Wow, even the moderators on this forum are rude!
That's amatter of opinoin, others would say they just don't sugar coat their words.
Why did your fellow staff member move this to the "new to the hobby" section if it wasn't supposed to be there CFC?
Why indeed? The movements of some of our mods are a true mystery to me.
Sarah has said multiple times that she didn't know and made a mistake.
Yet she has gone to another forum and believed the first person who has said her tank is fine. The most cursory glance at posts on silver arowanas on here will show the huge growth rate of CFC's aro and how it cannot live any length of time in a tank only 24 inches front to back, let alone 19".
How many people on this forum come here because they did not know how to start out or got some wildly bad advice from an LFS? The bottom line is that yea, it is easy to make a mistake like this and it happens all of the time with fish like Bala (silver) shark, ID sharks, tinfoil barbs, plecos, etc...etc...etc... Heck, you even go as far as to....
Re homing the fish is going to be difficult, people who have tanks large enough will either already have one or not want one and public aquariums and zoo's rarely take in common aquarium fish
...try cutting all of her options off by discouraging her from doing anything but get out a credit card. Who are you to tell people how to spend his/her money. Additionally....
Or, as others would say, point out the reality of the case, just like how when someone claims they will just give their red tailed catfish to a public aquarium others will point out they don't want them.
Let me also say one more thing to you....
post on the other forum as you like it when the americans tell you its fine to cram a silver arowana into a tank that is only 19" wide.
I feel as though your allowing this comment which obviously implies that americans don't what we are talking about is unbelievable! How you are a staff member here is definitely beyond me and how mark7616 was allowed to create a possible rift between the members of this forum is incredible.
But that is your feeling, my reading is that if the person really wants to believe that 19" is fine for a silver for anything more than a quarantine tank, then she is welcome to go and talk to those people. This is a typical American response in my experience, if there is the possibility that someone is criticising America/Americans, they get upset and on the defensive.
And how dare a possible rift be generated by someone giving correct advice on the size of a fish!
Let me be the first proud american to invite you over to a much more friendly forum and I will personally answer any and every question you have about test kits and hook you up with some people who might be able to find a more suitable home for your fish. I assure you that CFC and Mark7616 are not a good representative of any country and there are plenty of people to prove me right if you click on this:
But any decent forum is going to point out that the tank is not large enough for the fish and will be too small within a year. CFC has spoken the truth about trying to rehome silver aros, how many people does your forum actually have with access to 8 foot by 6 foot tanks or larger?
People seem to have got upset that Mark, and CFC didn't just say "Oh that's nice, you have a silver arowana in a tank too small for it. Oh, others have said it is big enough, that's ok then"
This is the internet and not spoken words. Inflexion of tone is very difficult, while some blunt posts can appear rude, perhaps you should look at why they are posting it, and not take offence just because someone hasn't agreed with what you have done/said.
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