Fish In Public

[MHunt]

Why is it that most tanks i see in public places, ie schools, doctors surgery's etc are in such poor condition. I know the idea is that an aquarium is meant to be relaxing but i find myself getting more wound up over the conditions the fish are living in.

My most recent example, over the summer i was working in a school and noticed they had a nice aquarium with coldwater fish in, a moor, a shubunkin and a bubble eye! The tank was clean and bright and the fish looked really healthy. Went back yesterday for another job, and made a point of looking at the tank, what a change! you could hardly see into the tank for the algee on the glass, what you could see of the inside was covered, and the only fish i could see was a poor shubunkin hiding under the filter!

I nearly offered to sort the tank out for them, but i know without regular maintainance it would look just the same within a couple of months! Any kids that the tank might have encouraged to keep fish will have been put off now by how bad it looks after such a short space of time!

I know the staff in the school probaly have more important thing to do than look after the tank, but if they didn't think they could maintain it properly, they shouldn't have got it in the first place!!!!!!!!

Ok, rant over!

 

[madmom]

In the library at my son's school there is a marine tank that is beautifully kept up. I think it's because the tank and fish belong to the librarian and she's always puttering with it. The public library here also has a tank freshwater and the tank is a real mess algae all over and the fish are listless. I guess it depends ; if the tank is privately owned better care is taken than if it's just a decoration like a doctor's office where all they do is drop in some food and someone maybe comes in to do tank maintenance once in a while.

 

[MHunt]

After seeing a few tanks in this condition i seriously considered setting up in business providing and maintaining corporate tanks, in doctors, library's, hotels etc. I could even do it part time to start with, but making the jump from being employed to being self employed is a big one.

 

[Dude]

the biggest mistakes ive found in public places were

keeping guppys with goldfish and angels...

but other than that all the tanks iv run across have been properly taken care of....

excluding all the home tanks ive seen ... lets not even get me started about those....


reply: there are fish tank maintaining buisnesses

usualy for public places

i saw one at work at the aquarium restraunt


i think theres good money in it

 

[MHunt]

I guess i've just seen the poorly maintained examples, I know there are people out there who do care about the fish rather than them being an ornament.