Are your LFS's feeder guppies heavily diseased, too?

[Avonnite]

I don't know if everyone has had this trouble, but every batch of guppies I get is loaded with fish dying of disease... (severe tail-rot, gill disease, open sores, mouth rot... etc.) Most of them die within a few days, even though I've put them in a non-feeder set up with good filtration. I even tried fish medications, but most of them are already too heavily diseased. One female actually got to dropping fry, but only a few were not deformed. (Inbreeding?)

Is this the trouble with all feeders? Or did I just try a LFS with bad stock?

I was thinking of trying another place, but do you think that all the stores around one city get their supply from one wholesaler?

 

[Weylin]

Yep same here....

 

[midnight]

seems all fish i get from lfs are like that
thats why i try to get everything,feeders and other fish,from the wild.
no sick fish from the wild.

 

[wonword]

one of my LFS stores sells "feeder guppies" which are really mosquito fish, and they are pretty healthy. they tore all the fins of the one fancy guppy i had in the feeder tank in a matter of minutes though.

 

[bluestarjazz]

just buy a few fat fancys and let them breed there seem to be fewer sick ones in those tanks and they seem bigger than any of the feeder guppys

 

[Cecropia]

Mine are tending to not reach maturity. Inbreeding has lead to shortened life spans

 

[Druu]

No problem with feeder guppies that I've seen. I even picked out a tiny cichlid out of a feeder tank.

 

[salsa]

No, my lfs uses culls from their fancy guppys. Not too bad looking either!

 

[BushFishRox]

Personally I dont have a problem with bad feeders in my area, even the pet smart feeders are healthy...

 

[skiptomyzoo]

The feeders around here are healthy, and when they are bad the one store around here I have seen tell customers to wait untill the next shipment.