Ultimatereef.com TOTM keeps a yellow tang in a 30gal...

[naesco]

Originally Posted by RuGlu6

If we would REALLY CARE about fish we would NEVER keep it in the glass box period. As long as we buy fish it will be offered for sale. And eventually fish will die for one reason or the other.
Nothing what we can provide will compare to the ocean.
JMTCW

But if we choose to get into this hobby we have an obligation to provide the optimum care of the critters we keep.

[gobytron]

Originally Posted by naesco

But if we choose to get into this hobby we have an obligation to provide the optimum care of the critters we keep.

how do you figure?

Buying an aquarium is all of a sudden supposed to supply people with a moral compass of some sort?

all you're doing is imposing your own ideals of what constitutes optimum care on someone who likely could care less about your ideals....they probably hae their own to worry about.

If you were REALLY that righteous, you would not be in this hobby. period.

sorry, but the double standard stated earler in this thread is just so obvious that its best to accept that we are all responsible in some way shape or form of taking an animal out of their optimum environment and placing it in one built out of our own greed.

give it all the "optimum care" you think it deserves, it doesn't change a thing IMO, it's still a fish out of (ocean) water.

[Borderjumper]

Originally Posted by christyf5

well you're here and you don't even have a tank, what does that say about you then?

ZING!!!!

[StirCrazy]

Originally Posted by christyf5

well you're here and you don't even have a tank, what does that say about you then?

its because of the tang police.. I can't aford a tank big enough to keep a 1" yellow tank in for fear I will be chased off the board....

and for your info, I had 5 tanks... in the garage

Steve