Shark in a 55g

[jon321]

Originally Posted by bill109
QT them and you cant get a bad fish and make sure they are eating in the lfs..
No thanks. Why would ANYONE buy a fish that wasnt in good health before they bought them? Fish can still die in QT.
Jon

 

[iampumpkinman]

At a lfs by me, they have a puffer, I couldnt tell you what kind, but its over a foot long, in a 20 gallon tank, the poor thing can hardly move. For about a week, they had a yellow tang in with it, and one other fish...in a 20. I went back a couple days ago to see if anybody died, and the yt and other was gone, but the puffer was suffering a bad case of ick. Its pretty sad, considering the rest of the store is really nice.

 

[sharkboy13]

whats sad is some stores dont kno that theyre doing anything wrong, like theres an lfs about half an hour south that had like a dozen little yt's in a 30 and i said "how long have they been like that?" "ooh about 5 days, there wer about twenty more, they all died for some reason tho" :scared:

 

[baloo6969]

ASPCA has no control or jurisdiction over fish sales(especially marine). My buddy gets a call once in a while saying "your tanks have algae on the back of the glass" from *NUTS* who don’t have a clue what an algae problem really is...BTW his tanks are AWSOME and not over stocked! And there are no sharks or Idols in a beta’s bowl...haha
Too bad other lfs’s don’t take better care of there stock.

 

[krj-1168]

It's sad to hear about the stupid stuff LFSs do to sharks, and even fish in general.