florida joe
Well-Known Member
I am sure the administrators will remove this thread and as is their right ask me not to participate in these boards anymore and I surly will comply but I feel I need to say this
It has been implied that my compassion for getting people to quarantine new arrivals is nothing but rudeness
If you were forced to have me live in your home and there was a chance I had a infectious disease that might in fact kill you it would be your right and my moral and legal obligation to have my self tested and if found infected treated? Do fish not have the same rights?
The great majority of us spend a great deal of money on our equipment and livestock for one purpose only our own pleasure yet find it so hard to spend the $50 to set up and maintain a hospital tank if this was a pure case of ignorance I could understand but most of the posts about ick in our tanks which seems to be the major cause of disease concern comes from people who know enough to set up their tanks cycle them and add living entities and then ask “ how did I get ick in my tank” or “my fish has ick” not being informed is one thing having the information available to you on these boards and not using that information to keep our live stock from being infected is irresponsible in my opinion Our fish don’t want to be infected yet we roll the dice by not quarantine new arrivals knowing full well that the only way to introduce ick into our tank is by introducing something carrying ick in one of its life cycle stages then we lament the situation we brought on ourselves
The more fish we save through quarantine the less that need to be caught to supply the trade and the more that can live out their lives on the worlds reefs the way they were meant to and that’s not a bad thing
So if my being rude gets just one more person to set up and use a quarantine tank then rude I will be
It has been implied that my compassion for getting people to quarantine new arrivals is nothing but rudeness
If you were forced to have me live in your home and there was a chance I had a infectious disease that might in fact kill you it would be your right and my moral and legal obligation to have my self tested and if found infected treated? Do fish not have the same rights?
The great majority of us spend a great deal of money on our equipment and livestock for one purpose only our own pleasure yet find it so hard to spend the $50 to set up and maintain a hospital tank if this was a pure case of ignorance I could understand but most of the posts about ick in our tanks which seems to be the major cause of disease concern comes from people who know enough to set up their tanks cycle them and add living entities and then ask “ how did I get ick in my tank” or “my fish has ick” not being informed is one thing having the information available to you on these boards and not using that information to keep our live stock from being infected is irresponsible in my opinion Our fish don’t want to be infected yet we roll the dice by not quarantine new arrivals knowing full well that the only way to introduce ick into our tank is by introducing something carrying ick in one of its life cycle stages then we lament the situation we brought on ourselves
The more fish we save through quarantine the less that need to be caught to supply the trade and the more that can live out their lives on the worlds reefs the way they were meant to and that’s not a bad thing
So if my being rude gets just one more person to set up and use a quarantine tank then rude I will be
