coconuttelegraph01
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Or maybe a green moray and tesselata in a 55? How bout' a dogface puffer in a dixie cup?? will this work?? c'mon sharks... i need you to tell me this will work so i can justify doing it... what do you mean no? I read there, and saw on another website that i could... what do you know?? how'd you get to be sharks and titan triggers anyway??
Well okay... maybe that was a little extreme, but i've noticed a lot of frustration on this board when someone gives his/her opinion on such a subject and it isn't the response the poster was looking for.
I just wanted to give a couple of thoughts about crowding big fish into litle tanks. I'm sure other people (probably with way more knowlege and experience than myself) will have different thoughts. that's great, i'd love to hear them. Isn't that why we post on these boards anyway??
First of all the rumor that a fish will grow to the size of the enclosure. That's true.
However, their growth is limited by several factors. Space is the obvious one. another is oxygen. The only area of a tank which oxygen diffusion takes place is the surface. so those 55 and 65 gallon tanks which seem pretty large only have 4 square feet of surface area. Muscle tissue of fish when deprived of oxygen will substantially slow in growth rate. Bone growth however, does not depend on oxygen, and continue to grow. The result is a deformed fish which will eventually die. (i doubt any LFS will take one of these off your hands for you) I personally have never seen this with salt water fish, but the fish store that i used to work at had people attempting to bring oscars back looking like a twisted mass of skin and bones. Seeing that a couple of times was enough to ensure that i would never keep a fish in too small of a tank.
Another thought is my opinion only, and regards your reasons for keeping agressive fish in the first place. Are you into this hobby to keep and observe a beautiful animal behaving as would in the wild, (well thats impossible in any tank, so as close to it as you can achieve) I personally think watching a fish exhibit natural behaviors when given enough room to do so, is much better than having a pretty multi-colored decoration swimming in circles, or lying motionless in the water.
just wanted to give my opinion... sorry if this one was a little harsh...
Well okay... maybe that was a little extreme, but i've noticed a lot of frustration on this board when someone gives his/her opinion on such a subject and it isn't the response the poster was looking for.
I just wanted to give a couple of thoughts about crowding big fish into litle tanks. I'm sure other people (probably with way more knowlege and experience than myself) will have different thoughts. that's great, i'd love to hear them. Isn't that why we post on these boards anyway??
First of all the rumor that a fish will grow to the size of the enclosure. That's true.
However, their growth is limited by several factors. Space is the obvious one. another is oxygen. The only area of a tank which oxygen diffusion takes place is the surface. so those 55 and 65 gallon tanks which seem pretty large only have 4 square feet of surface area. Muscle tissue of fish when deprived of oxygen will substantially slow in growth rate. Bone growth however, does not depend on oxygen, and continue to grow. The result is a deformed fish which will eventually die. (i doubt any LFS will take one of these off your hands for you) I personally have never seen this with salt water fish, but the fish store that i used to work at had people attempting to bring oscars back looking like a twisted mass of skin and bones. Seeing that a couple of times was enough to ensure that i would never keep a fish in too small of a tank.
Another thought is my opinion only, and regards your reasons for keeping agressive fish in the first place. Are you into this hobby to keep and observe a beautiful animal behaving as would in the wild, (well thats impossible in any tank, so as close to it as you can achieve) I personally think watching a fish exhibit natural behaviors when given enough room to do so, is much better than having a pretty multi-colored decoration swimming in circles, or lying motionless in the water.
just wanted to give my opinion... sorry if this one was a little harsh...
