stdreb27
Active Member
Originally Posted by xDave
Actually, the 1000 dying I was referring to was before that one people buy ever gets to the store. I can only guess the home aquarium survival rate.
When I worked at a distributor, 30% arriving live and 50% of those making it through the following 48 hours was considered a good batch. (BTW, we paid big extra $s to have them individually bagged) Only 5% - 15% survive the actual capture, 10% - 25% of those make it through the trip to the collection station. They loose another 25% -50% in the next 48 hours.
That blows.
Actually, the 1000 dying I was referring to was before that one people buy ever gets to the store. I can only guess the home aquarium survival rate.
When I worked at a distributor, 30% arriving live and 50% of those making it through the following 48 hours was considered a good batch. (BTW, we paid big extra $s to have them individually bagged) Only 5% - 15% survive the actual capture, 10% - 25% of those make it through the trip to the collection station. They loose another 25% -50% in the next 48 hours.
That blows.