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 Wes
