They don't though. My stepfather has his own tanks and my mother loves aquariums too....they just don't know sh*t.
Step father is one of those old school guys that thinks anything with cichlid can go together and anything 'tropical' can go together. His stocking for his 25 hexagon and 55 are horrendous. He doesn't even clean his tanks, I do! He hasn't done not one water change in over a year.
My mother knows the basics....I think. Sometimes she knows what she's talking. Most of the time she definitely doesn't.
I'm the fish guy/aquarium nut/etc and they still always question what I say. We'd have a 3 foot red tail catfish in the 55 in the living room by now if I didn't advise my step dad against it.
"But it'll only grow to the size of the tank"
No. No it won't.
Step father is one of those old school guys that thinks anything with cichlid can go together and anything 'tropical' can go together. His stocking for his 25 hexagon and 55 are horrendous. He doesn't even clean his tanks, I do! He hasn't done not one water change in over a year.
My mother knows the basics....I think. Sometimes she knows what she's talking. Most of the time she definitely doesn't.
I'm the fish guy/aquarium nut/etc and they still always question what I say. We'd have a 3 foot red tail catfish in the 55 in the living room by now if I didn't advise my step dad against it.
"But it'll only grow to the size of the tank"
No. No it won't.
