Re: Wild Caught Fish

[Mike & Diane Wise <apistowise@fgn.net>]

I've only 1 question, Jerry. Why would you put new
fish - wild or domestic - in with fish you already
had??? I quarantine all my fish - no matter who or
where they come from - for a minimum of 6 weeks
before putting them in with other fish. I'm still
quarantining my fish from the ACA. All were wild
caught. I've lost only 1, about a week after
getting home. The rest are fat & healthy. I'm sure
that I could have put them in established tanks
right away, but patience means that I can't
remember the last time I had disease problems in
my tanks.

Go ahead and buy only domestically raised fish
(although I've seen them come in with problems,
too). That's fine with me. It just lets Big John,
Yvan, & me have a better chance at picking up some
really nice fish that you won't want to buy. :-)

Mike Wise

JerrCarol@aol.com wrote:

>   Well, not to be a tie breaker or even to get
> between anyone. But, I only had one shipment of
> wild caught. They came from a hobbyist friend
> who I know knew how to take care of his fish and
> I would trust like my brother. He kept and sold
> the fish himself and didn't have any problems. I
> put these same fish in a 30 long and before long
> some of the blotches and black fins and stuff
> like that started to show up on my tank bred
> fish. Part of the way I knew it was something in
> that tank is because some of the fish from those
> same tank bred spawns were in other tanks and
> they kept their nice appearance. Whereas as time
> went on the fish in the tank with the wild
> caught all started to look like wild caught
> after some time. They were all the same types of
> fish either. Just my one any only experience
> kind of keeps me from the W/C. No I can't say
> I'll never try them again but, I will do things
> differently. And yes I wish I could keep a
> quarantine tank but, that means having an empty
> tank waiting for someone to get sick. I'd have
> to keep fish in the bathtub to keep from filling
> that empty tank.<G>
>
>
> Jerry...
>
>
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