Why Do Some People Ask For Advice?

[Zante]

I suppose you know Yahoo Answers...

I was on the Italian one, and as usual someone asks something along the lines of "I have just bought 225litre aquarium, what fish can I put in?"

One in particular grated me.

The more expert users (as usual) explained that it is really to small for fish, and that if he REALLY wanted fish it would have to be one male betta, but it would be pushing it, better to make a shrimparium.

One idiot pipes up with "oh you can put six male guppies and some neons, and ton't forget to ad a glass cleaner fish and some gravel cleaner fish to keep the tank clean"

The OP chooses this as best answer and adds "you aquarium snobs should understand that not everyone can afford million litre tanks so f***you. I got ten guppies today and they're just fine. F*** you again."

Why do people even bother to ask these questions?

 

[fluttermoth]

Meh, I guess they just want to find someone to tell them what they want to hear to make themselves feel better?

 

[FishBlast]

I suppose you know Yahoo Answers...

I was on the Italian one, and as usual someone asks something along the lines of "I have just bought 225litre aquarium, what fish can I put in?"

One in particular grated me.

The more expert users (as usual) explained that it is really to small for fish, and that if he REALLY wanted fish it would have to be one male betta, but it would be pushing it, better to make a shrimparium.

One idiot pipes up with "oh you can put six male guppies and some neons, and ton't forget to ad a glass cleaner fish and some gravel cleaner fish to keep the tank clean"

The OP chooses this as best answer and adds "you aquarium snobs should understand that not everyone can afford million litre tanks so f***you. I got ten guppies today and they're just fine. F*** you again."

Why do people even bother to ask these questions?

Do you mean 25 liters? Because 225L could easily fit at least 1 BN pleco, six male guppies and a shoal of neons...

 

[Zante]

I suppose you know Yahoo Answers...

I was on the Italian one, and as usual someone asks something along the lines of "I have just bought 225litre aquarium, what fish can I put in?"

One in particular grated me.

The more expert users (as usual) explained that it is really to small for fish, and that if he REALLY wanted fish it would have to be one male betta, but it would be pushing it, better to make a shrimparium.

One idiot pipes up with "oh you can put six male guppies and some neons, and ton't forget to ad a glass cleaner fish and some gravel cleaner fish to keep the tank clean"

The OP chooses this as best answer and adds "you aquarium snobs should understand that not everyone can afford million litre tanks so f***you. I got ten guppies today and they're just fine. F*** you again."

Why do people even bother to ask these questions?

Do you mean 25 liters? Because 225L could easily fit at least 1 BN pleco, six male guppies and a shoal of neons...

Whoops, yes, I meant 25, not 225.

 

[watertown28]

Where do they live? I am sure there will be a tank on the curb for garbage pick up soon enough.

 

[FishBlast]

Whoops, yes, I meant 25, not 225.

Yeah, in that case, I'd just use 25L as a fry tank if I had an extra filter.

The stupid thing was that my mother confined my catfish from a 40L or 50L (not sure of size) to a 23L back in 2010, then at the beginning of 2012 I had 3 swordtails (then 2 because one got bullied and refused to eat till she died) in it too. Good thing I ended up on this forum, otherwise I wouldn't have known anything on time to save them. Now they're in my 76L and 2 fry have joined, along with 2 apple snails I got recently.

 

[Zante]

Where do they live? I am sure there will be a tank on the curb for garbage pick up soon enough.

If you feel like flying to Italy for it I can ask...

 

[Akasha72]

umm

My 25 litre used to hold 4 male guppies, 3 neons, and a couple of platies ... okay, not for long and I was a beginner then but they were fine in there. I changed water every week. It now holds a load of platy fry and a couple of guppy fry.

Sometimes I do feel some people are too quick to judge the beginner. Yes, ten guppies in a 25 litre is a few too many but 6 would've been okay provided they got regular water changes. Sticking an oto or two in to clean the glass wouldn't have upset much either - after all they don't get that big, blink and you miss em lol

Go on ... start shouting at me now ...

