i don't buy fish that'll outgrow what i can provide for them but i don't necessarly plan to keep anything for life either. Sometimes i just want to move on to something different and don't want to have 20 tanks in my apartment
fish for life poll
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aclockworkorange;4982672; said:
Agreed 100%. I am a newbie and have a number of that I can not house for life (with my current setups). With less than two years of overall fishkeeping, and ALWAYS purchasing only the smallest of fry up to extremely juvenile specimens, I have not at this point reached any fish with the exception of channel catfish (rehomed to my natural spring fed farm pond 100' + diameter x 15' deep) that have outgrown my current tank setups.
I also think that it is UBER VITAL to point out, as you mentioned above, (and I have bought many "lifetime keeper" fish from PetSmart) EVERY SINGLE SPECIES that I cannot home for life was sold to me as a newbie fishkeeper by "Non-chain LFS" employees fully advised of my tank setups and experience. EXTREME LISTEN UP QUOTE FOR HATERS: Never once has ANY petsmart employee ATTEMPTED to encourage me to take on a fish that I was not FULLY prepared to home for life!!! Sheesh!
Some LFS beauties:
1. "Sure this baby Dovi will be comfortable in a 135G (6x2x2) for life". OK I was not even a member of MFK yet when I got schnockered here!) It is a beast closing in on a foot long now, and I am not far off from needing a new setup to not stunt the baby hulk or (sell it!).
2. "Clown knives are not very active and will almost always remain hidden in a cave. A 55G would work as a specimen tank for one." Well, it does almost always remain at the bottom hidden in it's 6" wide PVC tunnel. That much seems to be true. I have it now in one of my 135G tanks, where it is still a young knife but ~ 24" long and 6+" tall so it has to curl to get in its tunnel. Damn I want to keep this beauty, but I am seriously pressed to either get a new setup (NOT A 55!) to keep this baby for life, or "sell it".
3. "You can keep around three red belly piranha for life in a 20 gallon long tank. They are super slow growers". I have three RBP's that grew from 0.5" to their 6" - 7" range now. They require 50+% water changes DAILY in their 20 gallon setup. I don't have a clue as to how to "proceed" with them!
I have had to turn down at least or not look at buying at least 10 or 20 fish during my fish keeping run in that I hace a 75 gallon and don't want to stress it out to much with my four eight inch comet Goldfish living in it. As for these four Goldfish my current plans in buying new parts for the existing Old 75 gallon and my future set ups from a future 300 to 500 gallon tank still have been thought out with the same four fish living in it. Also two of these Goldfish are four to six years old while the other two are at least over a year old.
Now someone has oftered to give me three four year old Kio and I would like to keep them so I'm planning out setting up a 650 gallon stock tank outside for them which should give me pently of time to set up a new pond or a very large tank for them. But even with these new fish and this new layout I plan to keep these new Kio and my existing four Goldfish possibly in a even bigger fish tank and I do plan on keeping these fish as long as they live.
Even my dreams of a 10,000 fish tank or a 80,000 fish tank have these same existing fish swimming around in it.
Now someone has oftered to give me three four year old Kio and I would like to keep them so I'm planning out setting up a 650 gallon stock tank outside for them which should give me pently of time to set up a new pond or a very large tank for them. But even with these new fish and this new layout I plan to keep these new Kio and my existing four Goldfish possibly in a even bigger fish tank and I do plan on keeping these fish as long as they live.
Even my dreams of a 10,000 fish tank or a 80,000 fish tank have these same existing fish swimming around in it.
i noticed that too lol. i dont know how to keep a "for".bigbadfish711;4984464; said:
also, "it's" means "it is". the correct term its just its, with no '
over all i think this would be a pretty good poll, kind of, if you would have taken the time to spell-check and format everything a little nicer
With this topic I would much rarther keep a super easy to care for fish it's whole life then a fish that I can rest at night knowing that my fish tank and fish systems can handle it for yeast to come that is very hard to take care off. That I end up lying in bed at night worrying about if my tanks or fish systems can handle it and who and how will I give it away to a good home.
I didn't realize there are so many people here with a deep rooted love for perfect grammar, I'll try to work on that for you.
Not going to answer the poll. I keep my fish until I want a new fish. I don't get a RTC and keep it until it gets too big for my tank then try to sell it, but if I want a Oscar then 2 years later I want to change the tank and have african cichlids I offer my Oscar to friends and family and last resort on Craigslist. Hate it or not, It's ALOT easier to change the fish then add 6 more tanks because I want different fish. All in all their fish to me, not dogs or cats.
pshtex;4985360; said:
Dont worrie about it. Theres no law on perfect typing or grammer on the nets.
Like how I totally butched that sentence.
Don't care!