sorry i snapped at you rare cichlids, i know how you feel i see it happen all the time as well. it will be hard to let him go, i already had to give up my gar. i would love to keep him but i eventually he'll have to go a better home. as far as eating my pet, i dont think i could do it. its the 'killing him' part i would have difficulty with not the eating.
Red Pacu
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no the gar went to another store with a huge tank. the display is stocked with other large oscars, tinfoils, silver dollars, and a couple large pacu. there are many other small assorted tropicals.
Me and my roomates a an oscar and a couple of crawfish from my friends fish tank and it didn't taste that bad.
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My cat drinks the fish tank water all the time and he's still alive (*checks on Jake the cat*). I know Melafix and a lot of other meds say not to use on fish meant for eating. But I don't know how dechlorinator would make a fish unedible. Kinda weird that we're talking about this tho.
YEAH our cat drinks form our fish tanks all the time to and he's in good health, i thought most medicines were broken down by the liver anyway. remnants in the water would be continually dilluted by water changes. and all dechlor does is break the chlorine bond, or so i thought.
haha, you ate an oscar. i have ate lots of boiled crawfish, but not an oscar before! hmmm, i have to admit after looking at my friends 10" oscars he used to have i did wonder how they would taste
speaking of which, i hear they sport fish for oscars in florida. i think people let them free in the wild and they reproduced until they became abundant? similar to snakeheads i guess.
*just read what OG said in the native fish post. i guess what i heard was right if she said it!
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sorry to carry the post off the topic further, but i had to comment when i read that! i dont know how fast they grow, but ive seen some full sized ones at the New Orleans aquarium and im sure the big tank at your store will suit him just fine. as for replacing him, i would look into the silver dollar...but that is just me, i like the looks of them.
good luck
speaking of which, i hear they sport fish for oscars in florida. i think people let them free in the wild and they reproduced until they became abundant? similar to snakeheads i guess.
*just read what OG said in the native fish post. i guess what i heard was right if she said it!
*sorry to carry the post off the topic further, but i had to comment when i read that! i dont know how fast they grow, but ive seen some full sized ones at the New Orleans aquarium and im sure the big tank at your store will suit him just fine. as for replacing him, i would look into the silver dollar...but that is just me, i like the looks of them.
good luck
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i have to partially retract the earlier statement. it wasn't meant to target dechlorinaters specifically, and i did a couple of quick websearches and all i found was an msds for sodium thiosulfate as being an irritant. i KNOW i read something on it somewhere tho, unfortunately it was in my old bookmarks that were lost in a crash. 
i have also seen bottles of aquarium chemicals of some sort or another that say "not for human consumption" or "not for fish intended to be consumed by humans". there are plenty of chemicals out there that are bad for you and one of the websites i also landed on was an epa website admitting that they didn't regulate the chemicals very well. they also discussed the fact that alot of algae controllers should be labled "pesticides" and treated as such.
i know we have also discussed this topic in the past, and there might be more references for it in a site search. i'm not going to spend all night trying to prove or disprove this theory tho....
i know it's a bad practice for some reason that i encountered previously, good luck if you think otherwise.
sorry for the confusion.
i have also seen bottles of aquarium chemicals of some sort or another that say "not for human consumption" or "not for fish intended to be consumed by humans". there are plenty of chemicals out there that are bad for you and one of the websites i also landed on was an epa website admitting that they didn't regulate the chemicals very well. they also discussed the fact that alot of algae controllers should be labled "pesticides" and treated as such.
i know we have also discussed this topic in the past, and there might be more references for it in a site search. i'm not going to spend all night trying to prove or disprove this theory tho....
i know it's a bad practice for some reason that i encountered previously, good luck if you think otherwise.
sorry for the confusion.
