Interview with the" tanked" guys
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Sorry, wrote my response rather quickly. I was under the impression that the concern was that these guys were throwing fish into systems without cycling the tanks. While I guess you could call that "ethics" it seems to me more along the lines of naivete in the hurry to make money. My point was that someone doing that wouldn't be in business very long serving a high-end clientele who generally don't make purchases without personal references. I run a business like this so I know from first hand experience -- if you don't know what you're doing it will get around and you'll be out of business shortly.
If you watch the show it's pretty obvious they know what they're doing. The screwups in the show appear to be more for entertainment than anything else.
If you watch the show it's pretty obvious they know what they're doing. The screwups in the show appear to be more for entertainment than anything else.
ATM is an aquarium/Water feature manufacturer(mostly water features). Not a maintenance company. They are removing animals(puffers and sharks from what I have seen) that should not and need not be removed, except for entertainment purposes. Their shark stick tank is a combination of cold water and warm water sharks(bad husbandry) as well as sharks which are collected in the most immoral ways possible(by gutting a pregnant mother for the unborn pups). Furthermore that aquarium was not large enough to handle all those animals at full size, but since most of them will probably die, it doesn't matter. But your right my 25 years in the marine hobby, 7 years in the industry must mean I don't know what I am talking about. Just because I work for a company that manufacturers farm equipment now, must make me a great farmer.
These guys are tools, but all reality show people are tools!
The owner of Aquamart owns ADHI and just because he can glue acrylic hasn't made the store anything special since he started running it.
These guys are tools, but all reality show people are tools!
The owner of Aquamart owns ADHI and just because he can glue acrylic hasn't made the store anything special since he started running it.
Yeah, when I checked your profile I realized who you were from SCMAS(picture). Either way the guys on this show are morons and in my opinion don't know $#!t about these animals. And worse off, don't care! And the responses of Mr. Reymer don't make him look any more intelligent. The use of cap locks and nonexistence of punctuation pretty muck prove he is a salesman that has inhaled too much weld-on.
Do they realize that taking a starfish out of the water will probably result in the death of that starfish?
Rhetorical question.....I just saw their last episode and the wife took a purple linckia out of the water and
my wife and granddaughter even knew that was a fatal thing to do.
I did like the group of clowns they put in a tank...I think they were Clarkiis or maybe Sebaes but there was
probably 20 clowns. I'd like to visit that tank in about a year to see how many are left. I like keeping groups of clowns.
Rhetorical question.....I just saw their last episode and the wife took a purple linckia out of the water and
my wife and granddaughter even knew that was a fatal thing to do.
I did like the group of clowns they put in a tank...I think they were Clarkiis or maybe Sebaes but there was
probably 20 clowns. I'd like to visit that tank in about a year to see how many are left. I like keeping groups of clowns.
That is not true, starfish can live if you take them out of water. Some species of stars can live 5 days out of water, they would not be able to survive in tidal pools if that were true. Hundreds of years ago fishermen who caught starfish would chop them up in anger, then throw them back into the water, all the while not realizing that each piece would grow an entire new starfish.