Rant: A stocking question you will never see asked on a hampster forum!

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I have 3 hampsters and 2 gerbils in my rodent cage. I was wondering if it would be ok to add just one little baby rattlesnake?

I can't imagine anyone ever asking such a question in a rodent forum, but people will ask the same exact type of question every single day in fish forums.

Sorry, but I just had to vent a bit about the ridiculous stocking questions I read every day on this and other fish forums.
 
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I know, some people are really really a newbie, some are just looking for trouble, or just plain airheaded.
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*cough* actually, you should never keep different rodent spiecies together either......... ;) yes i'm being nit-picky, and yes i see your point :p
 
I saw a news article about a snake that lived with a girbel. They were friends, the girbel wasn't scared of the snake, and the snake never ate it. It would eat other critters that were put in there, but never that gerbel. That being said, your right though. Its just that most people know that snakes eat small animals. Most poeple don't know much about fish other than they eat worms, and many pet shops don't provide much help. At least they ask before they try it. (although, many ask after they buy them too.)
 
YuccaPatrol said:
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Sorry, but I just had to vent a bit about the ridiculous stocking questions I read every day on this and other fish forums.
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You can't make people stock their tanks properly, but you can offer good advice and hope they care about their fish.

If they continue to act absurd about their tank(s), its time to move on...

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joephys said:
Most poeple don't know much about fish other than they eat worms
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I have my worms living with my oscar and 3 male bettas in a 10 gallon and they get along just fine. :confused:

Sorry to hi-jack but do you think it would be ok to add an anemone and a clown fish?
 
I guess many people just have a harder time relating to the behavior of fish compared with "regular" animals.

Thanks for letting me vent and I'll remember to keep my gerbils and hampsters separated in the future! :p:
 
graphicdesign_r said:
I have my worms living with my oscar and 3 male bettas in a 10 gallon and they get along just fine. :confused:

Sorry to hi-jack but do you think it would be ok to add an anemone and a clown fish?
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I was refering to most people as in most people who don't have a lot of time invested in aquariums, and all they know about fish is that you go fishing with worms in a lake.
 
joephys said:
I saw a news article about a snake that lived with a girbel. They were friends, the girbel wasn't scared of the snake, and the snake never ate it. It would eat other critters that were put in there, but never that gerbel. That being said, your right though. Its just that most people know that snakes eat small animals. Most poeple don't know much about fish other than they eat worms, and many pet shops don't provide much help. At least they ask before they try it. (although, many ask after they buy them too.)
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I used to have a columbia red tai boa, That would only eat darker color rats. I put an albino rat in his cage and it stayed in there until I took it out a week later. I think I may still have a picture of the rat sleeping on the snake.

About the question of mixing fish, It could be a number of things. Look at the images of fish tanks in magazine advertising. I have a ten gallon box from walmart, The box shows 4 angels and 12 swordtails in the aquarium. Now how would someone who is new to fish keeping supposed to know that is way overstocked. Even the oceanic advertisement in TFH shows like 6 oranda in a 30gal tank. Then these people go to a LFS and see 20 oscars in a 10gal why wouldn't they be able to keep 2 if the LFS has 20 in the same tank?
 
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