www.fishlore.com

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3.2 Based on 117 reviews

FishLore's tropical fish care information for freshwater fish and saltwater aquarium and pet fish tanks....

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skinnyboy313
Too many trolls on that site

Too many trolls that masquerade as VIP experts on that site. I witnessed time and time again these 'experts' giving people bad advice that kills their fish. The moderators are extremely rude and will ban anyone without warning who doesn't follow their ridiculous rules. These rules are nonsensical, and people aren't aware of them till after being banned. Being active on that website was the worst experience of my fishkeeping hobby, and I do not recommend them in the least. Do yourself a big favor and stay away.Update: Fishlore moderators are only interested in getting views since they make money from running ads on their site. They couldnt care less about protecting members from trolls. It is all about ad revenue for them and is the reason they ban people on a whim. They dont care about members at all just the volume of views they can get.

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Date of experience: Feb 02, 2025
Maurice Harris
Disingenuous trash

Snotty fish people is the only thing u'll find on this garbage forum. Can't even access it nowadays since they seem to have banned based on IP so u'll most likely need a VPN.Worthless , just look somewhere else if you need help , there are far better forums and places than this filth.

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Date of experience: Dec 07, 2024
Norman Walker
Fish expert advice …

The people that respond to your posts are top notch. They are very helpful and each fish has an expert. The minor problem is the search. Keywords are not prioritized.

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Date of experience: Oct 03, 2024
CB26
Guests barred from accessing Fishlore.

I was researching about self-fertilization of gastropods. i opened so many websites until i found this website. opened the website and it's 403 forbidden error. i thought the website geoblocked but actually, they have suspicious background story (mostly from TrustPilot).many people reports that this website has really, really poor site management (people got banned for no reason & guests like me immediately not allowed to access their content). this website is public and got indexed by search engines but why they make it unaccessible. i do not have any wrongdoings. i do send feedback to google to de-rank the website.i hope representative from this website could reply to me as soon as possible (with understandable answers)

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Date of experience: Aug 04, 2024
Danna Turner
Nothing is great

Nothing is great. Just keep yourself in the dark cell. There are so many other useful and friendly websites around. I ban you as well.

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Date of experience: Feb 20, 2024
gribal1
Banned and Ignored

Great place until you do something that the mods don't like. I was honestly enjoying my time on the site, and there was some good advice being shared. Also it is pretty active. But when I made a post about offering to help content creators with what I am good at (a way of giving back to the community) I was banned. No warning, not reason, not communication!I can't read their message explaining why I was banned (i assume this is what it is about) because i am banned. Also I get no response on any emails that I sent (NOT EVEN THEIR PRIVACY POLICY EMAIL!).My conclusion is, that it is a fine community that don't know how to run a community and basically are breaking the law (at least for users here in EU). I was looking for an alternative to Reddit, but it turned out to be even worse than Reddit!

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Date of experience: Feb 09, 2024
Karyne Bell
One day I was on fish lore and I got…

One day I was on fish lore and I got banned for no reason I think they thought I was under thirteen an I really like this app so I really want to be allowed back in

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Date of experience: Oct 10, 2022
Bubby Hughes
Great forum overall but a little strict (FL mods please read this I have some concerns thank you)

This was a very great forum overall. The mods were very friendly and the members have helped me A LOT. I went from a 0.5gallon betta bowl to a beautifully scapped 8 gallon tank. They answered all my questions patiently even though some of them were very dumb questions. I definitely do recommend joining this forum. I do have to say, they are a little stricter than other forums and won't give warnings before banning.However, I was banned for (I think) no reason at all. Maybe I did something wrong but I do not remember it, but could I at least know what I did wrong? It just said that I was banned and the reason was rule violations. I went through all the rules and nothing sticked out in my mind. I also didn't get any emails about what I did wrongly. If any mods of Fishlore is reading this, could you please tell me what I did wrong? My username was BettasXD. Thank you.

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Date of experience: Sep 04, 2022
Magnolia Morgan
BANNED FOR NO REASON!

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!

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Date of experience: Mar 15, 2022
Arnaut Anderson
Petty, and illegal practices

The mods are a bunch of jerks on that site. They claim to be all about encouraging debate and welcoming newcomers. Then they constantly edit, censor, and even steal your content. They claim to have the right to do this in their terms of service however their TOS has a clause stating they can change their terms at any time with no notice to users. This actually makes their TOS unenforceable. Look it up there are legal precedents set against that. The users are of course people some nice some judgemental but the mods have this “see me after class” attitude and are very passive aggressive. After I experienced this I realized once you post something you cannot remove it without explicit permission from said mods. I asked politely to have my account removed. No answer, so I asked if my content, which legally belongs to me, could be removed from their site. They really do not care about the users. They care about sales and marketing. They would like to have the appearance of having over 111,000 users even if this means a good portion of them are completely unwilling participants whose intellectual property has been stolen from them.It’s sad because the platform is really cool and could be used in a much more positive manner but they don’t give a rats behind about the actual users. I see in a reply below that they “take copyright infringement very seriously.” Apparently only they(mods and admin) have the right to steal peoples intellectual property. What a joke! The more reviews I read it becomes more and more clear that fishlore is a truly toxic environment. And in their response comments I have seen lies, and their typical cordially unapologetic responses.I am somewhat surprised by the way mods seem to arbitrarily pick out people to discipline or “correct” over minor forum use mistakes. Yet someone who bears the label of article contributor on their site tried to tell a newcomer that you should adjust temps for a betta according to how active the fish is based on flawed logic, comparing it to humans/mammals acclimating to low temps by exposure to lower temps. Uhh hello fish are cold blooded! You will never get a fish to acclimate to a temperature they haven’t evolved to exist in. Mammals are warm blooded. This is basic biology and goes to show the level of knowledge that a lot of the higher ranked individuals on this forum claim to have. I used the report comment button that they mention repeatedly in the replies to reviewers and they have yet to correct or eliminate the potentially harmful pseudoscience.I believe a forum like this has great potential but the way it is run is ethically and scientifically flawed. Too bad people don’t realize until they have been reeled in..

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Date of experience: Jan 26, 2022

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