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OK here is my thoughts on this. The list of hard to keep fish is accurate, should everyone get a moorish Idol? no. Are mandarins hard to keep? it depends. Do long nose hawkfish jump? I had many and they all died that way. But then again what people fail to realize is that "all" the fish that we buy for whatever reason die in our tanks. Some sooner some later but unless you are breeding fish to release back into the ocean (and I do not think anyone is) we are all killing fish. Is this a bad thing? Maybe.
But we do not kill fish on purpose because first they are expensive and second that would be stupid. I think that in time most fish will be bred commercially and few will have to be collected. I myself keep Idols, mandarins, hawkfish, seahorses and many others but I no longer keep fish just to have a "pet". I experiment to try to find out the secret. Anyway, just my thoughts.
Have a great day.
Paul
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