Tang Police or Tang Nazis?

Lance · #1 01-07-2011, 10:42 PM

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Originally Posted by asylumdown

I don't think that the fish we keep are swimming around in their tanks, waxing poetic for the days when they swam free on the reef. Fish have behaviours that they can and need to exhibit. If we put them in a circumstance where they are unable to exhibit those behaviours, they will probably get stressed out, but they're not going to be thinking about it. The best we can do is to try and replicate their environment as best we can, but if we can't, the fish is not going to have a complex emotional response and sulk while it thinks about what it would rather be doing. The fish we keep react to stimuli and conditioning, that's pretty much it.
If there is a problem with the environment they are in, the fish will react negatively. They will get overly aggressive, or they'll stop eating, or they'll get sick. If they're not doing any of those things, there's a good chance it's emotional state is as level as it would be anywhere else it wasn't getting eaten.

Bingo! That's what I was trying to say! Well, I did say it, just not nearly as well.

Youngster Dan · #2 01-08-2011, 04:23 AM

Asylumdown, cool posts! I have never heard of an ethogram, but sounds like you do some really interesting stuff.

Mrfish55 · #3 01-08-2011, 06:17 AM

I take it you were bored today Lance? Now I feel guilty, going to have to get a bigger tank now, thanks a lot!

PoonTang · #4 01-08-2011, 08:41 AM

...... and for his next trick Lance will have us all discuss the question "is God really there""

Skimmerking · #5 01-08-2011, 03:52 PM

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Originally Posted by PoonTang

...... and for his next trick Lance will have us all discuss the question "is God really there""

ROLMAO

globaldesigns · #6 01-08-2011, 04:23 PM

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Originally Posted by PoonTang

...... and for his next trick Lance will have us all discuss the question "is God really there""

Oh NO, don't do it....

Lance · #7 01-08-2011, 04:55 PM

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Originally Posted by PoonTang

...... and for his next trick Lance will have us all discuss the question "is God really there""

If we find him, we can ask for his opinion on this subject. And while we're at it might as well clear up the "Which came first, chicken or egg?" question.

PoonTang · #8 01-09-2011, 02:29 AM

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Originally Posted by Lance

If we find him, we can ask for his opinion on this subject. And while we're at it might as well clear up the "Which came first, chicken or egg?" question.

The egg of course, duh, doesn't every body know that?

Skimmerking · #9 01-09-2011, 02:46 AM

Way to go Lance you DINK!!!! now every one is so honed in on this thread nobody gives a crap about my build thread.......