Fish Vendor Feedback Thread

[themadman]

I've been on R2R and had my reef tank for a little over a year. Still consider myself very much a "newbie". I've seen lots of debate about quarantining fish. I've also seen lots of sad threads about sick fish and treating sick fish. I think for the most part people seem to agree that quarantining new fish and dipping/quarantining frags is the best practice. I think it's also very clear that many won't end up doing a QT and taking our chances. I was wondering if it is possible and/or appropriate to have a thread where people could give feedback on their fish purchases from specific vendors? And if so maybe this could be the spot? I've seen lots of people debate and give feedback on specific brands of all types of equipment so I don't see why not? This is a massive awesome community so it seems like it would help a lot of reefers to be able to come to a dedicated spot and see a lot of personal experiences good or bad from different places to buy fish. For example I've bought X amount of fish over X amount of years from XYZaquatics and never gotten a diseased fish that I know of. Or I got X amount of diseased fish from XYZ. Maybe we could find vendors who only ship healthy fish? Maybe we would also help motivate vendors to make sure they are selling healthy fish since people will be looking? I know QT is best practice but since so many people don't maybe this would help? I searched for a thread like this and didn't see one so if it already exists please steer me in the right direction! Thanks!

 

[evolved]

Vendor reviews are located in the vendor feedback forum: https://www.reef2reef.com/forums/vendor-feedback.18/

Please note that threads in that forum have unique rules; review the sticky in the forum.