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I'd like to put the idiot in a 2x3 foot cell and limit changing his bucket to once every two weeks and make sure that the ventilation to his cell is at the end of a 100 foot long 2 inch pipe.
problem is money trumps common sense, and its only going to get worse until they help destroy the hobby completely.
problem is money trumps common sense, and its only going to get worse until they help destroy the hobby completely.
Petco?
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Oh God don't bring politics into this....I'd like to put the idiot in a 2x3 foot cell and limit changing his bucket to once every two weeks and make sure that the ventilation to his cell is at the end of a 100 foot long 2 inch pipe.
problem is money trumps common sense, and its only going to get worse until they help destroy the hobby completely.
No filter isn't exactly correct.
Yeah, it's crazy. A lot of products are shown like that. As "fish" people, we know that it is wrong, and I can see where it could mislead a newbie into thinking the wrong things. The pretty picture helps sell the product and that is what the manufacturer wants. Have you ever seen ad pictures for those above ground pools? They show a 2 1/2 foot deep pool that is 6 feet wide and they photoshop 4 adults and 7 kids along with 3 floats down to about 1/4 size so that it looks like they all fit comfortably. Those pictures sell the pools as well. Then Dad gets home, sets it up, and his feet hang out of one end and his head the other. Fun, fun, fun. Manufacturers and retailers have all sorts of nifty methods to relieve you of your recreational dollars.
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No. No politics. Fastest way to make new enemies and get a thread shut down.:grin2:Petco?
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Oh God don't bring politics into this, I love politics...
I think she meant, the tank has no filter and with 3 adult gourami's in it, its obviously not a stable living environment.No filter isn't exactly correct.
Every box in the store I work at has similar pictures.Lets have a nice rant about wrong this picture is.
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P.S. Its 3 adult golden goramis in a 1 gallon with no filter.
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I was actually confused for a second, but your right cant use the t word anymore. my post was ignored except for one word. anyway money out weighs commonsense. hopefully nothing in this post.
I was actually confused for a second, but your right cant use the t word anymore. my post was ignored except for one word. anyway money out weighs commonsense. hopefully nothing in this post.
The t word is not allowed? definition as applicable to the previous statement: a decisive overriding factor or final resource.
I was pretty confused as well.
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BURN IT WITH FIRE. Seriously, I see people buying fish bowls at PetSmart, and I am too quiet to talk to them, so I have to live with that dead fish in my conscience. And false advertising, and images like this DO NOT HELP
Eh, jam in a pleco or two, and a betta, but that white gravel is just washing out the fishes' colors.
Promotional images like these have been around for decades. Even as a kid just starting the hobby I realized the stock photos for many desktop nano tanks were wholly impractical.
If the truth was told to all in the beginning this hobby might only be me and my neighbor!
Poor and deceptive yes. This hobby needs to everything short of kidnapping to get new people involved.
besdies lack of good promotional campaigns I will say everyone started somewhere? When others said get the 20long many said I like my betta bowl.
All in good time, I hope !
Even educated it seems 3/4 of the keepers still keep their fish wrong.
Just saying?
Poor and deceptive yes. This hobby needs to everything short of kidnapping to get new people involved.
besdies lack of good promotional campaigns I will say everyone started somewhere? When others said get the 20long many said I like my betta bowl.
All in good time, I hope !
Even educated it seems 3/4 of the keepers still keep their fish wrong.
Just saying?
If the truth was told to all in the beginning this hobby might only be me and my neighbor!
Poor and deceptive yes. This hobby needs to everything short of kidnapping to get new people involved.
besdies lack of good promotional campaigns I will say everyone started somewhere?
I think this is a good point! I started out when taking care of my parents' .5-1 gallon betta bowl. It had a top on it with a plant in the top and therefore almost no surface for the betta. Slowly, I made upgrades until I got up to a 10 gallon, heated+filtered finally and planted. He lived a long and happy life. Until he jumped out... and my hobby progresses from there. Very good point here.
