Visually speaking, more than 4 fish in a tank is too much.

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My take is that you have a very analytical mind that processes things one thing at a time. Imagine slowly pouring syrup onto a waffle, one box fills up with syrup and it flows into the next box. Each one filling up one at a time. Now imagine if you pour the syrup too fast, multiple boxes fill up at the same time....your mind for whatever reason doesn't like that or can't handle it.



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ballinouttacntrol said:
My take is that you have a very analytical mind that processes things one thing at a time. Imagine slowly pouring syrup onto a waffle, one box fills up with syrup and it flows into the next box. Each one filling up one at a time. Now imagine if you pour the syrup too fast, multiple boxes fill up at the same time....your mind for whatever reason doesn't like that or can't handle it.



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Bingo.

And i want waffles with strawberries.
 
You brought up zoos. It boils down to you like zoo exhibits, some people love safaris. Personally I can only get up close and personal to an individual specie so many times before I get bored with the marvel and novelty of it want to see it interacting in an environment. Preferably something that resembles it's natural environment. Heck you can throw in raising youngs in a tank/exhibit and it becomes 50% more exciting to me even if it's just a single species. I lust to see animals interacting. Not stagnant and stall


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ballinouttacntrol said:
You brought up zoos. It boils down to you like zoo exhibits, some people love safaris. Personally I can only get up close and personal to an individual specie so many times before I get bored with the marvel and novelty of it want to see it interacting in an environment. Preferably something that resembles it's natural environment. Heck you can throw in raising youngs in a tank/exhibit and it becomes 50% more exciting to me even if it's just a single species. I lust to see animals interacting. Not stagnant and stall


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True, but what if that exhibit had various animals that had no business being closely confined? And not because of geographic location, but because of the fact that gorillas and hippos, though both found in Africa, don't like to play together?

If I filled my tank with Oscars and Midas and whathaveyou from the amazon, or where ever they are from :) You probably wouldn't see them hanging out together if you went snorkling. Maybe you would, but you get my drift.
 
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True, but what if that exhibit had various animals that had no business being closely confined? And not because of geographic location, but because of the fact that gorillas and hippos, though both found in Africa, don't like to play together?
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I don't create tanks like that myself and to be honest....since I don't care about cichlids and bass and gars and all the other popular stuff on this site....I don't come across a lot of these tanks and im sure as heck not creating them. Same with my zoo experience.

I do love the tanks with a community though far better then 4-5 random large fish in an empty bare bottom looking like a holding tank lol

So in some ways, I can relate to you. Just not for the same reasons

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I don't create tanks like that myself and to be honest....since I don't care about cichlids and bass and gars and all the other popular stuff on this site....


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I like those individual fish, if kept solely, but together, they blend into a grey color. But to each their own of course. And I respect the ability to keep monster fish together, but again I can't process and appreciate them in a group.

I'm explaining myself poorely and I sound anti-monster tank, which im not, far from it.

I'll put it this way, i love to see a monster black Piranha kept in a large tank with a single outstanding piece of driftwood with some java fern tied to it, and a sand substrate and few round boulder type stones and some spot LED lighting and a school of lemon tetras vs. a collection of giant fish with lots of driftwood and a bunch of big plants. personal choice of course, but there must be a reason I prefer it. Like you said maybe I cant process all the fish together and appreciate them like I should. Maybe they lose individuality - to me - and that's the art.
 
^ I agree with you 100% on your preference.

Years ago when we had this discussion I felt you were implying you liked one giant fish in an overfiltered bare bottom. Over the years I've picked up that your preference is actually much closer to mine then the original impression


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ballinouttacntrol said:
^ I agree with you 100% on your preference.

Years ago when we had this discussion I felt you were implying you liked one giant fish in an overfiltered bare bottom. Over the years I've picked up that your preference is actually much closer to mine then the original impression


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Indeed. :) Bare bottom is not my cup of tea.
 
I disagree. That’s a pretty myopic perspective. What about schooling fish? A ball of 30 fish zooming around as one is something you can’t recreate with just a handful of fish.

Then there is the whole screensaver view.. taking the whole thing in as a whole.. layers of different fish moving at different angles… I could go on and on….
 
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