Rate this tank *TRIGGER WARNING*
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James_O
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You shoulda said that man, lots of people judged you real quick.No this is not my tank. It’s from YouTube.
This is my tank…It’s actually EMPTY! Fallow.
Sleeping Giant
Proud Canadian Reefer
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Too much for me, I'll rate 4/10This tank has been running over about a decade. Here is a video from 10 years ago:
And here is a recent video:
NowGlazeIT
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Makes me feel a lot better about my overstocked 120. My fish still have room to swim in burst at full speed.
MaxTremors
2500 Club Member
Well to be fair, iirc, his tank wasn’t too dissimilar (before everything died).You shoulda said that man, lots of people judged you real quick.
OP
OP
Miami Reef
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KeepSwimming12
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This is 99% of the reason I said something. I probably wouldn’t have if it had been clear it wasn’t his tank.
You can't even tell the personality or swimming style of any individual fish because they have no time to do anything other than avoid one another.
I guess the sole intent of this post was simply to "trigger" aquarium hobbyists? I don't get it.
I guess the sole intent of this post was simply to "trigger" aquarium hobbyists? I don't get it.
OP
OP
Miami Reef
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it’s to inform people of what not to do.
blaxsun
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I’m rating this thread “B” for bait. As in clickbait. There was a thread the other day about social media, likes and other narcissistic behavior - and this thread perfectly illustrates the point.
OP
OP
Miami Reef
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@MaxTremors
My fish didn’t all die. Most survived. I gave them to my LFS to hold for me because I didn’t have enough tanks for QT.
This was my tank.
My fish didn’t all die. Most survived. I gave them to my LFS to hold for me because I didn’t have enough tanks for QT.
This was my tank.
MnFish1
10K Club member
I have no problem with the fish or the tank. He must have a huge filtration system. I do not like the constant 'motion' myself - but having snorkeled etc in the wild - there are many areas of the reef with fish like this. Whether its proper to keep them - there are a lot of tanks kept in conditions others don't approve of. if it has really been up and running for 10 years - my guess is that its better than >50 percent of the posters criticizing it.
I do have to say that while the tank has been running over a decade. There are many fish that seem to change. Although I can't say if they the reason... maybe removed for aggression... died... who knows. Just that a handful of fish change from year to year.
Tired
2500 Club Member
Let's not make light of actual triggers (which are a psychiatric thing generally connected to severe trauma) by showing an upsetting thing and labeling it a trigger. Regular upsetting things aren't triggers. Triggers are things like an abuse victim suffering a panic attack at the sound of a garage door, because the garage door always meant their abuser was home. Misuse of the word "trigger" to mean "anything that might be upsetting" (particularly in a joking sense) has thinned the word out and made it less useful in actual medical contexts.
Whoever put that tank together seems to be hitting the same issue that a lot of snake keepers hit: the issue where an animal being alive doesn't mean its quality of life is good. A snake in a small bin with barely any room to stretch out and nothing to do might not die, but that doesn't mean it has a good quality of life, and the same goes for these fish. If you put a dog on a 6-foot chain its entire life, it won't die of that, but it's not going to be very happy.
OP's actual tank looks okay to me, unless there's something I'm missing. I see a bunch of what look like juvenile anthias? And I've certainly seen pictures of actual wild reefs with a lot of anthias in one space. I don't know how it would go as they matured, but it doesn't look too bad right now. As opposed to the reef we're all cringing at, which looks like the holding bucket of a particularly ambitious collector.
Whoever put that tank together seems to be hitting the same issue that a lot of snake keepers hit: the issue where an animal being alive doesn't mean its quality of life is good. A snake in a small bin with barely any room to stretch out and nothing to do might not die, but that doesn't mean it has a good quality of life, and the same goes for these fish. If you put a dog on a 6-foot chain its entire life, it won't die of that, but it's not going to be very happy.
OP's actual tank looks okay to me, unless there's something I'm missing. I see a bunch of what look like juvenile anthias? And I've certainly seen pictures of actual wild reefs with a lot of anthias in one space. I don't know how it would go as they matured, but it doesn't look too bad right now. As opposed to the reef we're all cringing at, which looks like the holding bucket of a particularly ambitious collector.
OP
OP
Miami Reef
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@Tired I respect that and I apologize for using the word trigger.
Most of those anthias didn’t make it. I refuse to add another anthias to my tank again. They don’t seem to last long term for most people.
Here is the photo of the tangs I had.
Most of those anthias didn’t make it. I refuse to add another anthias to my tank again. They don’t seem to last long term for most people.
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