One of the guys at work is a fellow fish keeper (if you can call him that) which has led to some very "interesting" conversations,here is just a few of the things he has come out with.
"You should do water changes as little as possible i only change mine twice a year,fish like living in dirty water its more natural for them"
He recently told me he had done his ONCE YEARLY FILTER CLEAN!!! (he has a large oscar 2 clarisus catfish and a polypterus in a 55g) by running the sponges under the tap "they came up really clean so when i get home im gonna treat the fish to a whole pack of prawns"he said,so when i tried to tell him that he had just wiped out a good majority of the bacteria and should lay off any feeding for a few days he said "well thats good init you dont want dirty bacteria in your tank"
Since his catfish are now way too big for his tank (nearly 2foot long each) he has decided he might take them back to the shop,so i asked him if he was going to replace them with anything?
"yeh"he said "im gonna get myself a AFRICAN LUNGFISH"so when i calmly tried to tell that a lung fish would be far too big for his tank and would destroy his prized oscar he said "nah it wont,oscars are the 'ardest fish you get in fish tanks the lungfish will soon learn its lesson"
Now this bloke is probably the most uneducated person i know so there is no reasoning with him but i thought it would give you all a laugh,plus i cant be the only person in the world who knows a prized idiot like this (can i),if any of you know anybody who comes out with complete cr@p like this write it down here so we can all laugh our a$$es off.
"You should do water changes as little as possible i only change mine twice a year,fish like living in dirty water its more natural for them"
He recently told me he had done his ONCE YEARLY FILTER CLEAN!!! (he has a large oscar 2 clarisus catfish and a polypterus in a 55g) by running the sponges under the tap "they came up really clean so when i get home im gonna treat the fish to a whole pack of prawns"he said,so when i tried to tell him that he had just wiped out a good majority of the bacteria and should lay off any feeding for a few days he said "well thats good init you dont want dirty bacteria in your tank"
Since his catfish are now way too big for his tank (nearly 2foot long each) he has decided he might take them back to the shop,so i asked him if he was going to replace them with anything?
"yeh"he said "im gonna get myself a AFRICAN LUNGFISH"so when i calmly tried to tell that a lung fish would be far too big for his tank and would destroy his prized oscar he said "nah it wont,oscars are the 'ardest fish you get in fish tanks the lungfish will soon learn its lesson"
Now this bloke is probably the most uneducated person i know so there is no reasoning with him but i thought it would give you all a laugh,plus i cant be the only person in the world who knows a prized idiot like this (can i),if any of you know anybody who comes out with complete cr@p like this write it down here so we can all laugh our a$$es off.
being like that? looking at the ceiling instead of looking out of the tank.
2 times a year. A tank is not like the wild. There original habitat is so much diffrent from a tank. You have to clean it more in a tank.
...people like that should be stuffed in a 2'x2' closet and have methane, and industrial sludge pumped in on a regular basis, 65 lbs of raw meat dropped in every day and cleaned out twice a year, and a 1000 watt bulb shining down on them all day...fairs fair!
