pet care warehouse :(

jimmybling31 · Feb 9, 2009

i bought a couple shrimp from them the other day because they wanted 12 dollars instead of 28-50 at any other store for the same one, and now I regret it. everything was looking good in my tank til i got them and now my yellow coris wrasse is wasting away from the tail heading toward his head. the closest thing I can compare it to is hith with an oscar. I think that the shrimp carried something that the wrasse caught and is now dieing from. I think i am gonna just have to put the wrasse down if he isn't improving by tomorrow, let me note this was all of a sudden and the wrasse was looking great until I put those shrimp in there and over the period of 18 hours turned to a half dead looking fish

AlexStinson · Feb 9, 2009

They also had a queen angel stolen from thier biocube..... why was a queen angel in a biocube? Oh well who am I to say, they are supposed to be the experts.

jimmybling31 · Feb 9, 2009

AlexStinson said:
They also had a queen angel stolen from thier biocube..... why was a queen angel in a biocube? Oh well who am I to say, they are supposed to be the experts.

i dunno. they are pretty stupid there. that was my first and last buy there. i don't care how nice the acan colony they have in there for 50 bucks is.( it is nice, but I don't trust it, their "expert" told me that running skimmer on a big tank increases bad algae growth. he also said aiptasia is good for a tank. I really don't get it)

Garth Schafluetzel · Feb 10, 2009

look ill tell u from my experience dont go there i hate to bash the place and as always ill swing by once a week to see if i can rescue anything but past that nothing man i still to this day have cyno problems from listing to there expert advice lol and cmon what were u expecting did u look at thier tanks? i know the price is better but i would rather pay more and it live than buy for of the same thing and lose them all when fish from other places r thriving and growing. when i quit talking to them and asking them my tank did a turn around and since i have been fixing all of there mislead advice mistakes.

jimmybling31 · Feb 10, 2009

yeah. i won't go back. they have one piece of coral I want, but I won't want to deal with another infected piece from them. I mean come on. how bad could those shrimp been, well i dunno I am about to lose my only fish to it. lol.

ironman · Feb 10, 2009

Did you add the water the shrimp came in to your tank? And I would expect the coris wrasse to get really fat when you add shrimp, to my understanding its like desert for them. if you didnt add the water from the bag to your tank I dont really see how they can infect the tank that fast, I could be wrong but I dont know that a shrimp can carry a parasite either?

jimmybling31 · Feb 10, 2009

i might have added a couple ounces, but I dumped half the water after the first part of drip acclimating them. i don't think added much if I did.

Alan&Rene · Feb 10, 2009

wow im sorry to hear about your wrasse .

ironman · Feb 10, 2009

Most store have poor water, try to avoid adding any water, better to have the fish or shrimp sit in a dry net for a minute than add parasititc water to the main tank

AlexStinson · Feb 10, 2009

ironman said:
Most store have poor water, try to avoid adding any water, better to have the fish or shrimp sit in a dry net for a minute than add parasititc water to the main tank

most certainly!

bkv1997 · Feb 10, 2009

This is exactly why I quarnantine everything from bryan

......... JK

Yea coris wrasse and shrimp not a good combo....

Brandon

jimmybling31 · Feb 10, 2009

bkv1997 said:
This is exactly why I quarnantine everything from bryan ......... JK

Yea coris wrasse and shrimp not a good combo....

Brandon

they not a good combo in general?

AlexStinson · Feb 10, 2009

coris wrasses eat shrimp

jimmybling31 · Feb 10, 2009

AlexStinson said:
coris wrasses eat shrimp

dang i wish I could have gotten a pic of my cleaner shrimp eating a dead coris wrasse when i got home then

bkv1997 · Feb 11, 2009

jimmybling31 said:
they not a good combo in general?

I got brine shrimp for my labouti wrasse.... if you want to feed your wrasse cleaner shrimp thats cool.

Man that must have been a big promotion

jimmybling31 · Feb 11, 2009

bkv1997 said:
I got brine shrimp for my labouti wrasse.... if you want to feed your wrasse cleaner shrimp thats cool.

Man that must have been a big promotion

they had been fine together for a long time. the wrasse is the one that ended up dieing. my wrasse was on a mix of flake food and brine shrimp once a day.

bkv1997 · Feb 11, 2009

yea he was probably a smaller coris then.

In time he would have had a good snack.

jimmybling31 · Feb 11, 2009

bkv1997 said:
yea he was probably a smaller coris then.

In time he would have had a good snack.

2 inch one. he was still a baby. he was pretty cool. oh well. I have a fishless tank now. I hope i find something to go in there soon, though i want to wait a week or two for everything that could be bad to die off