Oversize fish in undersize aquaria - opinions?

andresont · #4 10-04-2005, 11:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Invigor

The fish's life of luxery is over long before you buy it from the LFS anyways, so being a "humane" fishkeeper is an oxymoron if you ask me. Go on and argue with that point, but you cannot tell me you're doing any fish a favor by taking it out of the ocean and sticking it any size of glass box.

It doesn't matter if you have 1 regal tang in a 1000gallon tank, it's a far cry from the acre or two it's used to in the wild.

Totaly oximoron, i agree.

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