is this wrong??

[Neal358]

i just ordered my anthias from ffexpress.com and will have them on friday and tonight my cardnile fish just gave berth and their a lot of little fish . should i take them out or just use them as live food to help get my new anthis going. i ask because i have herd that live brine cairy lots of bad things and was advised by my lfs not to use them if i can

 

[monkeyboy]

Uhh...

The fry expelled from your cardinals aren't live brine shrimp! Live brine shrimp also don't cary any disease because they are not fish, they're shrimp (different parasites). IF your still worried you can wash them in freshwater. You can leave the fish in to get eaten or you can try to rear the young, do a search or check a couple of pages back because there was just a bangaii thread...

I'd definitly check where you're getting from, the LFS doesn't sound so brilliant...

 

[Jerry Gonzales]

 

[davelin315]

I wouldn't get anthias from FF Express. I have ordered batches of anthias from them several times with a friend, and without fail, there are always a couple that are very sick on arrival (how could they not notice a fish that is half covered in fungus when they packed it? or a broken back?) and they all died within a few weeks. Some of this may be attributable to my inability to keep them properly fed, but I think a lot also has to do with the declining quality of their fish. Haven't gotten any inverts from them, but the fish quality since they got bought out last year or the year before has suffered tremendously (as have their prices).

 

[Neal358]

what kind did you order from them i ordered the bartlets anthias witch i have read are the eziest to keep

 

[davelin315]

I got the dispar anthias, always 5 at a time. The ones that survived the week, they usually stopped eating after a couple more, and it was painful watching them slowly deteriorate.