So I was driving around yesterday after getting my teeth cleaned from the dentist when I saw an lfs not too far from where my dentist is. Of course I go in and head straight to the cichlid section. I see cichlids that I would expect to see at any other lfs. I go through the entire section as I normally do. Then the last tank I see is labeled blue acaras. I see some and then there were two salvinis mixed with them. In every lfs that I go to I would always ask them simple questions to see if they at least have an idea of what fish they're keeping.
So I call someone to help me and I ask him what kind of fish is in that tank. He looks at the tank and says to me they're blue acaras. I ask him why do these (pointing to the salvinis) fish look different. He answers me within a split second and says, "they're female blue acaras." I laughed a little inside my head when he said that. So I continue to look at the fish and notice that the two salvinis (that have damaged fins and hiding in a corner cause the blue acaras kept chasing them) are covered in so much ich that it made me cringe a little.
I felt bad for these two cause the fact the lfs don't know what kind of fish they are, they're also sick as hell and probably super duper stressed out. So I bought them without even thinking about it. When the guy was catching the fish I told him that they have ich and asked him if they're still gonna sell them to me full price. He looked at the fish and then spoke to his boss in mandarin for a little bit. They ended up giving me both of the salvinis for the price of 1
I took a little video of them. They're in a qt and starting to swim around a little bit more. Idk if they're male or female. I put salt in the tank 9 hours ago and raised the temp to 82.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAk8echT9U4&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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So I call someone to help me and I ask him what kind of fish is in that tank. He looks at the tank and says to me they're blue acaras. I ask him why do these (pointing to the salvinis) fish look different. He answers me within a split second and says, "they're female blue acaras." I laughed a little inside my head when he said that. So I continue to look at the fish and notice that the two salvinis (that have damaged fins and hiding in a corner cause the blue acaras kept chasing them) are covered in so much ich that it made me cringe a little.
I felt bad for these two cause the fact the lfs don't know what kind of fish they are, they're also sick as hell and probably super duper stressed out. So I bought them without even thinking about it. When the guy was catching the fish I told him that they have ich and asked him if they're still gonna sell them to me full price. He looked at the fish and then spoke to his boss in mandarin for a little bit. They ended up giving me both of the salvinis for the price of 1
I took a little video of them. They're in a qt and starting to swim around a little bit more. Idk if they're male or female. I put salt in the tank 9 hours ago and raised the temp to 82.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAk8echT9U4&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Sent from my iPhone using MonsterAquariaNetwork app