Little Over Stocked

[CluelessScot]

This is a pic of the kinda tank my Girlfriend just bought for her betta and this is a pic on the add. I can count at least 12 fish (mollies i think?)

 

[bennett]

i'd like to think that refraction would have something to do with it. but they all seem to be at different levels and poses

 

[SRC]

They just do it to make it look pretty on the box.

 

[flips]

i hate the way they do that... my friend had the 1g spongebob tank (she won it somewhere) and ended up giving it to me. she said all the goldfish she had kept in it died. i tried to explain why and she kept insisting that they show 'a bunch of them in the tank on the box' she wouldn't listen to me....

stupid pictures on the box

 

[CluelessScot]

Is there any way in which that many fish can be kept in a 5.5gal hex? If not, is this faulse advertising?

 

[SamUK]

if you want them to die then yea, you could do it.

or maybe if you did water changes everyday i dunno.

 

[SRC]

It's not false advertising..because it does not say anywhere on the box that you should or shoudl not keep that many fish in the tank.

It's really not the manufacturers fault if you do it. They sell beer at the store, but they don't say drive after drinking it..do they?

It's supposed to be up to the individual to have a little forethought in picking what goes in the tank...otherwise it just shows how much research a person did before plopping fish in it....but it's always easier to blame someone else for your mistakes...isn't it?

 

[Ginge]

Got another here i think.
http/www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/0032133.htm

 

[RedShark]

I have a freind that just recently bought a 7 gallon hexagon eclipse tank from petsmart. She has never managed an aquarium in her life. She set everything up and placed seven harlequin, or porkchop rasbora in the tank. When i went over to her house yesterday i immediately noticed the tank; 1 because i love fish and 2 because i saw that it was incredibly overcrowded. Those poor souls looked so crammed in that little hex tank. I explained to her that fish (especially these type) need swimming space, like horizontally, NOT vertically.
She responded defensively at first, but then i put her in her closet for 5 minutes and she got the picture a bit more clearer, she was such a great sport about it afterwards too .
She told me that by looking at how many fish were in the tanks at the pet store and how many she had seen on the box, that she didnt think it would be of any harm.
I agree with you SRC, there are not too many people out there who will do the investigating and reseaech before diving into the aquarium hobby, I was one of them.
Unfortunately, innocent and defenseless fish must pay for our mistakes.
Personally though, i think that the industry ought NOT dress up their boxes with misleading labels or messages, either that or we ought to be more responsible, independant and set a higher threshold for things we think we know<<<Whens the last time you heard the masses being convinced to do this???
It's about profit from sales, sad to say it, but fish just don't matter.

I have to tell this to my girlfriend everytime we go to petsmart for cat food. She always see's a nice pillow or bed for cats to lay in, and she is so tempted to buy it but i tell her that the bed looks more appealing to people then it does to cats. We had to find out the hard way like 3 times now, but she still does it everytime we go. You know, my cat enjoys the box WAY MORE then the actual toys that come in it.

 

[SRC]

You know, my cat enjoys the box WAY MORE then the actual toys that come in it.

So do kids

 

[catxx]

i once saw this "tank" in a fish store, it must have been 1 gallon, nearly 2 gallon, hex, TINY TINY thing, i wouldn't even put a Betta in it.

but on the box it had two happy looking comet goldfish on it.
and emblazoned across the box "perfect for your goldfish"

and also i got a "waterworld" tank for one of my bettas, about 4 gallons
the leaflet that came with it was "how to care for your goldfish"

GUH
there should be some kind of regulations against this
for the poor goldfishies sake

people DON'T always research about fish, people in general are stupid until they have been proven otherwise.
i did minimal research before i got my first betta bruce
but i'm a quick learner and found this forum pretty sharpish

 

[CluelessScot]

Why cant they not show a pic of the tank fully planted? like bursting with palnts cos to me i think that would look more impressive than 12 fish?

 

[BWBettas]

my first fish were 2 fantails and they were sold to me in a goldfish bowl no more than a gallon big i would never keep them in that again

 

[Courtnie]

I used to have two little tanks... one or two gallons. At one point in one of them I have 5 fish or so. Few Daninos and a couple other little gold barbs or something. Those fish lived for about a year and a half, two years in that tank. I had so much luck with it I went and bought my 29 gallon and moved them in there. There lived another 6 months or so until my Pictus got hungry (or I think it was him anyway).

I agree the pictures are very mis-leading but with proper care you can over stock a tank... as long as there is reasonable swimming room.