Zawiha
Fish Crazy
Dont get us started on earthling.
AoS please start leaving some constructive answer's.
So far i see very little.
as for the puffers i agree with nmonks.
Some people i know have had gsp in fw for many many years
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Dont get us started on earthling.
AoS please start leaving some constructive answer's.
So far i see very little.
as for the puffers i agree with nmonks.
Some people i know have had gsp in fw for many many years
tangokitty
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So many people seem to hate this place LOL
Zawiha
Fish Crazy
As with any chain lfs.
people believe as its a chain, they care les thn single stores.
Marine/Freshwater?
Fish Crazy
Sorry about being so pessimistic. I hate how in order to have such a great hobby so many fish have to die. Think about it, 6 freshwater morays are shipped in to any lfs every week. Saying 1 in 100 lives would be ridiculously optimistic. If we love our fish so much. Why must so many die?
nmonks
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Putting things into perspective helps.
Ever eating king prawns? Then you've been personally responsible for the deaths of literally hundreds of fishes including eels, flounders, gobies and all kinds of other benthic fish, not to mention other bottom living invertebrates. Trawling for large marine prawns results in 90% of everything caught in the net being thrown back, dead. In other words, for every large prawn you ate, nine fish/crabs/starfish/whatever died.
In fact most wild-caught seafood is more or less destructive of wildlife. Farmed seafood like salmon is marginally better, but the impact of parasites and ammonia from salmon farms is incredibly harmful on a local scale. Farmed freshwater prawns (the big prawns in Chinese food) do enormous harm to freshwater habitats because these prawns require brackish water, and the salt kills off freshwater fish as it leaks out.
If you've ever stayed at beachfront property like a hotel in Florida or really anywhere, you've contributed to the destruction of mangroves, salt marshes and other essential habitats for marine fish, particularly juvenile fish.
The impact of the hobby on fish populations is actually very small, probably negligible except in a very few cases such as Banggai cardinals and Galaxy rasboras where the wild populations were extremely small to begin with. In fact a properly maintained ornamental fish fishery provides native people with an incentive to keep their local waters in good condition.
Cheers, Neale
Ever eating king prawns? Then you've been personally responsible for the deaths of literally hundreds of fishes including eels, flounders, gobies and all kinds of other benthic fish, not to mention other bottom living invertebrates. Trawling for large marine prawns results in 90% of everything caught in the net being thrown back, dead. In other words, for every large prawn you ate, nine fish/crabs/starfish/whatever died.
In fact most wild-caught seafood is more or less destructive of wildlife. Farmed seafood like salmon is marginally better, but the impact of parasites and ammonia from salmon farms is incredibly harmful on a local scale. Farmed freshwater prawns (the big prawns in Chinese food) do enormous harm to freshwater habitats because these prawns require brackish water, and the salt kills off freshwater fish as it leaks out.
If you've ever stayed at beachfront property like a hotel in Florida or really anywhere, you've contributed to the destruction of mangroves, salt marshes and other essential habitats for marine fish, particularly juvenile fish.
The impact of the hobby on fish populations is actually very small, probably negligible except in a very few cases such as Banggai cardinals and Galaxy rasboras where the wild populations were extremely small to begin with. In fact a properly maintained ornamental fish fishery provides native people with an incentive to keep their local waters in good condition.
Cheers, Neale
I fail to see what the concern is here, the tank is small as it is a temporary tank for them. This is also the reason for the lack of plants/decor, which would just make it more difficult to catch the fish thus making them more stressed.
Of course the fins are going to be a bit ragged at least, you can hardly expect p@h to give these fish 30 gallons each as a temporary home, fins heal quickly.
Let's look at the positives here, the shop has acknowledged the fact that these fish must eventually be in brackish water, does no one else find this encouraging? IIRC GSPs can be kept fine in fw when young, so why should p@h set up a whole new brackish filtration system (seeing as all multiple lfs tanks run off a single system) just to keep these fish in conditions that are not required?
Apart from P@H is not a fish shop, it is a pet shop with an aquatic section. Take this into account.
5teady_2012
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P@H suck, end of story
Ace Of Spades
Fish Gatherer
You suck, end of story
5teady_2012
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Ace Of Spades
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Yup, So thats you and your life right?
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Corleone
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What he means is that Tropical Discussion (and New to the Hobby) has its fair share of (largely redundant and often overblown, IMO) threads about the latest bad thing somebody has seen at a pet store, but the specialist forums like, for example, this one or the African Cichlid forum, should be more focused and meaningful discussion.
The brackish forum has a few good professionals, as well, hence the "with people like" bit.
COD
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thanks for pointing that out to me corleone.
the "down to the level" that he used gives
me a bad impression of the poster.
he should have use Category instead of LEVEL-
cause LEVEL sounds discrimination to me.
anyway i'm still new to the Forum
and very impressive forum so far.
members really know what their talkin' about-
the "down to the level" that he used gives
me a bad impression of the poster.
he should have use Category instead of LEVEL-
cause LEVEL sounds discrimination to me.
anyway i'm still new to the Forum
and very impressive forum so far.
members really know what their talkin' about-
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