Pet Fish Peeves

[Nickintex]

Ok. Everyone here has their hang ups. What grinds your gears? What gets your goatfish? What in this aquarium hobby just sneezes in your Cheerios?
No finger-pointing, name dropping, slander etc. Ok I'll start.

1. Tattooed/dyed fish: any questions?

2. WC vs F# arguments (when it goes BEYOND just a conversation)

3. Cheap filters/powerheads that break a month or so after purchase.

4. Buying a fish over $20.00 that goes belly up in 3 or less days.

5. Trophicide: at least let me SEE what happens before the slaughter. They wait until I go to work.

6. Fish food that leaves a strong smell in your house after use.

Your turn!

[Mzungu]

7. Parrot Cichlids!

[stevenallenbarnard]

the price some people try to sell flowerhorns for! :furious:

the fact that Texas has soooo many restricted species.

and last but not least.............NICK................j/k..........

[76dragon]

Everyone else can get asian red arrowanas but the US..

[Terrybo]

Heaters that malfunction and cook a whole tank of fish!

[Complexity]

How the most beautiful fish are also the most aggressive so you can't have a whole tank full of them.

[FuzzyDragon09]

Fish food that molds with one touch of my finger.

Seriously, I bought it, picked some out and used it, then just a few days later it's covered with green mold. Did this twice. I threw out the old batch and then bought new and it did the same thing. Different food from the same company was fine and didn't mold. Weird...

EDIT: Oh I forgot I also agree with the tattooed /dyed fish, Nick. Super fish pet peeve.

Another one: People who are close minded and believe what they want to hear about any topic but especially fish. The ones that are 100% positive that fish will be fine in a bowl and that they won't grow any bigger than when you first see them. Because it's a fish and doesn't need the basics like any other creature. Btw: this is just from stories I have heard. I just shake my head and wonder where those people left their brains.

[tam]

some nice fish gets to big to keep

[cms6175]

7. Parrot Cichlids!

why parrots?

[Nickintex]

why parrots?

because they are hybrids...

[Rico]

i really dont think parrots are hybrids. they look more like deformed midas. back on topic. when people dont listen when im trying to help with selecting their fish. they will crowd a 10gal with african cichlids just because of the 1" per galllon rule.

[Zulaab]

Asking why their fish dies only after having them for a few months to learn that they have never done a water change. (I didnt know I had to do water changes and cleaning the filter)

[myjohnson]

People that spend so much money on fishes just to let them die b/c they are cheap on filters.

[Zulaab]

Everyone hurricane Ike favorite. Pay a ton of money for fish, spend 0 on a backup solution for power outages.

[cms6175]

because they are hybrids...

got ya, i guess people are that way about fish, as much as they are about parrots (birds), breeding 2 to make anew look.....