My experience with Blue Zoo

[deep_sea_Dennis]

I heard alot of good things about Bluezoo so I placed an order Thursday. I got to looking at my order last night and realized I messed up I had ordered 6 Lyretail Anthias all female and with no male would lead to serious fighting and possible some of them dying so I called them about 4:30 and in the process of packing and sending my order out they made changes and got me a male included with the order. So far I am 100% happy with their customer service and I am waiting now for FedEx to bring my fish. I will update when I get the fish in a few hours.

 

[deep_sea_Dennis]

And of course FedEx is late they said by 10:30 and on their tracking site by 12 noon I hope BlueZoo put some heating pads in there.

 

[deep_sea_Dennis]

FedEx finally shows up at 1:35PM some excuse about plane was late in Memphis whatever...I opened the box packed very nice with heat packs bags were warm to the touch everyone looks good except for the male anthias I wanted so bad it figures he is DOA I will email Bluezoo in a few. well time for a 3 hour drip to acclimate will update status later.

 

[deep_sea_Dennis]

3 hours on the drip completed all fish are looking well now its time for the 4 week qt.....only one loss so far, the male anthias....

 

[tcmfish]

Just curious. Never heard call females would lead to serious fighting and deaths.

 

[deep_sea_Dennis]

In the absence of a male the dominate female will turn into a male so they fight to see who is dominate not pretty trust me

 

[tcmfish]

Yea the dominant one changes, but I haven't heard of bad experiences.

 

[deep_sea_Dennis]

I have had 2 females about the same size fight for days until one was beat up so bad she died before I could get her out......having a large male seems to keep their hostility in check

 

[tcmfish]

Maybe with two females... I don't know if that is necessarily true that females will fight without a male... at least from what I have heard.

 

[deep_sea_Dennis]

welp I'm telling you from experience I have been keeping anthias for years they all want to be the dominate one and the only way to become dominate is by fighting. A few years ago I had a large female Carberryi Anthias turn into a male while there was already a male in the tank and no joke she/he killed the male and took over the group I think it was 15 females.

 

[deep_sea_Dennis]

offered fish food tonight they all ate like pigs.....seem to be doing great. I sent an email to notify them of the DOA male anthias and they responded back ASAP I am glad I went with Bluezoo.....