Unlabelled Aquariums - A couple days ago I asked for this subs help on what to do about a parasite in one of my ghost shrimp. After a qaurentine she successfully passed the parasite, Thankyou for the help and advice.

September 20, 2019
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Aquariums - A couple days ago I asked for this subs help on what to do about a parasite in one of my ghost shrimp. After a qaurentine she successfully passed the parasite, Thankyou for the help and advice.

A couple days ago I asked for this subs help on what to do about a parasite in one of my ghost shrimp. After a qaurentine she successfully passed the parasite, Thankyou for the help and advice.

Posted: 20 Sep 2019 04:00 AM PDT

My Oscar 8 inches

Posted: 19 Sep 2019 04:47 PM PDT

ive had my oscar for a year and one month now and throughout that time he was an inch 1/2 long with beautiful colors. he then turned completely black and 10 months ago slowly started to turn orange again. i cannot wait to see what he will look like a year from now

Posted: 20 Sep 2019 03:31 AM PDT

FTS Friday! 125 gallons. No editing, no preping for the picture.

Posted: 20 Sep 2019 05:57 AM PDT

Thanks, this is my stop

Posted: 20 Sep 2019 05:12 AM PDT

How about a little bit of late night oscar for those browsing by new? She was happy to see me after a long summer away!

Posted: 19 Sep 2019 06:19 PM PDT

Fish surgery and doctors office room in the Georgia aquarium

Posted: 20 Sep 2019 07:23 AM PDT

Bought my very first fish yesterday afternoon and woke up this morning to be a grandparent.

Posted: 19 Sep 2019 04:55 PM PDT

Just a pretty clown loach

Posted: 20 Sep 2019 06:16 AM PDT

Grumpy Man Jack loves his new home

Posted: 20 Sep 2019 12:52 AM PDT

Cleaned out the photos on my phone and found this picture of my old tank. Figured you guys and gals might enjoy it!

Posted: 20 Sep 2019 03:50 AM PDT

I love my lemon oscar! Cant wait for him to grow some more. Currently at 7 inches

Posted: 20 Sep 2019 05:40 AM PDT

These are in my LFS - What are they?

Posted: 20 Sep 2019 03:59 AM PDT

I saved this Skalar from bad ownership. Water was constantly dirty from dead fish etc. Yesterday he didnt have those black spots, today they're suddenly here. What are those?

Posted: 20 Sep 2019 05:12 AM PDT

Hitching a ride

Posted: 20 Sep 2019 05:12 AM PDT

I work at a LFS and I'm having a hard time ethically.

Posted: 20 Sep 2019 08:23 AM PDT

Y'all are the only community who can understand this. If I hear "who cares, it's just a fish" again I'm going to lose it.

I work at a speciality LFS. The kind of store that we generally recommend folks to go to. Most of the job is really cool, I love seeing the various species we get in. We have both salt and fresh. This store is absolutely targeted at serious hobbyists.

That said, we have plenty of people who come in for their first aquarium/know nothing. Cool! Welcome to the hobby. 9/10 times they are very willing to listen and go with my recommendations (which usually boils down to 'cycle your tank/bring me a water sample') But at least once a shift, I get that person. The one who doesn't want an aquarium, they want a moving picture on their wall. They aren't going to cycle, maintain, or give the least amount of fuck over the health of the tank.

Prime example - the other day, family comes in. They want feeder goldfish. Okay, bagged. They want three juvenile pearlscale goldfish as well. So, as I always do, I start asking about aquarium size, what else is in it, etc. English isn't their first language. They mime out a tank smaller than the ones the pearl scales are in. So probably about a 10g. They want to put the 5 feeder comets and the 3 pearl scales in this tank together.

Guys, I tried. Language barrier and all, I tried to tell them they would be killing these fish doing that. They understood, I know they did. Their kid could understand English just fine. And they insisted on it, and because that's the world we live in, I bagged the goldfish and sold them.

Knowingly handing these living, breathing creatures over to a death sentence is killing me. Even though it is a small percentage of my customers, it hangs over me. I am knowingly giving these fish over to suffer and die in overcrowded, inadequate tanks. Because people can't bother to learn, to Google, to care. Because its "just a fish." And my LFS needs the sales, needs the good reputation in order to stay open.

There are so many ethical issues in the aquarium hobby. This one hurts especially bad today. I just needed to get it out before I go back to work today.

TL;DR - Knowingly handing fish over to die in inadequate conditions because people are stubborn ignorant fucks is destroying me.

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FTS - Added some Serpae Tetras to my tank yesterday

Posted: 20 Sep 2019 05:04 AM PDT

Big fresh water tank at Barcelona Aquarium today!

Posted: 20 Sep 2019 07:57 AM PDT

FTS Monthly update 150 gallon community

Posted: 20 Sep 2019 06:25 AM PDT

40% cold water change. 2 hours of fun watching him try to get her in his cave.

Posted: 20 Sep 2019 03:14 AM PDT

Disco Gang

Posted: 19 Sep 2019 03:58 PM PDT

All set up. Now need some nice green carpeting.

Posted: 20 Sep 2019 07:28 AM PDT

My Weakness

Posted: 20 Sep 2019 07:22 AM PDT

75G river tank with hillstream loaches, panda garra and white clouds. 1000 GPH, 40 gallon sump, no heater.

Posted: 19 Sep 2019 02:00 PM PDT

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