Bought some indo's...
- Thread starter D.Pulcher
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Thing is I am not in anyway detered from my fish keeping abilities. The tank is has been fully cycled over 6 months and I have previously kept Asian Arows (so water quality is key) so eh a shoot and a miss here i'm guessing.
D.Pulcher;1493153; said:
I've spoke with three different pet stores that brought in a few bags of indos (30-50 each)and all three have had very high mortality rates. I bought 12 from rkc772 ( Infinite Aquatics ) and lost three after 8 months. I also lost the one I bought before finding rkc772, and that one seemed healthy up till an hour or two before kicking the bucket.
One of the pet stores commented their fish were from a wholesaler out of Thialand and arrived at the store quite stresses & started dieing off immediately & lingered for two weeks or so, whereas those from rkc772 were housed by rich for a while allowing the weak and really stressed ones to die out. So they believed the ones I got from Rich were the healthy ones of Rich's batch (I can believe that).
Right now of the 9 I have left, 6 are growing well and 3 are runty. But the funny thing is the 3 little ones are always the 1st to take the food?
What I'm trying to say is my experience (since June 2007) growing out dats has been difficult. So, welcome to the club of mysterious Dats fry death. I couldn't figure out what happened to my 4 dead dats and if you can figure out what killed them please share it with the rest of us.
As for a few of the other comments ( JD7.62 & StIcKy~RiCe ) how can you make those assumptions?
"Im pretty confident the fish were healthy at time of purchase."
JD7.62? Did you sell the fish?
"not blaming on anyone myself but i think either their got ammonia burn during the driving, stress, or maybe you buy sick fish. "
StIcKy~RiCe? If we trust that D.Pulcher is telling the truth about how they were transported (which I am, cause I don't have anything else to go on) then what makes you think they were ammonia burned?
Please help me understand why you both made these two assumptions-
Umm Im confindent that they were healthy cause I bought them along with 22others in Feb. of last year. I lost one out of that group (died within hours of coming in). I sold them to a fella that knows his stuff, so umm yeah I can make that assumption.
Now, like I said I dont think anyone is at fault here. It just happens sometimes.
Now, like I said I dont think anyone is at fault here. It just happens sometimes.
JD7.62;1493621; said:Umm Im confindent that they were healthy cause I bought them along with 22others in Feb. of last year. I lost one out of that group (died within hours of coming in). I sold them to a fella that knows his stuff, so umm yeah I can make that assumption.
Now, like I said I dont think anyone is at fault here. It just happens sometimes.
Oh, so because they once belonged to you, then to someone who knows his stuff, the fish must be healthy?
'Experts' no matter how skilled & experienced all have quarentine tanks for their currently sick fish-and yes, sometimes even experts may not know a fish is sick/getting sick...unless I guess if 'said fish' once belonged to you, right?
If you weren't the most recent owner how can you assume they were healthy? Especially with the comment about them having cloudy eyes at the time of purchase?
I'll agree with your last comment- "It just happens sometimes" , but not with your assumtion of health when you weren't the one selling or buying the fish.
-right back at ya.
Now that i think about it. Could be stress related. They were living in a 120 or a 150 and recently moved to a smaller tank then the next day i come over and buy them. Like i said i'm not blaming anyone but would like to recoupe some of my losses but i'm not gonna force anyone to do anything. TY for all the concerns just wish that big one (3.5") would have made it, would have loved to seem him/her grow up.
