Maybe...but there are still people who mutilate their pets...declawing cats, docking tails and cropping ears on dogs...for reasons of convenience or mere vanity.
Never underestimate the human capacity for unthinking uncaring cruelty.
Your least favorite aquarium fish and why
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Maybe...but there are still people who mutilate their pets...declawing cats, docking tails and cropping ears on dogs...for reasons of convenience or mere vanity.
Never underestimate the human capacity for unthinking uncaring cruelty.
Female flowerhorns actually have better configuration to me and are underrated...when they have kok its porportionate. Some variants with the longer or square bodies have smaller kok that looks better to me. The ones with flotation devices can't half see what's in front of them.
I've yet to see a female 'horn with a bulging gut.
While I personally don't have any problems with the 'look all the same just colored differently' thing you describe (that's exactly how it is with all the botia-type loaches I have or will have, after all), I agree with you in that Malawis definitely aren't my favorites either (as my signature would imply, but it goes into little depth)..
You can't put anything that's not from the African Great Lakes with them, you have to deliberately overcrowd them (which is not only a pain in the neck to do maintenance on an overstocked tank, but aggression levels must be constantly monitored too since that's the very point of the overcrowding), you must take great care to ensure the carnivorous and herbivorous cichlids aren't eating each other's food so they don't bloat, you must trouble yourself with numerous trips to and from the pet store on possibly inconvenient dates in order to get more females because the male female ratio didn't work, you must constantly keep an eye on breeding cichlids to keep hybrids at bay, you can't tell whether mouthbrooding females are carrying hybrids, you sometimes can't tell hybrids from pure fish, etc, etc, etc.
For both you and Deadeye, the overall ethical/conservation issue of blood parrots still stands even if the bad quality of life doesn't for some. These should be worth a read:
Frequently asked questions on Parrot cichlids
www.practicalfishkeeping.co.uk
Parrot cichlids — to be cherished or avoided?
www.practicalfishkeeping.co.uk
they breed like rabbits and too aggressive
Them all looking the same isn’t even necessarily the problem, there are cichlids and catfish species that have almost identical looking fish if you take the color away that I enjoy, it only became a problem because there are dozens and dozens of them that all look the same. If you were in a candy shop and had 100 different choices that were all colored differently but looked and tasted the same would you want anymore than 1 or 2 different pieces?While I personally don't have any problems with the 'look all the same just colored differently' thing you describe (that's exactly how it is with all the botia-type loaches I have or will have, after all), I agree with you in that Malawis definitely aren't my favorites either (as my signature would imply, but it goes into little depth)..
You can't put anything that's not from the African Great Lakes with them, you have to deliberately overcrowd them (which is not only a pain in the neck to do maintenance on an overstocked tank, but aggression levels must be constantly monitored too since that's the very point of the overcrowding), you must take great care to ensure the carnivorous and herbivorous cichlids aren't eating each other's food so they don't bloat, you must trouble yourself with numerous trips to and from the pet store on possibly inconvenient dates in order to get more females because the male female ratio didn't work, you must constantly keep an eye on breeding cichlids to keep hybrids at bay, you can't tell whether mouthbrooding females are carrying hybrids, you sometimes can't tell hybrids from pure fish, etc, etc, etc.
For both you and Deadeye, the overall ethical/conservation issue of blood parrots still stands even if the bad quality of life doesn't for some. These should be worth a read:
Frequently asked questions on Parrot cichlids
Not bashing preferences at all, just that what is outlined in the articles is noteworthy.Parrot cichlids — to be cherished or avoided?
Oh, that's what you meant, fishhead.
Perhaps my earlier statement was an understatement, I personally have no problem at all with even dozens and dozens of the fish in a tank looking about the same and just having different colors (because color takes great priority over bauplan for me), but I can certainly see how some would.
As for the thread, I'm curious whether anyone dislikes bichirs as much as I do.
Perhaps my earlier statement was an understatement, I personally have no problem at all with even dozens and dozens of the fish in a tank looking about the same and just having different colors (because color takes great priority over bauplan for me), but I can certainly see how some would.
As for the thread, I'm curious whether anyone dislikes bichirs as much as I do.
On a forum dedicated to predatory fish fans…I doubt it lol
Bichirs=/=representative of all predatory fish. As an example, one of the main reasons of my dislike for bichirs is the danger they would pose to my pictus catfish (another predatory species).
I'd be surprised if there wasn't at least 1 person on here who also found bichirs, at the very least, too drab for their taste.
I'd be surprised if there wasn't at least 1 person on here who also found bichirs, at the very least, too drab for their taste.
Oh yes, Plenty on here who don’t find them appealing in color.
