Not much activity here huh? I recently decided that I might be going to save up for wooden canopy for my tank as I really like the way it looks. I already have the matching stand. The same LFS, Kee's, if anyone's interested has Marineland 75 gallon tanks on sale for 120 bucks so check that out.
Sadly also recently my tank has came down with some kind of infection I believe and killed almost my entire Neon Tetra population I went from having 17 to 5 in a matter of a day... I think it might be due to having dead fish clogged inside of the aquaclear filter that I couldn't see so I didn't notice it and it's decaying body caused the others to get sick. It had to be in there at least a month. I have been treating the 5 I have left with this fungal medicine from API for the past week or so and they seem to be doing okay.
Also on another note... I have a bunch of aquarium supplies for sale if anyone's interested so check out the thread!
I have a Petsmart and a Petco nearby. I bought 10 neons and 3 Otto from Petsmart, quarantined it and one Neon and one Otto survived. Bought 10 Neon and 2 otto from Petco and all of them are doing good. Not all at the same time. This was over a course of 2 months. Do you guys have any such experience?
Well yes and no. I never buy any fish from Petco because they always end up dying.
But I did have a pretty good experience with buying Neons from Petsmart in Rochester on Addams road. At the time they had really clean healthy tanks and I picked up 16 of them since they were on sale for a dollar. I did lose a few, but that wasn't bad considering I bought 16 of them and they did live for awhile. That is, until I lost a few to some kind of weird infection in the tank and then accidently killed the rest of them buy not putting prime in the water after a huge water change.
My opinion is if your gonna buy them from Petsmart, CHECK the tanks and make sure they look healthy, have lots of color and the tank isn't littered with dead bodies. I had also bought 6 previously from a really healthy looking tanks at the Petsmart on woodward in Royal Oak and they all lived as well before the infection in my tank. I don't use a quarantine tank, I just acclimate the fish and put them in my tank right away since their the only fish I have. I'm planning on building up my school of Neons to 20 again hopefully soon.
I have been buying from petsmart by orchard lake and 14 or the one on telegraph and they never lasted. Funny part is they give live guaranteed for 15 days. And to my bad luck, I have some ghost shrimp in there and so I have never recovered a fish body to show petsmart and get a new one. But all of a sudden I buy 12 fish at 3 occasion 5, 5 and 2 from a petco by Orchard and 13, they all survive. This Petco is small and new. So I am wondering if they are taking good care of it.
I felt the same. They are all really new and neat. Maybe thats why they have healthy fish. If thats the case, the petsmart on Haggerty road in Commerce has a new setup in the making. They sold all the fish out and when I went there, they had no fish and all the tanks were dry.
The petsmart near me did that, then they switched to bagged tc plants that cost 15$ a bag for half of them. Split the goldfish into two groups and used the same tanks for even more fish. But I guess they are now starting again on replacing it?
Yeah. It is. I'm still learning how to use it. Not sure really how to tell how much is too much light and which is low. Though I have to say, I wish it was a bit brighter.
Anyone else been to Bluefish recently? I was rather unimpressed. Almost all the for sale plants, had pinholes and were covered in black beard algae and/or gsa. And I got ignored for 30 minutes. I'm mostly a customer of VI Pets on plainfield in GR, and despite Bluefish supposedly being "premiere" I was unimpressed. Was looking at their SW too and a lot of their tangs look like skin and bones. The Sailfin I got the other day from VI Pets was lush in color, full bodied, and alert. I rarely see skiddish fish their (and they actually provide hiding places for the fish), meanwhile Bluefish they were jumpy.
What's going on with them?
Also on a side note, their prices are starting to get pretty bad. I needed some moss and VI Pets was out (offered to get me some in, but I figured I'd wait for the new tank), so I stopped by Blue-fish, and for $9.00 I got this tiny little piece of flame moss. And I had to convince the guy to give me the only one without algae in it! At VI Pets I usually get an entire fish bag, STUFFED with moss, for the same price. Basically I get more then I know what to do with.
I'm hoping to get some good deals on black friday Maybe a couple of Aquaclear 110 filters or an extra Aquaclear 70 filter. If their cheap enough at Petsmart, that is.
Me and my wife actually decided we will probably be moving next year to Sterling Heights. I'm debating about bringing my current tank with me, or just starting fresh with a new 65 gallon setup.
Speaking as someone who has recently moved tanks. Start over again. Get ride of the living stuff weeks before the move and just buy new critters and such after you've settled into the new place. I felt terrible for the neglect all of our animals felt in the wake of our move/my hospitalization/recovery.
They deserve much better and have since received it.
On a positive note my freshwater tank has reached equilibrium and needs only top offs and the occasional food. It currently houses about 30 plant types, and about 12 types of fish. All previous freshwater tanks were condensed into this one tank.
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