Inducing Convict to Breed

[MN_Rebel]

I was nodding out of this thread but if you want to alert me, I will respond. Are telling me to grow up? Please answer my question, are you still in H.S and living at your parents or guardian's?
MN_Rebel

Yes I am telling you to grow up if you acts like that way. As for other questions, I don't have to answer them since it has no relevance to the subject in this thread. I'm here to just sharing some experiences with breeding convicts and sharing stories from other hobbiest with convicts.

 

[Wailua Boy]

That's what I thought

 

[RebeccaB]

I was nodding out of this thread but if you want to alert me, I will respond. Are telling me to grow up? Please answer my question, are you still in H.S and living at your parents or guardian's?
MN_Rebel

What relevance do his age have to do with whether or not he knows about fish?

I met a man who was a co-author of a book on Kiillies that I used as a reference when I was raising killies. Bruce Turner -- and he was in college or high school when he wrote it. He was also breeding angel fish commercially in high school, while living with his parents. He was an ichthyologist specializing in ornamental fish when I met him when I was in my forties.

I personally have no interest doing aquaculture, or in the observations of people who are trying to get maximum productivity out of their livestock. Angelfish in ten gallon tanks, eggs pulled for artificial hatching, might as well be battery hens.

(Just remembered also meeting a high school kid in Virginia or West Virginia who was breeding discus and angel fish commercially, so Bruce Turner wasn't the only fish protege I've come across).

 

[Wailua Boy]

Personally, if your not paying your own mortgage/rent and supply cost, you lose some creditability with me. I do acknowledge there are some very knowledgeable young breeders, just not in this case. IMO
R RebeccaB

 

[RebeccaB]

Personally, if your not paying your own mortgage/rent and supply cost, you lose some creditability with me. I do acknowledge there are some very knowledgeable young breeders, just not in this case. IMO
R RebeccaB

Unless you and he have had other interactions that are substantially different from this one, I think you're throwing up dust to keep people from figuring out that perhaps you had unusual fish or have a problem with anyone disagreeing with you. I know some very knowledgeable ichthyologists who've made observations in the wild that I find useful. People had been breeding discus for decades before someone found out that in the wild, they live in shoals out of breeding season and only pair off for breeding. That if one wants to keep them more naturally, the tank needs to be really bigger.

Keeping fish in as normal conditions as possible to make behavioral observations is more interesting to me than stuffing two fish in a small tank and pulling eggs or fry to raise to sell to people who sell them on to people who treat fish like cut flowers and don't keep any of them alive for more than a few weeks. Fish will breed under all sorts of conditions. I had some killies lay eggs in the shipping bag, that old cliche. One pair of convicts waiting to be rehomed in a bare bottom tank with coffee cups for shelters bred in that tank.

 

[Wailua Boy]

I have no idea WTF you are talking about. I listened to this ***a run his mouth in the past and have bit my tongue, now I'm responding.
R RebeccaB

 

[RebeccaB]

You're an unfriendly belligerent lout. I will make sure not to annoy you in the future if this thing has a blocking function.

 

[Wailua Boy]

Check my past posts, I can admit I'm wrong; I'm just calling B.S on this one.

 

[Azedenkae]

Thanks Rebecca and everyone else. Wailua Boy, get out of the thread. You don't need to threaten to nod out. Just do it.

 

[Wailua Boy]

Thanks Rebecca and everyone else. Wailua Boy, get out of the thread. You don't need to threaten to nod out. Just do it.

Do you have any actual information to back up your request?