I think I'll ask the group about the proper care and stewardship of Mono
Seabaes. I picked 4 up at Walmart not long ago. I read where they
would do well in "all water types..ie- fresh, brackish, marine". I
asked the clerk =? how much salt they were using. I leave ya'll to
guess her answer.

So I threw the dice, brought 4 of them home. They were stunning,
indeed, angels on steroids, graceful, yet swift. Appetite was healthy,
as expected. I slowly acclimated them to the tank's water. They seemed
to get along fine with the tankmates, enjoyed checking out their new
surroundings, galloped playfully from end to end. I googled and read
gobs and gobs of info on Monos. So I felt very comfortable in that I
could manage these great additions just fine.

Less than a week went by, and they all expired, sequentially. They were
a little larger than nickels when I brought them home. My neighbor and
I witnessed their growth spurt to over a quarter-sized diameter right
before their passing. They were a delight to the tank. And I cornered
myself on how lacking in stewardship my skills might have been. I was
truly sick over the incident.

As it turns out, Monos really prefer marine environments. But if you
gleam and google monos, you'll quickly find that their information is
wrong. I data-mined like a mad man wanting to setup proper housekeeping
for these great creatures. A long-time poster here keeps them and told
me that they did indeed flourish in marine water only. Maybe they had
problems from being in transit to Walmart...maybe something from the
import docks, who knows.

I could easily list the things that could have caused their death, be it
my errors or not.
-Water Quality (mine)
-Water Quality (Walmart's)
-Mis-Informed (anybody's fault)
-Transit Shock (too broad to narrow down)
-Walmart stock (not out of the question, entirely)
-Acclimation Processes (afterall, they did expire in my tank)


But it quickly showed me that all websites aren't "published in stone"
with regard to the data they publish for the hobbyist.

-ED


































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