It's people like this that almost make me think that animal aid have a point
(a very badly made point, but a point none the less)

I think he's all three (more toward the ignorant and stupid though), you wouldn't replace an animal with exactly the same one and not expect it to be consumed the same as the first.

"Trina" <milady@connectionsdothereyk.ca> wrote in message news:4b7u10hlvenau326dvu0vhe478b7oghi1q@4ax.com...

Trying to figure out whether this person is ignorant, stupid, cruel or
all 3...

http://www.powerlabs.org/fish.htm

Trina :)
Yukon, Canada
44gal/tall/pent/fresh
10gal/planted/fresh

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"Trina" <milady@connectionsdothereyk.ca> wrote in message news:4b7u10hlvenau326dvu0vhe478b7oghi1q@4ax.com...

Trying to figure out whether this person is ignorant, stupid, cruel or
all 3...

http://www.powerlabs.org/fish.htm

Trina :)
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10gal/planted/fresh

It kinda sounds like his LFS rep is the idiot in this case. I had a similar problem but was smart enough to take my questions to the groups. I too
tried to put Oscars and Cichlids in the same tank. The smaller cichlids
tried to make a meal of the slightly larger Oscars. My LFS said they would
be fine together because an Oscar is a Cichlid. Lucky for my Oscars I had a spare 20 gallon tank already set up (had just moved piranhas from it to a
55). So now my son has the Cichlids in his room and the Oscars have since
been moved to a 75 gallon tank. In a couple months they will graduate to
the new 125 I am buying and the Piranhas will get the 75. If I'd have taken the advice of my LFS I'd probably have just two Piranhas left. But thanks
to the groups I have two Piranhas, three Oscars and 10 African Cichlids.
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its not all the lfs store guys fault, the guy should have done research
before buying the fish. and in this one case this guy wanted to buy a betta
to put in with his oscars, i told him the betta is only aggressive to his
own kind and would be brutily killed by the oscars, the guy bought the betta anyways. you can lead a person to knowledge but you cant make the moron
think.

"Lookn4nemo" <adam00@charter.net> wrote in message news:10219osrmumgrbd@corp.supernews.com...

"Trina" <milady@connectionsdothereyk.ca> wrote in message news:4b7u10hlvenau326dvu0vhe478b7oghi1q@4ax.com...

Trying to figure out whether this person is ignorant, stupid, cruel or
all 3...

http://www.powerlabs.org/fish.htm

Trina :)
Yukon, Canada
44gal/tall/pent/fresh
10gal/planted/fresh

It kinda sounds like his LFS rep is the idiot in this case. I had a

similar

problem but was smart enough to take my questions to the groups. I too
tried to put Oscars and Cichlids in the same tank. The smaller cichlids tried to make a meal of the slightly larger Oscars. My LFS said they

would

be fine together because an Oscar is a Cichlid. Lucky for my Oscars I had

a

spare 20 gallon tank already set up (had just moved piranhas from it to a 55). So now my son has the Cichlids in his room and the Oscars have since been moved to a 75 gallon tank. In a couple months they will graduate to
the new 125 I am buying and the Piranhas will get the 75. If I'd have

taken

the advice of my LFS I'd probably have just two Piranhas left. But thanks
to the groups I have two Piranhas, three Oscars and 10 African Cichlids.

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You can keep the Oscars together with the African cousins.. It can be
done.. Expect losses though.. Actually at a new Vet's office today, he had parrots, Africans and a Dempshy together.. Odd, yes.. Would I do or suggest doing this no.. The Dempsy is going to snack sooner or later on his African cousins or the "high" breed parrots will do the same.. I have succesfully kept, Oscars, Koi, Goldfish and pl*co's in the same tank.. A lot of
maintenence yes, but they co habitated fairly decently.. Piranha's should really be kept to themselves.. Eventually though. there is only going to be
one left, one mean set of Tatra's they are. The guy was smart enough to
read, but not smart enough to learn from expierance. The big tet's have a tendecy to attack anything they feel threatened by, that includes most fish larger than them.. Who knows about the LFS guy.. Ah well some people never
get it..

Tim...

"Lookn4nemo" <adam00@charter.net> wrote in message news:1022ka72j2cjc80@corp.supernews.com...

