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About Jennifer Schanely
Expertise
I have worked for sixteen years in a pet store where I am the fishroom manager. I can answer most questions pertaining to saltwater fish and coral care, feeding and behavior. I am knowledgeable in setting up and maintaining reef and fish only tanks and can usually identify creatures that come off of live rock. I am only slightly knowledgeable on disease treatment with prevention being my specialty. My approach to the marine tank is that of simplicity. Keeping a marine environment is easy and I encourage anyone intersted in this hobby to give it a try!
Experience
Besides owning various types of tanks,I have worked as a fishroom manager in a pet store for the past sixteen years. I answer questions to many fish related problems on a daily basis. At our store we have many fresh water tanks, salt fish tanks, corals, and other invertabrates. I also know alot about different products on the market and what works and what doesn't.
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I think sixteen years experience is far more education than any school could have taught me.
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You are here: Experts > Animals/Pets > Pet Fish > Saltwater Aquarium > the color black dogface puffer
Expert: Jennifer Schanely
Date: 5/12/2008
Subject: the color black dogface puffer
Question
I would like to know if you know any info on keeping the color black dogface puffer and are they as hardy as the regular dogface puffer.they are kind of hard to get but every time i order one they look as if their stomachs are sunken in and they die of bacterial infections and fungus without warning and with them being scaleless fish it is a battle to treat them without killing them anyways.I still would like to have one in my aquariums but I want to obtain one that is healthy from the beginning and no one just carries this as a abundant fish and its always mail ordered how can i get the best specimen for the money through mail ordered specimens when you cant know for sure if they are healthy when you order them online.
Answer
Hi Alaica. The problem here is just as you stated. You can't know for sure if a fish is healthy or not when ordering online. One way to try to get the best fish for your money is to order the largest one you can find. Often larger specimens are a little less sensitive. The other problem here is the whole shipping process. Fish are generally not fed a day or two prior to shipping so they do not dirty up their bags as much. Get a fish that has been recently shipped from where it was collected and then shipped to a distributor and then shipped to you and you will have one very underfed and stressed out fish. Have you ever tried going to your local fish dealer and asking them if they can special order one for you? I order all the fish we have in the store I work in and always special order fish that we do not normally carry. If my distributor doesn't have what I am looking for on their list then sometimes they will put in a special order for me, to special order it for a customer. At most places where they stock fish to be distributed to pet stores the fish will go through a quarantine period and be fed and brought up to health before they are sold to the pet store. You can try to ask several fish dealers in your area if this is possible. Most people will go above and beyond to get you what you are looking for(or at least they should).
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