Cool
Just a funny read. I was researching Yellow tangs again and my tanks and I found this:
I just going to leave this here for those who like reading ;P
http://coralmagazine-us.com/content/arrested-tang-police-i-refuse-confess
not judging anyone but I found it humorous and informative.
My favorite quote:
" The problem is that the biomass of fish in the ocean is on the order of one clownfish in a 20,000 gallon tank (The CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics gives the density of living matter in the oceans as: 15*10-8g/cm3.)"”so if you want to keep things on the same order of magnitude, you better not keep ANY fish in your tank. The difference between a 75 and a 150-gallon aquarium is inconsequential compared to the potential amount of swimming room that fish have in the wild."
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"As previously noted, the Tang Constabulary will frequently state: "œThat fish cannot be happy in that size tank". Now, I hope they don't mean "œhappy" as in human emotion, and I'll assume that they really mean "œunstressed." So "“ their statement is then, that fish kept in smaller aquariums are more stressed."
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"I spoke with a researcher who has actually measured cortisol (stress hormone) levels in wild and captive parrotfish (Turner et-al 2003). He states that after one week of acclimation, there was no difference in cortisol levels between sub-adult parrotfish housed in 50-gallon aquariums compared to those housed in 150-gallon tanks (Turner 2010, pers. comm.)."
& Bullet point #7