The difference between a tropical/cold water fish hobbyist and...
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I'm a fan of this, who doesn't want some random chickens running around, it'd kind of be like living on Kauai; plus if you got hungry you could train like Rocky and chase one down.
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I will have to agree with what has already been said: I think a lot of times the "casual fish keeper" ends up buying a tank and stock purely for someone else in their house hold. I was one of these people not too many years ago, my wife, girlfriend at the time wanted a tank and the 10 gallon we bought spawned into what she now calls my obsession.
As far as buying a tank and fish purely for decoration, well thats along the same lines as buying a painting just because it matches your couch.
Well a tank as decoration is a short lived one. It looks nice until the fish kill each other,out grow the tank or stop showing good colors because of water quality. It like buying a flower and not doing anything with it and it dies. My tank is decorative but maintained
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x2 I feel ya' on that one!
Trust me, coming from a guy who has a 7' waterfall in his living room, I definitely understand the difference between decorative maintained tanks and those used purely for decoration. I am all for nicely decorated/scaped/designed tanks, as long as someone is properly taking care of them.
Haha this literally made me lol cause I thought about when I was in petco a while back I was getting some feeders for a stubborn hoplias curupira that I bought from a friend and I wanted to get him fat before I started starving him to train him off live well I'm standing at the feeder tank trying to figure out what size debating on if certain feeders were to bigger for him so the girl standing there goes what are you feeding oscars like she new everything all cocky and like she knew all fish and everything about them I said no and didn't tell her what I was feeding and told her I'd take a dozen medium size feeders so as she's netting the fish she reluctantly turns and go so what are you feeding? are you feeding cichlids? Jack Dempsey green terrors stuff like that ? I look at her with a "are you serious" look on my face..i said no Hoplias curupira and she instantly look down finish netting the fish and didn't say another word lmao I love when stuff like that happens haha it is the funniest thing the look on her face when I said that and the redness she got on her face plus how fast she looked down I almost burst out laughing in the store I couldn't hold back the smiles and chuckles though lol got love unknowledgeable people that think they know it all lol
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That hapens to me sometimes when i see people dont take the time to research and make a good decision before buying a fish, they just see a cool lookin fish at the lfs and say "i'll take the yellow one" not even knowin if the fill will be too big for their tank in a month or if it will be killed by their other fish, to them theyre "just fish" andif one dies they can always go get another.
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Yup. They look so confused when I tell them the stock on my tanks like they are amazed that those are fish names, they think my jag is an exotic fish lol
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This happens almost every time I go into a chain fish store. Luckily there's an lfs that the workers know what they're talking about and care about the fish, not just money.
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Haha doesn't even surprise me they think your jags exotic haha that's hilarious
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5 months ago, I bought a 20 gallon tank and stocked it with 6 fancy goldfish. Guess, by that time I am simply an impulse buyer and casual fish keeper. Long time dream for me, so I did a trial if I can do it. But I am a research kind of guy and it didn't take long before I have a 125 gallon for a few more goldfish. Within a month of that, I got bored and frustrated and went to monsters. In 2.5 months, I have a customized 250 gallon running with every equipment and fish I researched here in MFK. All these means is we cannot go into the hobby without having the interest and jumping into it, hence, we must all pass the casual fish keeper stage. After the time when our brain is frying with just fish, we go into the dark pit that is called monster fish keeping. Heck, my wallet hurts now every time I see an LFS. You are a hobbyist when time comes that you enjoy even the maintenance.
