"Many (most?) people don't know what the hell they are doing when they start" Its as bad as parenting, although the stakes aren't as high and its often more ca

"Many (most?) people don't know what the hell they are doing when they start" Its as bad as parenting, although the stakes aren't as high and its often more carefully planned. Tropical fish are cool, I've kept some on and off since the 80s. I will say from my wild youth that they are a good hangover pet. When you're too "blah" in the morning to do anything, you can at least watch the fish. I have had the same pleco for about 9 years although it strangely seems to have stopped growing around 5 inches or so. And I had an oscar for many years and only I fed it and through extensive experimentation involving cardboard boxes and other test subjects I came to the conclusion that it identified me coming to feed it by gait analysis not visually, which I thought was interesting. Or maybe my experiment was faulty, I donno. Gotta be careful with fish, even just trace contamination from some herbicides and detergents can kill them. That might have gotten those fish.