So my girlfriends room-mate has a 20 gallon tank. She decides after looking at it empty for months, she wants to set it up. She comes to me for advice. I tell her how to clean it up, give her a basic explanation of the nitrogen cycle, I advise her to loose the ugf and get an aquaclear, and I knew she wasn't going to fishless cycle, so I told her to just get a few fish at first and then slowly introduce more. What does she do? Does she take any of my advice? NO! She doesnt clean anything, she just fills the tank with water and then asks me why it is cloudy. She then runs out to Petco and buys; 3 scissortail rasboras, 2 swordtails, 2 mickey mouse platies, 1 pleco, 1 african frog and 4 zebra danios. She comes home and after floating the bags in the tank for a few minutes dumps them all in. The water temp was at 75 and I told her to go up to 80. The heater wasn't going fast enough for her though so she puts it up to 93! She then decides to feed them and dumps in enough food to last those fish a week. I told her she was going to have to do water changes weekly and she exclaimed that that would be too much work, if she wanted a high maintenance pet she would have gotten a dog. Now, I am a fairly mild mannered guy, but I swear, I could have killed her. Why go to someone for advice if you have no intention of taking it? The only thing that makes me madder is knowing that the idiot at Petco sold her all those fish. Either he knows nothing about fish and should not be giving advice, or he knew fully well those fish were doomed and she would be back to shell out more money.
Some people should not be allowed to have pets. Sorry to rant, but I felt the desire to get that off my chest to some people that would understand.
Caveman
Some people should not be allowed to have pets. Sorry to rant, but I felt the desire to get that off my chest to some people that would understand.
Caveman
O, well! Separates the boys from the man, the girls from the women, the 'lets just try it' from the 'lets be successful'!
