aways examine your fish before buying

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fishnutham

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lost my gold nugget pl*co today a few of you probably read the threads on this problem i had ordered him in at the lfs because no one keeps these difficult speices well in my excitment i took him home without checking his stomach
when i got him to his new home a tank with perfect water paramitors and no tank mates i noticed sunken belly deadly and common with nuggets
with some assistance from oddball i was sure i had it beat fed him kiwi and potato
he ate lots of the potato but still he didnt last more then two days always and i cant stess this enough check your new fish before you have em bagged if the lfs dosnt like it tough s**t take your bussiness eleswhere
Its important to know how to identify illnesses such as interanal and exteranal parasites stomach bloat and the opposite ,pop eye and always quaritine your new arrive so you dont contaminate your community tank


good luck and don't be detered from aquiring those hard to find fish
 
great advice to anyone that might be reading this.
 
Very good advice.
 
I was picking up some giant danios, you know, something for my chiclids to play with. The store guy said, "which five do you want?"
I said "any of them, just don't give me the one with one eye."

You guessed it.... I got freakin' pirate danio swimming around my tank, bumpin' into s--t.
 
very good advice...always examine the fish closely. no matter how trusted the lfs and no matter how trusted the source the lfs gets the fish from, they can't inspect every single fish that they sell. even the best lfs will get sick or deformed fish from time to time.

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I just bought some N. brichardi for my colony about a week, I looked hard at the fins to try to determine their sex. When I got them home I noticed one with a deformed face, very blunt and could not close it's crooked mouth, it died a few days later. Very good advice.
 
The lfs employees should recognize signs of problems too but they often don't. It's up to you.
 
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