This guy must be cruel or stupid. His got 3 tangs in a 45gallon which looks like a 29 gallon to me!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uElUU7yq2h4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uElUU7yq2h4
You want to see CRUEL!
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RyanMKintz
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LFS was probally Petco
I didn't know they "packed" fish in nature. What are you saying?
Its OK to kill and eat fish, but not put too many in a tank? What are you feeding you fish, dogfood? Most of what I feed is other marine life that has been killed to make the food, so we can keep the Tangs in our tanks. Where is the rage?
Its OK to kill and eat fish, but not put too many in a tank? What are you feeding you fish, dogfood? Most of what I feed is other marine life that has been killed to make the food, so we can keep the Tangs in our tanks. Where is the rage?
xJake
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I honestly don't see anything wrong here. Sure he's keeping 3 tangs in a 45-gallon, but they look healthy to me and it seems he has provided adequate flow for them to swim into and get the equivalent of what they would swim in the wild. As you can see in the video the sailfin is swimming right into the flow and a treadmill effect ensues. Everything in his tank seems to be thriving. Sure it might be bad that he's keeping three large fish in a smaller tank than what is ideal, but I've seen a hell of a lot worse than three tangs in a tank that looks healthy as can be. IMHO people on RC seem to overreact, and most of them have no first-hand experience with these fish in the wild. I'm not saying it's alright to keep tangs in small tanks. I'm simply saying this guy or gal seems to know what he or she is doing and we shouldn't berate someone simply because of a first glance.
plateboy3293
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I agree with reef rico it does look like a 29 gallon but the fish do look healthy ( Unless he just put them in their anyone have a youtube account maybe they can post this post?)
plateboy3293
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I meant thread sorry
kzooreefer
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A 45 gallon tall does resemble a 29 from afar, it is only 6" longer and the same width 12.5", but it is 8 inches taller at 25". Besides your only talking an additional 16 gallons which doesn't take up much more space.
xJake
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True the tangs do look rather skinny in the video, but again, all the info we have on the tank comes from this video, which is not only low quality but gives almost no description of the livestock and husbandry practices.
To me the veliferum looks to be fat and healthy (try looking at the different angles in the video) but the scopas does look a bit on the thin side. I really just don't see any point in criticizing someone's husbandry practices with so little information. Not every skinny fish is the fault of the keeper (and not every fishkeeper is as educated on fish disease as the curator of a public aquarium
) and we really don't have anywhere near enough info to pass judgement. If people feel passionate enough to start a thread like this criticizing someone's tank then maybe those same people should be feeling passionate enough to attempt to contact him and politely explain the situation in detail and how he could correct it rather than bashing him behind his back.
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