Split From Scotland Fish Stores

[tqfan]

MAJOR CHANGE TO PETS AT HOME REVIEW ABOVE while i will leave my above ratings, i would like to say, at this precise moment, to anyone thinking of buying from pets at home in perth, please avoid.

in may we bought from pets at home, 3 new red honey gouramis and put them in one tank. not long after we had a whitespot outbreak and lost a clown loach (i did post pics elsewhere on this forum). we thought nothing of it, it was just one of those things, it's not the first time we've had whitespot, but this was a severe case this time around.

now, in june, with our new tank set up, we decide to buy a few rosey tetras and black phantom tetras, again from pets at home. again, not long after we have another whitespot outbreak.

no way is this a coincidence.

this is a more severe case than our last tank. we've lost our 2 serpae tetras, our 4 bleeding heart tetras, one of the rosey tetras, and our prized clown loach. the other black phantoms and roseys are infected, as is the lone guppy and 1 bristlenose. i pulled 4 dead fish out an hour ago, including the loach, and i will be pulling more out tomorrow, as one is definitely on it's last fins...

we think we will be left with our 4 albino cats, the other bristlenose plec and black ghost knifefish, as atm they don't seem to be infected.
we had to go with the salt and heat method, cos of the loach, but we were unable to save it. so either the infected fish die, or they recover, we'll have to wait and see, as the salt method takes a little while longer to work.

again, i am not changing my review, but i will not be shopping there again. this that has happened is making me think they do not do water changes, unless it's their supplier problem.

i had ordered fish from them, but there is no way i am wasting more money.

while i was in store ordering the fish, i noticed their tank of clown loaches were also infected with whitespot and pointed it out to them, only to be told they were being treated. yet when this happens, they usually put a sign up saying the fish aren't for sale, but there was no sign, so made me wonder if they were still selling them in that condition.
the fish i ordered were supposed to be here last week, but i was told the supplier didn't send them as they were poorly, and they'd be sent this week. take from that, what you will...
i wasn't keen on getting poorly fish anyway, but with my 2 recent outbreaks, don't want anything else from them again.

i guess once my tank is whitespot free a trip to pisces in dundee is in order!!

 

[NaughtyT]

I was in P@H in Aberdeen last week and they had a tank of golden rams that had whitespot,i pointed it out to the assistant and he said he would quarantine the tank,i few days later i was in again for food and the same tank was still now quarantined and riddled with witespot,the rams fins were also all torn,they were in an awful state

 

[tqfan]

i was talking to some people last night about my tank, and they said the same thing, avoid pets at home. my dad is gonna go in tomorrow and ask to rip the manager's head off, lmao!!

we've now lost the guppy, the last 2 tetras, and a bristlenose plec. we're left with our black ghost knifefish, 4 albino cats and a bristlenose plec. the plec's were just babies, really, only about an inch long.

it's so goddamn annoying, especially when we paid all that money for the fish not even a full month ago. some fish are cheap, like £1 each, but when they're a lot more than that, and you lose them because of one shop's inability to care for the fish they sell, is really annoying.

and they have the cheek to ask for a water sample of YOUR water, when fish you buy from them die (within 48 hours of course)...

maybe now is the chance to go for different fish, than the normal guppies and tetras!

 

[Bignose]

tqfan, maybe I missed it, but if you didn't quarantine those new fish for at least a month, then you have to take some of the blame yourself. Especially the second time around, buying from a place that had ich before.

I have never, ever had ich or any other disease in any of my main tanks, all because I quarantine the fish first before introduction. I have had a quarantine tank full of fish die, but that was 5 fish instead of 50+ in the main tank. Quarantining is a must, unless you just like taking risks. In this case, sounds like the risk came back and bit you bad.

From now on, please quarantine all your fish before introducing them to the main tank, for at least 4 weeks, and 6 if you can. This is enough time for them to start showing symptoms if they are carriers of almost anything. Also, if you have to treat them for something, you save in money because treating the smaller volume q-tank is much cheaper than treating a larger tank. And, of course, you don't expose your other healthy fish to any disease or chemicals needed to treat the disease. It is so simple and so effective, that there just isn't any excuse. Cost isn't a good excuse because anything can be an effective q-tank: a clean plastic tub is all you really need for a tank, no substrate or plants are necessary, just a heater. Even a filter isn't completely necessary if you do large water changes daily.

 

[Bignose]

These posts started here: http/www.fishforums.net/index.php?showtopic=292297 but go off topic, so I've moved them to their own thread.

 

[Cdarmychi]

I agree with Bignose. Using even a plastic tub with a heater thrown in is absolutely needed. Even if you add one neon! That neon needs to sit in a QT tank before you add it. You can't blame the store completely, they didnt break in and dump the fish into your tank and infect it. Proper QT is just responsible fishkeeping. Another good use of a QT tank is to move any sick fish out of your main tank. Ive been able to remove single sick fish, treat it alone, and not have it spread to the others. If I had left it in, that wouldnt have been the case.

Im concerned about your ghost knife. They are sensitive fish, and medications can harm them.

Sakura