rescue mission

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i had a ten gallon set up, and was looking to get some more gravel at wal-mart because i didnt pick enough up. and then i saw them... they were soooooo cute, and they were screaming HELP ME!!!!! so i bought three cichlids... not sure what kind though. they were listed as african cichlids. and wal-mart has never carried them before. one is bright orange, one is bright yellow with black on the tips of his fins, and the other is blue with darker blue stripes. there were a bunch mixed in the tank together. about 20 were in a 15 gallon tank. i felt so bad. i'm surprised they look so good after being in wal-mart. they have only been there since thursday though, and it was one of the cleanest tanks, if you could call any of them clean. anywhooo. does anyone know what kind i have?
 

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Beat me to it Limi. I would say you have a Yellow Lab, Red/Orange Zebra, and a Demasoni OR a young Kenyi Cichlid. I say these because you described it as a fish with blue stripes, a Socolofi has very little, or faint stripage.

Looks like we only have the Yellow Lab profile "in stock" right now. ;) I'll try and add the others this afternoon, or maybe while i'm in class.
http://www.myfishtank.net/reviews/showproduct.php/product/44/sort/7/cat/5/page/4

You will eventually need a bigger setup to keep these. What size are they now?
 

Limi310

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Cichlid-Man said:
Beat me to it Limi. I would say you have a Yellow Lab, Red/Orange Zebra, and a Demasoni OR a young Kenyi Cichlid. I say these because you described it as a fish with blue stripes, a Socolofi has very little, or faint stripage.
Yeah you are right (of course :eek: ) I was picturing it in my head different then it really is.............which is scary since I have one. I haven't fully woke up yet today :)
 

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never mind, they had parasites. i took them back, and the yellow one died. i felt so bad. the other two wil remain in the plastic bag untill their dumb a** fish guy gets back tomorrow. they deserve to lose all their stock. i hope they lose so much money they never sell fish again. i just felt so sorry for the fish, and those ones looked soo nice and pretty and healthe. i thought finally a brand new shipment! and they are healthy! but no! all their tanks are probably infected with parasites now, because they use the same equipment for each tank. their so stupid. i'm never getting a fish from them again, even if it looks healthy.
 

Orion

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I applaud you for tring to do the right thing and wanting to help the fish. But let's stop and think about this situation for a moment.

First off, if people want places like walmart to stop selling fish all togeather, then buying fish off of them, for what ever reason, is only going to make them stock more fish. I know that it is hard to watch a fish suffer, but when it comes down to it, the more people buy the more they are going to get fish to sell.

Secondly, It doesn't sound like you were ready for a rescue mission. You didn't know anything about the fish, you didn't have a proper home for them, so how can you justify that you were helping them any? One died, and you took the others back, so why even bother at all?

I'm not tring to start a fight or anything, just tring to give some real world advice and maybe next time something like this presents itself to you, you will be better prepared to make the right action. It's great to try and help when we can, but when we can't really offer a better solution or situation than what they were in then we aren't really helping any.

There has been several....questionable...fish stores that have come and thank goodness gone in my town. I would have loved to have been able to buy all the fish they had to try and give them a better home, but that wasn't a good idea. I would have so many tanks and so many fish, that some would have to be neglected just to be able to give others better care. So sometimes it's just better to walk away. No matter how hard that maybe to do.