Ok you win. I missed the part about the Betta. I have been doing

research

for about a year and have collected a small library of marine books but I have never seen a book or post that tells me that I can't keep Oscars (a Cichlid) with African Cichlids so I went on what my LFS told me. I won't make that mistake again. BTW I like you comment at the end of your post.

I

think I'll see if I can't find a situation in which to use it today...

:-)

"blove" <blove@twcny.rr.com> wrote in message news:WU9Ub.22662$iJ3.7291@twister.nyroc.rr.com...

its not all the lfs store guys fault, the guy should have done research before buying the fish. and in this one case this guy wanted to buy a

betta

to put in with his oscars, i told him the betta is only aggressive to

his

own kind and would be brutily killed by the oscars, the guy bought the

betta

anyways. you can lead a person to knowledge but you cant make the moron think.

"Lookn4nemo" <adam00@charter.net> wrote in message news:10219osrmumgrbd@corp.supernews.com...

"Trina" <milady@connectionsdothereyk.ca> wrote in message news:4b7u10hlvenau326dvu0vhe478b7oghi1q@4ax.com...

Trying to figure out whether this person is ignorant, stupid, cruel

or

all 3...

http://www.powerlabs.org/fish.htm

Trina :)
Yukon, Canada
44gal/tall/pent/fresh
10gal/planted/fresh

It kinda sounds like his LFS rep is the idiot in this case. I had a

similar

problem but was smart enough to take my questions to the groups. I

too

tried to put Oscars and Cichlids in the same tank. The smaller

cichlids

tried to make a meal of the slightly larger Oscars. My LFS said they

would

be fine together because an Oscar is a Cichlid. Lucky for my Oscars I

had

a

spare 20 gallon tank already set up (had just moved piranhas from it

to

a

55). So now my son has the Cichlids in his room and the Oscars have

since

been moved to a 75 gallon tank. In a couple months they will graduate

to

the new 125 I am buying and the Piranhas will get the 75. If I'd have

taken

the advice of my LFS I'd probably have just two Piranhas left. But

thanks

to the groups I have two Piranhas, three Oscars and 10 African

Cichlids.






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Ok you win. I missed the part about the Betta. I have been doing research
for about a year and have collected a small library of marine books but I
have never seen a book or post that tells me that I can't keep Oscars (a Cichlid) with African Cichlids so I went on what my LFS told me. I won't
make that mistake again. BTW I like you comment at the end of your post. I think I'll see if I can't find a situation in which to use it today... :-)


"blove" <blove@twcny.rr.com> wrote in message news:WU9Ub.22662$iJ3.7291@twister.nyroc.rr.com...

its not all the lfs store guys fault, the guy should have done research before buying the fish. and in this one case this guy wanted to buy a

betta

to put in with his oscars, i told him the betta is only aggressive to his
own kind and would be brutily killed by the oscars, the guy bought the

betta

anyways. you can lead a person to knowledge but you cant make the moron think.

"Lookn4nemo" <adam00@charter.net> wrote in message news:10219osrmumgrbd@corp.supernews.com...

"Trina" <milady@connectionsdothereyk.ca> wrote in message news:4b7u10hlvenau326dvu0vhe478b7oghi1q@4ax.com...

Trying to figure out whether this person is ignorant, stupid, cruel or all 3...

http://www.powerlabs.org/fish.htm

Trina :)
Yukon, Canada
44gal/tall/pent/fresh
10gal/planted/fresh

It kinda sounds like his LFS rep is the idiot in this case. I had a

similar

problem but was smart enough to take my questions to the groups. I too tried to put Oscars and Cichlids in the same tank. The smaller cichlids tried to make a meal of the slightly larger Oscars. My LFS said they

would

be fine together because an Oscar is a Cichlid. Lucky for my Oscars I

had

a

spare 20 gallon tank already set up (had just moved piranhas from it to

a

55). So now my son has the Cichlids in his room and the Oscars have

since

been moved to a 75 gallon tank. In a couple months they will graduate

to

the new 125 I am buying and the Piranhas will get the 75. If I'd have

taken

the advice of my LFS I'd probably have just two Piranhas left. But

thanks

to the groups I have two Piranhas, three Oscars and 10 African Cichlids.

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Trina wrote:

Trying to figure out whether this person is ignorant, stupid, cruel or
all 3...

http://www.powerlabs.org/fish.htm

Trina :)
Yukon, Canada
44gal/tall/pent/fresh
10gal/planted/fresh

a complete and utter moron!
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