I'm sure the lfs will always say yes?Make sure it’s eating in the store.
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I'm sure the lfs will always say yes?Make sure it’s eating in the store.
Of course. A good fish buyer ALWAYS makes sure they see fish eating before purchase.I'm sure the lfs will always say yes?
Mysis and LRS fish frenzy. I also have a lot of pods that he eats all day.Side question. What do you feed him?
Funny that you mention pods. I bought a $45 bottle of pods from algaebarn when I had no livestock in my DT. I'm trying to figure out if they're still alive.Mysis and LRS fish frenzy. I also have a lot of pods that he eats all day.
They’re still in there! Look around your tank with a flashlight at night when the lights are off you’ll see them scurrying around.Funny that you mention pods. I bought a $45 bottle of pods from algaebarn when I had no livestock in my DT. I'm trying to figure out if they're still alive.
I'm sure the lfs will always say yes?
Thanks. Will definitely do that next time.Just have them feed it in front of you.
Thanks. Will definitely do that next time.
Worth a shot I guess.Also, it's worth showing those photos to the LFS you purchased it from along with your dated receipt. They might give you a credit toward a new fish.
A clown is not a wrasse. Wrasses are far more sensitive than clowns. A wrasse could absolutely die overnight in an uncycled tank.Sorry have to disagree. There was no ammonia in there. Have you heard of people using a fish to cycle a tank? I used a clown to cycle my first QT.
Right but in a bag the ph drops because of the added CO2, as soon as you open the bag and the CO2 starts to dissipate, the PH goes up and the ammonia becomes toxic. A fish in that amount of water in an unsealed bag would die of ammonia poisoning in 24 hours.Fish are shipped overnight in a bag all the time with just oxygen added to the bag. An uncycled 10 gallon tank with a HOB filter to provide water movement would be very unlikely to kill a fish overnight due to ammonia, in my opinion.
Would you mind explaining to me how an uncycled tank could kill a fish overnight? Keep in mind that it's freshly made RODI water with no ammonia in it.A clown is not a wrasse. Wrasses are far more sensitive than clowns. A wrasse could absolutely die overnight in an uncycled tank.
I do both, but the drip acclimation and hydroplex dip seem to work pretty good. I have a high output pentair uv sterilizer that keeps ich, turbularia, and other bacteria issues managed well. It is not uncommon for fish to have a couple white bumps on fin then gone in a day. Seems like then they build an immunity to getting it bad. The fish seem to love the natural habitat, sand, rock, critters, and all that natural algae and stuff.QT kills a lot of fish. I hear it all the time.
Maybe internal parasites in digestive tract or something in gills.Are you saying that you think I bought a diseased fish? I really can't figure out what I did wrong other than maybe not acclimating it better prior to putting it into QT.
I hate when I see fish breath heavily, especially right out the gate. It makes me wonder if ammonia burned its gills on its journeyI noticed him breathing rapidly pretty much from the time I put him in my QT. That was probably around an hour or so from being put in a bag at the lfs. I really want a melanurus wrasse so I might give it another try this week.
They will drop a flake of food in. If it acts like a pirhana, good signThanks. Will definitely do that next time.