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[Murminator]

:eek: Some bad info going down on national television


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[christyf5]

Yeah that made the rounds when Finding Nemo came out a few years ago. There was a huge uproar then and an email campaign to Tetra. I don't have any idea what the email campaign resulted in.

Don't forget the water conditioner :rolleyes:

[muck]

"Theres a couple common mistakes people make. The first is that they put too many fish in the tank.." :(

[demon666]

lol you mean i cant really keep a blue tang, clown and a couple seahorese in a five gallon tank????????? darn i was so ready to go out and buy all that today...... damn americans aleays filling my head with false info!!!!!!!! lol

[christyf5]

Don't forget the giant brittle star!! :razz:

[DanG]

What about the lionfish? They always look cool on tv, I want to keep one with some nemo babies, can I do that?

[demon666]

oh but the brittle star is a great back up. it only stays small right??? and will never eat your clown babies...... right???? i am right arent i????

[Reefhawk1]

A gallon per inch of fish huh, wasn't that a 3 inch Regal Tang :bad-word: and then lets add two clows and a couple of seahorses and some starfish now lets watch the tank inhabitants die. Americans are not so smart :mrgreen:

[demon666]

aww come on now the americans arent all dumb............ at least they put in water conditioner in 2 min b4 they added the fish......... better then not at all.

[Matt]

That was beautiful. Truly inspirational. Float the bags for 5 or 10 minutes. That oughta do it. Throw in a bunch of water conditioner to bind all the oxygen right before you introduce the fish, too. And - most importantly - don't forget the plastic _decorations_ <edited to avoid associations with xenophobia -- just tacky, is all>.

I wonder how many "nemos" that little segment killed?

Matthew

[christyf5]

Hey guys, lets drop the comments on Americans and leave it to fish only thanks :biggrin:

[snaggle]

the bet is 1" of fish per gallon and ther is over 5" of fish in there. and adding the water conditionr but no salt?

Brad

[christyf5]

I found it interesting that "acclimating the fish to your water" meant floating the bag for 5 mins and then dumping it in. Actually the woman made quite a few "off the wall" comments that made me shake my head.

A little light reading for anyone that missed it :p

http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=201848&perpage=25&pagenumber=1

[demon666]

those people seemed extreamly upset over what was on that show...... does any1 know if there were any reprocutions or any corrections made by tetra or cbs after they received all those emails?

[christyf5]

I did hear something but I can't remember where it was posted. It all happened a couple years ago and the memory ain't what it used to be :razz:

[shadowboy]

Thank god their farm raised and not wild caught, i mean lets have some morals here.

tb

[kari]

Ah, thanks for the very informative vid. It inspired me to name my oldest clown Nemo. Is there any additional info on where they found the tank raised Tang or did they take care of that themselves during the show? Was the blond lady Norwegian?