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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2593891, member: 19463&quot;]Like coin collecting, the hobby of fish keeping &#039;developed&#039; over the years and many of us did not like what was done to it.&nbsp; I had Mollies but prefered the wild, normal ones to the inbred mutants that were more popular.&nbsp; <img src="https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/5b/4f/1b/5b4f1ba17a2a9ac379e1b1636dc9efdb.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p>It was worse with swordtails and angelfish but when salt water became relatively easy with the advent of good artificial salt and super filter systems people stared considering freshwater aquariums as worthless.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>It is much like the coin hobby that went from appreciating coins that circulated to many people only interested in NCLT or bullion rounds not to mention the idea that being slabbed MS71 was necessary.&nbsp; Toward the end of my fish days we were threatened by the politically correct environmental&nbsp; factions as killers of species in the wild and responsible for such things as snakeheads taking over Florida (which may well have been true).&nbsp; Now marine aquarium keepers are being blamed for Lion fish spreading around the world.&nbsp; That, too, may be true.&nbsp; I could point out that fans of Shakespeare introduced the starling into the US so we might be better off realizing that humanity is the worst invention ever let loose on the earth and let it go at that.&nbsp; Soon coin collecting will be illegal as will fish keeping and reading books, each for its own set of sins.&nbsp; Consider the evidence that the main use for large denominations of cash is drug dealing, relocating species (or even variations of one species, for example humans) never ends well and reading Mark Twain or Harper Lee makes us racist.&nbsp; What hobby is left?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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