Aside From Coins, Do You Have Any Other Hobbies?

I love antiques of all sorts, and these are real treasure!

 

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Thank you Nathan. I became enamored with these artifacts when I was stationed in Japan (USAF) during the early 1960s - I spent a lot of time in sword shops and at the National Museum learning about, and studying Japanese Samurai swords. I maintain my enthusiasm to this day.

 

Wow,awesome

 

I didnt have a good experience with a fish tank,it got stinky and I knew I was doing something wrong,it is beautiful but lots of work...maybe someday I will try again,now that Im an adult,I would get those glowing fish! E="furryfrog02, post: 3721607, member: 41219"]I also keep fish! I have finally managed to get down to just one tank; a 125 gal freshwater. It is basically self sufficient except monthly water top ups. Very calming to watch them all swim around.[/QUOTE]

 

Oh Im jealous!

 

When i was about 10 I got to watch guppies being born,incredibly cool,i'll never forget it.

 

I do not have any now. However, growing up in the 60's, my Uncle was stationed in Korea. He loved the eclectic, and gave us his tank of 3 Piranha Fish. One was only 7" and the other two were about 12". Fun to feed them raw meat. Never got bit, but cleaning the tank was a careful chore. They were fun to have.

 

New guy here. I like fishing, boating, hunting, metal detecting. I jump around form hobby to hobby.

 

Oh yeah! I remember that. I had a small floating tank that I placed the female in. When she gave birth the babies floated to the bottom through a V insert. I also had thick artificial grass in the larger tank. Both were used to keep the adults from eating the newborns.

 

This is a picture of my last piranha. Had 11 of them at one time. This one lived the longest and since he had been around for about 10 years I had him mounted.

 

Way cool.

LOL, I know you like to run with scissors. I believe that I had let you know that I manufactured scissors for many years. I used to run with them also.

 

I had one of those as a pet once. As soon as a feeder goldfish was placed in the tank I swear you could see the fear on the goldfish. Interesting to watch a piranha feed. Mine actually played with its prey every time.

 

Yes, I remember you said you did. Maybe we could start a club. Ha!

I would put in a handful of goldfish with the one pictured and he would swim around really fast for about 10 seconds and all there would be was pieces of goldfish floating around. He also had a habit of swimming by the plastic plants and without hesitation clip of a stem.

 

I'm sure I mentioned I collect antiquities (though many are now packed away). I am sure others do as well, but that is a separate thread.

 

My mom, teaching in an elementary school, usually had guppies in tanks and the kids would enjoy seeing the mommies giving birth. While waiting for a preggie to deliver, they came in one day to find her floating...dead. My mom used a razor to open her up under some water and several babies lived...born by Cesarean Section.

 

Mine would tease them. He'd swim up behind them and just nip at their tails. He do that four or five times then back off. He would come up from behind them and swim around them. Then all of a sudden he would only bite half of the fish from the rear. then the next thing you saw were a bunch of goldfish scales being spit out through the piranha gills.

 

That's different, neat too.

 

My Piranha Food: live Catfish and hamburger. Yum.

 

I've been watching the History Channel when they had shows on Egypt. Over many years, many artifacts from Egypt are "stolen" or purchased by private individuals. I can't spell the name of the Director of Antiquities, but he is active in repatriating artifacts in the hands of museums and private property. The same is happening in Iraq and other countries in the Middle East. Our soldiers and other allies are slowly by carefully sending them home to sell or store. If they are caught, the will be court-martialed and sent to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. I worked in the Staff Judge Advocates office in the 82nd Airborne Division during the Vietnam fiasco. Many of the military stole artifacts from Vietnam. The minimum sentence they received was 2 years in Leavenworth and a $25,000 fine only if they return their loot. Be careful of your hobbies. Some can get you in trouble.

 

Zahi Hawass
I just saw where some museum had to send back a gold mummy case. I'll look

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...n-worth-4M-returned-Egypt-ended-New-York.html