Prove me wrong

Are hitchhikers and the issues they potentially cause the most overblown "problem" in the hobby?

  • Yes

    Votes: 8 24.2%
  • No

    Votes: 12 36.4%
  • Not the most overblown but close

    Votes: 11 33.3%
  • Hitchikers are the devil

    Votes: 2 6.1%

  • Total voters
    33
OP
OP
Sump Crab

Sump Crab

Valuable Member
View Badges
Joined
Dec 3, 2017
Messages
1,892
Reaction score
2,981
Location
Florida
Rating - 0%
0   0   0
That's not true (unless you mean qt as husbandry). A fish doesn't get sick from velvet or similar because of poor quality water or care. They get sick because they get in contact with it and the disease kills them. It's sorta like saying that Marburg hemorrhaging virus only happens / kills people because they aren't eating a good diet.

We will need to agree to disagree on this one. We have incompatible opinions regarding this particular issue.

Disease preys upon weak and fragile, not the strong and robust.
 

Jekyl

GSP is the devil and clowns are bad pets
View Badges
Joined
Jan 15, 2019
Messages
11,271
Reaction score
15,489
Location
Michigan
Rating - 0%
0   0   0
This has turned into a quarantine argument instead of the intended topic.
 

Lost in the Sauce

BANGERANG!!!!
View Badges
Joined
Feb 10, 2021
Messages
18,889
Reaction score
91,536
Location
Southern California
Rating - 0%
0   0   0
I generally believe that most fish deaths due to disease (especially mass casualty events) are a symptom of poor husbandry.
You're welcome to think that, and I'm happy to disagree. Doesn't make you or I right on the matter.

If you believe only under fed fish in dirty tanks suffer mass casualty events, you my friend are quite incorrect.
 

Jekyl

GSP is the devil and clowns are bad pets
View Badges
Joined
Jan 15, 2019
Messages
11,271
Reaction score
15,489
Location
Michigan
Rating - 0%
0   0   0
I clicked yes but I think algae is the most overblown thing in the hobby.
 

Paul B

10K Club member
View Badges
Joined
Nov 3, 2010
Messages
17,950
Reaction score
60,785
Location
Long Island NY
Rating - 0%
0   0   0
I use NSW and throw anything I can find into my tank from the sea including rocks, algae, amphipods, bricks, mud etc and never have any hitchiker problems.
 

Jekyl

GSP is the devil and clowns are bad pets
View Badges
Joined
Jan 15, 2019
Messages
11,271
Reaction score
15,489
Location
Michigan
Rating - 0%
0   0   0
I use NSW and throw anything I can find into my tank from the sea including rocks, algae, amphipods, bricks, mud etc and never have any hitchiker problems.
I wanted to tag you but know how you love topics on quarantine lol
 

ClownSchool

Well-Known Member
View Badges
Joined
Jun 3, 2021
Messages
602
Reaction score
726
Location
US
Rating - 0%
0   0   0
That’s the world we live in- selling a solution to a problem that probably never existed is the ultimate mouse trap.
As a salesman that understands the feature=benefit=advantage sales presentation model, I now do it in my head with everything and often see through the ‘managed crisis’ sales strategies where they manufacture a crisis in order to ‘fix’ it for you. Politics is the best example.
 

BeltedCoyote

Philosopher king of the Memes
View Badges
Joined
Aug 11, 2019
Messages
7,425
Reaction score
36,784
Rating - 0%
0   0   0
I voted not the most overblown aspect but close.

here’s why. The whole hitch hiker thing plays into it. I think the idea and pursuit of the “perfect” tank is the biggest issue. And I’m saying this as a newbie.

I initially bought into the sterile start, dry rock train. I listened to brs and believed that following there example was the secret sauce. I thought if I started with the most expensive gear would set me ahead. I didn’t realize the importance of building an ecosystem. I didn’t understand that even some of the things people call pests have a place in the jigsaw of balance. Bristleworms are an example.

so yeah the hitch hiker madness is a big problem but I feels it’s part of the instant gratification, I can have a perfect reef if I do x y z, mindset
 

Jekyl

GSP is the devil and clowns are bad pets
View Badges
Joined
Jan 15, 2019
Messages
11,271
Reaction score
15,489
Location
Michigan
Rating - 0%
0   0   0
This is not a quarantine argument thread.
 

Lost in the Sauce

BANGERANG!!!!
View Badges
Joined
Feb 10, 2021
Messages
18,889
Reaction score
91,536
Location
Southern California
Rating - 0%
0   0   0
This is not a quarantine argument thread.
I mean let's be honest here. If you start a thread with "prove mean wrong" then make a statement you know fully many will not agree with, You have to know it's going to turn into an argument..

I knew where it would go without even opening the thread yet.
 

Jekyl

GSP is the devil and clowns are bad pets
View Badges
Joined
Jan 15, 2019
Messages
11,271
Reaction score
15,489
Location
Michigan
Rating - 0%
0   0   0
I mean let's be honest here. If you start a thread with "prove mean wrong" then make a statement you know fully many will not agree with, You have to know it's going to turn into an argument..

I knew where it would go without even opening the thread yet.
This thread is about hitchhikers not fish disease.
 

Lost in the Sauce

BANGERANG!!!!
View Badges
Joined
Feb 10, 2021
Messages
18,889
Reaction score
91,536
Location
Southern California
Rating - 0%
0   0   0
Let’s not argue about whether or not an argument was imminent lol
But GIF by memecandy
 
Back
Top