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yeah really, the " good old days" , I feel bad for those fish back then!
 
Yea it does seem that way.I bred a lot of smaller fish in my first fishroom when I was a kid and it seems like I did a lot less tank cleaning.even had a theory on how water"aged" and which fish to breed in it at each stage.

I go with the science I can measure now.
 
carolinafishkeeper;738356; said:
some causes of HIHD is to much consumption of goldfish,especially with RedDevils and Oscars, or poor water quality.:naughty:
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carolinafishkeeper;738603; said:
sorry wrong post :werd:
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I hate to hijack the thread too especially when you posted in the wrong one in the first place but true causes for HITH are unknown, only theories. :)
 
Maybe it has to do with how much attention you pay to detail now as compared to back then.

If you don't know that something is wrong, then "nothing is wrong".

Generally accepted practices have changed a lot since I first got into the hobby 25 years ago. Aquarium water was better if "aged" :grinno: Some aquarists actually bragged about how old the water was in their tank.

Now, I have as much as 100 gallons of African Rift Lake Water, 100 gallons of soft acidic Amazonian water, 100 gallons of sea water, and 300 gallons of RO/DI water heated, conditioned, and on hand all the time and I still don't have nearly enough water to do changes on all of the tanks at the same time. The more you know,the more it owns you :D

I love this hobby so much...
 
I too feel bad for the fish of the past. In highschool I had a 15 gallon tank and kept a few tetras and whatnot. After a while I found them boring but saw all these other cool fish at a LFS (has since been shut down for many reasons). I told them I wanted something interesting and they told me how cool a JD would be and that he'd be perfect in a 15 gal! I hardly ever did water changes, usually just topped up the tank after evap. Maybe a real H2o change every 8-10 weeks. Jack was hungry and mean and seemed fine, but never grew past 5 inches and didn't even develop the beautiful blue spots that most dempseys have. The H2O quality paired with the confined space made him nowhere nearly as attractive or as large as a JD should be. He died of bloat after about 5 years. I decided after that to read up on fish, ended up facinated with cichlids and spoil most of my boys...especially my Jacks, just cause I realized how awful a fishkeeper I was back then. I try to make up for it now with big tanks, 1-2 water changes a week (more for the discus of course) and high end food like Omega One and Hikari. Wish I had taken better care of that old JD. I'll be making up for the mistreatment for the rest of my fishkeeping days.
 
The old days were the best. Definetly not the smartest though. Now that I think about it it prolly wasnt smart to have a 16inch arowana, 12inch Red Devil, 10inch Red Terror, 10inch Texas, 8inch Butti, and alot of other SA/Ca cichlids. Barely ever did water changes unless the water got cloudy. Those were the days. The tank was a 110Gallon, but it was tall so it definetkly didnt have the room mfor al those fish.
 
I was afraid to start this thread!! so happy many of us made the same mistakes!!! Live and learn.
 
There are A LOT more we're just dumb enough to admit it :headbang2 . But I bet at least 75% of the people on here have done a bunch of the same things. Unless they started recently when they were adults.
 
I've known a lot of young people with a LOT more sense than some of the adults I've met in this hobby. I know vendors and/or store owners that routinely break every rule in the book and think they are doing things right. Those are the ones to stay away from ;)
 
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