Stuart60611
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It's not LA's job to be the end all of all information.
No, but if Live Aquaria chooses to offer information about minimum tank sizes I do submit that it is Live Aquaria's job and obligation to provide this information accurately. The same holds true with respect to every product sold.
If your adamant about this, why not petition LA[.]
That is pretty much the point of this thread. My hope was to start making noise here since many of us account for so much business for Live Aquaria and simlar companies.
you cannot protect the stupid from the world.
Many people who get duped by the minimum tank size suggestions posted by on-line vendors are not stupid and are well-intended hobbyists who just do not know better. With 7 years post high school education and an excellent accademic record, I think it fair to state that no one would consider me an idiot. However, when I started in this hobby it never crossed my mind not to believe the minimum tank size information provided by reputable vendors, like Live Aquaria. Live Aquaria is considered by many to be one of the most reputable fish vendors in the industry and extremely knowledgeable about how to properly keep fish. They bost considerable rhetoric on their website on how they take such great care in providing very healthy fish for sale. They further provide many articles on a vast array of aquarium husbandry topics, many of which are written by some of the "experts" in the hobby. If you search around the web about Live Aquaria, you will find many postings and comments about how it is such a reputable and well run company. This all together gives many inexperienced but reasonably intellegent hobbyists the understandable impression that Live Aquaria is extremely knowledgeable about keeping marine fish and no cause to challenge their minimum tank size information. As I indicated above, many very intellegent people do not realize that the purchase of fish for a fish tank requires considerable research and that you cannot trust the information of what reputable vendors, like Live Aquaria, provide.
Although you cannot protect the stupid from the world, there is plenty of precident concerning protecting the inexperienced consumer from being misled into making a purchase based on misinformation provided to the consumer from the seller. This concept is nothing novel and in most industries accepted as being obvious. For whatever reason, the on-line fish sales industry has developed a culture which seems to ignore this at least as far as minimum tank size information. Remember, what we are talking about here is not people who do not look into the appropriate tank size for a given fish, but rather, people who obtain this information from what most would consider a highly reputable source and make the mistake of reasonably believing that they can rely on this information being remotely accurate.
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