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The common one, not that many people see my tank, is “why don’t you have more fish/are you going to get more fish”
Also the utter “astonishment” at the magnitude of scope and scale of my “huge” fish-tank......... it’s a 75g. haha.
I get pumped like Reebok when I see my porcelain and emerald crabs....... so I totally get where these other people are coming from!
Most of the questions are posed by the friends of my 9 and 11 y/o kids...... and they answer their friends’ questions so I don’t have to.
Edit: I have had more than one conversation with co-workers/acquaintances where they feel the need to tell me how they struggled/worked/crashed a freshwater aquarium and how they heard saltwater was even harder...... I always gently probe them for my own amusement and more often than not, it is “we used these drops” and are fish kept dying, etc. and rarely did changing ANY water ever occur to them. Usually they say something about how they bought an expensive filter when I ask about water changes.
I wouldn’t want to discourage anyone though....... before 2019 I never had a fresh or saltwater tank....... never had a fish-bowl!
Most of the questions people ask me aren’t that dumb...... but most of the time the answer is “I don’t know”
Doing my homework and coming here to ask dumb questions of my own has become a full-time job.
Also the utter “astonishment” at the magnitude of scope and scale of my “huge” fish-tank......... it’s a 75g. haha.
I get pumped like Reebok when I see my porcelain and emerald crabs....... so I totally get where these other people are coming from!
Most of the questions are posed by the friends of my 9 and 11 y/o kids...... and they answer their friends’ questions so I don’t have to.
Edit: I have had more than one conversation with co-workers/acquaintances where they feel the need to tell me how they struggled/worked/crashed a freshwater aquarium and how they heard saltwater was even harder...... I always gently probe them for my own amusement and more often than not, it is “we used these drops” and are fish kept dying, etc. and rarely did changing ANY water ever occur to them. Usually they say something about how they bought an expensive filter when I ask about water changes.
I wouldn’t want to discourage anyone though....... before 2019 I never had a fresh or saltwater tank....... never had a fish-bowl!
Most of the questions people ask me aren’t that dumb...... but most of the time the answer is “I don’t know”
Doing my homework and coming here to ask dumb questions of my own has become a full-time job.
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