"Aquarium Paradise" Tacoma, WA (Lakewood)

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When you add new fish to an established tank, it is always wise to quarantine first!

Also can you say for certain what your neighbors water parameters were? Maybe there was already a high ammonia level and adding 1 more large Pleco took it over the edge.

I do have to admit that I stopped by the store recently and many of there fish were in bad shape with what appeared to be fin rot and fungus. The funny thing is I also visited a few other LFS and found very unhealthy fish in many of them. I have not found very many places without issues.
 
DMD123;4745360; said:
When you add new fish to an established tank, it is always wise to quarantine first!

Also can you say for certain what your neighbors water parameters were? Maybe there was already a high ammonia level and adding 1 more large Pleco took it over the edge.

I do have to admit that I stopped by the store recently and many of there fish were in bad shape with what appeared to be fin rot and fungus. The funny thing is I also visited a few other LFS and found very unhealthy fish in many of them. I have not found very many places without issues.
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I blame local resalers.

They have a beautiful monster tank in the back, with some very healthy fish.
But anything under 2" could be dead without them knowing.
They'd rather listen to music and jock around.
 
If your child had a contagious disease, would you send your other kids to the neighbors to sit them? I have bought numerous fish from lfs in the area. Had great luck with most of them, but, I have had some "perfectly fine fish" that were in the store for weeks all of a sudden infect my tank. Lesson learned. Any new fish should always be quarentined. In an established tank and treated accordingly. Noticed most common around here are internal parasites. IMO.
 
I am a chef let me prepare you a cheese platter for that big whine you got going. Just remember that you opened the bottle of whine with the tone and demeanor of your first post fellow fish keeper!

Seriously you are gonna dish a whole store over a $16 fish and a $4 bottle of medication.

Let me ask you one ?.

Do you understand the nature of diseases and such in fish?

So far as I understand a fish can be totally healthy and get sick bamm because of stress, such change in water condition and temp etc... etc... etc... .

I for one will not jump on your show boat of ****** slapping a store because you lost a $16 fish.

It is very much like the person who came back to my restaurant to tell me how unimpressed they were with my curry soup(whilst 98% of the other customers raved on it). When I refused to apologize to her and simply said well then pick something else. She became real *****y and I almost asked her she wanted a napkin. Instead I simply turned to my cash register and threw her $2.50 on the counter at her. After all what does she expect in a soup labeled as curry?

Perhaps your now dead fish was simply harboring a latent disease. Or perhaps there is a micro organism in your tank that was able to establish a hold in the fish because of change from the store water to your water. Perhaps your fish was introduced to the typhoid mary principle where a fish in your tank carries but is immune. etc. etc. etc.
 
KCK;4744534; said:
I love how this thread has grown into an adult bridge, feeding and sheltering several trolls, AT THE SAME TIME!!

Well here's the final outcome;

I lost the $16 severum.
Oh well.

Some time after the FIRST infection, I gave my pleco to an old neighbor because it was thrashing and hurting our big severum.

He brought a dormant virus with him and got her tank,
and the death toll was:
2 common plecos, 5" / 9"
JD's 9" / 6"
Convict 4"
Jaguar 7"
Goldfish 7"


And she used the EXACT same medicine, RID-ICH.

Basically darn-near killed her hobby.
And that last post should be enough to change the opinion of ANY store, fill in the blanks with any industry/item and thats still a horrible customer-service story.
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So you mean to tell me you had a fish in your tank that you gave to someone and it wiped out their tank with something that it was carrying and you are still ranting about a bad customer service experience.

Man I really think you should take a look at what was most probably the cause of the death of your $16 fish and realize that FISH KILL FISH, FISH EAT FISH, SOME FISH LOVE OTHER FISH, SOME FISH HATE OTHER FISH AND SOME FISH LOVE TO HATE OTHER FISH.

After reading this post of yours where you gave away this pleco I think you have the cause of death of your $16 fish. So why bother with ragging on the store.
 
i remember when i first read this thread. i still have the same reaction reading through it 2 months later. OP overreacted.

Chef James, you should've went Soup Nazi on her. NO MORE SOUP FOR YOU!
 
It's hard to really point all the blame to the LFS here. I am not here to troll, and understand your frustration about the situation, BUT...

The LFS is a retail operation and they almost 100% for sure buy from a wholesaler. It should be a wholesaler's responsibility to receive fish, treat them, and make sure they are disease free before shipping them out to retailers. You said yourself the fish appeared 100% healthy in the display tank at the LFS. Is it the wholesaler's fault any more or less than the LFS? What about the supplier the wholesaler bought the fish from? Wasn't it also their responsibility to make sure fish are healthy to begin with?

It's a bit like blaming a store for carrying a product that ends up being hazardous to people, like every few years we have a major food scare over something. Who's fault it it then? The original farmers? The factory that processed the food? The packagers? The wholesalers? The retailers? The person that prepared the food but didn't cook it properly? There is a long line of events that leads up to the ultimate outcome, and there are probably multiple times from the original source to the end of the chain where things could have gone wrong. You can't immediately point the finger at anyone without considering everything.
 
ive been to this store once about a year ago its hard too say cus when i visited alot of the store was in sorta dissaray because they had alot of their stuff at a aquarium show that was going on at the time i didnt buy anything cus they didnt have what i was looking for the heavy set guy that talked to me seemed nice and knowledgable i didnt see anything like unhealthy fish or something malishous they were trying to cover up on just getting it out of the door with you.quarentined new purchases is first day stuff..

sorry about the spelling.
 
I was at this lfs today. Aquarium Paradise. I like the place and I'm considering trying to get a job there. If your ever in Lakewood, WA or even the Seattle - Tacoma area of WA check this place out.

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