Hello, so I bought a magnificent foxface today around 1pm. Took me a little over 2 hours to get it home. I began drip acclimating it and had to run to the store for some coppersafe as I noticed it had a couple spots when I got home. When I got back home it was dead.
Now, I need some reassurance because the shop owner is telling me he’s had this fish healthy and eating for months and that I kept it in the bag too long and shouldn’t have drip acclimated for an hour/hour and a half. I chose to go slow because the fish was breathing heavy and the salinity from the store read 1.016 and mine is reading 1.0265 (just a little higher than 1.026).
Is it just me or would a healthy fish have been fine? I usually do long (hour or so) drip acclimations with no isssues. Also they get shipped so how could a 2 hour drive and 1 1/2 hours acclimating be it’s cause of death?
it’s not the only fish I bought today and the other 2 are doing fine so far.
The store owner is right that I shouldn’t have taken the fish if I didn’t think it was healthy, as I did see one spot in the store but I figured, it’s one spot so I’ll just treat the fish and should be good. That was clearly a huge mistake.
Spots are small and hard to see but if anyone has any insight on what could have caused this fish to die that would be great. Thanks.
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Now, I need some reassurance because the shop owner is telling me he’s had this fish healthy and eating for months and that I kept it in the bag too long and shouldn’t have drip acclimated for an hour/hour and a half. I chose to go slow because the fish was breathing heavy and the salinity from the store read 1.016 and mine is reading 1.0265 (just a little higher than 1.026).
Is it just me or would a healthy fish have been fine? I usually do long (hour or so) drip acclimations with no isssues. Also they get shipped so how could a 2 hour drive and 1 1/2 hours acclimating be it’s cause of death?
it’s not the only fish I bought today and the other 2 are doing fine so far.
The store owner is right that I shouldn’t have taken the fish if I didn’t think it was healthy, as I did see one spot in the store but I figured, it’s one spot so I’ll just treat the fish and should be good. That was clearly a huge mistake.
Spots are small and hard to see but if anyone has any insight on what could have caused this fish to die that would be great. Thanks.
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