STAY AWAY FROM AQUAHUT!!! Richie sold me 4 young AfricanCichlid Peacock fish who had ick disease and they transferred the parasiticdisease killing off my entire tank of my 4 beautiful adult African CichlidPeacocks and 1 adult Butterfly Pleco. The 4 young fish I bought did not display any signs of disease, but theothers in Richie's tank did. I neversaw ick before in fish, and he taught me what it looks like by showing it to mein his other fish. He even said to mewhile pointing to some of the other 75+ fish in the same tank: "I won'tgive you those because they have the ick spots". I just read online that ick is a highly contagious disease, andfish can carry it even though they don't display visual signs of it (the 4 Ibought from him). There has not beenany PH, temperature, or nitrate/nirtrite change in my tank at all, so that cannotbe the cause. I even medicated the tankwith ick medication early on as soon as I noticed the many tiny dots all overmy adult's bodies, but they still died before the medication's cycle of 3 dayshad finished. Painful lesson learned. That's the last time I ever buyhealthy-looking fish when others in the same tank carry ick disease. And that's something they, a fish store whohas been in business since the 70's, should've known to do - to treat fishcontaining the ick parasite with medication before they sell them to the publicand infect everyone else's tanks causing many painful deaths! So sad to watch all of my beautiful adultsdie...
