slowdog

Hey Jake,

Is there a way you can get Nutramar Ova in stock? I'm trying to find to get it locally before I start thinking about getting one of the ORA Mandarins. It seems like folks have trouble getting them to eat otherwise. It looks like Quality Marine carries it.

Thanks much,

Wei

Sorry to hear about your loss. I don't know if I'm missing anything in this in terms of what you did prior to introducing the fish into your main tank. After my initial experience with Ich and fish dying when first entering the hobby, I learned after difficulties that a minimum month long quarantine in a completely separate QT tank is the best way to go. It saved me a couple of times when new purchases would come down with ich or velvet. With the ich, I was able to treat in the QT and make sure the fish was completely healthy before introducing it into the main tank. With velvet, the disease happened so quickly and two weeks after I first put the fish in QT that there was nothing I could do. It was definitely a pain to not have the new purchase in the tank immediately, but after losing so much livestock initially, it ultimately became worth it. No matter how good an LFS is, the fish is exposed to different occupants in the tank from different shipments and origin points over the course of the time that it is there. Even if it's been there for a few weeks, there's nothing that keeps ich or other diseases from the day's shipment to get onto the livestock already in the tank. Again, I don't know if multi week quarantine is already part of your normal practice, so apologies in advance if this is already the case..

Found tamini dead this morning.

I'm getting tired of buying fish that just die. I have ordered them online, bought them in the local stores....same results. The tank is big, the paramters are kept perfect, there are no aggressive fish in my tank already....what is the deal? I'm getting pretty frustrated...in the last month we have lost over $500 in fish, but not only that the loss of the fish is dishearting.

What is worse is that we paid for a larger tamini tang at RC and they agreed to hold it for us. In the mean time they sold it to somoene else and offered this other smaller fish in its place. I don't think that it had been in there for very long...makes me wonder if I would have had the same results as the one that I paid for that had been there for a week.

Happy Belated Birthday Laura!

This kept happening in our Biocube 8 with a highfin goby. I finally had to get one of the fishsavers from Intank for that and my AP24. It seems to have done the trick. It looks like they have one for the Biocube 14 also.. The good thing about these is that they pop right in without having to modify the tank..

Biocube 14 fish saver

have you seen the olive snail? They are really nice and do a good job at turning the sand bed. I have one in my 29 gallon biocube and hardly ever see him until i put food in the tank. i like watching him shift through the sand when he come out. here is a picture of what they look like.

Olive snails have long, smooth shells that can vary in color from pale tan to darker brown. They usually stay buried in the substrate where they eat leftover food and detritus, helping to keep the substrate clean and stirred.

Careful with these guys. I had an Olive snail snap up a rainfordi goby as it was resting on the surface of the sand bed. It was pretty brutal to see and the Olive was already below the sand by the time I could try to do anything about it.

That really sucks Jake! I'm really sorry to hear that it happened to you. The LFS are ultimately supported by the local reefing community and it's really sad to see someone in the hobby do something like that to a local small business. I was just thinking that the $1000 coral theft reported on Reef Builders last week seemed really crazy and now this..

Even though it's the closest LFS to me, Amazonia is one that I avoid if at all possible. This is due to multiple bad experiences with them. When they were at the old Airport location, the Friday "Happy Hours" were anything but. More often than not, no discount would be taken on the items for sale. Instead, full price would be charged. If an attempt was made to get them to honor their own sale prices, the person at the register would often grumble or give you a hard time about trying to get the better price. The new location is not much better with the entire back quarter of the store taken up by their office space. Announcements about "sustainable saltwater livestock" is made months before anything is actually in the store. The dry goods are minimal and covered with a thick layer of dust. I often wonder how they can stay in business with the general apathy and bad attitude that I receive from staff and management. Customers are treated with contempt and an inconvenience to the staff. With so many good choices in town, I vote with my money and choose to shop elsewhere.

Have a very speedy recovery!