Moments before spontaneously combusting Gill Passman at
was heard opining:

Koi-Lo wrote:
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.
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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....

I've been looking for calico lionheads since last October. None of the
stores here get them in. I was getting desperate enough to consider
ordering them online. I seldom buy anything online. And suddenly there
they were - right before my very eyes! Nice smooth rounded backs, nice
tails, healthy looking (they just arrived), active, nicely marked... I
weakened and had to have 4 of them. After they settled down I fed them some
shrimp pellets and they scarffed them up. :-) So far so good.


Now I'm going to duck again - as NetMax so elequently put in a recent
post - Gill Passman "hit and run"....
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Koi-Lo.... frugal ponding since 1995...
Aquariums since 1952
My Pond & Aquarium Pages:
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