RE: Don't Buy Oscar Fish - 6 Reasons Why
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That tank is lovely stanz, I do have two questions though.
What is the type of wood the “trunks” are and what is the fish in the middle? The blue-ish one. I know I know it but the name eludes me at the moment.
What is the type of wood the “trunks” are and what is the fish in the middle? The blue-ish one. I know I know it but the name eludes me at the moment.
One of the advantages of doing water changes almost everyday is that my lawn is extremely green and healthy.
Normally, the place I live is sort of like Australia. We have seasonal rains and then it's very dry the rest of the year. We were on drought condition water restrictions a couple years ago and the only water I was putting on my lawn was recycled fish water and gray water from the washing machine.
I live in a rodeo town on the professional Rodeo circuit and this is Rodeo weekend.
I think I'll go BBQ!
Normally, the place I live is sort of like Australia. We have seasonal rains and then it's very dry the rest of the year. We were on drought condition water restrictions a couple years ago and the only water I was putting on my lawn was recycled fish water and gray water from the washing machine.
I live in a rodeo town on the professional Rodeo circuit and this is Rodeo weekend.
I think I'll go BBQ!
It is indeed. I don't know how I'd clean the substrate, but maybe once every few years might do . . .
Stan's tank is sorta my dream tank, but as a 150 brackish with a school of big Mono sebae and a school of ditherfish.
Catfish on the bottom. I'm not a saltwater guy, but I'm starting to love my brackish tank.
My wife doesn't exactly know about this tank yet, but I already have most of the livestock in growout tanks.
My goal is to consolidate my 10 tanks and 4 sumps into 3 larger tanks of 80g africans, 125g Oscar, and 150g brackish, plus a custom stand alone betta display system. Some of the big fish may spend the summer in kiddie pools while I move my entire world around.
Not all pages line up with each user, depending on what your preferences are set at. Each post has a post # at the top right, what post did state you that it was a mistake, and now you know better? I still don't see that, but would be happy to read that if you can direct me to the comment.
Thank you, I did indeed miss that. It's too bad that you didn't start this discussion out at post # 1, stating that now you know better, and wouldn't have done that, but I appreciate you taking the time to point that out. You didn't mention that until a few posts after post # 33, where you stated quite the opposite, and followed up with links to what I personally consider 5 very piss poor care sheets. And I still don't think for 1 second that a 14" oscar, would do fine, for life, in a 55 gallon tank. It survived for 15 years, and just goes to show how resilient fish tend to be.
IME this hobby, just like most things in life, is a never ending learning curve. Hopefully we can all learn from our mistakes and pass our experiences from those mistakes on to the next generation of fish keepers, so that history doesn't constantly repeat itself.
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Hello; Thanks for going back to find this. I am just catching up on this thread. After being called out on it, had you not done so I was going to find it. You saved me the effort. As you may have guessed there are ongoing hostilities on this fish site. Some go back years.
I do love the irony if one considers the dig about reading for understanding skills.
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