What a pain! You'll be lucky if the fish haven't infected your tank with some horrible disease. I sure hope not. I would never buy anything live from either petco or petsmart.
Donna
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>I decided my 40 gallon with nothing but cories and otos needed something
>to occupy the upper waters. I wandered over to Petco and PetsMart to
>see what they had. Nothing caught my eye at PetsMart but Petco had some
>bloodfin tetras that I'd always liked. But their little card said
>bloodfins were shy and needed lots of cover to hide in - not what I
>wanted. They also had some Buenos Aires tetras and the card said they
>were active. So I got five of those.
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>Went home and did a little more research - nobody else thought bloodfins
>were shy. And every reference said that the BA tetras shouldn't be put
>in a planted tank because they'd eat all the plants.
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>Back to the store. They agreed to exchange. I managed to catch the BAs
>without damaging too many plants and traded them for 5 bloodfins plus I
>bought 2 more for a total of 7.
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>To make a long story short, 6 of the bloodfins died. Petco replaced 4
>before they ran out of fish and I ran out of patience. So out of 11
>fish, I wound up with 5. Not good at all.
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>I had a similar experience with Petco a few years ago, but time had
>faded the memory. Now it's been revived and reinforced. It'll be a
>long time, if ever, before I buy live fish there again.
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>Larry B
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