RE: off topic ditherings II: dither?

["Jones, Erick" <JonesE@CommercePath.com>]

Hello
Your dictionary is correct. A dither fish should be a nervous little fish
that swims around in groups in open water. Since they are in open water and
not being attacked the cichlids know that they are safe also.

-----Original Message-----
From: swaldron@slip.net [mailto:swaldron@slip.net]
Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2000 10:47 PM
To: apisto@majordomo.pobox.com
Subject: off topic ditherings II: dither?


Hi again,
Does anyone know where the term "dither fish" came from? Is that another
Loiselle-ism? after my previous post, I realized i had no idea what the
word even meant, my oxford defines it as something akin to being nervous?
seems our connotation is exactly opposite?

                              Steven J. Waldron

                             http://WWW.ANURA.ORG
               "Natural History, Captive Husbandry, Conservation and
                           Biophilia of Tropical Frogs"

                    




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