My thinking is that if you live close to where the fish was collected, you’ll have a much healthier, tank ready fish. Imagine living in Maine and getting a fish that’s originally from Australia. How many hands has it changed? Was it brought by boat in a shipping container or thrown onto a commercial plane? I can’t imagine how scared it must be. Temperature changes. Irregular feedings. Irregular lights. Cramped together with other fish. And then it’s brought into a pet store where it’s usually thrown into a lower salinity water. If it survives the ordeal, it then gets thrown in a qt at someone’s home and coppered and medicated. I’m not saying any of this is wrong but I can see why fish have a hard time.I disagree, Back in the 80's I had a Prized Discus tank, I was Paying $45 for quarter sized fish and up to 100 for lemon sized
fish. About the same as today, When my LFS sold me bad fish and wiped out my tank HE made it right! Today fish are cheaper and the fishes' health is on you. BTW I switched to salt back then and SW fish prices was about the same as today.
I think
BTW WERE is this fish store with clean fish? I will spend 1K tomorrow