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What Are Some Of Your Pet Peeves Within The Hobby?
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Jdm, I mean really?
Difficulty of getting most gar
This one is for the pet trade in general. Peoples willingness to throw fellow pet owners under the bus, because it "doesnt affect me". And anyone willing with open arms to let the government into our hobby in any way. Bans, laws permits etc. Some moron that doesnt know his bum from a hole in the ground has no right telling me what I cant or cant keep, nor how I should do it.
Difficulty of getting most gar
This one is for the pet trade in general. Peoples willingness to throw fellow pet owners under the bus, because it "doesnt affect me". And anyone willing with open arms to let the government into our hobby in any way. Bans, laws permits etc. Some moron that doesnt know his bum from a hole in the ground has no right telling me what I cant or cant keep, nor how I should do it.
I hate tanks where there is no attempt to make anything look natural. Crazy colored gravel, ugly tape-on backgrounds, stupid-looking ceramic decorations, etc. You get the idea.
I.E. most tanks that people keep when they view fish as disposable pets and don't know what the nitrogen cycle is
ooo I love a good rant!!
I agree with the above sentiment, especially small tanks with a huge internal filter, big heater etc taking up half the tank space.
I also hate that most people make little or no effort to learn and use Latin names (and being a really picky bastard I hate it when people capitolise the species name! It is Genus species, always lowercase for the species!!!!)
I hate just about anything artificial looking in tanks (pirate ships, fluro gravel, plastic plants etc etc). Similarly I'm not relly a fan of the empty glass box look, although I prefer that to pink gravel and a sunken ship...
I hate tanks that are taller than they are wide, just looks silly and two-dimensional to me, yet they seem to be the most popular tanks.
I hate seeing tanks with a total mish-mash of fish, where no planning has gone into the stock list (like having 2-5 each of half a dozen different schooling fish in a community tank), and I'm not really a fan of mixing rift lake and new world cichlids.
I hate seeing clown loaches kept in small groups (<10) in small tanks (<6').
and the number one thing that grinds my gears....
I absolutely HATE people referring to rift lake cichlids (usually Malawi) simply as "Africans" or "Cichlids" as though no other cichlids exist!!!! Seems to happen so frequently on our local forum, "I want to start a cichlid tank, what should I put in it?" then they get all confused/pissy when you suggest angels/apistos/eartheaters/anything not from Lake Malawi/Tanganyika...
I agree with the above sentiment, especially small tanks with a huge internal filter, big heater etc taking up half the tank space.
I also hate that most people make little or no effort to learn and use Latin names (and being a really picky bastard I hate it when people capitolise the species name! It is Genus species, always lowercase for the species!!!!)
I hate just about anything artificial looking in tanks (pirate ships, fluro gravel, plastic plants etc etc). Similarly I'm not relly a fan of the empty glass box look, although I prefer that to pink gravel and a sunken ship...
I hate tanks that are taller than they are wide, just looks silly and two-dimensional to me, yet they seem to be the most popular tanks.
I hate seeing tanks with a total mish-mash of fish, where no planning has gone into the stock list (like having 2-5 each of half a dozen different schooling fish in a community tank), and I'm not really a fan of mixing rift lake and new world cichlids.
I hate seeing clown loaches kept in small groups (<10) in small tanks (<6').
and the number one thing that grinds my gears....
I absolutely HATE people referring to rift lake cichlids (usually Malawi) simply as "Africans" or "Cichlids" as though no other cichlids exist!!!! Seems to happen so frequently on our local forum, "I want to start a cichlid tank, what should I put in it?" then they get all confused/pissy when you suggest angels/apistos/eartheaters/anything not from Lake Malawi/Tanganyika...
For me its the people who are 'fish elitists'. Just because another hobbyist cant afford the price tag on the rare pricey fish doesn't mean that person is the inferior hobbyist or less knowledgeable.
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-Mislabeled Fish
-Overpriced fish (Especially if you really want it, but you know it's not a good deal)
- Tattooing fish
-Glow-fish (Goes hand in hand with tattooing fish)
-Other fish keepers or workers who think they know more than you only because they've "heard" of the fish before
-Colored gravel
-Saltwater ornaments in Freshwater aquarium
-Fish on display at my local LFS that are not for sale, and there are never any others in the store that even are for sale
-Decor that is not natural
-How long it takes some people to catch feeder fish
-Overpriced fish (Especially if you really want it, but you know it's not a good deal)
- Tattooing fish
-Glow-fish (Goes hand in hand with tattooing fish)
-Other fish keepers or workers who think they know more than you only because they've "heard" of the fish before
-Colored gravel
-Saltwater ornaments in Freshwater aquarium
-Fish on display at my local LFS that are not for sale, and there are never any others in the store that even are for sale
-Decor that is not natural
-How long it takes some people to catch feeder fish
