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Just shooting the breeze but there is something bugging me about the water conditions of our LFS that I want to toss out and see if anyone can enlighten me. Every time I visit a LFS, there is bound to be one or more tank that have fishes that are obviously sick and very unhealthy. And I know that most, if not all uses some form of recirculating system. IE. a central sump which handles(filter) and distributes water back to a number of tanks. I am not sure how many such system each shop will have but I assume 2 or 3? Which means that the tank of sick fishes must be sharing it's water with at least 33~25% of the tanks in the shop? Does this means most of the fish from the LFS will probably carry some form of bacteria or parasite? Or am I missing something? My experience with buying fishes from LFS isn't very successful, I lose about 40% of the fishes I purchase within the first 2 months. Is that an acceptable norm or am I doing something wrong. The problem is with the doubt with the recirculation system planted in my mind, I am not sure if the fishes death is because of anything I did or can control. Like I buy 5 clowns and only 3 makes it after a month, 3 baggai and only 2 makes it after a month. All with the same condition. Incidentally fishes I catch from the wild have a better survival rate in my experience. And fishes from the buy and sell section in the forum usually do very well too. So I have this nagging feeling it's the LFS that the source of the problem?
