PADDLE FISH AND STURGEONS

[Moontanman]

How many people have told you on other threads that sturgeon DON'T do well in tropical tanks? Apart from the fact that you can read that in every book and on every internet page. Good gracious some people really don't want to learn.

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Since there are more than one species of sturgeon, ranging in adult size from 12" or so to over 20 feet and living in everything from almost hot black water streams in the sub tropics to arctic waters can you please show me how you can make such a sweeping statement?

 

[4wheelvfr]

Since there are more than one species of sturgeon, ranging in adult size from 12" or so to over 20 feet and living in everything from almost hot black water streams in the sub tropics to arctic waters can you please show me how you can make such a sweeping statement?

Ignorance, that is how.

 

[Umbra]

Ignorance, that is how.

This. The amount of simple misinformation that gets passed around these forums is astounding, especially when something as simple as a geographic range map could completely expose the flaw. This is not even an experience/opinion based argument where one could say "well in my experience...", this is simply misinformation formed through ignorance.

 

[Moontanman]

This. The amount of simple misinformation that gets passed around these forums is astounding, especially when something as simple as a geographic range map could completely expose the flaw. This is not even an experience/opinion based argument where one could say "well in my experience...", this is simply misinformation formed through ignorance.

I agree, far too many who simply do not know but want others to think they know so they pass on any info they have as though it is gospel with out any qualifiers.

A lot of info is either wrong and has always been wrong but no one thinks to research it or someone catches part of a conversation and takes it completely out of context.

For some reason Sturgeons seem to bring out the haters quite fast even the same people will glorify anyone who manages to keep a huge fish in a small tank seem to have a special distaste for anyone who wants to keep sturgeons as though they feel like it's a prize to tell someone they are doing something wrong with one monster fish but they are doing the same thing with another monster fish... classic projection IMHO...

Also you get people who think a category of fish defines all fish in that category, "catfish are freshwater fish" "yes they are" ... sometimes... sometimes they are marine, sometimes they are brackish sometimes they live in cold water and sometimes they live in hot tropical streams and so on.

It's difficult for some people to understand there are exceptions and that Sturgeon is not a fish but a group of different fishes, some of which fall well outside the bell curve for most members of this group...