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I think when you stop learning... you start taking your knowledge for granted. Thats a general belief in life for me. not just the hobby. I always hate to lose a fish, but I always try and learn why, how, and what I coulda done better, or instead. And yes I still make bonehead mistakes in the hobby, keeping a fishtank is like brushing my teeth. somethign I've done so long. I don't think about set-up, filtration, lighting, compatability much anymore. It's not arrogance, it's just tapping into the stored bank and rifleing threw it. If I don't know something I ask. TBH I'm use to being the one asked.. not vise versa.. and I've met alot of people on here I would gladly ask questions of certain species about.

You will never know everything. and the people who say they do, are tbh the last ones I usually listen too. And not because i don't belive what they are saying, but because they are talking in absolutes. there will always be exceptions to every rule, and unforseeable variables needing to be taken into account. So to speak in absolutes, shows a blindness of invention and understanding of something so indepth that variables tossed into an equation are worked with, around, amidst, ect..

i dont like looseing fish here in australia you can melt mate and the mani reason that i loose fish is high temp and low o2 when i am not home (all day)(thats when its hot mate)

You can never stop learning. No one knows it all even if they think they do.

im a musician so ill tell you the same thing i think about when people think they have learned everything they can learn in music and their instrument. You never stop learning, at all, there is no practice makes perfect, practice makes improvements and to be the best you need some losses along the way to LEARN.

In fish keeping , yes ive had the DUH moments when i notice a fish death over something basic in fish keeping that i overl ooked, as easy as not floating a bag. Even the most advanced fish keeper here, with all their text book and individual fish knowledge will at some point lose a fish to some stupid mistake.

Ive been keeping fish for 4-5 years now, and I still learn something new everyday. I didn't join this site till year 4, thats when I really started learning a ton.

same here ive kept fish for over 20 years always learning somethin new and sometime learning from someone new also

Example:
i know a local cichlid farmer, probably the best in miami that even breeds pacu...something not every aquarist can or knows how to even do and he does it, you would think this man knows everything possible and there is no learning for him, hes been breeding 100s of varieties of cichlids and koi and pacu for years and i show up one day and teach him how to breed bristenose pleco something he never new how and was totally amazed that i knew...amazing huh....i actually taught him something that day...

Oddball;3672033; said:

I have 2 related degrees in this hobby and I've been into fishkeeping for 46 years. I've alsohad and have a related business to this hobby. One thing I don't have is the inkling that there isn't more for me to learn in this hobby. Everyday is a reminder that theres more to learn and I'm having fun with it all.

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hey oddball can you tell me what those degrees are? is like like marine bio or something?