poor shippers??
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so i ordered 13 of these little beauties of of liveaquaria.com. they got here and 3 days later they were all dead! i do weekly water changes and i take great care of my fish tanks i have never had a problem like this before!! the fish all arrived thin and pale too. are they just really poor shippers? this was my first time ordering fish online. needless to say im really upset! i was really hoping to start breeding them. did i do something wrong or do u think this is just on the head of the supplier??
Sorry to hear about your fish.
(Knock on wood), I think they ship very well. I’ve shipped well over 200 CPD’s since March and lost 1 fish.
Dennis
sorry you lost your fish!!
I would guess that they had an illness already. They do tend to be thin and pale when bought from shops though
They don’t seem to ship well (the fish) that is I often see them with concave bellies in pet stores, but if you meet their needs they will rebound
I live in an area with near perfect city water. The problem we have is that fish bred in harder water have problems with osmoregulation in our water. Fish not bred in our water need to be acclimated for a longer period (I always use drip method over several hours), and often don’t survive as long as fish bred in our water.
It is my opinion that there could be several reasons including things like stress, ammonia build up during shipping (3 days is a long time), big difference in PH, big difference in KH and GH, water conditions not ideal for them, etc.
My wife and I do import lots of fish, we always ship them over night, have the shipper email us the PH,GH, and KH on the day of shipping, we measure these parameters our shelves in the water the fish arrive in, and measure the tank parameters of the tank the fish are going into to help us acclimate the fish better.
Steve
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