Re: Acclimation failure

Rock That was a good article. 15 years ago when I was in the hobby the tank
raised had just started. Now is looks as though its quite lucrative. My
question is why would a person want a clown that was not tank raised. Do
they act differently, My LSF guy says the color is better and they don't
cost more or not much. So I guess it is because we get them from on line
and don't know or what. Thanks for any info.
"TheRock" <none@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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It was probably poisoned long before you got it. Cyanide
Read here: http://www.clownfish.org/
Unless of course it was tank bred.

Chris



"Don Geddis" <don@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Let's say I get a new fish from the LFS, and then do a poor job
acclimating
it to my tank, perhaps too fast or something. What kind of behavior
should
I expect?

I recently got a small (ocellaris) clown, and unfortunately was a little
rushed
when I got it home. Seemed fine the first 48 hours (eating, good color),
although unfortunately my existing clowns were bothering and nipping at
it.
Then, this morning, it was swimming on the bottom of the tank near the
sand
(instead of in the open water), the top half looked kind of grey, and it
didn't
eat during the morning feeding. By the afternoon, it was dead.

Is there any chance this was an acclimation error on my part? Could it
take
that long to manifest the symptoms? Or, if you do a bad job with
acclimation,
should you expect noticeable problems within the first 24 hours?

I'm trying to figure out whether I made a mistake, or whether I was
simply
unlucky to import a fish that already had problems.

Curious about the experiences of the rest of you...

-- Don
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Sometimes I think I'd be better off dead. No, wait. Not me, you.
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