Seizures?

[starrynightxxi]

I was in petco today and a lot the lyretail dalmation mollies were shivering as if they were cold, even ones in seperate tanks. What sort of illness would cause that, any ideas?

 

[Annastasia]

That's a disease called "shimmies". Usually happens if they aren't kept in good conditions, i.e. hard alkaline water or salt.

 

[starrynightxxi]

yikes. well, i guess it makes sense that it's a water issue since it was affecting tanks that were seperated by entire rows. Poor fish did not look well at all, though

 

[drango91]

petco is abuseive with their fish they have NO idea what they are doing, theyll sell you infected fish, they did that to me and guess what , my ENTIRE tank died overnight some 79 cent danios killed my platies F@gs, i went to a diff petshop petsmart and WOAH not one fish casualty AMAZING!!! but my nexty shop is perland discounts becaus ethey have a buy one get one at thesame price free, so im gona go there when i stock my 29 gallon(useing the BEST instant cycler EVER!!!) btw one danio remained alive for some reason and petco was dumb enough to put him back into the main tank o ! and they cycle water throughout each freshwater tank!! lol i hope it kill all their abused fish

 

[PaulEbs]

i hope it doesn't kill all their abused fish..

..i hope some nice person comes along and buys them all to put in his 2,000 gallon multi-community tank

 

[samyboy]

i saw some dalmation mollys today, beautiful fish shame these ones are suffering

 

[drango91]

call the ASPCA i did that to my lfs for keeping decaying dead turtles and cycling bad water to more than half the fishmates, it was a sad thing to see, they never clean their casualties, its not snitching to save a life

 

[starrynightxxi]

Although I understand you're bitterness on the subject, that's a bit of a generalization. i have had no trouble with the fish i've gotten from petco in the past. My neon tetras, which are supposed to do very poorly due to overbreeding survived cycling my tank and are still here almost a year later. I don't think it's fair to say they are abusive. Half the trouble is the difference in employees. I have gone to petsmart and petco (the only lfs around here besides walmart which isn't worth mentioning) and alternately seen tanks that were absolutely pristine, and tanks that were filled with dead and sick fish. I've been in petsmart and heard one clerk say "another dead fish? I just scooped four out of that tank this morning!" And petco, at least, has a hospital tank, which petsmart doesn't appear to have.