You might be right but maybe not. Was your water much different from what the fish were used to (PH and hardness)? Was the temperature when released the same (were they aclimated)? What was the temperature during the journey home? There could be more to the story then described. That is my only point.
Lee
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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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