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Fish FAQ

What Are They?

The little glass fish is our signature item or calling card.

What Do I Do With Them?

Our little glass fish are meant to be kept and enjoyed. Some geocachers collect a fish in each of the available colors.

Our fish are also trackable like Travel Bugs. Their movement can be logged here on this site (no, they are not loggable on geocaching.com).

We enjoy seeing who collects our fish. If you "catch" (grab or retrieve) a fish from a cache please log it here.

In addition, we'd like to see our fish travel far and wide. If you are so inclined, please help our fish "swim through the caches of the world" by moving them to other caches and logging their "release" here.

The History of the Fish

We started leaving our signature glass fish in caches in November of 2003, approximately one month after we began caching. We started numbering the fish at 101. Nearly a year later we brought the tracking software online after entering in a year's worth of fish (whew!).

Over time the glass fish have changed little, however, how we number them and package them has changed. And that is where we stand today.

Tracking Software

The tracking software was developed by Lynn Murphy and is not open source and is currently not available for purchase.

Technology

The tracking software uses the following technologies:

Special Thanks

Special thanks to Mark Yvanovich of Marky and Joani for graciously providing the initial version of the signature tracking software. It provided the inspiration for the current application in use today.


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