puffer32
Active Member
Here's my story. Maybe they can give me some answers.
Hi. I have bought 4 mandrins in the last 4 months at local pet stores in my area (Dallas Texas) All have died within a week. I only buy fat healthy looking fish and have a 150 gal tank with refuguim full of pods. You can see them all over the rocks and sand also. These fish did not die due to water conditions either. My tank is very healthy, and my other fish are good community fish. My mandrins all seem very healthy the whole time they are in my tank, eating pods and live foods that my other fish eat also. They never appear ill, except when they glide on the glass I have observed a sorta jerky motion in their bodies but figure its the current from the power heads because I don't see the jerky movements as they search the rocks for pods. Just today, my spotted mandrin was grazing as usual after eating afew live brine shrimp soaked in garlic exreme and vitamins, and later saw him dancing on the front of the glass (normal behavior with all my mandrins) on the front of the glass. An hour later I noticed it bump into a rock, the next time i saw it, it was dead stuck to my power head, the same story with the last 4 I had. The only explaination I can come up with is that mandrins in my area use suppliers who are catching them with cyanide in the phillipines I understand this is not uncommon. I would like to get another mandrin and was wondering if your supplier uses cyanide also and if they are caught in the phillipines. I have oredered from you sever times in the past and have never been disappointed and know you will answer my questions as honestly as you can. Thank you,
Hi. I have bought 4 mandrins in the last 4 months at local pet stores in my area (Dallas Texas) All have died within a week. I only buy fat healthy looking fish and have a 150 gal tank with refuguim full of pods. You can see them all over the rocks and sand also. These fish did not die due to water conditions either. My tank is very healthy, and my other fish are good community fish. My mandrins all seem very healthy the whole time they are in my tank, eating pods and live foods that my other fish eat also. They never appear ill, except when they glide on the glass I have observed a sorta jerky motion in their bodies but figure its the current from the power heads because I don't see the jerky movements as they search the rocks for pods. Just today, my spotted mandrin was grazing as usual after eating afew live brine shrimp soaked in garlic exreme and vitamins, and later saw him dancing on the front of the glass (normal behavior with all my mandrins) on the front of the glass. An hour later I noticed it bump into a rock, the next time i saw it, it was dead stuck to my power head, the same story with the last 4 I had. The only explaination I can come up with is that mandrins in my area use suppliers who are catching them with cyanide in the phillipines I understand this is not uncommon. I would like to get another mandrin and was wondering if your supplier uses cyanide also and if they are caught in the phillipines. I have oredered from you sever times in the past and have never been disappointed and know you will answer my questions as honestly as you can. Thank you,
