is feeding live fish bad?
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the LFS will take em? they are a distance away haha will like a petco buy them?
you can ask, if you get enough you can supply them. get with their owner and get paid for it. or even sell some online. my masked julie fry are gonna be sold to petco soon
Tbh Petco will not buy your fry but may take a few depending on their size.
Convicts are one of the less demanding Cichlid species.
I'm very tight with the workers at my petco 
I mind as well work there for all the discounts I get
I mind as well work there for all the discounts I get
As far as I know the box stores will absolutely not buy fish from you but will accept donations in some.
I used to be the "aquatic specialist" at a Petco and can tell you that they will not buy, only "accept" for free, to be given away for free, fish from customers. If you have employees saying they will buy your fish, maybe they are going to pay personally for them, but I can't imagine the managers wouldn't allow the store's funds to purchase fish from a hobbyist, goes against all the protocols. They get fish dirt cheap from their supplier anyway (mostly SunPet in florida, on the east coast at least for freshwater, and the saltwater fish from sister company liveaquaria.)
On the topic of live foods, if you breed and raise themselves there is nothing wrong with it, as long as the fish have a solid staple diet and the live food is more of a treat. It can spoil some piscivorous fish to not want pellets anymore which can be an annoying habit to break. The main problem with live food is that the store bought options tend to be disease and parasite-ridden because they are kept in such poor conditions, packed in like sardines. Also the goldfish commonly available are very high in fat and are not a balanced diet; and lots of uninformed people think they should be the staple diet of fish like Oscars or arowana.
On the topic of live foods, if you breed and raise themselves there is nothing wrong with it, as long as the fish have a solid staple diet and the live food is more of a treat. It can spoil some piscivorous fish to not want pellets anymore which can be an annoying habit to break. The main problem with live food is that the store bought options tend to be disease and parasite-ridden because they are kept in such poor conditions, packed in like sardines. Also the goldfish commonly available are very high in fat and are not a balanced diet; and lots of uninformed people think they should be the staple diet of fish like Oscars or arowana.
This. I will only ever feed live if it is fish I have bred, fed and treated myself. Gut loading is also handy, feed the fish with a nutritious dry food a few minutes before throwing them to the sharks.
