Victims aquarium part. 1 - visitor shark today's entry I would start a series of texts on the subject of fish and other creatures, which in one way or another suffer from the fact that someone came up with such a hobby of aquarium maintenance.
It may look a bit like I was shooting the own goal, after all his blog I want to popularize our passion, and not denigrate them in the eyes of others. However, I think we are all obliged to spread this information to gain a consciousness of aquarium beginners seeking knowledge is on the Internet. Observing how much
stores sell species that should never get to the aquarium, or even those that should never see daylight, I conclude that, despite the hundreds of posts in the forums aquarium struggling with such trends, I feel that, however, lose with this dirty business . As aquarists, we are also indirectly in some way to blame, so too are guilty of nature, to the best of our abilities, do not be indifferent to the suffering of fish, which we just can not buy, but someone will do it for sure. I wonder whether enough is beautiful species, which are great suited for aquariums that shops tend to stock the ones that are not suitable for them at all?
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Sum shark (
Pangasianodon hypophthalmus or
Pangasius sutchi )
Probably the attractiveness and popularity of the fish affected by the fact that to some extent its shape resembles a shark and I think that is what pushes the novice hobbyist to purchase these fish. In addition, of course, the seller, after all, certainly did not mention a potential client that the size of adult fish
in kind exceeds 1 meter peacefully ... How many novice aquarists aquarium has at all this length? Of course, the sums in a small aquarium shark skarłowacieje strongly, but who knows whether or not we skarłowacielibyśmy spent a lifetime in a room of size 1 x 1 x 1 m? Does this mean then that we could live in such conditions? In addition, this fish is a stud.
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Fish actually somewhat resembles a shark.
Source: Wikimedia Commons |
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| And here overgrown specimen ... |
Many people do not realize that, as often as in our tanks, these fish appear on our tables. Probably surprised many at the moment, or even deny - yet never in my life I ate sum rekiniego! A pang eat it? Well, just ... :) The sum of a shark aquarium, is nothing but a panga fish sold at the booth, just in slightly different form. The problem is that hardly anyone is interested in how it looks before filleting fish you buy for dinner.
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| And here in a slightly different form ... Source: Wikimedia Commons |
absurd in all this is that it appears likely that this fish is suitable for eating as a negligible extent, as to the aquariums. I will not dwell on, however dubious nutritional value of fish, caused by different chemical and hormonal treatments carried out on these fish in Asian cultures in order to stimulate breeding in artificial conditions, because it is rather a topic for another blog. Those interested will find the relevant publications on the web.
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| pang tried once and should not be the tastiest fish. And I like fish, do not tell you! |
I only urge, not to buy these fish to the aquarium, because sooner or later will face the problem of what to do with the big fish. Eat? If anyone has the heart to fry your own pet, I do not see any obstacles. It probably would be better for him than giving back to the store, or love to stick in place the aquarium where you can not even turn around ...
