Would You Trust This?

Sadly it was predictable, there seems to be 99 bad people out to mess people around to the 1 good one.

If this lots turns up dead i'm going to give up on the Rotkeil idea, they are impossible to get hold of, and far to expensive via mail order.

Might just stick to diff Geos and Pick amongst the Sevs i got....its just gutting because its something I always wanted.

My Mrs is sad because it took her a long time to organize the bills to get me the spare money to order them.
 
its poor though because its not rocket science mailing fish it just takes care and attension im sure if people can transport wild cought fish from south america,africa and the far east it shouldnt take a PHD to do it within the uk
 
So sorry. I think you will find your fish it might take some time but you never know what might happen.
 
I know its hard waiting for the right fish, I have waited months and months for my blue acara, my hubby had a 60 mile round trip to pick up my first blue acara's from a chap advertising them he ended up giving my hubby 18 and we paid for 6, when hubby got home I thought they looks odd but later I found out they were blue texas that I cant sell, managed to give some away and swap one!. Finally I guy round the corner from me was selling some acara which I got this week. Seriously I would not trust Royal Mail with transporting live fish, it took them 3 attempts to get some rock ornaments to me on one piece. If you do want fish posted to you I would strongly recommend you use a specialist fish courier, may cost more but at least they know what they are doing and the fish should have a better chance of survival.
 
I know its hard waiting for the right fish, I have waited months and months for my blue acara, my hubby had a 60 mile round trip to pick up my first blue acara's from a chap advertising them he ended up giving my hubby 18 and we paid for 6, when hubby got home I thought they looks odd but later I found out they were blue texas that I cant sell, managed to give some away and swap one!. Finally I guy round the corner from me was selling some acara which I got this week. Seriously I would not trust Royal Mail with transporting live fish, it took them 3 attempts to get some rock ornaments to me on one piece. If you do want fish posted to you I would strongly recommend you use a specialist fish courier, may cost more but at least they know what they are doing and the fish should have a better chance of survival.
i just gave 2 blue acara away free
 
erm, just to add something, thats the guy who i got my 10 rotkeils off, mine were absolutely perfect, i got them in november i think, not one dead or even slightly ill, looking good and colouring up beautifully. i know this isn't going to make what happened any better but it could just have been an accident? if there was no air then maybe the bag wasn't tied tight enough?
i know to you it probably doesn't really matter, its happened. just thought id add this as mine are spot on.

Dave
 
erm, just to add something, thats the guy who i got my 10 rotkeils off, mine were absolutely perfect, i got them in november i think, not one dead or even slightly ill, looking good and colouring up beautifully. i know this isn't going to make what happened any better but it could just have been an accident? if there was no air then maybe the bag wasn't tied tight enough?
i know to you it probably doesn't really matter, its happened. just thought id add this as mine are spot on.

Dave
12 fish in 1 bag thats not an accident thats just stupid
 
i got 10 in one bag, lots of water, lots of air, heat pack well packed in a poly box inside a cardboard box and got here at 10 in the morning, the proof it was good enough is upstairs in my tank where you'll find 10 rotkeil severums swimming about in perfect health. accidents do happen, the fish are small and the bag i got them in was big, they got to the post office at about 5pm as he rang me and they got here at 10 am, alive
 
Thats not the point Dave, this is the first time i have ordered fish on the internet and they all arrived dead.
 
Erm.... LOL

Listen Dave, of course you are going to be happy if they turned up ok...your not gonna moan are ya! its kinda kicking a man when hes down isent it..

How about you post some pics of yours anyway, so i can see what my NEXT 12 may look like when older..
 
i didn't meen to 'kick you while your down', it was the only thing i could say to prove that it may have just been a 1 off. i will try and get some pictures but they are in a tank upstairs until they get bigger, and its hard to get pictures with plants, bogwood etc.
i really do hope the next lot get to you in good health!
 
KK mate, but it is quite a 'stomp' when someone gets the raw end of the deal, and the person who doesent is tehre to rub it in ;)

Post em up
 
How are fish shipped? Do you do next day, over night or does it take 2-3 days to get them. WE have those options in the states as to if you want Overnight and they get there the next morning in 24 hr or you can do the cheap way and wait 2-3 days to get them. Not sure how it works in the UK.

Also take what Dave said and look at that as hope for the next batch to make it alive.

Good luck Im so sorry it happen this way.
 
i dont think dave was trying to rub it in. he was saying that the seller wasnt 100% terrible as evidenced by dave's own experiences.

based on what is posted in this thread the seller is 50% reliable (1 case of success, 1 case of failure)
 

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