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08-22-2005

Posted by on August 22, 2005, 5:47 pm

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Hello everyone,

I have a basic question to satisfy my own curiosity: Is anyone else
ridden with guilt over this hobby or is it just me? I just left That
Fish Place and apparently it was fish receiving day. There must have
been 20 styrofoam coolers on the floor filled with new fish. Of
course, roughly 40% of them were dead. Now, I've heard the horror
stories of TFP, but these fish were dead on arrival, long before being
mishandled by the 13 year olds working at TFP. My point is, because I
wanted that coral beauty, the four others in the cooler with him had
to die. I can rationalize it by saying that I rescued any fish I did
take home, but still....

I went to TFP to start the process of upgrading my 7 year old 30
gallon FOWLR to a 75 mixed reef, but now I'm just thinking of leaving
the hobby. Anyone else had a similar experience?

Grant

Posted by Billy on August 22, 2005, 10:31 pm

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> I have a basic question to satisfy my own curiosity: Is anyone
> else
> ridden with guilt over this hobby or is it just me? I just left
> That

I prefer to think of the fish and critters that *do* make it to my
tanks, and strive to treat them as good as I am able.

Posted by Michael Lawford on August 23, 2005, 5:37 am

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Yeah myself. I guess it is similar to keeping birds....

~m

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>> I have a basic question to satisfy my own curiosity: Is anyone else
>> ridden with guilt over this hobby or is it just me? I just left That

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> I prefer to think of the fish and critters that *do* make it to my tanks,
> and strive to treat them as good as I am able.
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Posted by Mark Cooper on August 23, 2005, 7:13 am

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> Yeah myself. I guess it is similar to keeping birds....
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> ~m
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>>> I have a basic question to satisfy my own curiosity: Is anyone else
>>> ridden with guilt over this hobby or is it just me? I just left
>>> That

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>> I prefer to think of the fish and critters that *do* make it to my
>> tanks, and strive to treat them as good as I am able.
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I think a lot has to do with the wholesaler as well. Some take much
better care of the fish than others. Support stores that use the better
suppliers if possible.

Mark

Posted by George Patterson on August 23, 2005, 11:48 am

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Michael Lawford wrote:

> Yeah myself. I guess it is similar to keeping birds....

Not in the U.S.. A few decades back, laws were passed that require birds sold
here to be hatched and raised here. The original laws were in response to
outbreaks of psittacosis in the 60s.

George Patterson
Give a person a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a person to
use the Internet and he won't bother you for weeks.

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