So are Columbian shark cats and pictus catfish, both have high mortality rates than puffers at Walmart.
Please Sign and Circulate FDA INVESTIGATE WALMART PUFFER POISONING!
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What happened to them, the other banned species?
What do you think is causing fish to die at Walmart? I'm looking for expert opinions, so please share.
Walmart employees, general lack of care, packed tanks, etc. I'm with the don't get the gov involved side, while the horrible conditions at Walmart is bad, it would be better to get people to not buy fish from them. Although good luck with that knowing the general public.
Just know that with the American government that any regulations or actions taken by them won't affect Walmart, but will have harsh effects on your lfs when most lfs are struggling to begin with.
The other banned species never got available again and you will eliminate the puffer family from aquarium trade, resulting into an angry mob that will hate you for that.
Overcrowding, diseases, poor water quality, stupid employees and lack of proper care is what caused the fish died. That happened many times without any puffers in stock
Tetracycline would do nothing to counteract ttx. it would be like taking penicillin to treat a rattlesnake bite. They are just in **** conditions at the wholesaler and probably suffer from some low grade bacterial infection. I ran a lfs for over 10 years and never encountered any sort of problems related to what you are suggesting.
What happened to them, the other banned species?
What do you think is causing fish to die at Walmart? I'm looking for expert opinions, so please share.
Excuse me, I should be more thorough in explaining this. I assume everyone knows what I do , and much more.
I think we can assume the shipping process, in the eyes of a Puffer in a plastic bag, must be similar to a train ride to a death camp for a human being. Crowded, starving, confused, and soaking in their own waste. If they manage to survive sorting, shipping, and sorting again, all the time without food or rest, it this fair to say this experience would have a dramatic impact on their health and well being.
I have been told all about the terrible circumstances puffers, and other wild caught species endure, in the process of becoming part of our aquariums.
Basically, I understand puffers are captured in impoverished areas and taken to the "Compound" , a sorting, staging, and selling area somewhere in Indonesia Many many GSP die of suffocation before even leaving the country as they change hands. Puffers are kept packed n buckets by themselves, instead of being kept in more suitable tanks with bubblier s and powerheads for oxygen, like their expensive counterparts.
I'm fortunate to have supporters who are veterans in the export end of the trade. I'm told that nobody takes chances with puffers, cause it could ruin their rep fand make them known for selling bad product. Isolating GSP from the valuable stock is standard practice. Any trace amounts of TTX would add stress to an already stressed inventory.
As we know, fish carry a host of infectious parasites and diseases that remain in check when the there is balance. Ich, for example, is commonly part of the aquarium ecosystem, but if given the opportunity of stress, or unfavorable water conditions, it will present, multiply, and drain the life from their unfortunate host.
I'm not saying the fish are dying from Tetrodoxin poisoning.
I'm suggesting that Texododoxin MAY be contributing to the fishes failure to resist diseases already present in the filtration system.
You must wearing the tinfoil hat, because there is no proof that the water is full of Texododoxin at Walmart. How do you explained the fish deaths.......when some Walmart didn't stock puffers? Ironically the local fish stores never had any problems with the puffers in their stock.
As for the puffers isolated from their valuable stock, perhaps these puffers are known for fin nippers and very aggressive to other fishes?
