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Tim, thank you.
Since I am not passionate about the cichlids, I guess I'm just not a good candidate for this forum. I meant no harm. I am sorry and I sincerely appreciate your well worded response. On re-reading my post, I guess I can see where your coming from. Good luck on your hike and be safe, "Amateur Cichlids" wrote in message ... "Mousetater" wrote in message ... Well, I am new to the group. I just wanted some advice. Please excuse my ignorance. I thought I could just ask an innocent Cichlid question. I guess not. More importantly, if innocent questions are perceived as what you implied, I guess I need to re-evaluate the need for newsgroups at all. I was under the assumption that you could go to newsgroups for help. I respectfully remove myself and if could, I'd remove the post. G'day Please don't excuse yourself on my account. I rarely post here anymore. I spend most of my time at websites where I can use smilies to get my point across. There are hundreds of people who post on the newsgroups. Letting one person offend you to the point where you leave is just plain silly. Especially when posting someplace that is "unmoderated." If you were sincerely looking for advice, I'd tell you that your tank is in all probability too small. This based on a 30 gallon may house a pair of Firemouths by themselves with nothing else. I'd inform you that the orange fish you mention is probably a Metriaclima estherae and should be housed in a 75 gallon tank or larger. They're algae grazers and have developed their temperments from years of evolution of protecting their grazing area in Lake Malawi. The only Mbuna I would consider for a thirty gallon tank would maybe be Labidochromis caeruleus or Iodotropheus sprengerae. I've found over the past few years that most new people to the hobby don't appreciate any advice that implies they may have done something wrong. They get defensive and say things like "The fish all seem to be doing fine." or "My buddy has a dozen tanks and he's not having any problems." Or they use say their LFS said it was OK. The LFS guy who wants you to buy fish so he makes money. This isn't to say that all LFS's lie and mislead, but I've seen enough bad advice given to make me think twice about accepting their advice. I would start researching more and instead of ignoring what you read, weigh out everything. A good book for beginers with cichlids would be "Enjoying Cichlids 2nd edition" edited by Ad Konings. A little more trustworthy than a friend, website, Newsgroup or LFS. From the people who've been in the hobby a while, I've found they love their fish like people love dogs. When someone talks about fish attacking each other and says it's funny, it typically generates a lot of irate responses. Some of those responses can be quite brutal. So, when I see you posting this type of stuff, I go say "Wow. People are going to flip out on this guy." But then I figure you've must of read some of the posts and would know how people would react, so I figure you weren't some innocent poster, but someone looking to upset people. Either way, I'm going hiking Monday to kick off my two weeks off and am pretty apathetic towards the whole thing. If you do read this, even if you disagree, I hope you can see my point of view. And even if you can't, I'll say again, Enjoy your fish. Tim http://www.fishaholics.org |
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