"Tedd Jacobs" <Jacobs@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> "Timothy E. Raborn" wrote...
>>> I totally agree with Ted here about getting a quarentine tank if it
>>> is
>>> physically possible.
>>
>> I'll check into doing this.
>>
>>> I'd also check out what quarentine regime they use at
>>> your LFS with new stock - in the ones I use you will often see whole
>>> tanks
>>> of fish marked as "aclimitizing" and they will not sell these for a
>>> couple
>>> of weeks. Also would be worth checking out what water maintenance
>>> regime
>>> they use and try and get them to tell you the PH etc. - a good LFS
>>> should
>>> tell you this. I heard a story recently of a local "national chain"
>>> that
>>> used the same water/filtration system for all of their fish and ended
>>> up
>>> with the majority having to be taken off sale because of disease. So
>>> I would
>>> advise checking out the general health of all the stock that they
>>> carry not
>>> just the ones that you are interested in.
>>
>> Ha!! At the local national chain, I see them pulling the fish right
>> out of the ****pment boxes and dumping them into the tank.
>>
>>> Another option, of course, is to look elsewhere for your fish.....
>>
>> My sources are limited -- I've considered mail order, but ****pping is
>> really cost prohibitive, so to make it worthwhile, I'd need to order
>> enough fish to fully stock the tank, which you can't really do.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> -Tim
>
> open your own store. then you can show your wife how it would make
> your hobby a great tax write off. ;-)
>
> tedd. (ducking the incoming rebuttal from N*tM*x re: hobby vs. job)
Hey, as long as you didn't have to make money out of it, it would be
great. A few hundred tanks and hire students to gravel vac every day.
Then you could have great fun decorating them all and shopping the
corners of the world for particular fish, plants and other stuff.
Occasionally you could even sell a few fish (that got too big or you had
too many of ;~).
and putting * in my name didn't work :p
I can read pleco ;~)
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