"NetMax" wrote in message
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"Kevin Livingston" wrote in message
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"NetMax" wrote in message
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The canopy of the future will resemble what we have today, but will be
much bigger, possibly 8 to 12" thick. It will incorporate things like:

10. Live Food option
- habitat section in canopy for growing small creatures (ie: white worms
in earth, feeding off decay from mechanical filtration stage, or mysis
shrimp hatchery etc). Hatchery occupants will randomly 'escape' into
main tank to be eaten.

Too much complication IMHO

complication, yes, but my motivation is a pet peeve close to my heart.
As important as a HOB filter is, what aquariums *really* need is an HOB
hatchery which would randomly release creatures into the water to be eaten
by the fish. The problem is that my fish are bored. Their tank-mates
have been selected with some scientific rigour. Their environment was
researched, and they are generally in the biggest aquarium that I can
afford them. They are happy, healthy and bored.

Along with boredom, their food supply is a little too artificial, double
feedings of dry processed foods with the occasional frozen treat when
their caretaker remembers to do it. Their digestive system would be a lot
happier with a more irregular diet scattered throughout the day, plus the
thrill of finding a live creature swimming around, and then the chase, the
catch, the satisfaction of beating your tank-mates, the swallow... and
then if fish could smile ).

From Oscars to Neon tetras, fish like to spend most of their time in the
pursuit of a meal. This is what they were hard-wired in nature to do.
Eat, sleep, spawn, roam and avoid being eaten. In the confined controlled
space of an aquarium, they eat (boring), sleep (boring), spawn (ok, though
their choices of mates are always very limited), roam (to the end of the
tank and back), and stay alive (usually no predators are in with them).
Boring.

So while the design of a hatchery would certainly be a complication, I
would like to include it for the sake of their mental health ;~).


HOB hatchery? I wonder how that would work?

Anyway these are jusy MY opinions

....and I thank you for taking the time to write them ).

Statistically, every single opinion expressed represents a large number of
similar opinions which were not expressed, so you're actually speaking on
behalf of *many* people.

cheers
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