At what point can you call a person advanced fishkeeper?

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Oddball said:
I see. So, you're substituting 'advanced' for 'experienced' or 'obsessed'.
A fishkeeper with a 2000gal tank and a breeding pair of leopard sharks is no different than a fishkeeper with a plastic Garfield bowl and a breeding pair of bettas. Unless one of them can describe the physiological or behavioral changes that occur in the breeding cycle, what says one fishkeeper is more advanced than the other? The most that can be said is one is more "into" fishkeeping than the other.
I guess I just understand the term 'advanced' as meaning a more in-depth knowledge.
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This is true.

You dont need fish to be advanced either. An advanced expert is a book of knowledge and experience.

Fish collection does not mean anything, whats in your brain does.

Any shmuck can make an aqua site and buy a fish and a 8x8foot pond, but It takes a diehard to get indept and become knowledgable.
 
Oddball said:
There ya' go. I much prefer the word "experienced" to advanced. I'm also a follower of the 'Power of Accidents'. Let me explain... I was able to breed clown knives back in the early 80s. My pair had displayed to each other on many occassions but never closed the deal. While I was routing new plumbing lines around the garage, I set a bunch of pipes inside their tank so they'd be in easy reach for me. Well, as soon as the pipes went into the tank, the male knife started weaving in and out of the pipes and soon the female joined him. I left them alone for a few hours and returned to a nice nest of eggs that the parents were hovering over. See? This accident led to me becoming more experienced in the hobby. After that spawning, I started making a forest of the thick bamboo they used in carpet rolls for my knife tank and got a few more spawns out of them before I had to sell them off due to my new ship deploying.
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u got this on video right???? I would have loved to see that

U just have way too many cool stuff happening in ur tanks. First the Octopus now the clown knifes.
 
Trust: Man, I wish I had this stuff on video. But, look at the era. A video camera was way out of my reach financially. And, the spot light for my 8mm was so bright I could never use it on my tanks. The fish just froze in place because they couldn't see where they were going. I didn't even own a decent SLR still camera with a flash until the latter part of the 80s.
 
A truly "advanced" fish keeper can keep breeding whale sharks, an expert is just someone who was once pert.
 
Fish collection does not mean anything, whats in your brain does.
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MY DADS A DUMB *** WHEN IT COMES TO FISH KEEPING he think that because he kept all kinds of fish he is a pro

back in the 70 he had a 240 gallon tank, he had arows, plecos, bichirs, oscars, you name it he has probably kept it.Now he told me how he kept his fish, we feed them almost excusively feeder,WITHOUT QUARINTINE!! not sure how many he lost because it. He would take rock out of a nearby river and just put em directly in the tank THATS A PATHOGEN NIGHTMARE!!!!, he also told me that he had one of his fish die and he just left it their for the other fish to eat I THOUGHT WTF!!!
he would also change his water every 3 to 6 weeks, WTF!!! I WAS TURNING PALE!!
also whe nhe woould get either tired of his fish or they would get to big he would take em back get store credit and buy a juvinile of the same fish he already returned!!!!

about 7 years ago whe ni was a kid he had a leopard shark and lost it becasue he never washed his hand, the same happened with a stingray and i cried :cry: . OH and another time when i was 10 he bought an octopus, kept it in a 10 gal hexagon, my dad thought it was a good idea to put in the 40 gal in my room with a SNOWFLAKE EEL!!! well just alittle l8er my oct had 5 limbs removed, then he decides to put a glass bowl in the tank for shelter he took refuge in it and dies from stress and starvation.

when i first got my 180 gal when i would feed the fish and after 5 min i would remove the leftovers, he made me leave it in their and told me not to throw it out cause thats waisting money!!!! they'll get it eventually he told me

NOOOOOOOOB,HE'S A :newbie:
 
DeLgAdO said:
MY DADS A DUMB *** WHEN IT COMES TO FISH KEEPING he think that because he kept all kinds of fish he is a pro

back in the 70 he had a 240 gallon tank, he had arows, plecos, bichirs, oscars, you name it he has probably kept it.Now he told me how he kept his fish, we feed them almost excusively feeder,WITHOUT QUARINTINE!! not sure how many he lost because it. He would take rock out of a nearby river and just put em directly in the tank THATS A PATHOGEN NIGHTMARE!!!!, he also told me that he had one of his fish die and he just left it their for the other fish to eat I THOUGHT WTF!!!
he would also change his water every 3 to 6 weeks, WTF!!! I WAS TURNING PALE!!
also whe nhe woould get either tired of his fish or they would get to big he would take em back get store credit and buy a juvinile of the same fish he already returned!!!!

about 7 years ago whe ni was a kid he had a leopard shark and lost it becasue he never washed his hand, the same happened with a stingray and i cried :cry: . OH and another time when i was 10 he bought an octopus, kept it in a 10 gal hexagon, my dad thought it was a good idea to put in the 40 gal in my room with a SNOWFLAKE EEL!!! well just alittle l8er my oct had 5 limbs removed, then he decides to put a glass bowl in the tank for shelter he took refuge in it and dies from stress and starvation.

when i first got my 180 gal when i would feed the fish and after 5 min i would remove the leftovers, he made me leave it in their and told me not to throw it out cause thats waisting money!!!! they'll get it eventually he told me

NOOOOOOOOB,HE'S A :newbie:
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Keep ur dad away from fish.....:screwy:
 
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