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joe kool · 03-06-2005, 06:55 PM

Exactly ... how would you like to be "stuck" in a closet for the rest of your life .. granted you have a place to hide .. I'll open a door and throw some food to you once or twice a day if you're lucky and you live a long fruitful life...

maybe not quite to that extreme but pretty much what you're asking that fish to do! would you like to live in a closet or a house? a 500 sq foot apartment or a 2300 sq foot house ... yopu're going to be MUCH happier in the house anyday of the week than cramped up on a "room" of an apartment. AND "most" fish don't "like" being alone ... it's unhealthy for them. Imgine living in a "world" where you were all alone with no one or nothing to interact with and a couple times a day this HUGE scarry form came by and scared the hell out of you then all the sudden you found a little to eat ... then you're alone again unless you're unfortunate enough that the huge form has a couple not so huge forms that come by often and BAMM BAMMM BBBAAAMMMM... tap on the invisable force that you can never seem to swim past and ... you guessed it scare the heck out of you again, only this time no food. ... or all the sudden showers of food that starts to burn your "lungs" after a day or so cause you could only eat a small portion of the blizzard of food that fell.

well that's one point of view anyway...

I try to give my aquatic friends a happy fruitful life

03-06-2005, 06:55 PM	#14
joe kool Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Age: 36 Posts: 572	Re: Help! My african cichlid had babies in my 10 gallon tank.. and I think she has ICH Exactly ... how would you like to be "stuck" in a closet for the rest of your life .. granted you have a place to hide .. I'll open a door and throw some food to you once or twice a day if you're lucky and you live a long fruitful life... maybe not quite to that extreme but pretty much what you're asking that fish to do! would you like to live in a closet or a house? a 500 sq foot apartment or a 2300 sq foot house ... yopu're going to be MUCH happier in the house anyday of the week than cramped up on a "room" of an apartment. AND "most" fish don't "like" being alone ... it's unhealthy for them. Imgine living in a "world" where you were all alone with no one or nothing to interact with and a couple times a day this HUGE scarry form came by and scared the hell out of you then all the sudden you found a little to eat ... then you're alone again unless you're unfortunate enough that the huge form has a couple not so huge forms that come by often and BAMM BAMMM BBBAAAMMMM... tap on the invisable force that you can never seem to swim past and ... you guessed it scare the heck out of you again, only this time no food. ... or all the sudden showers of food that starts to burn your "lungs" after a day or so cause you could only eat a small portion of the blizzard of food that fell. well that's one point of view anyway... I try to give my aquatic friends a happy fruitful life __________________ A conglomeration of cichlids from all over living happily in my "melting pot" of tanks. Breeding: currently nothing ... I'm sequestered in South Korea, "Osan" to be exact 2 days till I'm back in the states!!!! Florida to be exact, those Floridians have no idea what they're in for!! current Fry: see above tanks: 100, 55, 46 BF, 26 BF, 20L, 5 fry tank 20L planted with CRS is the only thing up (easy for the wife to care for in my stead)