to film .

In any case, I thought Amazon Abyss was "eh". The information was okay, though I thought there was far too much focus on creating hype when in fact it could be documenting wildlife. The narrator spent literally like, minutes, discussing the deadly nature of the jau, when in fact, they are well tempered and even peaceable towards anything that won't fit in their mouths. I also laughed out loud when he started rambling on and on about how potentially deadly doradids were when that megalodoras ran into the camera. Don't even get me started on the hemicetopsis.

I give it a 7/10.