morayeels, there are so many contradictions in your posts that it really seems like you either have something really against the one LFS or have stock in the other LFS. It always seems like you have a personal agenda when you post about these two places.
Took the fish home and tested the water as I do for all the fish I purchase just to check and make sure Im not putting anything bad into my tank.
How would you be putting anything bad into your tank by putting a fish in the tank? Even non-serious aquarists know that an LFS' water should never go in your tank.
And guess what the COPPER level was very high and I had to place the fish in to my QT tank.
The fish should be going into the quarantine tank before you buy it anyway, so that should not be an issue.
They even had seahorse in the same system. Just a heads up to let buyers be ware.
Your last statement and this one is a contradiction. A seahorse is an invertebrate, and inverts, especially delicate ones like horses, cannot live with high levels of copper. And if you are so against this LFS, why do you continue to shop there? Why don't you just shop at the one that you are always so positive about?
I dont even trust scooping a fish out of a bag and placing it into my tank.
Why? If you watched the fish eat well at the LFS before buying the fish, and it is just going into a QT for 3-4 weeks, what is the problem? This quarantine period will give you sufficient time to watch the fish and treat it appropriately if a problem arises.
I belive if your tanks are set up proper there is no need to run cooper in saltwater systems.
Local fish stores are nothing like home aquariums. LFS' have no means to quarantine all new fish. They get new fish every single week. How is an LFS supposed to combat ich if they have no way to quarantine all new arrivals? They cannot perform hyposalinity in their sale tanks. This would be impractical and would stop them from being able to sell anything out of the system. Even if the fish has a slight case of ich, you should be quarantining anyway, so even this would not be a problem if the fish is healthy and strong.
When you have a shop like the one in Northampton that runs copper in with seahorses they should be shut down and not allowed to re open.
If you really do not like what they do at the fish store, you should stop buying anything from them. By buying fish from their store, you are supporting them and keeping them open, allowing them to continue the same practices that you do not like.
Originally Posted by
morayeels
You guys can do that. But not me. I value my tank to much to risk scooping out a fish from water that containes cooper.
You must not value your tank that much because it does not seem like you even quarantine all of your fish. If you really valued the inhabitants of your tank, you would quarantine all new additions, so that you possibly did not introduce them to something deadly (especially if you are shopping at a store that you say is so bad).
