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05/06/2004, 02:19 PM
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Help! Out Of Control!
Ok, I moved out of my apartment two weeks ago and set up my 20g at my uncle's house. I had a 4" Lionfish (huge!) and a 1.5" Niger Trigger. During the move I took the Lionfish back to an LFS, as he was too big for my little tank. After setting the tank up at my uncle's, I was excited about getting my Trigger a companion. So I aquired a 2" Sharp Nosed Toby (Puffer). Those two small fish are about all my tank can handle as far as I am concerned, plus they are messy eaters.
My Uncle is now out of control, I went to his house to check on the tank, and now he has a 2.5" Yellow Tang in there! I then told him that that was about all the tank could handle, especially with the sub par filtration (Penguin 170). He then replied, "Aww look, they are so happy... swimming." That was two days ago, I went and checked again and guess what? He added THREE 2" Green Chromis! I attempted to inform him about how the filtration will never support the amount of waste these fish will produce. Also I informed him about the stress that these fish will be subjected to, having very little space per fish. All he did was get ****ed and told me that they are happy. This was all today. Usually we go to fish stores together, but now he ventures off by himself and goes on shopping sprees. I told him that if he is to keep those fish healthy, he would have to go out and get a sump with an overflow (filtration upgrade) probably a skimmer, blah blah blah. His reaction... "whoa, that's alot of money... more than the tank costs itself! I'm not gonna spend that!" Then I asked him what he is going to do once those fish tear eachother apart? He said he'll just get new ones 
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05/06/2004, 02:32 PM
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Time to move the tank from his house
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05/06/2004, 06:21 PM
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I concur.
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05/06/2004, 08:44 PM
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I'm sure most of those fish are going to die due to stress and overpopulation.
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