How To Buy Cheap Fish From A Lfs

[fozzy_wozzy_woo]

Well

What i am doing is buying

100 sumatian green barbs = 1 bag

10 angel fish = 1 bag

100 blood salmon 1 bag ( i think tey are rummy nosed tetras)

50 peper cory's 1 bag

50 filter shrimp = 1 bag

30 crabs (red)

100 fire shrimp = 1 bag

100 hatchet tetra's = 1 bag

10 L240 pleccos

umm i think that is about it.

Good thing is 1 /3 of all these fish will into another tank i have.

The total savings for me is around €350

I havent bought them yet but once the pants are in and its been running around a month then it will be time to add the fish slowly 1 bag at a time

where are you gonna put them all?

Well i have two tanks

1 tank is 2m x 65cm x 75cm which works out to be 737.00 L
2nd tank is 1.5 x 60 x 60 which works out to be 540.00 L

But most of the fish will go into tank 1.

Half of the shrinp will go into my bio filter as they will breed really mad down there and i dont have to feed them..
Then i will sell most of the shrimp later on.

 

[jarmado]

are you planning to open your own fish shop??

 

[smithrc]

Thats a lot of stressed fish you are going to be dealing with...

I help out at a local store when they need me, to take in big orders...

Here is the process used... its a rush at the end of the day so time wont be an issue for you.

1. Open the windows and roll up your sleeves.
2. Open the bags, add some stress coat or similar and syphon some good tank water into the bags to raise their temp up a bit and to air-rate their stagnant (and quite ofted stinking) water.
2. Go round and do this to all the bags... then start at the begining again to add a bit more...
3. leave them for a while - in the mean time get your nets and a bucket ready...
4. pick a bag, any bag. rest the net over the bucket and poor the bag through it. put the fish in the tank. (in store the deads are netted in the morning - you might like to poor the bag into the bucket and net the initial deads then net the live ones and place in the tank)
5. empty the bucket and do the next bag.
6. turn the lights off and walk away...
7. next morning fish out the rest of the deads that didnt make the night.

Hope that helps...

 

[fozzy_wozzy_woo]

Thats a lot of stressed fish you are going to be dealing with...

I help out at a local store when they need me, to take in big orders...

Here is the process used... its a rush at the end of the day so time wont be an issue for you.

1. Open the windows and roll up your sleeves.
2. Open the bags, add some stress coat or similar and syphon some good tank water into the bags to raise their temp up a bit and to air-rate their stagnant (and quite ofted stinking) water.
2. Go round and do this to all the bags... then start at the begining again to add a bit more...
3. leave them for a while - in the mean time get your nets and a bucket ready...
4. pick a bag, any bag. rest the net over the bucket and poor the bag through it. put the fish in the tank. (in store the deads are netted in the morning - you might like to poor the bag into the bucket and net the initial deads then net the live ones and place in the tank)
5. empty the bucket and do the next bag.
6. turn the lights off and walk away...
7. next morning fish out the rest of the deads that didnt make the night.

Hope that helps...

What is stress coat?

Also i was going to get an air stone and a good pump and keep the air pumping away for a the day. i was also going to get some oxegen tablets and place them in the tank so the fish get a high oxygen rate. then over a week replace 50% of water each day with new fresh water

what do you think

 

[ringham]

my lfs dont let me do that!!!

 

[fozzy_wozzy_woo]

Shame,

the good thing for me is that because i live close by amsterdam, den haag, rotterdam, i have a choice of around.
30 lfs in a 60km radious so if they want my business they need to beat the deal that others will give.

foe example i have visited 5 LFS in the past week looking for a CO2 system with a a full computer system. totaly compleate.

it has gone from €400 to - €1200
Ok i may have to travel 1.5hrs to get the €400 but hat is worth it.

Tomorrow i will return my RO system as i found one cheaper and beter from the new sponsor and they are in the UK. i will use the extra money to buy filter material.

Obviously if your in america your screwed as you all have the super mall which gives no scope for price wars.
90% of you have to shop from wallmart or buy over the internet. but buying over the internet you have to research so much and you have to trust that what they sell you is what you see on the internet. yanks cant really drive to the location and break legs if the get screwed.

 

[vancouver]

Smith the only thing that can be bad about that, is not letting the fish in the bags get used to the water in the tanks they will be going in. Often the ph will get quite low if they've been in the bags for awhile, and just putting them in without having a chance to get used to the tank water can stress them enough to kill them.

What I usually do is pour some tank water in the bags 2 or 3 times, then dump the bag through the net into a bucket, then stick the fish in the tank. You still don't get any of the bags water, and the fish have some time to get used to the tank water they will be going into.

 

[dgwebster]

Smith the only thing that can be bad about that, is not letting the fish in the bags get used to the water in the tanks they will be going in. Often the ph will get quite low if they've been in the bags for awhile, and just putting them in without having a chance to get used to the tank water can stress them enough to kill them.

What I usually do is pour some tank water in the bags 2 or 3 times, then dump the bag through the net into a bucket, then stick the fish in the tank. You still don't get any of the bags water, and the fish have some time to get used to the tank water they will be going into.

this seems to cover that:

2. Open the bags, add some stress coat or similar and syphon some good tank water into the bags to raise their temp up a bit and to air-rate their stagnant (and quite ofted stinking) water.
2. Go round and do this to all the bags... then start at the begining again to add a bit more...
3. leave them for a while - in the mean time get your nets and a bucket ready...

 

[vancouver]

Oh sorry I guess I missed the ''good tank water'' part..

my bad

 

[smithrc]

Oh sorry I guess I missed the ''good tank water'' part..

my bad

 

[fozzy_wozzy_woo]

well i have orderd oxygen tablets and a slow release container.

Í'm going to fix the broken tank and paint three sides black and make a curtain for the 4th side. this is a 54L (11UK gallons 14 US gallons)

This will make a good hospital tank.