"Tynk" wrote in message
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You're telling a person who has a common Goldie, which reach between
14-16" long, have good sized body mass, to get a 10g tank. You made no
mention what so ever about needing a larger in the near future.
Hence the point of my problem with what you told them.
Why not tell them the entire truth?

Why keep harassing me over it? I tell everyone who buys a GF that they can
reach a foot long IN TIME which they can if they live that long. Perhaps
one in 100 will survive to out grow a 10 gallon tank.

You seem to have an issue with somebody paying $.20 for a Goldie.

You seem to have an issue on what people should tell others. For all I
care they can buy a 150g tank for a 10 cent feeder. That's their decision
to make. Not mine and not yours.

Some
of those poeple actually prefer them, enjoy them and would like to care
for them properly.

Of course. It's still their decision to make. Not our decision. When I
tell people they can get a foot long I never once had the person say, "Oh
Geeze, I better buy a 55g tank."

It doesn't matter how little it cost. It still deserves proper
treatment and proper housing!!
This is something you don't agree with.

No, it's something you want to get ugly over for some reason. You think
everyone should do and say as you want them to do and say here,.... and
that's not going to happen.

Same with your treatment of Bettas. It doesn't matter how many idiots
house them in tiny bowls, it doesn't make it right for that fish!!

No one said it did. Once the person buys the fish you and I have nothing to
say about what they do with it. They will do as they please.

It cruel for them to be kept in such tiny bowls.
It's deadly to house a Goldfish in something too small.

Which is a complete LIE since. Maybe you need to expend you energy getting
laws passed which dictate what size tank people must purchase before they
buy even 10 cent fish. You wont change the world here.

(either death
by polluted water from their own waste, or death from stunted growth.

Sure.... which can also happen in a neglected 120g tank.

That's when their growth is stunted and it also stunts their internal
organs making them croak way too soon.) Both of which are very, very
wrong, yet you seem to think it's perfectly fine.

No, you're just putting words in someone's mouth because YOU feel you're
right about this and will belittle someone who disagrees.

It's not. It's cruel treatment.

Then have laws passed that everyone who buys a GF of any kind must also
purchase a 20g or 30g tank.

It makes no difference what the poor thing cost.

Yes, the poor things! If you were so concerned you wouldn't be breeding
fish and selling them so stop pulling the "poor things" act on me.
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