There...I condensed it and kept it topical as the rest of the rant does not pertain to me or what we are talking about...So you say all the Asian websites call dats tigers but that only shows that the term is just a popular slang name that caught on and stuck.Don't get me wrong,I am not knocking you for your choice of name for our esteemed fish.I saw your sig and wondered about it untill you made a reference to it in a recent post.Then I had to pick your brain about it.T1KARMANN;4853012; said:Tiger shovel nose
Tiger Oscar
Tiger barb
African tiger fish they all use tiger in the name
Many years ago before half of you never even knew what a tiger fish or dat was I spent years on Asian websites mainly arofanatics long before MFK was even born
What I did was read and research tigers for month so I could tell the difference between all of the tigers so yes I didn't need to as is this tiger ST IT NGT NTT or AT I knew because I done the research on fish I intended to keep for a long time unlike most of the people who use the dat section who don't seam to know what they are buying they could be buying a fish that grows to 5 ft for all they know which is wrong people should do the research and know everything their is to know about that fish before bring it home
On all the Asian websites dats have always been called tigers
T1KARMANN;4853012; said:Tiger shovel nose
Tiger Oscar
Tiger barb
African tiger fish they all use tiger in the name
Many years ago before half of you never even knew what a tiger fish or dat was I spent years on Asian websites mainly arofanatics long before MFK was even born
What I did was read and research tigers for month so I could tell the difference between all of the tigers so yes I didn't need to as is this tiger ST IT NGT NTT or AT I knew because I done the research on fish I intended to keep for a long time unlike most of the people who use the dat section who don't seam to know what they are buying they could be buying a fish that grows to 5 ft for all they know which is wrong people should do the research and know everything their is to know about that fish before bring it home
On all the Asian websites dats have always been called tigers
It's ment to be good luck to mix certain types of fish in the one tank
Dragon = ASian Arowana
Tiger = what you call dats
Flying phionx = flagtail
Majestic shelter = not sure of the name of this fish as it has never interested me
Do a bit of reading on tigers before buying them then you won't look silly when you buy a thin bar and start a thread saying I have just got my 1st ST
The only types of tigers ANYONE may have problems telling apart are IT and ST a chimp could tell the rest apart
Even with a few hours research you should be able to tell IT and ST apart
Is a few hours research to hard to do if you are that interested in a fish that you are thinking of keeping for a long time
Most tigers come from Asia and they call them tigers so I will continue to call them that not some trailer trash name like dats
And I know my spelling and grammar sucks so no need to point it out

T1KARMANN;4854175; said:Again I state it's a open forum so I can say what I want within reason
If someone show their tank and it's 2 ft with a 10inch red tail cat in it with multi colour gravel plastic plants and a ship wreak must we all say nice tank and a great fish I think not that tank owner will get ripped to bits for keeping a red tail cat in a 2 ft tank what's the difference
That same person who keeps the red tail cat gets ripped into for the fish he's keeping but it's ok to rip into him but it's not ok to rip into someone keeping a man made fish like a parrot
Double standards
People don't like people keeping red tail cats in small tanks I don't like people keeping parrots what's the difference