first lesson learnt the hard way...

[cherubael]

just had a dwarf lion fish die on me, probably due to a parasite (cloudy eyes, now other fish have parasites, have started copper treatment tho, so all should be good in a few days), this dwarf had been mauled at the LFS by a large nasty trigger and we got him for half price due to him missing spines and his tail, so basically the lesson here is only buy live stock that are perfect. never buy mauled fish or fish that look less than 100% my normal fish guy said the fish would have been far more suspetable to parqasites after it was attacked and most probably brought them into my tank and they are now threatening my other stock.

so please although you think you might be doing the fish a favour just dont waste the money.

 

[oscarcrazy]

Very true... sometimes we feel we are "saving" a fish when what we are really doing is just having them die in our tanks.

 

[choppah]

This is when Emergency tanks or spare tanks come in handy

 

[cherubael]

im a poor student who spent a shed load on the tank i have and at the moment dont have the dosh to buy another one, or any place to put it. any ideas?

 

[gulperfan220]

I think the move to new environment on already injure fish is just right of amount of stress to put it under

 

[cherubael]

well he didnt seem stressed tho, although im not an expert on fish psychology