my first convict

[bitteraspects]

never been a fan of these little guys. a little too small for my taste, but it was free. now i just gotta figure out what to do with her. otherwise shes jag food.

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[angelcakes]

aww shes cute.......too good for jag food,no other tank for her or someone who could take her that lives near you,

[bitteraspects]

too good for jag food? hahahah. my jags eat fronts once a month. lol. a convict is like mcdonalds for them.
i have tons of tank space (over 400g in tanks just sitting around), thats not the issue. i just have no interest in this type of cichlid. maybe if i had a pair id set them up a tank, but even then, i doubt it. most of the guys i know around here, dont keep this type of fish either. which leaves the option of me going out of my way to find a LFS to take it, or feed it to the fish i already have.

[johnl]

So you took the fish because it was free but you don't like them. So now you can feed it to your other fish because you really don't want it. Makes perfect sense.

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[bitteraspects]

i got a 5g bucket full of fish from an aquaintance who is being shipped out to iraq on saturday. he only got 4 days notice that he was leaving, so it was a last minute decision to get rid of his fish. i kept some, rehomed most, and now have a few left. but yes, i dont want them, and they will become food if all else fails. to me theyre just feeders, like any other guppy/comet/molly/ect.

[Demjor19]

So you took the fish because it was free but you don't like them. So now you can feed it to your other fish because you really don't want it. Makes perfect sense.

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I agree with you. If you don't want a fish then leave it for someone else. I mean...I'm not a huge fan of Cons either, but he gave you the fish and your just going to feed it to your other fish? Just give it to an LFS...at least it may find a good home that way.

[bitteraspects]

please read the post above yours before you decide to chime in again. or don't post in my thread.

[Gayle]

Cute fish. Well I suppose you have to do what you have to do. Wish I lived closer, I would give it a home. Hey what about putting it on freecycle? BTW sorry to hear about your friend, I wish him luck.

[bitteraspects]

yeah, thanks. this isn't his first tour, so I'm sure hell be ok.
at least most of them got rehomed, otherwise he was just going to leave the bucket of fish on his poarch when he left. figured my way was the better alternative.

[Demjor19]

please read the post above yours before you decide to chime in again. or don't post in my thread.

Why didn't your friend just take them all to the lfs (it would have been the quickest way to rehome them all)? That would also seem much more appropriate than giving them to you...I would hate for the fish I raised to me mistreated. I have used feediers in the past and have no problem with it (as long as they healthy), but this fish was his pet. This is a public forum, so i'll post where and when i want to. I'm just voicing my opinion.

Thank you,

[bitteraspects]

Why didn't your friend just take them all to the lfs (it would have been the quickest way to rehome them all)? That would also seem much more appropriate than giving them to you...I would hate for the fish I raised to me mistreated. I have used feediers in the past and have no problem with it (as long as they healthy), but this fish was his pet. This is a public forum, so i'll post where and when i want to. I'm just voicing my opinion.

Thank you,

due to time constraints and the fact that most LFS here DO NOT take donations, that as not an option. and even if it were, they're much more useful feeding my fish then dying at the LFS. and wuite frankly, what you feel to be "appropriate" as you so eloquently put it, doesn't matter a lick as you don't know me, him, or the situation.

big fish eat little fish. its just the way of the world. letting nature take its course is not mistreating anything. but your ignorance won't allow you to understand that. anything smaller then my fish can be used as a "feeder".

your opinion is not welcome in this thread. with that being said, any further posts from you will be taken as flaming and reported as such. youhave no intention of adding anything useful to this thread, and only post to cause drama. please find somewhere else to deposit your two cents.

[Demjor19]

I took the liberty of reporting the thread myself. To me there was really never a point to this thread other than you saying you wanted to feed your Jaguar cichlid. I keep many LARGE predatory fish and fully understand their diet and needs (no need to explain it to me). Other than what i've already said...I'm done with this grade school argument.

[William]

Please keep this thread civil. Rudeness will not be tolerated.

That said AC tropical fish has no policy against using fish as feeders and advocating the use of feeder fish is not against forum rules.

[Demjor19]

Please keep this thread civil. Rudeness will not be tolerated.

That said AC tropical fish has no policy against using fish as feeders and advocating the use of feeder fish is not against forum rules.

Thank you, William. I have no issues with using feeders (I have used them quite often in the past). I was only concerned with the fact that his friend rehomed the fish to him and he is just going to feed it to his other fish. If I rehomed a fish to one of my friends, I would be appalled if they fed it to their fish. That's all I was trying to say. I wasn't trying to step on anyone.

[BigMac]

I have friends that are rasing farm animals. They hand feed them and give them names. Then once a year they have me come over while they are out and I turn them into deli meat ;)

One mans pet is another mans sandwitch ;)

[bitteraspects]

I have friends that are rasing farm animals. They hand feed them and give them names. Then once a year they have me come over while they are out and I turn them into deli meat ;)

One mans pet is another mans sandwitch ;)

EXACTLY. THANK YOU

and quite frankly, the person i got them from knew what was going to potentially happen with the ones i couldnt rehome.

[Northernguy]

Its too bad that you could not find a home for all of them!
Its too bad that a nice fish like that became food but in the wild its a natural event.I can understand how some are offended by this but they probably never owned a fish capeable of making this a meal.
Its unfortunate for the members that feel this way about it .
I used to feed feeders or crayfish or whatever I thought my fish would eat and enjoyed watching my fish have a meal and eat the way they would in the wild.They don't get flakes or pellets in the wild.
The main reason I stopped feeding live is my fish are healthier and less aggressive and the tank stays a lot cleaner.
Different strokes for different folks.Is fish food not made from dead fish!

[Demjor19]

Its too bad that you could not find a home for all of them!
Its too bad that a nice fish like that became food but in the wild its a natural event.I can understand how some are offended by this but they probably never owned a fish capeable of making this a meal.
Its unfortunate for the members that feel this way about it .
I used to feed feeders or crayfish or whatever I thought my fish would eat and enjoyed watching my fish have a meal and eat the way they would in the wild.They don't get flakes or pellets in the wild.
The main reason I stopped feeding live is my fish are healthier and less aggressive and the tank stays a lot cleaner.
Different strokes for different folks.Is fish food not made from dead fish!

I have several fish that could make his Jag a meal... I fully understand the "big fish eat little fish" rule. His Jag wouldn't make out too good with my Dovii or Rhom, but that's not what I'm not about.

I agree with the fact that prepared, frozen, and pellet foods are difinetely more nutritional than live foods...although i'm sure the convict is much more nutritional than your typical store bought feeder fish.

The only problem I had with this situation was the fact that it was his friends pet fish. If your friend is cool with it, then whatever. Like I have said several times...I have no problem with using live feeders, I have used plenty of them in the past.

[William]

This thread is going nowhere (several posts removed).

Both of you believe that it is okay to use fish as feeders even if you look at it differently in this specific case. The discussion as it is now is mostly based on personal opinion and emotions and none of you will likely change view and nothing productive is likely to come out of this thread. This thread is therefore closed.