A REALLY Lucky Fish

[Andrew Schubert]

So I just ordered a blue throat trigger from liveaquaria with a Saturday shipping. Well I came home from work today to find a box on my front porch. Some where along the way they screwed up my shipping and it arrived today. Well today's temp had a low of -3 and a high of 10 degrees. Yet, somehow the little guy is still alive!

 

[hdsoftail1065]

Ya, lucky fish! I'm glad that story had a happy ending!

 

[Andrew Schubert]

Thing is...the tracking number still isn't even in UPS system.

 

[Andrew Schubert]

Yea just checked..the tracking on the box is not the same as the one they gave in my email. The fish was delivered at 9:04am when the temp was -4 degrees and it was outside for 6 1/2 hours before I got home.

 

[Burrito]

I’d let LA know to cover your bases just in case.

 

[hdsoftail1065]

Thing is...the tracking number still isn't even in UPS system.

That's crazy! Good thing you found it. We go through the garage at our house, if a package came early we would never know until it was to late.

 

[Captain Quint]

Amazing and I'm so glad the little fellow is okay. Please keep us updated.

 

[Andrew Schubert]

Amazing and I'm so glad the little fellow is okay. Please keep us updated.

Will do. Just got a dripper going to acclimate him. I always keep them in the dark for 12 hours to make sure not to stress new fish. Can see enough of a shadow to see he's swimming around. My wife always laughs at me stumbling around trying to do water changes in the pitch dark. But before doing this I lost about 50% of all the fish I bought from liveaquaria.

 

[67chevellemalibu2]

Wow! UPS is doing me good right now too. Have a lost package.

 

[Andrew Schubert]

Wow! UPS is doing me good right now too. Have a lost package.

I believe my issue was LA faukt not UPS however. LA just shipped out or too early.

 

[Captain Quint]

Will do. Just got a dripper going to acclimate him. I always keep them in the dark for 12 hours to make sure not to stress new fish. Can see enough of a shadow to see he's swimming around. My wife always laughs at me stumbling around trying to do water changes in the pitch dark. But before doing this I lost about 50% of all the fish I bought from liveaquaria.

Good for you man. I respect that for sure.

Sorry for your other loses.

 

[Mordie101]

Man that’s a lucky fish

 

[Andrew Schubert]

Here's a pic of the lucky guy. Sorry for the blurry pic. Really need to clean the outside glass of my QT. And there is my elegance coral on his last leg as well...lol. 0 for 2 trying to keep them alive.

 

[rkpetersen]

Beautiful fish! Looks pretty comfy there, hope it sails through QT for you.

And there is my elegance coral on his last leg as well.

Is it one of the type with the conical base? I've never been able to keep one of those alive. On the other hand the ones that have been cut from larger wall Elegance corals structures have all done extremely well.

 

[Andrew Schubert]

Beautiful fish! Looks pretty comfy there, hope it sails through QT for you.



Is it one of the type with the conical base? I've never been able to keep one of those alive. On the other hand the ones that have been cut from larger wall Elegance corals structures have all done extremely well.

One of each....funny bc my lfs told me he's never had luck with one that WAS cut off...only cone bases worked for him. Think it's all just luck.

 

[Captain Quint]

Here's a pic of the lucky guy. Sorry for the blurry pic. Really need to clean the outside glass of my QT. And there is my elegance coral on his last leg as well...lol. 0 for 2 trying to keep them alive.

This is nice.

Thank you for sharing this tough little guy with us.