How skilled are you in fish keeping?

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how skilled are you in fish keeping...

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a keeper of a few exotic fish .... and well stated point.. anyone can go out and buy them.. but to keep them long-term is the accomplishment. I find it hard to agree with what "formal training" consistutes as some of the most knowledgeable people in most fields I've run into where not book or lab taught, but field taught. Not to say there are no experts that started with book work, and lab work. "Formal Education" is but a peice of the puzzle, not the entirety.

I re-homed or left unstocked tanks with your "average" fish to persue more challengeing species. without a solid base to work off of I know I wouldn't be able to have success in my husbandry practices.

With few exceptions. If someone claims to know everything or be an "Expert" about everything in the hobby, more often then not they are full of BS.
 
I'd rate my self knowing what I'm doing in my department and with my type of fish I'm keeping with the super sized Goldfish.

I know what I'm doing in that I work out the best I can do with the limited resources that I have.

I will move up one or two levels though when I build my own tank though.
 
I voted Master Fish Keeper! :D

The truth is, I don't consider myself an expert and I've been doing this way too long (30 years of nearly uninterrupted fishkeeping) to still be "In Training". :ROFL:
 
n00b here...

Think of a "cichlid guy" from 10-15 years ago, he couldn't even nail down a genus now if he isn't keeping up with the latest classifications (was mostly Cichlisoma back then but he might have been a "master" and right at the time).. My knowledge is based on a collection of experience, information gathered from various literature and places including MFK.. How much I don't know is what keeps me in this hobby.
 
I am without a doubt the greatest, most skilled, most knowledgeable, and most serious fishkeeper of all time...... who lives in my house!:D

In all seriousness, I've been keeping fish over 35 years from coldwater, fresh and salt, but there's not a day that goes by that I don't learn something suprising and new. I'm also a guitar player and I find fishkeeping is very much the same. The more you know, the more there is to learn. Zen guitar is one of my favorite books in the world and one of the most important principles in it is the beginners mind. The willingness to learn from an open mind is the key and will keep you on the right path.......

I'd consider myself an eternal student and enthusiast.... expert? Nah, that would mean there's not much left to learn. I believe I'm at the point where there is so much left to learn, and that really keeps my passion alive.
 
I think we are all noobs here. Every single day which we are in the hobby, we would learn something new. As the hobby evolve, we would just keep learning more stuffs and gaining new experiences. And evolution, well it would never stop.
 
I have been keeping fish for over 45 years. More fish have died premature deaths in my hands than most anyone on this forum. What does that make me? .....don't answer that question. lol.
 
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