Genius or just stupid?
- Thread starter illbethejudge
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If he has enough pothos and light, he doesn't need to run about nitrate. Plants gobble nitrate both to degass for energy and to build their own bodies. !g of plant growth, I think equals 2g of nitrate used up. (don't quote me on the numbers) I don't think the stocking is really possible for other reasons, but if they were goldfish or tilapia, I'd say of course, it makes perfect sense.
I love how everyone immediately jumps on the "this is horrible" bandwagon. Way overstocked, etc. How do you think we kept fish 40 years ago? Tanks were small, yet we still managed to breed large cichlids. Stability is key. If the tank aggression is minimized through overcrowding and the fish are alive.... they are fine. Get a life people. I refuse to show any of my tanks or even comment on 90 percent of the crap I read on the internet. I just survived cancer, so what the hell. Get a life. This hobby is an experiment. Keeping fish in glass boxes is an art. Take a chance, live a little. One fish in a tank is boring.
If you really want to get worked up about something, go to an orphanage in Ethiopia, or see people living in a culvert and crying when it gets bombed in Vietnam because it is their home. Life is too short and too important to get worked up about fish stocking density.
If you really want to get worked up about something, go to an orphanage in Ethiopia, or see people living in a culvert and crying when it gets bombed in Vietnam because it is their home. Life is too short and too important to get worked up about fish stocking density.
Hello; Sorry but I think you are wrong. I started keeping fish over 50 years ago and eventually learned low stocking densities are a better way. May be boring to some but in this area boring is better. In the end we each get to run our tanks any way we wish.
By the way adding the paragraph with the Ethiopia and Vietnam in it is a poor way to make your point. bad things happen in the bigger world but within the smaller world of fish keeping fish stocking densities are worth getting worked up about.
I can appreciate that your point of view is different. We're all entitled to our own opinions. But no one thinks fish tanks are more important than starving children or being in a war.
In fact, I'm sure no one on sports, art, gaming, decorating or cooking forums thinks their hobbies are more important. But that has zero to do with this thread. And believe it or not, people discussing how to take care of fish neither causes wars nor starvation, and if we were to stop discussing fish it will not end wars or starvation.
So your point is moot.
And although our lives may not meet up to your standards, we all have a life. But thanks for your heart felt concern.
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Always loved that argument...
Don't worry about this issue, think of the starving children. As if anything wrong in the world doesn't matter as long as there is something worse tog et worked up about.
Do as you do with stocking, but the internet remembers. if it works great. if you come back in 5 months with questions about why this or that died/happened. You'll get an "I told you so"
Don't worry about this issue, think of the starving children. As if anything wrong in the world doesn't matter as long as there is something worse tog et worked up about.
Do as you do with stocking, but the internet remembers. if it works great. if you come back in 5 months with questions about why this or that died/happened. You'll get an "I told you so"
He is saying that we should kill or fish and ship them to a part of the world where there are starving people so that they can eat them.
I know everyone on here is right about overstocking,but hey its his tank his fish and his money to lose
