I’ll share some pics…. Of LFS fish I have seen over some time.
Initially this fish had way more cones that this picture shows, also it was put I the LFS tank with copper. Then it cleared up. But it was bad when it was first put in the tank. Had it been kept in a non copper tank, it would have been toast sadly.
This does not happen over night or within a week. This is weeks of being in a tank not fed, what chance do they stand with people that don’t even know for example that R2R exists and they can get the info needed to bring such fish back to health. And I’m willing to say these fish would have met dooms end, but I bought all three, one of the three got killed by my purple sadly. It happened over night with a slash to the gill plate. Literally took a chuck out of the gill plate and gills insane! But the smaller and larger once are fat piggies in my tank.
Might as well call this guy brother ich. I don’t know what happened to this fish in the end. But it was full of ich, and willing to bet someone did buy it. And it either died in the customers tank or someone figured out how to give it QT. How does a fish like this, go into a tank and be expected to make it? Some by the time you see this don’t even eat well any longer. Got a black cap basslet for my brother like this. But after a good ol few weeks in QT he cleared up and is now eating again. Should have done some documenting pics, but it would only hid in the tank.
This one sadly didn’t make it. The price they were asking for it was too steep to spend saving it. And as it was, they didn’t even budge on price, or say just take it! Sadly this was captain obvious when it comes to diseases, and many would understand that it’s not worth buying to deal with brook.
Another specimen just full of ich to say the least, it was sold not long after this pic. Do you think the sales person told the customer, oh yea comes with a side of ich? And maybe more? I would say a hard pass on this question haha.
And another…. Could go on and on with pics like this.
What I’m trying to point out, is that the supply chain is getting more and more prevalent with diseases. Then they set in the LFS tanks and are sold to people that don’t know. Because the story in full, as I typed it out earlier, is people are now getting into this hobby because of a video on YT or some social media post a friend or someone else posted and they saw it. Then wanted said Nemo, let’s not forget the dreaded Nemo! Still head parents and kids buying fish because of this movie. And some places that have fish like in these pics I’m posting. Only to have them die possibly. Not many know what you know Paul! And you’re a man of knowledge when it comes to your ways. But with what I now have accumulated as knowledge, and having QT’ed all my fish that survived just fine, mine will last just as long, as long as I keep my feeding method I posted above in the long post.
About a couple weeks ago, a kid bought a few fish only to come back week later in need of copper. The issues is once one of these disease get a hold of fish this bad you’re not saying it by feeding! Most of the time they even stop eating. And blue lights sure do not help in visibly seeing disease outbreak on fish many times. By the time you see it, it’s too late.
I’m willing to bet, the fish that are being collected sure do not come in being fed what your or I would feed them, to keep them healthy. LFS’s don’t feed them enough or what is proper to keep them healthy. It’s a money game. So how does a fishes gut healthy even come close to helping it, if it’s not eating properly for weeks on in, till it’s sold.
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@Randy Holmes-Farley stared, these fish are also eating many things that we have I our tanks. But….. some are clean freaks when it comes to tanks and the first sight of any kind of algae is flame throwered out of the tank. I don’t mind the algae because one of the many rascals I keep will end up eating it. And that in it if it’s self is gut bacteria that they are feeding from the tank on their own.
I see it as if you don’t QT, and your system works keep doing that, but if your fish get infected to the point of most of the pics you see here, it is your duty to do your best and get that fish on the healing path, or death would be imminent.
