Scenario of Live Food Cultures
Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2014 6:14 pm
hi guys, how are you?
Posting after a long time and i am here with a bit controversial topic and in the beginning i would like to clear it that i am posting this topic for a healthy debate and not to aim or personally attack any person or hurt their emotions.
So to begin with the topic, In the last year their is an impressive growth in the number of people who are trying to keep their fishes happy with the help of live food cultures and their are a few people or we can say senior and experienced hobbyists that are helping everyone free of cost to procure the starter cultures. This campaign of sharing live food cultures free of cost is really helping the hobbyist no matter how much money he can invest in this hobby.
But the problem come when someone who gets the culture is not able to maintain them properly or in worst case is not even able to start their cultures leave alone the maintenance part. Speaking from my own experience and some of my friend's experience that in such cases the people who fail are considered as non-responsible people and here comes the "Free of Cost" part, the person who shares the culture tells him that he was careless with the cultures because he didn't spend anything to get the culture.
Come on guys, i am sure not everyone was able to keep their first fish alive for more than a week so its not really necessary that the person was careless with the cultures, and the people who maintain the cultures know that there are high risks of the cultures dying in transit also because the conditions are not always favourable.
Talking about some more reason, i believe many of us have non-supporting family in case of the hobby so if someone has to go on some business trip or training in some other city or state, everyone doesn't have a backup plan at home to look after their fishes and the cultures. WATER: The most critical part of our hobby, i am sure everyone will agree with me regarding this. (Sorry Romi bhaia i am quoting your example here, didn't wanted to quote anyone) According to me Romi bhaia is one of the most knowledgeable hobbyist that i know, he helped many hobbyist by guiding them with appropriate requirements of the fishes and helped them breed their fishes but himself he didn't breed any fishes because of the water in his area is not suitable for breeding fishes. So coming back to the topic he discovered romifex that many of us are fond of and romifex are my personal favourite too :p , but now maybe due to the water conditions he himself is not able to culture them. So what now, can we blame him that he is not serious about the cultures or what.
Coming to the commercialization part for these, in case anyone tries to sell these cultures everyone starts to speak again him, reason is because the person himself got the cultures free of cost, I am sorry but i don't know the name of the senior member of IAH who purchased them at a very high price and then shared him for free but the origin was still commercial . So according to this we should ban selling aquatic plants in India because many hobbyist get the plants free of cost and then later they also share them for free but in the beginning someone definitely purchased them. Why are we so much against the people selling these, let them sell because personally people like me knowing that they can get free cultures would still prefer to buy them if the price is genuine because it won't make me obligated to someone for helping me again and again, and definitely would avoid the long lectures and insult. I am not asking to stop giving the cultures for free but i am asking to let the people sell them in case they want, almost everyone knows that the cultures are available free of cost, so it would be their own decision. Personally i am not at all related to any kind of commercial dealing of live food cultures and would be more than happy to share them for free whenever i get my on them again.
At last i would like to say sorry for my poor english and would like to invite everyone for a healthy debate to share their own views on the topic. Please don't make the topic a personal issue and encourage a healthy debate by focussing on the facts.
Thanks
Posting after a long time and i am here with a bit controversial topic and in the beginning i would like to clear it that i am posting this topic for a healthy debate and not to aim or personally attack any person or hurt their emotions.
So to begin with the topic, In the last year their is an impressive growth in the number of people who are trying to keep their fishes happy with the help of live food cultures and their are a few people or we can say senior and experienced hobbyists that are helping everyone free of cost to procure the starter cultures. This campaign of sharing live food cultures free of cost is really helping the hobbyist no matter how much money he can invest in this hobby.
But the problem come when someone who gets the culture is not able to maintain them properly or in worst case is not even able to start their cultures leave alone the maintenance part. Speaking from my own experience and some of my friend's experience that in such cases the people who fail are considered as non-responsible people and here comes the "Free of Cost" part, the person who shares the culture tells him that he was careless with the cultures because he didn't spend anything to get the culture.
Come on guys, i am sure not everyone was able to keep their first fish alive for more than a week so its not really necessary that the person was careless with the cultures, and the people who maintain the cultures know that there are high risks of the cultures dying in transit also because the conditions are not always favourable.
Talking about some more reason, i believe many of us have non-supporting family in case of the hobby so if someone has to go on some business trip or training in some other city or state, everyone doesn't have a backup plan at home to look after their fishes and the cultures. WATER: The most critical part of our hobby, i am sure everyone will agree with me regarding this. (Sorry Romi bhaia i am quoting your example here, didn't wanted to quote anyone) According to me Romi bhaia is one of the most knowledgeable hobbyist that i know, he helped many hobbyist by guiding them with appropriate requirements of the fishes and helped them breed their fishes but himself he didn't breed any fishes because of the water in his area is not suitable for breeding fishes. So coming back to the topic he discovered romifex that many of us are fond of and romifex are my personal favourite too :p , but now maybe due to the water conditions he himself is not able to culture them. So what now, can we blame him that he is not serious about the cultures or what.
Coming to the commercialization part for these, in case anyone tries to sell these cultures everyone starts to speak again him, reason is because the person himself got the cultures free of cost, I am sorry but i don't know the name of the senior member of IAH who purchased them at a very high price and then shared him for free but the origin was still commercial . So according to this we should ban selling aquatic plants in India because many hobbyist get the plants free of cost and then later they also share them for free but in the beginning someone definitely purchased them. Why are we so much against the people selling these, let them sell because personally people like me knowing that they can get free cultures would still prefer to buy them if the price is genuine because it won't make me obligated to someone for helping me again and again, and definitely would avoid the long lectures and insult. I am not asking to stop giving the cultures for free but i am asking to let the people sell them in case they want, almost everyone knows that the cultures are available free of cost, so it would be their own decision. Personally i am not at all related to any kind of commercial dealing of live food cultures and would be more than happy to share them for free whenever i get my on them again.
At last i would like to say sorry for my poor english and would like to invite everyone for a healthy debate to share their own views on the topic. Please don't make the topic a personal issue and encourage a healthy debate by focussing on the facts.
Thanks