I just have one question. If you have enough funds to buy fish, why not buy fish supplies? My daughter was jobless for a couple of yrs, but she had a friend with a pick up, and a trailer. They would gather scrap metal, and sell it. They also picked up cans along the road. If I could not afford to buy what a pet needs to keep it healthy, then I would not get the pet. I surely wouldn't buy more pets I couldn't take care of. Recently my 75 gal. tank broke, and instead of keeping my fish in buckets, I rehomed them to friends who could care for them. I now have another tank, and am in the process of restocking, but just saying, It would have been cruel to keep those fish for weeks in a bucket.