Luciosoma spilopleura

Chalceus erythrurus

Hypselecara temporalis

Spirodela polyrhiza

Tropheus moorii

Labidochromis caeruleus

Geophagus surinamensis

Big Fish On the telly

It seems of late , that the cable channels have a predilection to air shows about large freshwater fish that eat people.

Crocodiles,alligators and Bull sharks eat people.

Not catfish, Gar , Boney tonques, or Pirahna .

That is unless you are dead and bloated and they get to you before the worms and crabs get a chance.

The fish "You Sold Me " is DEAD

Well quit frankly, "the Fish You Bought Is Dead".

Buying a saltwater water fish is , at best, a roll of the dice. The outcome is never a predetermined one. Will the fish succumb to disease, aggression, bad water quality or mishandling? Or will the fish adapt well and give the costumer years of enjoyment?

When a shop purchases an invertebrate or fish, there is rarely any sort of guarantee. Occasionally , if the animal arrives dead, a credit will be applied to the next purchase from the vendor. That is it. That's all there is.

I had a costumer buy a yellow tang the other day. We had the yellow tang for about a weeks time. He bought it and took it home, and killed it within a week.

Here are some of his plea's as to why we should replace the fish or refund his money:

You guys tested my water and said it was fine,

You told me it would get along fine with my other fish,

I acclimated it like you told me too,

I'm a man who lives a christian life, and would not lie to you..

You promised me, with guarantee of monetary remitince or replacement, that if the yellow tang died, You would personally see to it that I would get my money back or recieve a new fish of greater value..( He did not actually say this, but this was later implied.)

My response?

Talk to the owner,

His response?

All sales final!

We are actually going to give the guy a discount on the next fish he buys. Did I mention we tested the guys water for free and spend about 45 minutes with him every time he buys a fish? A cheap fish ,I might add.

He works at a bank. I wonder if I can get a low interest rate on my next loan. Somehow I don't think he is going to hook me up. Even if I throw in my new found love for the Omniscient Being , overseer and ruler of the heavens.

Red Lobophyllia

Convict worm Blenny/Engineer goby
T.moorii fry

Mom(top) and Pop(bottom)
The eye's have it!(next day)

Larvae with eyes

A.Percula eggs

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Red Mushrooms

candy cane

Golden polyps

Nemo's touching it

Stare at an aquarium for too long , and strange things happen.

Reef Tank, 6.14.09

Pangasius sanitwongsei

Cyprichromis leptosoma

Two fishes gifted to me ,I truly appreciate.

Lake Tanganyika shell dwellers. Small but cool.

Tropheus moorii "moliro" Fry

I have at least 40 of these. Make me an offer. Pick up only.

The Guarantee..

The shop I work at does not guarantee saltwater fish, inverts or coral at all.

 No successful shop is inclined to do so. We do guarantee freshwater fish for 24 hours, with a separate water sample,the fish, and a receipt. 

A young couple who bought freshwater fish Monday came into the shop today(Wednesday) carrying a bag of dead fish.  I have dealt with these two before.  They had three tanks worth of water to be tested.  The first with the dead fish, the second with fish that have not died, and the third with a new tank.

The young couple said that two of the fish they had purchased the day before ( I knew it was monday) had died and wanted to know what I was going to do about it.

I began to test the water and quickly realised the water from the tank that the two dead fish were in was not just toxic, but friggin' deadly. The water quality of the second tank with no dead fish in it was also abismal.

I told them "this water kills fish" as I showed them the results next to the color charts used to confirm the tests. High ammonia and nitrite brought these fish lives to a quick rendezvous with destiny.

(2ppm ammonia, 1 ppm nitrite, 5.oo PH)

"What are you going to do about the $15 dollars of fish we bought?" They queried.

My response " throw them in the garbage"

I attempted several times to explain the Nitrogen cycle and its importance, to no avail.

Repeated comments from the "magnificent duo" of  "we will never buy fish again" were made.

That's fine with me.

I did not realise until I was tossing the melted fish soup of Bala sharks in the dumpster , that  they brought the dead fish back in a Petco bag...

Le cichlidés L'extraordinaire en chocolat

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