FishloreReviews of fishlore.com

BANNED FOR NO REASON! I posted a YouTube video on the thread to a member to show to her betta that I was buying to see how it reacted to guppies! I got banned for copywrite! THAT WAS MY VIDIO! I made it in my channel!!! I sent them an email, will update if I get unbanned! And if they don’t respond, I have no was of getting the betta from the other member!

Terrible! Banned for no good reason! I joined fishlore after looking around for a few months. I had A LOT of questions. There were very few members that were not rude. All of a sudden, the mods started criticizing me for questions I asked and I don't even understand what exactly the problem was. After a while, I started repaying all the nice members that helped me by helping them. The mods kept writing absolute rude messages to me. They never answered my questions. I have a website on which I'm selling a few of my fish and plants and put the link to it into my profile. Then one of the mods, who was absolutely terrible to me (Coradee), wrote me a very rude message saying that "Now that I have a website selling livestock and plants, I can no longer sell on fishlore." She took down all my selling posts and told me to sponsor their forum in order to be able to promote my website in any way. So, I guess, filling in your profile is considered self-promotion. I explained that I was just a kid and unable to spend that kind of money and I was going to remove the link to my website. But before I was able to, I was banned because I was under 13 which she said was against "the rule". I checked. There is no such rule. If you're referring to the law: I had my parents' consent. Now, I am left with a whole bunch of questions that I can't ask. Whenever you slip up the slightest possible way, they ban you or send you very rude messages about it. Use fishlore at your own risk.

Arbitrarily banned without any warnings or indication of rule broken. Still unsure what rule they considered to have been broken. Also they allow a lot of silly obnoxious and baiting posts from members (mostly kids) and in general there are a lot of kids with simplistic questions and parroting other members without adding any real insight or understanding what they are parroting. - Having said that there are some very knowledgeable and helpful members. - To be fair before i was banned i would have given the site 2 1/2 * mostly because of the few knowledgeable and helpful folks with off the wall thinking (i.e, how to approach non-standard situation - a 'standard' situation is cycling a tank for example; while something more interesting might be growing a rare species of plant or different designs for filtration on large tanks). - Last but least in my opinion you want to make nice to moderator Lucy. If she dislikes you bye bye but if she likes you there are no rules.

Kid site 90% are children asking very childish questions. Most ask about issues that can’t be remedied like buying inadequate fish for their tanks, or not knowing the nitrogen cycle, or just doing no so smart things. Then not being able to buy even the basics to keep fish healthy because they’re children. Parents irresponsibly bought them a setup they because people think fish are ‘easy’ and ‘inexpensive’ - a ‘great first pet for a kid’ and now their kids are briefly interested. Not a lot here for even a somewhat knowledgeable aquarist. Posters eventually grow out of it very quickly because well they’re children. They give out poor advice as you can imagine as well. There are a couple posters who know a bit but don’t post much - if you really want to be knowledgeable in the hobby this isn’t the forum to be.

Very aggressive environment. I enjoy forums for sharing of ideas, helping each other with issues and interesting information. This website has none of that. It’s filled with members that bully each other and mods doing the same.

I was excited to find such an active forum, and was very disappointed with how it turned out. I used to be extremely active on another forum back in 2012, and was a respected member. I’ve recently gotten interested in fish again after a long hiatus, and decided that I wanted to join some forums again. I am in the beginning stages of creating a blog, and posted a thread asking what books other members had found most useful and accurate. I explained clearly that I was interested in creating a list for my new blog. My post was removed with no explanation, and when I contacted Mike to ask about it, he told me that I had broken rules about linking to outside sites. I hadn’t posted any links, and when I told him that, he accused me of trying to get the forum members to write my blog for me. I was simply asking for suggestions to help focus my research for building the list, and I was frankly shocked by the hostility I faced because of that.

Had to leave because I tried asking a question about stocking an aquarium only to be hounded about the fact that I sanitised my tank and equipment after my fish died? Even if it was “unnecessary” it still makes me feel more comfortable putting another aquatic friend in there somewhere down the line Also being a “well known member” means absolutely nothing in terms of the information they give you since one almost convinced me to put epsom salt INTO my aquarium! It’s generally filled with middle aged know-it-alls that kind of speak to you like your a toddler that got caught with their hand in a cookie jar.

The forum doesn't have members to offer any help when there's a serious issue, some try to help but theyre usually new members, the so called experts may recommend what they suggest but if there's an issue with their method no one will help. Especially if a well known member is the responder. Do not be fooled into thinking a place like that is any help to you or your fish during problems.