FishloreReviews of fishlore.com

I found fishlore a bit over a year ago looking for help with my betta, and this community has gotten me smarter everyday. The people are very kind, and it's an active community to be proud of. The moderators, and the owner are very diligent and kind, and that's what keeps the site together. I recommend fishlore to everyone.

This forum is fun to be on, Its a great community, and SO educational. Love it. Its part of my daily life

I constantly come to fish lore for tips on maintenance and to find information useful for keeping my fish and snails happy and my aquarium clean and healthy.

It's an okay place. If you're new and not interested in much beyond small community tanks this is for you. If you're into larger fish and more advanced topics, I'd go elsewhere. Mods seem very thin skinned. Pathetic asking members to give positive reviews.

I was a well-known member on this site for site for several years. I found the mods to be VERY overbearing, and not open to seeing others point of view. After several very well-known members were banned for questionable reasons several of us contacted them on another site as we had become quite close. We got the word out you could find them there if you wanted to, we never encouraged anyone to quit FishLore. In fact we very much wanted to stay on FishLore ourselves, but we were banned for joining another site. We're very happy where we are now, as we found out we were not the only ones FishLore had treated this way. Many better fish sites if you search the internet. Edit after reply: We were not poaching sir, merely joining another site ALSO, to contiune communication with friends. If you had spoken and listened to ANY of us, (15+) you would have understood that. We were banned with NO warnings for joining another site to speak with people your mods banned. We enjoyed your site and wished to remain, poaching was not our intent. Anyone who left did so of their own free will or was themselves banned.

I haven’t had any issues at all with fishlore and it’s where I go first for advice! Everyone has been very kind

I have had many many hours of enjoyable, informative, sometimes belly laughing information given me while spending time on fishlore. Ive had my threads answered in timely manners, and have answeted threads to help fellow fish enthusiasts. I've not seen anything unsavory, or off color at all. Moderators are awesome and ever present.

I was a member on this forum for over a year. I did find some of the mods to be overbearing, but I didn't really get into it with them so no worries, right? Never broke any rules, was never warned about anything, and then one day I was abruptly banned. I was never given a reason why or a chance to make it right. Coincidentally(?) a bunch of us who were chatting together on a different fish forum were banned that same evening. Do they have nothing better to do than to police other people's websites? I note that I never once suggested anyone join any other forums. I lost touch with a bunch of friends because I had no way to contact them outside FL. It was not a fun experience. Poke around the web a bit and you will find many others who have run afoul of the aggressive mods here. They constantly assure members that they never ban anyone without lots of infractions and warnings beforehand--they are lying. Look elsewhere. There are better forums that don't demean, silence, and shut down their members.