How does my brother do it?
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I find it really frustrating when you see someone not looking after their fish properly and they have the nerve to say that how i look after my fish is unnecessary. They will not listen to any advice i give them and keep doing things how they have been.
If it were a dog or cat that was not being cared for it would be different, one phone call to the RSPCA and they would be in court for cruelty to animals.
If it were a dog or cat that was not being cared for it would be different, one phone call to the RSPCA and they would be in court for cruelty to animals.
Just an update.
I talked to my brother and his wife today. They said no fish have died.
It's frustrating when someone can do things this way and have no losses when i am doing it all according to the advice and I've had losses. Oh well...
I talked to my brother and his wife today. They said no fish have died.
It's frustrating when someone can do things this way and have no losses when i am doing it all according to the advice and I've had losses. Oh well...
That's how I felt when one of my male bettas came down with finrot. He's been kept in 5-10 gal. Often kept with live plants to clean the water nicely.
Then I see a betta thriving in someones' bowl no more then a 1 gal. Big, active and lively. I asked and the betta is like a year old.
Then I see a betta thriving in someones' bowl no more then a 1 gal. Big, active and lively. I asked and the betta is like a year old.
Ummmmm, Wellllll, not to throw gas on the fire but we can over-complicate things at times. Please understand I am not defending the way he does things. Sometimes we test too often and then throw chemicals at it thinking we have the right answers. A better measure is to not be in a hurry, let things stabilize and show itself to be stable and then add fish slowly knowing that in spite of all our best efforts there will be another adjustment peroid to go through again.
I don't own a test kit either. I have my eyes and my nose to tell me when something is amiss. I tried the test kit routine and all I did was kill fish with trying to micromanage my water. I threw out the test kit and my fish quit dying. I guess it stressed the fish too much to stuff them in a tiny test tube! LOL - NO J/K!!! Back on subject - No, I do not test my water. I do water changes on a regular schedule and sometimes will do an extra one if I smell fishy water in one. By the same token, I spend more hours in one day with my tanks than some people have available all week for them. With the amount of time spend I usually will notice anything out of the ordinary very quickly.
What your brother does isn't far off from what we did 30 years ago or so. No, it doesn't make it right and we were lucky back then too.
I don't own a test kit either. I have my eyes and my nose to tell me when something is amiss. I tried the test kit routine and all I did was kill fish with trying to micromanage my water. I threw out the test kit and my fish quit dying. I guess it stressed the fish too much to stuff them in a tiny test tube! LOL - NO J/K!!! Back on subject - No, I do not test my water. I do water changes on a regular schedule and sometimes will do an extra one if I smell fishy water in one. By the same token, I spend more hours in one day with my tanks than some people have available all week for them. With the amount of time spend I usually will notice anything out of the ordinary very quickly.
What your brother does isn't far off from what we did 30 years ago or so. No, it doesn't make it right and we were lucky back then too.
^ my set up too. if my brother ever got into fish, he would never listen to me, or tell me if a fish dies. sometimes thats the way it is. poor fish
i think not becuase i had a fish setup long ago and not much special care as your brother and my fish made it 4 years!
I agree with excuz 100% How did people keep fish "back in the day?" They kept them with 1/10 of the tools we have now, and some were quite successful. Now, I don't condone avoiding the use of test kits/not performing water changes/etc, but I don't think we always give fish enough credit for how hardy many of the species can be. I know when I was a youngster I kept a nice, overstocked ten gallon with few water changes and all my fish lived 3-5yrs and had great colors.
