Everyone expected to have a degree in microbiology now? Not knowing the answer to that question really shows how little someone knows when it comes to keeping fish...
Your thoughts on fish Youtubers like Paul Cuffaro, Catch Em All Fishing, and Nick Bingo?
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King of DIY is all ego. Did anyone see that video of him on (I think) YouTube or Instagram live, drunk and saying horribly inappropriate thing to some teen kid who he'd gone live with? It got removed by YouTube because I'm sure Joey reported it, but it was totally inappropriate, sexually-charged dialog aimed at a 15 or 16 year old. He also blatantly lies, like the video where he claimed to be making thousands of dollars a month off breeding discus, when even dedicated, seasoned discus breeders can't do that. And every discus Joey's ever shown has been... well, less than stellar. I doubt they live long, let alone breed.
His channel was the first one to blow up and then encourage all these other "LOOK AT ME!" fish channels. Views generate revenue, and you don't get views without doing stupid crap. It's not about the welfare of the animals. It's about getting eyes on your page. And to do that, you need to up your game constantly. At least Paul Cuffaro and Nick Bingo are young and learning -- Nick is still a teen -- whereas Joey is a grown man. On the surface it may look like he knows what he's doing, but how many Asian arowana has he killed now due to improperly housing them? How many times has he shown off obviously sick fish and seemed oblivious that anything was wrong, like that flowerhorn he had that slowly withered away from internal parasites? IMO his fish keeping is just as irresponsible.
One thing I have to commend Paul Cuffaro on is that he teamed up with an actual biologist recently to walk him through setting up a saltwater reef tank, and he's heavily featured the guy and gone on a field trip to ORA to learn about coral propagation and whatnot. Maybe having people like that guiding him will show him the correct way to do things. The same for Nick Bingo who set up that massive pool in his garage for his larger saltwater fish. It may not be enough for their eventual adult size but the effort and cost is still impressive, and most people wouldn't go to those lengths for their fish.
Predatory Fins is the vendor I side-eye... his channel is part-entertainment, part-seller. In the last few months he's brought in probably a hundred or more juvenile bumblebee grouper. This craze to have the biggest, rarest, monster fish seems to create excitement and FOMO syndrome, but I can't help but think tons of customers are buying that stuff up without knowing what they're really doing or getting into. I hope the grouper are being captive-bred, at least.
His channel was the first one to blow up and then encourage all these other "LOOK AT ME!" fish channels. Views generate revenue, and you don't get views without doing stupid crap. It's not about the welfare of the animals. It's about getting eyes on your page. And to do that, you need to up your game constantly. At least Paul Cuffaro and Nick Bingo are young and learning -- Nick is still a teen -- whereas Joey is a grown man. On the surface it may look like he knows what he's doing, but how many Asian arowana has he killed now due to improperly housing them? How many times has he shown off obviously sick fish and seemed oblivious that anything was wrong, like that flowerhorn he had that slowly withered away from internal parasites? IMO his fish keeping is just as irresponsible.
One thing I have to commend Paul Cuffaro on is that he teamed up with an actual biologist recently to walk him through setting up a saltwater reef tank, and he's heavily featured the guy and gone on a field trip to ORA to learn about coral propagation and whatnot. Maybe having people like that guiding him will show him the correct way to do things. The same for Nick Bingo who set up that massive pool in his garage for his larger saltwater fish. It may not be enough for their eventual adult size but the effort and cost is still impressive, and most people wouldn't go to those lengths for their fish.
Predatory Fins is the vendor I side-eye... his channel is part-entertainment, part-seller. In the last few months he's brought in probably a hundred or more juvenile bumblebee grouper. This craze to have the biggest, rarest, monster fish seems to create excitement and FOMO syndrome, but I can't help but think tons of customers are buying that stuff up without knowing what they're really doing or getting into. I hope the grouper are being captive-bred, at least.
I find it kinda annoying that all good fish youtube channel aren’t very popular, while ones that are based on mis-information have a million subscribers. The only youtuber that I know that gets a very big audience that gives informative content is Foo the Flowerhorn.
I consider all the you tube channels entertainment. Take them for what they are, you don’t think professional wrestling is real do you?
As much as I dislike him he definitely knows what he’s doing. He lost a few Asian aros from jumping and fighting. I’m sure most of us have lost a fish from jumping or aggression.
I don’t know what you mean by improperly housing them. They are all in 300+ gallon tanks. S**t happens.
He lost a flower horn from internal parasite. Pretty common for a fish keeper in Canada as we do not have access to medication. If you want Metro or Praziquantel you either need to know someone who has it, or someone/someplace willing to illegally sell it.
A teacher at school ruined WWE for me, oh well I guess it was for the best.Now I no longer where underwear over my head and smash into walls screaming.
