One can argue that an apartment is too small for a mini poodle let alone a a St Bernard.
People on dog forums have this debate. This is a reef forum, so we talk about fish and coral.
Also Zoo's are inhumane and should all be closed.
Before I say anything, are you comparing a zoo, where professional zoologists, biologists and veterinarians provide for animals, many of which have an outlying, incurable medical condition/deformity which would mean certain death in the wild, or are actually performing controlled breeding with exceptional bloodlines in order to restore numbers in the wild or research of the animal and it's habitat to a person, a hobbyist... who buys a fish because they had to have it? Maybe I misread what you are saying here.
Wow, nice to see how all that was written about how I establish my tank, which is clearly geared towards SPS keepers, is all thrown away for 1 sentence observation:
You know we are also going to tell you that a mandarin in a 29 is mean.
Lissa, I read a previous post where you said 9 days. 9 days isn't a whole lot.
Look, of course it makes sense to wait a few weeks after your levels are zero to start stocking a tank. I'm not arguing that. And sure, it makes sense to promote that on this site. But how many people actually do that?
No body will, as long as people continue to post "hey, I did this and it worked for me". People today are much more inclined to make the easy wrong than the hard right. Think about it like this... Common knowledge is that you need 75 pounds of LR to reasonably expect to sustain 1 mandarin. You heard that they can do fine in a 20. That is the answer you wanted to hear, so you went with it.
Now turn this around, someone wants to know how long it will take to cycle a tank. They see my method and they see your method. Which one do you think they are going to follow?
Jeeze, I just pointed out something and all of a sudden, it's a hijack and we are comparing it to zoos, dogs and birth control.