tank ethics

[straitjacketstar]

On top of everything else everyone's posted:

I ment when a CA/SA fish is made to tolerate salty water. Or a African that is ment to live in salty water is put in straight fresh water.

People who think Africans need "salty" water. A complete misunderstanding, mistaking the hard mineral condititions rift-lake Africans need and saline conditions.

People "stuck" on rules/facts/info. Some folks just don't realize that what's true today may not be so years down the road.

People who obtain fish for "fashion". Whatever's in.

People who pass along heresay as tried and true or personal info.

People with "fish superiority complex". My fish art better than thous, kinda thing.

People who don't take anyone's advice cause they think they know it all.

People who mutiliate fish.

People who allow fish to suffer needlessly. If you don't feel like doing waterchanges, spending money on food/filtration/proper housing don't get the damn fish.


For everyday life, people in general.

 

[carolinafishkeeper]

i hate computer thugs, you know the ones that will "kick your azz" over the world wide web

 

[VVateverzYo]

great thread every1s angry

 

[Nova 8]

People who think Africans need "salty" water. A complete misunderstanding, mistaking the hard mineral condititions rift-lake Africans need and saline conditions.
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I dont keep rift lake cichlids so I have never looked into it, to my understanding the lakes were salty but I must be wrong, I have always read the bags and they say "rift lake salt" so I just assumed. I never advise people about them as I don't know and I dont keep them so I have no need to have knowledge on them, now do I. But as they say, you learn something new everyday.

To keep on track, People who over feed their fish and then go one worse and leave food floating in the tank.

 

[straitjacketstar]

People who think Africans need "salty" water. A complete misunderstanding, mistaking the hard mineral condititions rift-lake Africans need and saline conditions.

I dont keep rift lake cichlids so I have never looked into it, to my understanding the lakes were salty but I must be wrong, I have always read the bags and they say "rift lake salt" so I just assumed. I never advise people about them as I don't know and I dont keep them so I have no need to have knowledge on them, now do I. But as they say, you learn something new everyday.

To keep on track, People who over feed their fish and then go one worse and leave food floating in the tank.

No biggy. If you were the type that insisted they need salt cause everyone sells "cichlid salt" just for them you'd fall under that "know it all/heresay/don't take advice" person that no one likes . An open mind is an asset, the more people who have that the better.

I'm with you on the food issue. I don't understand how someone can see a ton of food just floating around or lying on the bottom for hours and think "that's a good thing!".

 

[Nova 8]

No biggy. If you were the type that insisted they need salt cause everyone sells "cichlid salt" just for them you'd fall under that "know it all/heresay/don't take advice" person that no one likes . An open mind is an asset, the more people who have that the better.

I'm with you on the food issue. I don't understand how someone can see a ton of food just floating around or lying on the bottom for hours and think "that's a good thing!".

Really I should have know about the salt, as I have read a bit, very little but still a bit, and don't remember reading about salinity but rather high pH and hard water (meaning lots of dissolved mineral) I should have put two and two together and got 4 instead of 3 like I did.

As for the food, I went on holiday for ONE week, and in ONE week my little brother feed a ENTIRE bag of Hikari to my fish, well kinda feed a whole bag and a months worth of frozen cubes. 1/2 the bag was floating on top of the water, couldn't see a inch into the tank. But once I did several waterchanges I found another 1/4 of the hikari and 2 1/2 weeks worth of frozen cubes. This is quite surprising since I left instructuons on feeding the frozen cubes and pre-bagged hikari for each meal. I found out that he showed his friend that one of my Oscar jumps out of the water to eat cubes, he showed them many times. He also though they were hungry as they ate the hikari quickly, Oscars do that.


Another one, People who use their fish as merely show pieces at parties, feeding them all types of crap, or getting aggressive to feed other fish to so they can show off.

 

[straitjacketstar]

I knew a guy that fed chicken, pizza and wine to his goldfish.

 

[Epic Fabrications]

To keep on track, People who over feed their fish and then go one worse and leave food floating in the tank.

My fish dont leave any excess food, no matter how much I overfeed them.

But my girlfriends gravel is covered in decayed flakes for weeks at a time. she alway says "dont worry! the pleco will clean it up." Thats why I left her.

 

[cichlaguapote]

People who beg for datnoids and are "in love with them" and they only really want to copy all the people on the internet. Im not saying that two tanks can't have the same tank, but only buy a datnoid to "fit in". Those people are fake.

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LMAO Add to that people who all over every rare color morphed fish that they don't even care for and would probably never own in it's normal color morph..

 

[CORVETTE]

I like the Petland kid who sold my neigbor kid a 5" phiranna for his ten gallon tank. i'm going over to have a little talk to him today. The kid next door said he even asked him the size of the tank, but one would be alright.