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There is a bit of a feeling in society that fish are *settling* when you can't get a real pet.

Maybe this is true... but methinks not...

in this poll "apt" is short for apartment and also means: unit/townhouse/duplex/dorm when there is no garden

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~~~ My fish blow kisses at me all day long ~~~

I live in a 1st floor unit. Fish are my only pets.

I am sorry the selections do not seem to be in the most sensible order but my poll making seems to have a bug in it. Bear with me.



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~~~ My fish blow kisses at me all day long ~~~

I live in a dorm right now, so I can only have fish in a ten gallon tank. Back home I have my cats, dog, rabbit, snakes, and more fish.

I don't consider my situation to be "settling for fish", since I'd have fish even if I could have other pets too. It's more like "settling for just fish".

That said, I don't really consider fish to be pets in the same way that a cat is a pet, though... They aren't really interactive and they don't give me companionship. So right now in my dorm, I have fish but I don't really have any "pets".

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I'm not your neighbor, you Bakersfield trash.

I was able to vote & my vote registered.........but only after I clicked vote, was I able to vote. So it seems to be ok in that manner.

We also have 4 dogs, 6 cats, 2 parrots, 1 parakeet & 1 rabbit. This is what we are down to now.

Apparently we live in a house.

I only have fish because I dont have the time to train a dog. cats are cool, but eh rather have a dog.

Fish now and then are a better pet anyway. main reason, they are ALOT less destructive to your furniture than cats or dogs... at least mine are

Fish tanks are an expensive addiction

Fish ARE real pets. My Panda Corys provide me with more entertainment than most humans.


Panda Catfish fan and keeper/breeder since Christmas 2002

agreed. same thing with a school of clown loaches.

really wanna drive the fish nuts? i have one of the specimen containers like they use in the stores to put fish in before they bag them, and i use that to break up the brine shrimp or blood worms i'm goign to feed them... now and then i'll hang it on the side of the tank before i feed them and they just go bananas trying to get at it

Fish tanks are an expensive addiction

If it's alive...I want it as a pet. Except icky bugs/spiders/scorpions.

If I could, I would have my own little zoo. Heck, I almost do what with the dog, 2 cats, a dwarf hamster, and a 55, 29, and 2 10's (one with an ACF) and several betta tanks both home & work. My next pet to get is a mini-lop bunny!!!

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~~Melissa~~
"Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder."

Fish were my first pets as a kid....we were in an apartment and they usually died the next day.
"What do you mean I cant keep a goldfish in a bowl!?"

After buying a house my parents got us kitties.... then the kitties gave us more kitties .

Once I bought my own house I got fish first, then years later I adopted two cats from a friend of my mothers that was moving.

And now I also have a husband....do they count

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Ah, yes lifepartners. I forgot to put an option for that! I have used up all available space... will try and remember for next poll.

btw Congrats to you and 'Master Adam'

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~~~ My fish blow kisses at me all day long ~~~

I voted for live in a house and fish are my only pets. I don't really care for any other type of pets.

Jim

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Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody. -- Mark Twain

Fish were my 'horses' while I couldn't have my horses. Then they morphed into something else.

Now they are just my wuvwy widdle wet pets.

For animals, the entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks. - Terry Pratchett

Right now I live in an apartment. I have a horse stable a town away where we are moving to a house hopefully this spring. I have 8 horses there. In the apartment we have 7 guinea pigs, 2 degus, and 2gerbils. My 2hamsters and my duprasi just passed away recently. I had other pets long before I had fish. My grandma had horses and I was sitting on my mom's old pony before I could walk. We've also had at least 1 guinea pig at any time during my life since my aunt got my sister and I a pair of them when I was only about 7years old. Fish are just another pet like all the others. In the future I also want button quail, guinea fowl, some type of snake, goats... I could probably go on all day. There are tons of interesting pets out there.

My Panda Corys provide me with more entertainment than most humans.

So far in my experience that holds true for all animals whether they are aquatic or furry.

I live in a house and have 2 iguanas, 1 indian ring necked parakeet, and of course the fish

-Vincent

I live in a house and I have fish, a dog, and a guinea pig. Fish are pets

Voted:I don't have fish as pets. I thought this was an anglers recipe swap site.

Thanks for clearing that up for me

i was wondering why some people were using 120+gallon pots

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''All the clown fish and yellow tangs in the world cant save you now!''

Voted for: I don't have fish as pets. I thought this was an anglers recipe swap site.

It's the only option that really applies, as i don't technically have fish anymore

www.zopilotemachine.com

I live in a flat, well, it's my parent's flat so I guess for me it could be defined as a bedsit and I've only ever had fish (and shrimps and a frog!!). I'd like guinea pigs one day, but my boyfriend will only have them if we rescue them, not just go out and buy them.

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I like to think that whoever designed marine life was thinking of it as basically an entertainment medium. That would explain some of the things down there, some of the unearthly biological contraptions

I voted for house and other pets

I have:
Ten Gallon~4 cardinal tetras, 3 long finned leopard danios, 1 lyre tail guppy and 1 betta

Fifty Five Gallon~4 Neon Tetras (used to have nine but someone stole them) a bunch of guppies and fry, 1 dwarf gourami

1 Australian Shepherd dog

1 Cat

5 poison dart frogs

1 peach faced lovebird

55 Gallon Aquarium
10 Gallon Poison Dart Frog Viv
(Soon) 30 Gallon Hex Paludarium

I have dogs and cats, but no fish right now.