Petco Aquatics Makeover
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I was off from work today but busy with family I am making a note to ask boss about a list of petco's. I am sory I know I promised pics and I took about 10 or so but I am not shure how to load them I am not much of a computer person.
snyder810;3491986; said:
snyder810;3491986; said:
Hey that's a better tank than most mfk members lol. At least you actually have a 6x2 tank. Most people here are 15 yrs old and "have one coming in a few weeks" so its ok they have cichla in a 20gal. gag. I wasn't really saying that a 4' tank is just as good. Just that 6' tanks are not even a semi-permanent home either.
One of my fav. fish I have in a clients tank is a g.cat pushing 30'' in a 8x3 tank. He's awesome but his pattern isn't nearly as wicked as yours. Yours looks almost like the rift lake giraffe cats instead of the normal riverine varieties.
here i go way off topic again. . .but on the subject of giant catfish. . .
I just rehomed a baby RTC that was headed for no bueno. Someone traded him to one of our dealers for a baby flowerhorn. The dealer primarily deals with discus and doesn't know much about MFK fish. He was well aware of what an RTC was but had no idea the insane growth rate. It put on 2'' in a couple weeks, was 4'' when he was dropped off, so he gave him to me to try and find a home for before he was massive. I ended up keeping him in a 58 gal. I have for 3-4 months.Then he went in our holding system at work for a couple of weeks. Needless to say he was about 18''-20'' after all that.
I took him on because I figured with over 1000 tanks in the field, many of them 10x4 and 8x3, I could find somewhere he could live for at least a while. And better I had control over his fate than he end up with some jackass with a pacu and an oscar in a 55. This was not the case as I had to be honest with people on potential "issues" that could arise from housing him and I was kind of "up a creek" trying to find a home for him.
Luckily I talked a client with an indoor koi pond (8x10x3deep) in his tanning salon into the concept of converting it a MFKer pond and dropped him off last week. It's gonna be rad once it's fully stocked and I look foward to posting pics and video. The salon has a crazy jungle theme so i think a bunch of MFK fish will be way cooler than the koi were. Theres no pics of the pond up but the 10' paludarium thats in their lobby is on our website. It's the first two pics in our paludarium gallery on our website. You can see what I mean about the jungle theme lol.
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snyder810;3491986; said:
I wasn't really talking about you per say when I was commenting on the bashing. It was all the straight up haters.
snyder810;3491986; said:
Hmmmm. could be stunted. Does he eat frozen? I had one several years ago I never weaned off of live food. Partly my fault for keeping him in my old 180 community. Hard to wean when theres a ton of other fish around. I had him for almost 2yrs and he only got from 4'' to about 12'' and then was eaten by a 2ft blue channel. That blue channel was a bastard. It was easily the most expensive blue channel in history. He hate an armatus, killed a 14'' black aro, and tons of other fish I cringe to try and remember. But here's to lessons learned . . . sigh.
I have a farm raised tsn-rtc cross (heavy on the tsn side) at work right now I brought in at 4'' to grow-out for a 1000 gal. cichla tank we maintain He's been on frozen since day one (started on PE Mysis) and he's well past a foot after already after only a couple of months and bigger every day.
man wish I was close to you there I would for sure rehome some of those fish in the days to come even if it meant doing a road trip.
thank you for the giraffe comments, easily my fav fish i own.revkkoolaid;3494091; said:
and it's always ate frozen/pellet food. i've never had it on live except for maybe a couple occasions of ghost shrimp. i've thought about it being stunted but i recieed it when it was little, put it in a 55, learned what it'd grow to, when it finally got to a safe size for the big tank moved it. there it's been since. tanks get aroun 50% water change weekly and catfish get fed ever 2-3days. i've seen many a tsn grow crazy in much worse conditions on here. mine just doesn't, and well to be honest i'm ok with that.
I was wondering if any one has any pictures of other reef tanks from ppetco's I currently work at the Petco in Corpus Christi as the aquatic specialist.
That's really exciting! I hope our PetSmart would do something similar, I don't want to carry large fish though 70% of our customers have 10 gallons at mine. Leave the big guys for lfs. I'd really like to see more semi-aggressives that don't get over 6 inches.
