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Originally Posted by rcipema

The point is that I have kept fish for about 40 years, and have read numerous books. During all that time it has been my understanding that bubbles pumped into water do not increase oxygen levels. It is always possible that all those authors were wrong, or there has been more recent information.

Bob, sense you seem to have about 13 years on me.. I guess you are right and I should follow what you say with no question.. and becasue you have a few mnore years experience than me.. you have to know everything...

in reality if you realy reed thoes books instead of just looking for spelling mistakes you will see as the publishing dates get closer and closer to today a strange thing happens.. info changes and new things are descovered.. ti is called PROGRESS and you can't stop it by hiding behind "I have been keeping fish for 40 year" statments.. from what I have seen and heard from you ya you have been keeping fish for 40 years... and you still havent learnd a thang sence 1963..

hell I used to think undergrevel filters were the best thing.. (and the were at the time) now they are outdated and it has been proven they cause problems later.. I used to have fish only tanks with way to make tangs in it or angels.. now I know that they need more space.. why.. because I listent ot what others have to say and explore the possability that something I learned 20 years ago might be wrong instead of hiding and refusing to ackwnolage that something I read might be wrong..

now I am sure you are going to take this as a flame as it is not what you want me to say.. so be it.. I am getting tired of trying to be political with pigheadedness and such.

Originally Posted by rcipema

I am sorry for not providing enough information. There is no way you could have known that YES the tank was new, but the contents were not. The contents were everything out of my 10 gallon nano, with a number of gallons of water out of the 50. In other words it could be called an existing tank with the addition of some substrate.

Hmm so then in your words my tank is now 3 years and 8 months old...

Steve

Oh PS.. the spellign mistakes in this one were intentional.. 8)