I totally agree. Age and income bracket does not have a lot to do with ones ability to care for a fish. Experience and a willingness/ability to provide proper care are much more important. There's a 10 year old that comes in my LFS who knows more about fish than quite a few customers 5 times his age. He has even completed 3 successful breeding projects. I'd be more likely to sell him a difficult fish than a lot of older customers with big checkbooks.jonahonah;2028569; said:very true that we should make sure people realise they are for 'experts' but saying punk kids is a bit of a misnomer as working in the trade myself i find alot of the people fascinated by big teeth and aggression tend to be adults with very little fish experience. Most of the youger people i meet actually listen when i show how much work there is involved. Maybe kids know they are lazy and are willing to admit and the adults dont want to admit to someone younger, namely me, that they will be to lazy and cheap to do what is needed.
I guess my point is that these are fish for those with experience (which I didn't have when I attempted to keep them). But there's no perfect age demographic to it.