My wonderful (horrible) discovery

[Synirr]

I was surfing the net, looking for some good ideas for easy-to-care-for fish that I could give my grandmother for Christmas (since her last fish died this year and she would like some more,) when I found this. Look at BennyDaJet02's list of fish in his 10 gallon. Just look at it.

2nd ten gallon
1 male betta
2 neon tetras
1 marble hatchfish
3 fancy guppies
1 albino cory
a few babies feeder guppies
1 dwarf puffer
1 white cloud
1 balloon belly molly
1 bubble bee goby
a couple of ghost shrimp
1 red claw crab
1 zebra daino
all seem to be doing fine....no conflicts really and the tank doesn't seem to be over stocked the levels are fine and the fish all have their room to swim and lots of places to hide.

BS they're doing fine, Benny. BS. I bet that dwarf puffer is enjoying eating the fins off all the other fish
Edit: I also bet the bumblebee goby is enjoying that fresh water.

 

[gale]

Not only does he have too many fish in there, but he has several shoaling/schooling fish in singles or pairs.

 

[Synirr]

Not only does he have too many fish in there, but he has several shoaling/schooling fish in singles or pairs.

Yeah, I noticed that, too.
Someone really ought to tell this guy what he's doing wrong... too bad he didn't leave his email address

 

[Tempestuousfury]

Yeah, doesn't seem plausible. And they actually posted that, too, eh?

 

[Sorrell]

We talked about this last Spring and I know a bunch of people emailed that site, nice to know it helped I just hope too many newbies find that and use it as a guide


topic

 

[Erised]

This website has been linked to more than once already, and I'm getting quite tired of people going over about how bad those tanks are again and again.

Also, has anyone bothered reading what it says on top of the page?

Here are some examples of community aquariums kept by some of the readers. Please understand that these are examples of what some of the readers are keeping and by no means represent ideal or optimum stocking levels. Badman's does not agree or disagree with them and post them here for informational purposes. Do not use them as a template for your aquarium. I strongly suggest that if you have any questions you read the information from the main site or visit the sites message board. Use them to get a better idea on how to set yours up and what to keep in them. Please use this FORM to submit your tank. You can also Email me your list.

I do agree some of the aquariums are horribly stocked, but if any newbie takes 1 of those aquariums as advice when it has that text I just posted above it, I seriously dont think they pay enough attention to anything to keep fish. Mind you, the website itself is actually very good and informative!

Sorell, the guy is doing nothing wrong by having those aquarium examples up there, and he DOES warn to not use them as examples and look up the basics/what fish to keep first. So dont see whats soooo bad that you all emailed him

Also, there actually IS a freshwater type of bumblebee goby. Yes it can survive in brackish too, but 1 of them really is freshwater.

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Just editing to add this. I can see a lot of people are going to take this too serious. I just want to make clear I do not mean to approve of what that page says, nor do I mean to offend or piss anyone off. Just wanting to have my say, thats all

 

[sylvia]

Honestly - the fact that there's a disclaimer doesn't make it right! They shouldn't be posting these at all if they can see they are completely over-stocked, incompatible and downright cruel. The site simply shouldn't include this page at all IMO - or at least look over the stuff being posted or include a note to say which set-ups aren't realistic.

"but if any newbie takes 1 of those aquariums as advice when it has that text I just posted above it, I seriously dont think they pay enough attention to anything to keep fish"

How is a newbie supposed to know which one of those tanks is suitably stocked and which is ridiculous?
And just because they didn't read or notice the disclaimer and you think they aren't suited to keeping fish - doesn't mean they won't keep them anyway... so what good does the existense of that page do for a newbie?

 

[Kittycat]

A disclaimer is good, but I don't feel it is enough. It's like having a website that says"here are people's recipes for cooking dog meat" then putting a disclaimer that says "this website does not promote dog-eating or cruelty to animals."

 

[jflowers]

I say keep the page, BUT add a comment on each tank i.e. "This tank is very overstocked" or "This is a good example." That way newbies could see the mistakes being made. If they havn't got the time to add comments, then yes they should scrap the page, or make the disclaimer more detailed and repeat it under each tank.

Jon

 

[Ben]

I also made a rant here

makes me made

 

[wrs]

prehaps it was a typo and ment to say 30 or 20?

 

[nino]

there are a lot of extremely overcrowded tanks listed on this sight. but there are also a few tanks that are, for the most part atleast, properly stocked.

instead of harping on that website and the people who have these overstocked tanks, we should be directing them to our forum so that they can learn a thing or two.

 

[shrimpster97]

ignorance is bliss...

 

[WILDER]

Terrible, well actually disgusting.

 

[Tempestuousfury]

As we can all see, the disclaimer wasn't of much use. I might have read it had I found that site on my own. However, I was engrossed in finding this list, so I overlooked it.