Fish died in our hobby is not uncommon at all but these anglers took me over a year to get them, it's not super rare but quite depend on season to season and they are all wild caught.
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I'm sorry for your losses Viktor.
But damn, threads like this is why I love you. You're a paragon of integrity in this hobby, and you're one of our most valuable members. I appreciate everything you do.
But damn, threads like this is why I love you. You're a paragon of integrity in this hobby, and you're one of our most valuable members. I appreciate everything you do.
Near the start of the thread it seemed that the majority of fish that were dying were more skin like then scale like in nature. To me that's a common indicator that the medication was overdosed. I'm sorry for you losses.
Ouch, seeing that big bambusa there was tough but it's for certain Irma could have been much worse.
Could not agree more.
Could not agree more.
Thanks, Rob! I beg to differ. Also, you leave me no space to grow. From this pinnacle all the ways lead only down. Therefore, you need to offer some critique now
Thanks, Rob! I beg to differ. Also, you leave me no space to grow. From this pinnacle all the ways lead only down. Therefore, you need to offer some critique now
Oh, you've got plenty of room to grow. The fact that you're pretty much setting the standard for scientific integrity on this forum isn't really debatable. There's a reason I have tried several times over the years to make you part of the staff LOL. The fact that you politely declined so you could focus on the hobby only makes me respect you more.
That's more like it, Chief!
I see your angle but I must reply I see it a bit differently. I don't see it as a matter of integrity only... but also of common sense. I don't subscribe to the notion that only showing your successes makes you look good in the eyes of others. It makes you look insecure and selfish, is all.
We all know how keeping fish goes. It turns less than pretty on a dime, left and right and center, up and down and middle. We learn from our fishes' diseases and deaths, sad as it is, but it is true, I believe. We learn more critical knowledge and skills from hardships than from anything else taken together and multiplied by a 1,000,000.
It is the same in our non-fish lives too, btw.
I always freely admitted that the number of fish that perished in my so to speak "care" is equal or greater than the number I keep now. And I got a thousand or more. Lost count long ago.
So, again, it is not only integrity but really, common sense too... and also a desire to share your knowledge gained through pain and losses, so others, wise enough to learn from fools like me, could avoid the same pitfalls.
I like the saying that a fool cannot learn anything from a wise man but a wise man can learn even from fools, hahah
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So many times we come across threads like "Look y'all, I got me a cool fish". Then these threads die off abruptly without explanation, usually much sooner than later, leaving one wondering. Most likely, I think, those fish perish (I believe we all know that!) and we don't know why and we don't learn why. It makes me sad. Losing a fish is sad. Losing knowledge that could so obviously help your peers, the next guy in line, etc. - double sad.
That's why I am saying. Integrity - yes. Common sense too (my interpretation). And a desire to be helpful to your brother and sister.
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