my two rants for the week

if this doesn't go here, feel free to move it! I didn't see a rant section...haha
I am not ranting AT you guys, you just the only ones who can relate. its nice to be among crazy fish people....

1) I thought about rehoming the tetras as we wondered about being so nippy, I posted an add in our local buy/sell/trade ( I have seen fish, fish tanks, etc previously) one girl wanted to put them with the beta,I said beware of nippiness. then she wanted to put them with the goldfish, I was more concerned about the goldfish eating the tetra - she had no idea what kind of goldfish It even was... needless to say, the tetras didn't go live with her.
THEN this chick asks about them, says her kid needs more fish, decides $10 for 10 fish is too much... and has the gall to ask me if the tank is included. my new, not even paid for, just getting set up 90g tank! yeah....i'll throw that in,....for $1000!
good grief! when someone is selling furniture is the house included?! when you are buying clothes, do you get the kid free?
when you buy fish from the LFS do they say ' you need a tank too..go ahead and pick one out'? if you are looking at an ad for fish, wouldn't it stand to reason you already had a place to put them?!
some people are just stupid I think.
she did not get my fish- or my tank-.... just my goat.

2) this friend of mine has a 55 goldfish tank with a BN and Chinese algae eater. had no clue the algae eater got aggressive... I don't even know if you can put plecos with goldfish... she's upset cause the albino BN will not get big. how big do you want?! no clue what kind of filter she is running... think its a UGF ( I could be wrong) .
she has a 29 tall with one bronze XL cory, a pile o mollies, guppies, etc and a sailfin. a SAILFIN! in a 29... the water was so dirty we couldn't even see the sailfin! I told her to move the sailfin to the 55 - not sure that's really better but if you want a BIG fish... give him BIG space.
no idea when she did the last water change and she way overfeeds... I wanted to ask ' how are your fish even still alive?!" I asked what her ammonia was and she had no clue what I was talking about- or why it mattered.
some things are just not fair... we stress and test and don't over stock, don't overfeed and try like the dickens to keep our fish alive and happy and WORK at it... she doesn't work at it and they seem fine. frustrating.

3) another girl I work with has 2 10 gallon tanks ( one I gave her) she loves the guppies so that's what she has. she bought a rubberlip awhile ago and he was a great tank cleaner. no driftwood, no hidey holes. guess she really liked him cause she was talking bout another one. she went to petsmart and they were out so she got a common pleco.... I think.
PLEASE tell me I am mistaken and she didn't put that common in a 10 gallon tank!??!! I hope the original rubberlip didn't die... but I wonder.

I am no expert but sometimes people scare me....

rant over.


your turn

 

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My husband says one of my biggest faults is that I expect or at least hope others put in as much effort as I do. With relationships, financial sense, home, pets, you name it. But, I feel like anything worth doing is worth doing well, trying as hard as possible in any situation.

I must be an oddball, but I feel like my fishy friends are family. They're in my home, I see them several times a day, and they depend on me to not only survive, but thrive. I'm going to try and make everyone as happy as I can.

 

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS

 

the third was a bonus... or half... so 2 1/2 rants

 

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My husband says one of my biggest faults is that I expect or at least hope others put in as much effort as I do. With relationships, financial sense, home, pets, you name it. But, I feel like anything worth doing is worth doing well, trying as hard as possible in any situation.

I must be an oddball, but I feel like my fishy friends are family. They're in my home, I see them several times a day, and they depend on me to not only survive, but thrive. I'm going to try and make everyone as happy as I can.

Well said, I'm the youngest of my family and it can be hard when no one in you're family sees you're passion/care you put into you're tank. Although my dad tries to get involved and talk about fish when he can, he mixes up Corys and plecos though lol.

 

Well said, I'm the youngest of my family and it can be hard when no one in you're family sees you're passion/care you put into you're tank. Although my dad tries to get involved and talk about fish when he can, he mixes up Corys and plecos though lol.

I just find it refreshing to see a younger person be so passionate about a healthy hobby, especially the extra effort of educating yourself and doing the necessary research. I just hope I will be able to instill that kind of passion/care in my little girl. It's not so easy these days (but I won't get into that here).

Don't give dear old Dad too hard of a time, he is trying to make an effort. Show him a fully grown common pleco in person, he probably won't ever confuse them again!

 

I just find it refreshing to see a younger person be so passionate about a healthy hobby, especially the extra effort of educating yourself and doing the necessary research. I just hope I will be able to instill that kind of passion/care in my little girl. It's not so easy these days (but I won't get into that here).

Don't give dear old Dad too hard of a time, he is trying to make an effort. Show him a fully grown common pleco in person, he probably won't ever confuse them again!

Yeah it's a pretty cool hobby that any age can love, I just got into highschool so mabye ill start an aquarium club lol. My love lies in loaches and most bottom feeders so I can see how my dad can get confused, me nor him have seen a full grown common pleco yet but that would probably help him remember though haha, we have seen a 2 foot mbu puffer though.

 

Yeah it's a pretty cool hobby that any age can love, I just got into highschool so mabye ill start an aquarium club lol. My love lies in loaches and most bottom feeders so I can see how my dad can get confused, me nor him have seen a full grown common pleco yet but that would probably help him remember though haha, we have seen a 2 foot mbu puffer though.

If I go to the pet store soon, I'll try to remember to take pictures of the large plecos they have. I don't even think they currently have full grown commons! Some giant arowanas though. They have a few varieties of pleco that are over a foot in length! I'm a bottom feeder fan myself, just don't have the space for large enough tanks!

 

If I go to the pet store soon, I'll try to remember to take pictures of the large plecos they have. I don't even think they currently have full grown commons! Some giant arowanas though. They have a few varieties of pleco that are over a foot in length! I'm a bottom feeder fan myself, just don't have the space for large enough tanks!

Sounds like a cool LFS, we have a pretty cool one here in Seattle, locally owned by a man named cory, he always has a cool types of corydoras in stock like green lasers.

 

I got myself and my sister two 10 gallon tanks. I put live plants in mind she put fake plants. I have fancy guppies she has two angelfish I Redtail shark and three bronze Coreys. She doesn't test her water she doesn't do water changes. She adds water as it evaporate. Everything is fine with hers. I run around testing water changing water panicking.

 

Well, logically, the only person you can control is yourself, so I could say that it is rather pointless getting upset over how interested in and therefore how seriously others treat fish keeping.
However, I wouldn't say that, as I enjoy a good rant as much as the next person---rick

 

What annoys me is people who buy fish. People come to me and are like "oh your guppies are lovely and friendly, can I buy some?"... So I sell them some mice healthy juvenile fish and a week later theyre like "oh the fish I bought died, I don't think they were healthy or had a problem".... I'm just like "I brought them fish ip from babies, they were nice and happy with me, healthy, lived with theirs families for 3-4 months and you buy them now theyre dead! You can think again if you think I'm selling you more!"

This is why I end up keeping so many of my babies...I'm tight for space but I rather they live and me put in 100% more work than send them off to their death!

Rant over