On-line Pet Peeves

Nannostomus mortenthaleri
Photo by Dennis Ball

Have you noticed, that on many of the on-line fish hang-outs there seem to be forum members that their only purpose is to spew negativity and tell others that they can’t do something.  You know the type;  you can’t have that many fish, you can’t mix those fish, you can’t cycle your tank that way, you can do this and you can’t do that, blah blah blah.

Now don’t get me wrong.  I’m not talking about those people who are offering good sound advise.  I’m only talking about that group who never have anything good to offer and simply parrot something they have heard from another nay-sayer.

Maybe I’m just getting old, but I can’t see where this helps new members of our hobby.  In fact I think it has just the opposite affect, and puts them off the hobby.  After all, if it’s so complicated and there are so many strict rules, what’s the fun of keeping fish??? Continue reading On-line Pet Peeves