Hypostomus
Aquarium Advice Freak
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- Mar 15, 2004
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If you are at all interested in trouncing myths, please send a letter to Faith of www.bettatalk.com about the most recent inquiry she responded to. You can see the inquiry on the front page by scrolling down a bit, as well as her response. As far as I can tell it is completely uninformed and is a very poor mistake on the part of someone who is idolized by many fishkeepers and offers her column as "free advice." The only content of the letter really needs to be about the comment she makes that goldfish do not require filtration and moving water (which I assume means she believes they can live in a small compartment of water, just as her bettas do).
Just so you guys know. I only have my one mutt goldfish at present, but I am of course always concerned about influential people giving out bad information and its effect on the health of fishes. In my letter to her I also said that she should revise her column to say that bettas and goldfish should *never* be kept together (rather than the "two week try" approach that she suggests) for the health of the fish, but I imagine it would be a quantity of letters that might sway her to do something rather than the content of each individual letter.
So if you have the time, please write to her and tell her to correct her column. I think it's particularly poor of her to write so casually of improper care methods when right on the row of links at the side of her page she has a button that says "stop betta abuse."
Just so you guys know. I only have my one mutt goldfish at present, but I am of course always concerned about influential people giving out bad information and its effect on the health of fishes. In my letter to her I also said that she should revise her column to say that bettas and goldfish should *never* be kept together (rather than the "two week try" approach that she suggests) for the health of the fish, but I imagine it would be a quantity of letters that might sway her to do something rather than the content of each individual letter.
So if you have the time, please write to her and tell her to correct her column. I think it's particularly poor of her to write so casually of improper care methods when right on the row of links at the side of her page she has a button that says "stop betta abuse."