soundreefer
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Placed a livestock order last week for delivery on Tuesday 12/1. The order inclued 4 fish some snails and some macro. On Monday 11/30 I received an email saying my delivery missed a flight and that i would be contacted the following day to reschedule. When I received the call i told the phone rep my concerns of stress on the fish (bagged, boxed, unboxed, rebagged, etc...) and i was put in contact with the "livestock curator". This person assured me i would be getting different fish and that he would personally double check them if i was agreeing to ship them out that day. Which i did. The following morning i received my package and found this...
2 auriga butterflies both in good condition but neither over 3" total length. I did order and pay for large size and am thinking if I would have ordered medium or small i could have ended up with the same fish.
1 six line wrasse amazingly cute. Doing great. A happy fish.
1 tiger jawfish - this is where it gets ugly. Upon pouring him from his bag to the acclamation container i was shocked to see a 4" fish that was so emaciated it looked like a tadpole. Skeletal structure showing. It obviously had not eaten anything for a very long time. I have never seen a fish in this bad of shape, even in garbage dealing fish stores. My first thought was the conversation i had with the "livestock curator" less than 24 hours ago assuring me healthy stress free fish.
32 cerith snails...received 31 snails and 1 hermit crab. Now i have 1 rogue crab in a 300 gallon tank. JOY!
Jawfish died today (12/5) at 7pm. Shocked he actually made it that long. I'm not sure if BZ is going to request it's corpse returned but, I'm thinking i should send it anyways so mr. "livestock curator" can use it as an example of what he deamed healthy. Or should i just post top down pics showing it's 12mm wide head attached to it's 1mm wide body?
2 auriga butterflies both in good condition but neither over 3" total length. I did order and pay for large size and am thinking if I would have ordered medium or small i could have ended up with the same fish.
1 six line wrasse amazingly cute. Doing great. A happy fish.
1 tiger jawfish - this is where it gets ugly. Upon pouring him from his bag to the acclamation container i was shocked to see a 4" fish that was so emaciated it looked like a tadpole. Skeletal structure showing. It obviously had not eaten anything for a very long time. I have never seen a fish in this bad of shape, even in garbage dealing fish stores. My first thought was the conversation i had with the "livestock curator" less than 24 hours ago assuring me healthy stress free fish.
32 cerith snails...received 31 snails and 1 hermit crab. Now i have 1 rogue crab in a 300 gallon tank. JOY!
Jawfish died today (12/5) at 7pm. Shocked he actually made it that long. I'm not sure if BZ is going to request it's corpse returned but, I'm thinking i should send it anyways so mr. "livestock curator" can use it as an example of what he deamed healthy. Or should i just post top down pics showing it's 12mm wide head attached to it's 1mm wide body?
