What Fish Have You Bought Then Took Back?
- Thread starter GentleGiantsCichlidKeeper
- Start date
Lol yep, they were about 3” and I was BS-ing with the guy and said how I really like the RTC but they get too big for me and he told me that I would be able to keep it in a 60 for 2 1/2 -3 years, so I figured that would be fine since I have friends with large ponds, then I learned I would get about 6 months before it was too big
Yeah, they grow incredibly fast, quick. It wouldn't have been worth it, even with the pleasure of having one for a short amount of time.
It was a disaster waiting to happen, and on so many levels. The tank wasn't labelled with details of the fish and the guy who talked to me about them didn't know his ass from his elbow when he explained they stay small and were placid.
But the big one for me, which I didn't find out until I researched them when I got home, is that as they get older they need brackish water, and as mature adults actually prefer full salt!!!
All this vitally important info should have been on the front of their display tank, in fact i'll go one further, those fish should not really have been in the store for sale in the first place.
Reminds me of my pacu. I picked up 3 back when petsmart sold them, assuming they were just like silver dollars. Then my grandfather saw a river monsters episode about them. Didn’t take long until they *ahem* removed all the other fish from the tank short of the 3 leporinus and a silver dollar.
I kept them anyway until I was moving and they were just too big (only about 10 inches at the time).
Always wanted to keep one for life though.
I kept them anyway until I was moving and they were just too big (only about 10 inches at the time).
Always wanted to keep one for life though.
You were in quite an experience, i'm glad you came out of it. Life will get interesting, sometimes lol....
The only fish that I have ever taken back/given away (other then selling babies) were when I was tearing down a tank and selling or giving away everything in it, or when there’s been a bully. I started off in bigger cichlids with a group of 4 parrots and 1 young “unidentified” Cichlid. Who a month after buying it turned out to be a very aggressive male Texas who over night killed off 2 of my parrots leaving the other 2 barely alive, and the opposite This year when I got my flowerhorn who turned out to be very aggressive so I ended up giving away all the other cichlids in the 55 to keep him.
I no longer blame the lfs for a fish that's purchased but anyway returned a Redtail Shark due to a territorial issue.
with the internet, there’s no need to ask, I imagine a lot of the LFS stories are pre smart phone
