Your creatures do not commit suicide

[m0nkie]

Don't know why but that comment really cracked me up.

I read it at 4:20

Drugs are bad... mmmkayyy

 

[slief]

this is done almost every day in the lounge.

Damn, I must be missing out. In my years of being a member and the several years of lurking prior to becoming a member, I never once checked out the Lounge section.. Maybe that's why. :lmao:

I think I will go check the lounge out right now. :beer:

 

[gone fishin]

This is the reason I stopped dosing vodka. They were crashing into the powerheads.

 

[ShannyG]

This is the reason I stopped dosing vodka. They were crashing into the powerheads.

But maybe by adding vinegar to your salty tank you're encouraging them to jump into a vat of hot oil.
Thank goodness they can't get near the panko bread crumbs....

 

[jrp1588]

This is the reason I stopped dosing vodka. They were crashing into the powerheads.

Wonder if vodka dosing might help captive breeding programs though?

 

[doctorwhoreefer]

Point being that I think you need to grow thicker skin as your thread isn't going to change the reality of people using that term anymore than a single handed campaign is going to change the use of slang in our society.

I see what you're saying, but even if my post makes one single person more careful about the setup of their tank and the inhabitants put in, it was worth it.

As far as having thick skin, I very much do, but that's conversation for psychology not fishkeeping.


I guess what bothers me is when people sit and talk about 'saving the ocean' and then turn around and have this "oops" attitude in their own home.
:blown:

 

[ShannyG]

:beer: You have taken our teasing with great grace, fellow reefer.

 

[hogfanreefer]

I put MP60's in my tank just to shred as many creatures as possible.
So. Freakin. Awesome.

This cracked me up.

 

[d-man]

I add anti depressants to the water and have weekly therapy sessions(believe it or not all the fish enjoy lying on the couch), so I'm proactive in preventing their suicide.

 

[coralsnaked]

In Texas we dose with tequila. My fish don't drink all the time, but when they do they prefer to chase it w' Dos Equis. Stay thirsty my friends.

 

[Jyetman]

Be careful with those radioactive sea cucumbers they "Nuke" tanks! :angryfire:

 

[pinnatus]

Nuke with Cuke.

 

[Tradewinds]

I must apologize to you doctorwhoreefer because I have read your name wrong several times now.

Name got me at first too... very original. :thumbsup:

New Sheriff in town, clean this hobby up!:beer:

I get what the OP is saying. How many power heads do fish encounter in the ocean?

this is done almost every day in the lounge.

Will the lounge be able to handle the onslaught of new members?

This is the reason I stopped dosing vodka. They were crashing into the powerheads.

Oh man.. do you know how hard it is to clean beer off a monitor? Belly laugh for sure, thank you.

 

[Kentech5]

Guess I'm just a nerd. Knew what the name was immediately.

Geronimo!

 

[snorklr]

grinding nemo

 

[ghostman]

I started carbon dosing with Xanax to keep all my critters away from the powerheads.

 

[robs.mark]

I put MP60's in my tank just to shred as many creatures as possible.
So. Freakin. Awesome.

:lolspin:

 

[jared355]

I saw someone refer to 'lookout, those creatures like to commit suicide and get stuck in powerheads'.

I just wanted to chime in and say, do not pretend you had nothing to do with it.
The creatures we keep, do not commit suicide. They think they're in the ocean as far as we know, they will continue to do what they do, go anywhere and everywhere they can.

It is your responsibility to put sponges and prefilters on things, if you're going to have certain types of creatures. They rely on you for this.

So please don't pass the buck, and make up excuses for your neglect.

/rant

You do know that fish lack the intelligence to actually go "hey I'm tired of this crap im out of here". Fish are not humans and we are not raising Dolphins. Dolphins probably could reasonably commit suicide.

 

[Nina51]

Will the lounge be able to handle the onslaught of new members?

not a problem. if the lounge gets 5 new members, usually only 4 of them survive. it's brutal in there.

 

[Tiberione]

not a problem. if the lounge gets 5 new members, usually only 4 of them survive. it's brutal in there.

The lounge is a scary place. I think there should be a "don't pick up hitchhikers" sign on the road in.