this is no good

[Neal359]

i was looking through some of my maine fish books . I think i have fond a problem that causes lots of people who are starting out to have lots of trobel. the pictures in the book were probably overlayed but they are totaly misleading. one of the pages has a moorish idol a yello tang and a few other fish in what couldnt be more then a 40gal tank. they also had pictures of butterfly fish in reef tanks. if some one was to by this book look at the pictur and try to recreat it in their home aquarium they would have a horible time and loos a lot of money. and this is not the only book i have seen this in. why do larg companes do this?

[Biomanjcs72]

A lot of the time, they don't even use an actual picture, they have a graphic artist "paste" images together to create a visually spectacular and pleasing image. It boosts sales....capitalism. [img]/ubb/smile.gif[/img]

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JCS
"Take one and pass it back, just like your IQ's were normal."
-Professor Hathaway in the movie"Real Genius"

[Ninong]

You must be talking about pictures like this one from Marineland's site promoting their little Eclipse tanks:


You have to remember that their target audience for that product is someone who is a total newcomer with no knowledge of marine fish husbandry whatsoever. Also, it is quite possible that the idiot who designed that graphic has no knowledge of marine fish husbandry whatsoever.

Ninong [img]/ubb/tongue.gif[/img]

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Irrational Exuberance!

[Neal359]

the pictur that raly got me upset was from "The Marine Aquarium" that is published by Tetra Preea. page 42 i morsi idol 1 yellow tang a clown fish and a damsile. and on page 45 at the top you can see some one adding 6 new fish to a tank at one time. on the other side the info in the book is good. but speeking formyself it was the pictures in the book that got me realy intristed

[Biomanjcs72]

Yeah, Ninong, I remember that pic. I want to say that I have even seen a similar one by that company that even had plastic plants in the photo there, along with the gravel substrate, and 18 other fish in a 20 gallon eclipse system. [img]/ubb/smile.gif[/img] Their marketing dept. could really use a technical advisor.


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JCS
"Take one and pass it back, just like your IQ's were normal."
-Professor Hathaway in the movie"Real Genius"