Worst advice ever

jake_vdb · Post by **jake_vdb** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 12:34 am

http://www.elmersaquarium.com/10puffer.htm

This guy must get puffer advice from Walmart. The bad part is that I found this page via Google. Maybe if multiple people tell him the data is wrong he will correct it.

elmersaquarium@aol.com

The Fisherman · Post by **The Fisherman** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 1:10 am

Eek, I think i'll be sending a message myself.

For others who are sending messages, please remember to keep them non-insulting, and subtle. If you just tell the guy hes wrong, its going to make both sides mad. If you have the right info to back up everything you tell him, hes more liable to listen and change something.

kjharve · Post by **kjharve** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 11:03 am

His comment "a good way to keep them is small filtered aquariums (such as a 6 gal Eclipse setup) with other puffers" could only come from someone in the fish trade!

The Fisherman · Post by **The Fisherman** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 1:35 pm

kjharve wrote:His comment "a good way to keep them is small filtered aquariums (such as a 6 gal Eclipse setup) with other puffers" could only come from someone in the fish trade!

LOL, i'm not sure whats worse, the wrong scientific names to match up with the common names, or the part that you just quoted.

PuffTheMagicFishy · Post by **PuffTheMagicFishy** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 12:25 am

kjharve wrote:His comment "a good way to keep them is small filtered aquariums (such as a 6 gal Eclipse setup) with other puffers" could only come from someone in the fish trade!

Speaking as someone in the fish trade, I'd never recommend that!

Maybe for 1-2 DPs, but nothing else! We're not all money-grubbing fish torturers.

Boxermom · Post by **Boxermom** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 12:19 pm

Link is down apparently.

kjharve · Post by **kjharve** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 1:56 pm

Works for me!

Boxermom · Post by **Boxermom** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 2:01 pm

Refresh your cache, you're probably pulling up the old one. I'm getting "The page cannot be found
The page you are looking for might have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable."

kjharve · Post by **kjharve** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 2:07 pm

Yep, you're right! Wouldn't guess I'm a software developer would you???

Boxermom · Post by **Boxermom** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 2:23 pm

Work for MS?

kjharve · Post by **kjharve** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 2:32 pm

How dare you????

Boxermom · Post by **Boxermom** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 2:46 pm

Heheheh, my best friend worked for them for years. Awesome benefits.

kjharve · Post by **kjharve** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 4:06 pm

I can imagine. Unfortunately I work for a large financial group, one that gets stingier by the hour! Used to have good benefits but they are dwindling!

Boxermom · Post by **Boxermom** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 4:13 pm

Unfortunately that seems to be the case pretty much everywhere. Meanwhile the executroids drive down the stock, are incompetent, and get millions in severance pay packages. Go figure.

CoreyK · Post by **CoreyK** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 5:08 pm

Though this site is generally quite good (I learned a LOT from it when I started out), I've noticed that this article on figure 8's claims that they do better in freshwater rather than brackish -

http://freshaquarium.about.com/cs/other ... 8%20puffer

Could probably use a correction as well.

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