 

[ryan136]

I hav a mate that dus that all the time. He will ask me sumin to do with his fish or plants n wen i tell him the best way to do it he then says na n dusnt do it.but then crys wen his fish die. And says his plants dont look as gd as mine. Drives him soo mad just do as i say then

 

[FishBlast]

My plants will probably never look good either, but I want to go low-tech and somehow establish a natural balance between the flora and fauna. Just hope my dad finishes that lid so I can add the bigger lights, I only have a rechargeable neon atm and it's not good enough, not even sunlight is enough, only the newest sprouts seem to look good, old leaves seem to go yellow (at least my snails get food since they run away from salad...).

 

[watertown28]

Where do they live? I am sure there will be a tank on the curb for garbage pick up soon enough.

If you feel like flying to Italy for it I can ask...

excuse for a vacation?

 

[Zante]

umm

My 25 litre used to hold 4 male guppies, 3 neons, and a couple of platies ... okay, not for long and I was a beginner then but they were fine in there. I changed water every week. It now holds a load of platy fry and a couple of guppy fry.

Sometimes I do feel some people are too quick to judge the beginner. Yes, ten guppies in a 25 litre is a few too many but 6 would've been okay provided they got regular water changes. Sticking an oto or two in to clean the glass wouldn't have upset much either - after all they don't get that big, blink and you miss em lol

Go on ... start shouting at me now ...

No shouting,

but if you ask for advice, especially if you're a newbie, you should at least acknowledge it, and not be abusive.

... After all, someone who is just starting is unlikely to be able to manage an overstocked tank, no?

Also notice that the person also mentioned putting fish in the tank. That was three days after the question was posted, no cycling, nothing.

I wonder if he'll be too proud to post asking for help when his fish start to die of ammonia and nitrite poisoning.

 

[FishBlast]

umm

My 25 litre used to hold 4 male guppies, 3 neons, and a couple of platies ... okay, not for long and I was a beginner then but they were fine in there. I changed water every week. It now holds a load of platy fry and a couple of guppy fry.

Sometimes I do feel some people are too quick to judge the beginner. Yes, ten guppies in a 25 litre is a few too many but 6 would've been okay provided they got regular water changes. Sticking an oto or two in to clean the glass wouldn't have upset much either - after all they don't get that big, blink and you miss em lol

Go on ... start shouting at me now ...

No shouting,

but if you ask for advice, especially if you're a newbie, you should at least acknowledge it, and not be abusive.

... After all, someone who is just starting is unlikely to be able to manage an overstocked tank, no?

Also notice that the person also mentioned putting fish in the tank. That was three days after the question was posted, no cycling, nothing.

I wonder if he'll be too proud to post asking for help when his fish start to die of ammonia and nitrite poisoning.

That may or may not happen, depending on water change frequency and on fish resistance.
If he'd have my luck, he'd keep them guppies anywhere between 2 to almost 3 years with no loss despite no filtration.
Well, I did have a larger tank than 23L back then so no idea how it would be in a 23L or 25L, I've only had my hoplo in it for 1 year or so.

 

[Akasha72]

No shouting,

but if you ask for advice, especially if you're a newbie, you should at least acknowledge it, and not be abusive.

... After all, someone who is just starting is unlikely to be able to manage an overstocked tank, no?

Also notice that the person also mentioned putting fish in the tank. That was three days after the question was posted, no cycling, nothing.

I wonder if he'll be too proud to post asking for help when his fish start to die of ammonia and nitrite poisoning.

it wasn't long after that a neighbour gave me his old 2ft tank, I discovered fish-in cycling and then discovered this forum when everything went t*ts up!!

I always acknowledge advice and I'm not the abusive type (unless pushed!) My point was that the guy that suggested a few guppies and a couple of glass cleaners was probably thinking down the same lines as I did in the beginning. It wasn't all that bad suggestion wise

 

[rolltide101x]

Meh, I guess they just want to find someone to tell them what they want to hear to make themselves feel better?

This is exactly right.