Hi!
The short of it:
Powder Blue Tang in San Francisco - free to pickup for anyone who can prove they have an adequate tank to house it. I will require from you a picture in front of your 125 gallon or larger tank holding a sign that says "PBT"...you could write it on the back of an envelope, just need to see you have a large enough tank and you holding the sign in front of it. Use the timer feature on your camera phone if no one is home to take a pic of you, but I won't give it away not knowing it isn't going to a good home! Get him ASAP, he needs room to swim!
The long of it:
Sunday I made an emotionally impulsive purchase - a Powder Blue Tang - to "save" it from the LFS, with the intention of finding it a good home. Hear me out - this came from a LFS who I happen to go to for media replacements because it's one of the only ones in town I can get to without a car or public transportation(most people in SF don't have cars, for the record!). I generally avoid their livestock sales as their tanks are not kept in good condition and often there are dead fish present, not to mention puffers spinning in circles in tiny enclosures, etc. The LFS has a "bag sale" on Sundays, in which new livestock is delivered from their suppliers and the fish, still in bags floating in their tanks, is sold cheaper than once it touches their (presumably) filthy water. I saw this guy in the bag and my heart melted into a puddle. I felt I could give him a better chance, sort of quarantined, in my 40B with clean clear water than there in their tanks. Not to worry, Tang Police, I realize all the faults of my emotional decision making.
It's in good shape, looks like a little tear on its tail but otherwise ok. It's been in my tank since late Sunday night.
I'm unemployed due to COVID, I shouldn't be buying fish to begin with, but also because I'm unemployed I've been overdosing on those Dodo rescue videos from Facebook in which every manner of animal is rescued and re-homed. I realize, trust me, all of the faults in my thinking, and that next time I will save myself and the fish the trouble of rehoming, even if I come across a sad looking one. Aghhhhhhh. Anyway, help a PBT and a fellow reefer out, this beautiful one is yours if you feel up to the task.
#reefsqaud #TangPolice
The short of it:
Powder Blue Tang in San Francisco - free to pickup for anyone who can prove they have an adequate tank to house it. I will require from you a picture in front of your 125 gallon or larger tank holding a sign that says "PBT"...you could write it on the back of an envelope, just need to see you have a large enough tank and you holding the sign in front of it. Use the timer feature on your camera phone if no one is home to take a pic of you, but I won't give it away not knowing it isn't going to a good home! Get him ASAP, he needs room to swim!
The long of it:
Sunday I made an emotionally impulsive purchase - a Powder Blue Tang - to "save" it from the LFS, with the intention of finding it a good home. Hear me out - this came from a LFS who I happen to go to for media replacements because it's one of the only ones in town I can get to without a car or public transportation(most people in SF don't have cars, for the record!). I generally avoid their livestock sales as their tanks are not kept in good condition and often there are dead fish present, not to mention puffers spinning in circles in tiny enclosures, etc. The LFS has a "bag sale" on Sundays, in which new livestock is delivered from their suppliers and the fish, still in bags floating in their tanks, is sold cheaper than once it touches their (presumably) filthy water. I saw this guy in the bag and my heart melted into a puddle. I felt I could give him a better chance, sort of quarantined, in my 40B with clean clear water than there in their tanks. Not to worry, Tang Police, I realize all the faults of my emotional decision making.
It's in good shape, looks like a little tear on its tail but otherwise ok. It's been in my tank since late Sunday night.
I'm unemployed due to COVID, I shouldn't be buying fish to begin with, but also because I'm unemployed I've been overdosing on those Dodo rescue videos from Facebook in which every manner of animal is rescued and re-homed. I realize, trust me, all of the faults in my thinking, and that next time I will save myself and the fish the trouble of rehoming, even if I come across a sad looking one. Aghhhhhhh. Anyway, help a PBT and a fellow reefer out, this beautiful one is yours if you feel up to the task.
#reefsqaud #TangPolice
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