Just a quick question.
I see people jumping down new hobbyist's throats about their tank size and plucking numbers out of thin air for what they heard or read in the same regurgitated spiel in another post where they were jumping down the throat of another new hobbyist.
And I've got a simple question.
How do you know?
How can you be so sure the fish will die and it will be awful and this person should panic and buy a massive tank so they can have 3 fish swimming around, boring as anything?
Did you try it?
What's the technique for deciding how big a tank a fish or number of fish needs?
That's what I want to hear. I don't want an answer like" because this guy says so"
No, I want actual experience. Because I'm pretty sure half you guys who chime in on any thread started by a new guy/girl saying what he/she stocked in his/her tank , with the unanimous "that's way overstocked" comments, are just saying what you saw that other guy write.
Not that you're always wrong.
But a slightly over stocked fish tank will even it's self out wont it?
Won't that be the lesson that will make a better aquarist?
Not being told "you have a tank that's big enough for one tetra and therefore should only have one tetra".
How small a tank can one tetra(edit most likely one betta is the general advice given as one tetra is actually not a good idea) live in and not get sick or be too stressed?
Stress, ah the fish will be stressed? You know that the stress of any situation decreases with time right? And growth stunting is painful? It's a natural occurrence, painful the entire life of the fish? I highly doubt that.
I just wanted to say some things I haven't seen expressed elsewhere on these forums and wanted to trace the information to a source of some sort.
On another note I bet some of you do some things differently to what the majority do and
I'm sure you'll all have had some experience that taught you what you know, so please share any thing you have learnt in your hobby that you think could be helpful.
Little things.
Eg. My Mum had heaps of goldfish, she had them in a plastic lined wooden barrel and in various tanks around the house. She used a blue salt in some of the tanks, I think the only fish I ever saw die was one that had jumped out and got trodden on :-( . Another one jumped out and half dried up but after being put in the water again, came through in the end.
Things and experiences like this shape my ideas on what can go into a smaller tank.
What have you guys got?
Lol. Quick question? That's how I started this massive rant. Ah well
I see people jumping down new hobbyist's throats about their tank size and plucking numbers out of thin air for what they heard or read in the same regurgitated spiel in another post where they were jumping down the throat of another new hobbyist.
And I've got a simple question.
How do you know?
How can you be so sure the fish will die and it will be awful and this person should panic and buy a massive tank so they can have 3 fish swimming around, boring as anything?
Did you try it?
What's the technique for deciding how big a tank a fish or number of fish needs?
That's what I want to hear. I don't want an answer like" because this guy says so"
No, I want actual experience. Because I'm pretty sure half you guys who chime in on any thread started by a new guy/girl saying what he/she stocked in his/her tank , with the unanimous "that's way overstocked" comments, are just saying what you saw that other guy write.
Not that you're always wrong.
But a slightly over stocked fish tank will even it's self out wont it?
Won't that be the lesson that will make a better aquarist?
Not being told "you have a tank that's big enough for one tetra and therefore should only have one tetra".
How small a tank can one tetra(edit most likely one betta is the general advice given as one tetra is actually not a good idea) live in and not get sick or be too stressed?
Stress, ah the fish will be stressed? You know that the stress of any situation decreases with time right? And growth stunting is painful? It's a natural occurrence, painful the entire life of the fish? I highly doubt that.
I just wanted to say some things I haven't seen expressed elsewhere on these forums and wanted to trace the information to a source of some sort.
On another note I bet some of you do some things differently to what the majority do and
I'm sure you'll all have had some experience that taught you what you know, so please share any thing you have learnt in your hobby that you think could be helpful.
Little things.
Eg. My Mum had heaps of goldfish, she had them in a plastic lined wooden barrel and in various tanks around the house. She used a blue salt in some of the tanks, I think the only fish I ever saw die was one that had jumped out and got trodden on :-( . Another one jumped out and half dried up but after being put in the water again, came through in the end.
Things and experiences like this shape my ideas on what can go into a smaller tank.
What have you guys got?
Lol. Quick question? That's how I started this massive rant. Ah well