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It just makes me furious, when I started the hobby there was very little info except the local fish store who needed to sell stuff. Therefore I bought a lot of stuff not a good idea or that worked but they were the only place for 75 to 100 miles then. I had a die off a few years ago and blamed myself( it was my fault, they are my responsibility) so I quit the hobby and kept screensaver fish.
Now slowly getting back into the hobby and plants only for now. So there needs to be some way to stop or weed out false information.
Now slowly getting back into the hobby and plants only for now. So there needs to be some way to stop or weed out false information.
A while back when we still had tv channels in this house, I saw a commercial that showed a child in a wheelchair feeding a pair of goldfish in a one-gallon bowl with an adult nearby. It was obviously supposed to give you warm fuzzies feeling and sympathy, but I forgot what the entire point of the commercial was, I got so angry seeing that. It just reinforced in a huge way the popular misconception that it's ok to keep a goldfish in a bowl.
And yet I did the same thing as a child. I finally figured out that wasn't a good thing (maybe our goldfish burial tree in the yard helped clue us in) but my upgrade was still laughable: a ten-gallon tank with an undergravel filter and five or six feeder goldfish! Haha.
People get upset about things like seeing a dog tied outside in the yard alone all day, but most of them don't think twice about the bad conditions fish are kept in by the ignorant.
I'm super glad I found this site (and others like it) when I started up the hobby again. It's made a world of a difference for me.
And yet I did the same thing as a child. I finally figured out that wasn't a good thing (maybe our goldfish burial tree in the yard helped clue us in) but my upgrade was still laughable: a ten-gallon tank with an undergravel filter and five or six feeder goldfish! Haha.
People get upset about things like seeing a dog tied outside in the yard alone all day, but most of them don't think twice about the bad conditions fish are kept in by the ignorant.
I'm super glad I found this site (and others like it) when I started up the hobby again. It's made a world of a difference for me.
That looks like it's from 1978
And yes, advertising is seldom ethical. Advertising laws state that a manufacturer cannot alter the product being sold, but not how its presented. That picture on a cereal box doesn't have milk on it. Its probably a paint glue mix. That model selling makeup is photoshopped to the Nth degree, etc. I learned at a young age not to believe in advertisements without fact checking them first. It's unfortunate that someone would look at the Aquatank box and think they can have such big fish in such a small tank, just because the box shows it. I feel sorry for fish that has happened to. However, I feel just as sorry for folks who believe everything that advertisements try to sell them. They're advertisements! They are biased things that try to make people spend money on an emotional, sometimes even subconscious level.
Don't get me wrong, shame on the Aquatank's manufacturer for allowing that image to hit the shelf. But also, shame on me if I drink their Kool-Aid and believe all they're selling me at face value
And yes, advertising is seldom ethical. Advertising laws state that a manufacturer cannot alter the product being sold, but not how its presented. That picture on a cereal box doesn't have milk on it. Its probably a paint glue mix. That model selling makeup is photoshopped to the Nth degree, etc. I learned at a young age not to believe in advertisements without fact checking them first. It's unfortunate that someone would look at the Aquatank box and think they can have such big fish in such a small tank, just because the box shows it. I feel sorry for fish that has happened to. However, I feel just as sorry for folks who believe everything that advertisements try to sell them. They're advertisements! They are biased things that try to make people spend money on an emotional, sometimes even subconscious level.
Don't get me wrong, shame on the Aquatank's manufacturer for allowing that image to hit the shelf. But also, shame on me if I drink their Kool-Aid and believe all they're selling me at face value
At least they are Anabantoids and not 3 Discus or Oscars. :-/
I feel the same way about Goldfish in a bowl with a heater or a Betta in a vase with a Water Hyacinth.
Looks Photoshopped (notice the fins are not refracted like the plants at the corner of the tank). I'm sure the graphic designer who designed the packaging has no idea and couldn't care less.
I feel the same way about Goldfish in a bowl with a heater or a Betta in a vase with a Water Hyacinth.
Looks Photoshopped (notice the fins are not refracted like the plants at the corner of the tank). I'm sure the graphic designer who designed the packaging has no idea and couldn't care less.
Hey, that was my very first fish tank!
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