Sorry for not responding sooner...2 of the 6 i ordered went to another keeper in my area and his 2 are doing great aswell so i find it hard to believe people are having problems when we took a fairly large chunk of the populatin and they were shipped far across the u.s. My package even arrived 3 hours over the estimated time by fedex. He posted shortly before i did as (fish-arent-real) and called to tell me about the disclaimer. Just a bit of info for everybody, i acclimated all the goonch in 5 gallon buckets over a period of almost 2 hours as i would any other fish. I filled the buckets with 2" of tank water and floated the bags for about 30. min so they came up to temp. I then dumped half cups of water into their bags from the tank every 15min until the bags were full. When the bags were full i dumped them out and continued to add tank water to the buckets in half cup amounts for another 40 min. When i felt they were comfortable in their new water i picked up the goonch by hand and held them in the current of the tank until they slowly swam away into their new home I drove to my friends house and acclimated his two in the same fashion. It angers me to hear another local keeper kept his 4 in a foam box for a couple days before even making room for them in a tank with other fish. They unfourtunatly died shortly after. Wes i understend your trying to make everything rite with your customers and its not your fault if people abuse their privledge to obtain such a beautiful rare specimen. Goodluck everybody with the remaining fish, and i hope my info helps keep them all safe. Thanks Wesgood to hear, I actually never heard back from you after shipping them out, thought maybe you were mad or they died. glad to hear you like them and thanks for the support. happy fish keeping.
Wes