Discus Sellers out west. Near Penrith?

[Cichlabxr]

Good point Trebs.

Regards Martin

[DiscusMan]

Well i thought i would come and add something more to this

I have been over to Prestige aquariums tonight.

Apart from teh fact that Colins lawn mowing service is takign long service leave i could see nothing at all wrong with anything at his premises.

All of his fish that i could see where healthly excpet for one that had a swim bladder problem.

The tanks where well kept and the fish were not skitish etc etc.

They prices he had on his tanks that i could see were very reasonable and a lot cheaper than most places you would find.

On this visit i could see no reason to suggest that he would be a good place to go and look for something.

OK now thats out of the way.

All fish carry disease at all times. To say that you think a shop should totally get rid of all parasites i feel is very unrealistic. There was a link on this site that went to an artivle which talked a great del about this and HEX.

I do agree that all stages of hte process should do all they can about trying to make sure that the fish are as healthy as possible before they are sold to you. It is hard to say if any shop is doing this more than others but this is where personaly choice comes into the picture. If you dont like going somewhere then don't.

The thing i really hate is people seliing you fish that are obviously stunted and this happened to me on the first two fish I bought. I will not name the shop here and i will never buy another discus from that shop again so I do understand bad service.

Wayne

[DiscusMan]

Oh and he ADA meeting is the 4th Saturday of the month so it is on 22nd of January.

There is normally some fish for sale at the meetings but i will not gaurantee you that there will be.

Wayne

[Trebs]

I was more refering to tape worm as apposed to hex. I also said I'd like to see more done to bring the situation under control rather than competely eradicate the problem which, agreed, for an importer/on-seller can be unrealistic. It does puzzle me that importers keep going back to breeders who produce fish with tape worm.

Again this is not aimed at anyone in particular but a general comment.