Mahi27
-
Posts
94 -
Joined
-
Last visited
-
Feedback
0%
Mahi27's Achievements
-
Exactly lol. It's pretty clear to me that they just didn't want to deal with it. I was able to reship them in the exact same packaging the next day from a different USPS office.
-
Sighhh, the boxes ended up back on my porch today. With a nonsensical note: "Live fish, need to properly package". So annoying. I won't get into politics but it is such a shame that I feel penalized for being honest. Anyway...pics of the colonies I sold from for tax 🙂
-
Been ordering from him since like last year. Found out through steenfott. The customer service is excellent. The fish are absolutely pampered ahead of shipping.
-
Has anyone had this happen before? I was trying to ship two separate boxes of fish, some G. metallicus and platies. The postal worker didn't want to take the box. I showed him on the USPS website that they do indeed allow shipment of live, harmless fish (this page: https://pe.usps.com/text/pub52/pub52c5_008.htm). He ended up sending me to a different counter for that employee to deal with me. By this time I was really late to work so I'm ashamed to say it but I lied to the second guy and said there was nothing perishable in the box. Now I feel guilty but also confused and irritated bc why wouldn't they just take the fish?? Any tips or feedback?
-
Thank you everybody for your replies!!!! I was going to respond individually but everyone was so generous in their advice that it's too much 🤣 I really like the idea of doing a thorough cleaning of the tanks and equipment...good idea to take good care of what I already have before I go get new stuff. Also I think someone mentioned keeping NANF and other coolwater species to cut down on electricity costs? This is definitely a move I'm interested in making. Tbh a lot of NANF are not that attractive to me--looking at you, sunfish and chubs--but for example mountain redbelly dace are basically everything I could ask for in a cyprinid!!
-
Money is really tight for me right now. At the same time, I still want to play with my tanks. Normally for me that's been buying new fish, plants, or decor. Well, that's not really an option right now, but I know if I don't find something equally entertaining, I'll probably spend money I don't have on some awesome fish. Anybody else ever find themselves in this position? What did you do to keep yourself busy until cashflow eased up, or maybe just as a new way to enjoy your tanks without throwing more money at them? Some things I've been thinking of: Breeding a new type of spawner (e.g. egg scatterers instead of livebearers, I have some really nice rainbow emperor tetras I could try this with) Cleaning up some of my more neglected 'aquascapes' (at this point really just scraggles of plants here and there) Maybe even paring down my collection a bit so that I can focus on the fish I enjoy the most right now Curious to hear other ideas!
-
@Chick-In-Of-TheSea@Colu Unfortunately the lil fellers didn't make it. 😞 I put the three who still had open sores in a cylcled 10gal qt. Gave them a week to soak in salt @ 1tbsp/gal, nothing. Water change. A week to soak in Maracyn. Nothing; in fact one of them developed cloudy eye. Water change. Decided to just focus on keeping them in clean water and high quality food. After a couple weeks the cloudy eye one was in a terrible way, pineconing and just spinning out. The others weren't looking good at all either. I decided to put them down bc they were clearly suffering. The other two or three who had less advanced symptoms have made a full recovery and are still in the main display tank. So...idk. Kind of a weird experience.
- 127 replies
-
- 3
-
-
- columnaris
- jungle fungus clear fizz tabs
- (and 8 more)
-
Super hard to get a good photo without putting them in specimen containers again, but I've attached pics of the two barbs whose wounds are better but still look bad. One has it at the base of his tail and the other has his snout eaten away. @Colu, should I keep medicating? I've been doing the food mix 2x a day and Metroplex every other day since like April 25. Maybe I should try Maracyn now? Also I just realized I hijacked a thread about columnaris to troubleshoot a different issue...my bad. I can start a new thread if preferred
-
Just want to report I've been using @Colu your treatment regimen and it's helping. I think it's going to take a while to treat, maybe another week or two, but my sweet barbs do seem to be healing up. I'll post pics soon so ppl who are curious can see what a healing bacterial infection looks like. Super grateful
- 127 replies
-
- 3
-
-
- columnaris
- jungle fungus clear fizz tabs
- (and 8 more)
-
Thank you @Colu! Can I use repashy for the food mix? Or maybe the boiling water would be a problem for the meds? @Chick-In-Of-TheSea they are on a mix of play sand, aqua soil, and smooth gravel. But the tank is kind of a thunderdome of barbs and danios and rainbows, so stress and bickering may have set this off. Definitely going to move some fish out once they're all healthy.
- 127 replies
-
- 1
-
-
- columnaris
- jungle fungus clear fizz tabs
- (and 8 more)
-
IM BACK!!! I swear to God it's been back to back whack a mole with diseases in my tanks for over a year now. I'm coming back to this thread because the columnaris is FINALLY GONE!!!!!! in my other tanks, but my 75gal has something going on. Admittedly it's overstocked so that doesn't help. The symptoms are like...a gross gnarly rotting on the snout and tails of my panda melon barbs and Persian killifish. Looks like when you skin your knee real bad, kind of meaty and red but not very deep. I also had the same thing happen to my Apisto hongsloi pair in a different tank (since torn down). Those two died and looked really miserable by the end -- not to be upsetting, but their faces basically rotted off. I've tried culling the affected fish, I've tried keeping the water really clean, and I just finished a three-dose round of Kanaplex with absolutely no change. I've attached pics. @Colu, @Chick-In-Of-TheSea, what demon disease am I dealing with now?!
-
Unbelievably rich colors.
-
I cannot answer your anchoring questions because I also need that information, but I can tell you that my 24x18x72 Gladiator rack does NOT by itself support an 18"-deep tank. The advertised depth includes the like, frame around the shelves, and the shelves are like a quarter inch recessed into the frame. Hard to describe. But basically there is a lip on either side that reduces the real shelf depth to like 17". I had some egg crate light diffuser which as it turns out is just about 1/4" tall, so I cut it to fit on the shelf and provide support to the 40 breeder I wanted to set up. It's been going for about a year now and it looks fine, but definitely not ideal.
-
You are a madman and a genius. @Colu
- 127 replies
-
- 1
-
-
- columnaris
- jungle fungus clear fizz tabs
- (and 8 more)
-
So sanitization has definitely been part of the problem. Guaranteed that going tank to tank without sanitizing is how I spread disease all over the place. For my nets and smaller siphons, I recall a video where @Cory said he blasts his items with hot tap water and then allows them to completely dry. Something like "Between the heat, the chlorine, and drying out, very little is likely to survive." That said, I do have a huge Python siphon that I can't really sanitize. It's like 100ft of hose. I don't know what to do about that other than avoid using it except for filling and never draining. @Chick-In-Of-TheSea your story about the snail is so funny. I do the same thing. My girlfriend has Shredder in a 20 long I gave her. That's a fire red crayfish I convinced the shop to give me for free bc he had just molted and was getting brutalized by the barbs in the shop tank! Now he's huge and loving life.
- 127 replies
-
- 1
-
-
- columnaris
- jungle fungus clear fizz tabs
- (and 8 more)
