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lionfu411

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Panther Grouper? in an 18" wide tank? thats definately a no no. they definately get past 1 foot in the aquarium and fast. believe me ive seen them get pretty darn big before. plus as they get older they just lose their spots. panthers can get enormous but since people usually dont have them in the right environment they normally dont grow past 18 inches in the aquarium. which means somethings wrong.
Is it just me or does it seem that when certain people start threads asking for advice that person is so nice and compliments you on your knowledge until you say they cant house something properly then they look for ways around it and will probably buy the fish anyways. you cant argue with those people
 

dme

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LionFu411, Its not just you for that happens to always been an issue at most all through the years for many people will only turn to you if you shown that you have certain well known knowledge but still they like to hear what they want would be OK and nothing more for all they ever really need is just anyone here or elsewhere to tell them that it sounds great and that be all she wrote for I seen this time and time again and only because it seems to those that it works for a long enough time that they think to believe that they can make it work all the time.
For I seen many who did small tanks with gosh, loads and loads of fish and their tanks are still young yet in setup and they believe they can do what no others had done, maintain an over stocked aquarium. For I seen this a number of times at -- and it be funny on that no one ever hears from those people again about how successful they seem to been.
For so many like these had came to me on my thoughts to what they wanted to do and they always at most say that this other person said it be fine and all for yes, the majority of these people will do it just the same for at most they only see this 4" fish, not thinking what it will be two years from now. Two years in a fishes life is very short term indeed and it be a shame that the country state senators not wish to do anything of this, in which is becoming a more alarming problem each year that rolls bye.
For as well there be too many who buy the same fish in a year time frame for where I once lived before I got my house, people at the other apartments there at night could see my aquarium lights and one person there then had a 55 gal tank and he too thought that he does rather well over all. However I had asked him on what be the longest he kept any one fish and he said about 4.5 months and I told him to only think he was so successful if he ever managed to keep the fish for 4.5 years for they do live longer then that I told him.
People want you to give them i think a pat on the back for doing something good for a short period, for I not as yet seen all to many who kept a fish for 12 to 15 years if not longer, even many in this with eels as well, for so many in -- have eels and they are make themselves sound as if they knew what they be talking about and this goes for Bob fenner as well for people had been putting the man on a pedestal for some years now. I had meet the man some years ago and I think I made one mistake in telling him that I had eels all my life and wanted to compare notes to his knowledge to my own on any number of species.
Every time I said anything he made excuses to get away, not once he spoke fish with me for I drove all the way out there believing that I was in for one the most interesting conversations of my life and what a big let down it was. For if the man be so knowledgeable, then why didn't he even say something or was it he something to hide. Like he not know all of what he makes it appear that he knows in his site and books, for I said this, that anyone can be on the other end of that keyboard as well we no idea if it be his words even in his book(s).
So believe in what you all want, I meet the man and not believe he knows anything least of all I heard he never own an aquarium himself. As I said in another forum site, if I not meet up with the man, I wouldn't know what he really knows, but I did meet up with him and I not believe he be so knowing in what be on his site as well as in his books. Do think what you want, you still think the man knows what his talking about, then fine. You go thinking he knows his stuff for do however think in why he wouldn't talk about eels with me for anyone who is supposed to be so well known background with any species that those two people should be ready for one hell of a conversation.
Buddy ><{{{{">
HO, HO, HO, Merry Christmas to all
 

lionfu411

Member
just a question but why do all these threads have "aw2" as a thread title? i havent been here for a while because my old account was not letting me post or sign in so i made this one. what about all the other people who know a lot about aggressive fish?
 

puffer24/7

Active Member
aw2 is simply the expert when it comes to aggressives he has been on animal planet the discovery channel and traveled all over the world lecturing on aggressive fish he is the true expert
 

lionfu411

Member
Originally Posted by puffer24/7
aw2 is simply the expert when it comes to aggressives he has been on animal planet the discovery channel and traveled all over the world lecturing on aggressive fish he is the true expert
k so no one else can answer your question then? theres a difference between being an expert on aggressive fish in the wild and being an expert on aggressive fish in the hobby. i got respect for AW2 but i know a bunch of other people on here who are knowledgeable about aggressive fish
 

dme

Member
When it comes to fish only you may find that there are a good many so called experts as you put it with only one person for I in the thought of only one person who ever on F/O who can answer any F/O question its not to say that there be any one so called expert for you are placing one person in his short hobby carrier on some pedestal for people else where almost sound the same as you are here and i tell them that I am no god like figure that no one person can every have all the answers one might seek to ask.
Myself included in this for I should know what im talking about, for I am in this hobby way back before most here might had been in thought of their parents for I started back in the late 40`s and I can tell you all who views this that never any just one person can know it all for the oceans are vast with many species and yet even AW not know a good many for I told him of eels he not even heard of.
And im sure there be any number of eels I still not know of as yet species I do know about and have little to no info to offer on those. But I can say that my knowledge in that area comes from far times in the hobby with much researching and hands on to boot for even in one scotts books, his suggestions are mostly based on speculation and other people opinions that he know for I not believe he ever had any eel in his life least to say a fish of any species.
So You need to look at anyone's responses here as just that, suggestions/opinions for no one person can tell you every reaction a fish will have with the other as for aggression might go for tank size and fish species in general is nothing to do with expertise but simple logic for the expertise comes in with what each fish might do to one another.
Buddy
 

aw2

Active Member
Woah, woah, woah...what the hell is goin' on here???
I am not...nor I have I ever even hinted at...being some expert in this hobby. Certainly not one who has been on Discovery Channel or Animal Planet. I have no clue where someone got that idea. I'm a manager at a BMW dealership...where did you get "world traveler, fish expert" out of that?
 

dme

Member
I am not...nor I have I ever even hinted at...being some expert in this hobby. Certainly not one who has been on Discovery Channel or Animal Planet. I have no clue where someone got that idea. I'm a manager at a BMW dealership...where did you get "world traveler, fish expert" out of that?
Where you ever find the time for all that AW? Wow
The kid is only making you look better then you already were for, gosh i wish some one would flatter me in some way as he did for you. I guess people figure that at my age i shouild be in an old age home washing my false teeth but the problem with that is, I have my original teeth still.
 
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