What's your biggest aquarium fish?
- Thread starter Rizzobitz
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Rescue 3' niger named Gill in a 6x2x2 tank where it had spent 25 years (first 2 pics) and in the current 4500 gal
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Wow it definitely made that tank look small. Good save. Bet it's happy with all that new swimming area.
How ? That's insane 3 feet in 2 feet wide tank. Poor thing . glad oxydora has no deformity
That's how I feel about this beautiful fish. The 2nd and fourth pic lets you see the actual length of that tank
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/threads/my-highback.659021/#post-7421804
That's how I feel about this beautiful fish. The 2nd and fourth pic lets you see the actual length of that tank
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/threads/my-highback.659021/#post-7421804
crazy. Its hardly 2x2
It also really bothers me that members are chiming in on how nice the fish is, but seems to ignore the living condition of the creature
Thank you all.
No major deformations but it's muscles were rather atrophied and the tail is undersized and underdeveloped (and I am not talking about the obviously truncated caudal lobes from being regularly bitten off by fin nipping tankmates). From the prior owner test records for over 20 years, the tank water usually, if not always, contained 0.25-0.50 ppm ammonia. This fish is a living testament to their resilience. The owner is an extremely nice guy, just didn't know (he is a doctor and had a hired help to upkeep the tank).
You may be quite right but I, for one, have learned not to assume anything when seeing such reports, e.g., we don't know how "permanent or long term" that tank is. What if this is a quarantine or even a photo tank?
But even if we did know this was a long-term tank, I too learned to restrain unsolicited critique and I have been slowly learning to rather err on the safe side because it is so easy and tempting and even self-vindicating for me to slide towards an animal-lover-people-hater type of a person. We have plenty of those around (not you!
) but they appear to produce little but hatred.
Black and white thinking is attractive because it is easy, requires no thinking but acting on impulses and instincts, like animals, and we tend to want to simplify things to this extreme condition, most usually throwing away a baby with the dirty grey water. Cutting through the grey area is hard and requires thinking, reading and researching, knowledge, patience, good will, skill, consideration, and care.
In other words, breaking is easy, building is hard. How do you offer a valid critique and build up the person, learn from them and with them? It's almost an art or at least a good piece of work.
My $0.02
No major deformations but it's muscles were rather atrophied and the tail is undersized and underdeveloped (and I am not talking about the obviously truncated caudal lobes from being regularly bitten off by fin nipping tankmates). From the prior owner test records for over 20 years, the tank water usually, if not always, contained 0.25-0.50 ppm ammonia. This fish is a living testament to their resilience. The owner is an extremely nice guy, just didn't know (he is a doctor and had a hired help to upkeep the tank).
You may be quite right but I, for one, have learned not to assume anything when seeing such reports, e.g., we don't know how "permanent or long term" that tank is. What if this is a quarantine or even a photo tank?
But even if we did know this was a long-term tank, I too learned to restrain unsolicited critique and I have been slowly learning to rather err on the safe side because it is so easy and tempting and even self-vindicating for me to slide towards an animal-lover-people-hater type of a person. We have plenty of those around (not you!
) but they appear to produce little but hatred.Black and white thinking is attractive because it is easy, requires no thinking but acting on impulses and instincts, like animals, and we tend to want to simplify things to this extreme condition, most usually throwing away a baby with the dirty grey water. Cutting through the grey area is hard and requires thinking, reading and researching, knowledge, patience, good will, skill, consideration, and care.
In other words, breaking is easy, building is hard. How do you offer a valid critique and build up the person, learn from them and with them? It's almost an art or at least a good piece of work.
My $0.02
