Cardinals at OC petsmarts Dying right away

[bleublaze55]

I just wanted to aware people that Petsmart is selling cardinals for a dollar till the end of OCT.

HOWEVER! I have bought 45 of them to add to my 15 and 35+ including some of my own and some cherry barbs have died within 24hrs of placing them in my tank. My discus tank is well established, healthy and the perfect environment for health cardinals. Not sure what to make of this freak incident. (ive always had good luck with petsmart fish.)

BE AWARE, this recent batch may be carrying some kind of problem that attacks smaller fish, all the fish in my tank over 2'' still look perfectly health. Although, all the small schooling fish in my tank looked healthy until i found them floating upside down.

 

[NCStateFisher]

dunno, i bought 8 of their $1 silver dollars and so far they're fine thats odd at least they have the 7 day warranty

 

[Jmata]

The cardinals are healthy at the petsmart i work at lol

 

[Citrinellus]

Its always good to quarantine before you add any fish to your tank.

 

[bleublaze55]

I know, unfortunately i dont have any where to really quarantine fish, i have a medic tank, but its in use.


IN the title i said OC petsmarts, ive been to three, same results on all of them. My temps are higher than the suggested temps for these guys, but ive had cardinals for years with little problem at these temps. Also the temps dont explain why my mature cardinals are dropping along with very big and healthy cherry barbs.

Just an FYI

 

[glovanator]

dunno, i bought 8 of their $1 silver dollars and so far they're fine thats odd at least they have the 7 day warranty

Yep, warranties are always good. When they're broke you can take them in an just get them fixed.

I've never heard of Tetra's being violent to any other fish. :S

 

[bleublaze55]

I've never heard of Tetra's being violent to any other fish. :S

HUH?

 

[MonsterMinis]

I've always had to drip acclimate my fish from petsmart. 9/10 their water chem. is completely different then mine. Though is sounds more like it could be what I've heard refered to as "neon disease" where they just wash out, keel over and die. w/out any explination. and take the rest the tank with them. Even if water perameters are reading perfect. I've had/seen this happen mroe then a few times under different conditions to credit it as legit. Either way it sucks, But as stated.. least they have a warranty, most places would tell you you're SOL.

 

[kdrun76]

A tupperware bin from walmart makes a good QT. New fish get quarantined. Period.

 

[bomber]

THis happened to me also. I bought a large number of neon tetra's to be tank mates with my pet Lucifer. Although I lost 75% of these neons? Very strange indeed.