Is disease or the lack of understanding for good general practices for keeping fish rampant.
I have come to believe it is the second.
Some fish do die from disease. But so do some people. That is true of all living things. It is a small percentage or they would be extinct.
How is putting a fish in my reef tank any different than ordering a box of 300 feeder guppies and putting them in my FW tank all at once.
I have done both many many times without them all dying.
Because I know how. I learned how over many years.
We have new parents bringing home fish and they cant tell the baby bed from the oven yet.
or aliens abduct a human and give it distilled water and sugar cubes to eat and pure oxygen to breath.
"He's dead Jim"
conditions were perfect
rampant disease
I have come to understand their are 2 kinds of people on here.
Ones like me that are trying to simulate an ocean environment and accept all the things that end up in the tank and deal with them. Their are no pests and parasites in my tank, Just things fish have to deal with and do successfully normal living.
There are also ones that want to keep marine fish and corals in a sterile environment like a tank full of GloFish with little glass beads and LED lit doodads. OMG, a worm or a bit of algae.
We are living in a time when hanging a bit of cloth or almost anything somewhere near your face is supposed to prevent disease. The government said so.
So I am not surprised.
I have come to believe it is the second.
Some fish do die from disease. But so do some people. That is true of all living things. It is a small percentage or they would be extinct.
How is putting a fish in my reef tank any different than ordering a box of 300 feeder guppies and putting them in my FW tank all at once.
I have done both many many times without them all dying.
Because I know how. I learned how over many years.
We have new parents bringing home fish and they cant tell the baby bed from the oven yet.
or aliens abduct a human and give it distilled water and sugar cubes to eat and pure oxygen to breath.
"He's dead Jim"
conditions were perfect
rampant disease
I have come to understand their are 2 kinds of people on here.
Ones like me that are trying to simulate an ocean environment and accept all the things that end up in the tank and deal with them. Their are no pests and parasites in my tank, Just things fish have to deal with and do successfully normal living.
There are also ones that want to keep marine fish and corals in a sterile environment like a tank full of GloFish with little glass beads and LED lit doodads. OMG, a worm or a bit of algae.
We are living in a time when hanging a bit of cloth or almost anything somewhere near your face is supposed to prevent disease. The government said so.
So I am not surprised.