Feeding Live

Zoaelite · #1 08-31-2009, 11:45 PM

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Originally Posted by JDigital

zoaElite, our conversation was quite a bit more focused regarding this topic. And my "beef" wasn't the topic of 'live food' usage. I am upset at the reasoning Elite used for tossing 2 perfectly healthy clowns into a Mantis tank. You can damn well bet, that if those clowns hadn't been harassing other fish the LFS wouldn't have had a "reason" to toss them in the tank.

Would you prefer that the fish be sold to some unsuspecting customer only to have it kill all of there fish? Atleast this way there was a reason behind feeding him live.
Levi

little_c · #2 09-01-2009, 01:00 AM

Wow, somebody needs a nap!

And its Grendel. As in Beowulf.... books.... classics... one of the best stories of all time...

lastlight · #3 09-01-2009, 01:58 AM

As in some pretty cheesy electro-industrial. Come on Colby fess up!

little_c · #4 09-01-2009, 04:11 AM

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Originally Posted by lastlight

As in some pretty cheesy electro-industrial. Come on Colby fess up!

Oh dude, you know it!

Geez man, you know them all.

Treebeard · #5 09-01-2009, 02:43 AM

Hmmmm, is it available in "graphic novel" version?

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Originally Posted by little_c

And its Grendel. As in Beowulf.... books.... classics... one of the best stories of all time...

argan · #6 09-01-2009, 03:48 AM

were they tank bred or wild clowns?

Flucker · #7 09-01-2009, 04:07 AM

Why would that matter?????? ^^^^^^^

argan · #8 09-02-2009, 03:49 AM

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Originally Posted by Flucker

Why would that matter?????? ^^^^^^^

wild clowns are more nutritious?

to me it comes down to personal choice, and we are the gods of our salty domains.
i would feed agressive clownfish to a mantis, but not docile ones. That is because a territorial
problem fish is worth less to me. Also keep in mind that just putting the fish in the tank with the mantis does not
automatically mean it will be eaten, the mantis still has to capture the clown.

fishytime · #9 09-02-2009, 12:41 PM

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Originally Posted by argan

wild clowns are more nutritious?

I think the point here is.....with the state of the oceans reefs coming under close examination and evaluation, can we afford to take a fish from the ocean to feed it to what 99% of reefers consider an un-wanted pest? A lot of time and effort goes into getting marine fish to our pet stores, whether they are wild caught or tank raised. It seems irresponsible to me to feed these fish to a hitch-hiker.....perhaps a better choice for food would be mollies....something that breeds like bunny rabbits and is readily available?

Since when is it natural to put a fish in a glass box with a predator?
Do you people condoning this also condone rooster fighting? Mongoose fighting?

Zoaelite · #10 09-02-2009, 04:18 PM

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Originally Posted by fishytime

I think the point here is.....with the state of the oceans reefs coming under close examination and evaluation, can we afford to take a fish from the ocean to feed it to what 99% of reefers consider an un-wanted pest? A lot of time and effort goes into getting marine fish to our pet stores, whether they are wild caught or tank raised. It seems irresponsible to me to feed these fish to a hitch-hiker.....perhaps a better choice for food would be mollies....something that breeds like bunny rabbits and is readily available?

Since when is it natural to put a fish in a glass box with a predator?
Do you people condoning this also condone rooster fighting? Mongoose fighting?

How are you making this connection fishy? Rooster/ Dog/ Mongoose fighting are done in a very illegal setting focused on betting and the transfer of money. Me feeding my Trigger fish a live damsel is like Rooster fighting in which sense?

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Since when is it natural to put a fish in a glass box with a predator?

Well, Since when is it natural to put a fish in a glass box with out a predator? It isn't natural to put a fish in a box period, yet we still have this massive fresh/ salt water aquarium hobby going on around the world.