I get the same type of problems, I take care of a few fish tanks at the elementary that i intern at. One teacher was keeping a red eared slider that is probably 5 inches across in a 10g with 20 rosy red minnows that she had bought as feeders. She was a regular 10g hanging filter that obviously wasnt meant to do the job with a turtle, and she hadnt vacuumed the substrate since she go the thing like 9 months ago. The water was so cloudy you could hardly see the turtle. After a few weeks of massive water changes and relocating the majority of the minnows you can actually see the turtle. And she was completely confused as to why the turtle wasnt eating the fish that were much too large for him and last week she bought turtle pellets that were also way to big for him. She keeps telling me that he is a "big" turtle so he should be able to eat them. And I keep telling her that if the food is the size of his head and larger it will not fit well down his throat. They went of school break for 3 weeks and didnt clean or feed the poor things. Not to mention her other 40g hex tank with cold and warm water fish mixed in with no heater. I have no idea how these animals are still alive. So I go in twice a week and do maintenance in the effort to make them as comfortable as possible.
Do they put any thought into this?
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People are under the impression that fish are the easiest animals to keep.
They dont need walks, they dont need grooming, the dont need veterinarians, they dont need to be trained etc. etc.
So they get them for their kids or for themselves expecting an easy pet.
Goldfish in a bowl.
What they get is a cloudy gross, algae covered, smelly tank with a fish that has fin rot.
And its hard to blame people sometimes. They may actually go out looking for informed people to talk to, but go to Wal-Mart and talk to Steve, in the fish section that tells them and Oscar will do fine in a 5 gallon tank.
Some people to try, but are horribly missinformed.
And then, some people are low browed knuckle dragging troglodites that dont know a hammer from a surface to air missile.
They dont need walks, they dont need grooming, the dont need veterinarians, they dont need to be trained etc. etc.
So they get them for their kids or for themselves expecting an easy pet.
Goldfish in a bowl.
What they get is a cloudy gross, algae covered, smelly tank with a fish that has fin rot.
And its hard to blame people sometimes. They may actually go out looking for informed people to talk to, but go to Wal-Mart and talk to Steve, in the fish section that tells them and Oscar will do fine in a 5 gallon tank.
Some people to try, but are horribly missinformed.
And then, some people are low browed knuckle dragging troglodites that dont know a hammer from a surface to air missile.
actually fish can be one of the easiest pets to own if you know what your doin my dog and cats are more work than my fish most of the time
i go all out for everything my cats or should i say my girls cats drive me crazy plus my girl is pregnant so she cant clean the litter box untill after she quits breast feeding we have 3 litter boxes well 4 if you count the one for my roomates cats because including her cat we have 4
