Blindmelon119
Aquarium Advice Regular
Costs !!! I truly want to support my locally owned, aquarium shop but its hard to continually pay 10 - 20 percent higher than Online or the big box stores. I am starting to get somewhat jaded.
Costs !!! I truly want to support my locally owned, aquarium shop but its hard to continually pay 10 - 20 percent higher than Online or the big box stores. I am starting to get somewhat jaded.
Trying to convince my wife that every time we go anywhere if there is a fish store that we need to stop.
Sorry another pet peeve, it seems so elitist that aquarium plants are so commonly referred to by their scientific name. Nearly as maddening is the excuses used to justify this practice. Open a seed catalog, tomatoes are called tomatoes, not Solanum Lycopersicum. I'm pretty sure there are more varieties of tomatoes than Crypts. But then again I always order a medium at Starbucks!
I forgot to add one. For us cichlid beginners, sexing Bolivian Rams.
LOL, so true! I don't like it when I see posts with all the scientific names for fish, let alone plants. Its not like we're all botanists and marine biologists.
But what if you don't know the scientific name, like most people.
Cross reference and double check!!! That is how you find out!!! (most of the time)
Kinda like how do you look up a word in the dictionary if you don't know how to spell it, hahahahaha!!!
Most annoying thing for me, is every aspect of testing.
And the mess I make when I do anything more than just LOOK at my aquariums
Oh, and catching fish.
And constantly having to defend and justify spending every spare dollar on my hobby.
Water changes, I HATE them, I do them but I still hate them.....
I dealt with the justification thing by having a "fish budget" each year. I spend until it is gone and don't feel guilty about it.
I dealt with the justification thing by having a "fish budget" each year. I spend until it is gone and don't feel guilty about it.