Koi-Lo wrote:

"Mr. Gardener" wrote in message
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On Fri, 17 Mar 2006 16:46:22 -0600, "Koi-Lo"
wrote:

Moments before spontaneously combusting Nikki at
was heard opining:

I also called petsmart and your right they said they don't get them in
*most* of the time.
I do have a Wal-Mart not to far, I have never considered getting fish
there but maybe ill try.
thanks Nikki

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Make sure you treat all WM fish for ICK. I just bought the first
fish in
years at WM today. See my post above regarding calico Lionheads.
They'll
be treated for ICK, then flukes. They'll be in quarantine for at
least 14
to 21 days.


Now there you go again, spontaneously combusting Nikki. At this rate
you're going to everyone blown up and no one to talk to.

Why are you treating your new fish for diseases that you haven't
identified?

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Because there were several tanks of fish there crawling with ICK. There
was no way these GF weren't exposed, even though they were only in the
tank maybe an hour. No one there soaks the nets or specimen containers
in disinfectant. No one there CARES.

I've heard enough horror stories about flukes to go for the bucks to
treat them for that as well. I asked the young man there if they had
medication or salt in the water and he said they're not even allowed to
feed the fish anymore. They keep the tank-tops locked now. There were
starving plecos and puffers, dead fish floating..........

I'm not taking any chances.


sometimes when I read these horror stories I wonder why you don't all
just walk with your feet - stores that can't sell the fish will not be
there in a short amount of time but new ones will come that satisify the
market for good quality fish because if they don't they will fail as
well....everytime even one of you buys fish from one of these places,
for whatever reasons, it reinforces their policy of not caring for fish
not mattering - people will buy them anyway....

Now I'm going to duck again - as NetMax so elequently put in a recent
post - Gill Passman "hit and run"....