Pet stores

[iidylii]

how is it that the pet stores fish survive when they go through basically zero acclimation period besides floating the bag?

 

[lmforbis]

My guess is they have their tank water set to match that of the wholesaler. A lot of them run at low salinity. All the fish I get from Live aquaria come in at around 1.020. They come directly from the wholesaler (quality Marine I think). Just a guess but it's how I'd do it.

 

[iidylii]

Huh yeah it just amazes me that any survive and makes me think that it's not all that important...which I of course drip all of my fish

My new Mandy I just got came in with 1.015 I dripped for about 2 hours until it finally came up to .025...after I did it I regretted not just making the QT .015 and then every day add a little more

 

[lmforbis]

Yeah. I wouldn't bring up salinity that fast. I'd have done it over a couple days. much easier to adjust the QT.
I usually only fill my QTs half way then I can dilute to match.

 

[bang guy]

You would not be impressed by their loss rate.

 

[jay0705]

I've ordered fish from a lfs. A kole tang. I took it in the shipment bag. Water tested at 1.016.

 

[iidylii]

Yeah. I wouldn't bring up salinity that fast. I'd have done it over a couple days. much easier to adjust the QT.
I usually only fill my QTs half way then I can dilute to match.

Yeah I feel kind of bad but I guess u live and learn

You would not be impressed by their loss rate.

I suppose they don't give a crap all they gotta do is have it survive until it gets to your house

I've ordered fish from a lfs. A kole tang. I took it in the shipment bag. Water tested at 1.016.

Thats what I did took a reading out of the shipment bag and it was 1.015

 

[deejeff0442]

Apparently you never gpt.to a store right when it opened. There are dead fish in tanks.

 

[jay0705]

Even we lose fish. So the volume fish stores do , it makes sense they will have dead loss. However alot of us have also figured out just bc a lfs does it, doesn't mean we should.