What should I do with unwanted fish?

[thiqqfish]

I made a post yesterday about some fish that are no good for my tank, and got lot's of advice. But I don't know of a way to take my fish out of my tank and get them to somewhere good for them. I don't want my money to go to waste but I don't want my tetras to die, and my puffers to bully all of my fish. What should I do with them?

 

[FinalFins]

Rehome them, sell them, give to LFS

 

[Crispii]

Give them to your LFS.

 

[Lysaell]

Others have already said to give to your LFS, but I would I would like to add the suggestion of calling ahead. Some stores simply won’t accept fish, so making sure ahead of time would save some headache.

In the case that no fish stores will take them, I would try Craigslist next.

 

[kansas]

maybe give them away on craigslist?

 

[thiqqfish]

I'm trying to keep giving them to my LFS a last-ish resort. I've given him fish before, and He doesn't take returns on live animals. It's probably the best choice, but I paid $25 for them and would not like the money to go to waste.

 

[CoryBoi]

I trade in all my guppies once they color up to my local LFS for 1/3 the price of what they sell for.
I'm assuming your reforming your bb puffers, and the corries? Remember corries need a shoal of at least 4-6 IMO ( others say 6) and a 10 gal won’t give you enough room. and don’t forget about those chinese algae eater, they will need to be rehomed because they will outgrow a 10 gal.

 

[kansas]

the problem for the LFS is that your fish my bring disease. wouldn't they have to be quarantined? lota work for a few fish.

 

[thiqqfish]

the problem for the LFS is that your fish my bring disease. wouldn't they have to be quarantined? lota work for a few fish.

My previous guppies that have since passed away had babies and I didn't want to have a ton of baby guppies, and he gladly took them off of my hands.

I trade in all my guppies once they color up to my local LFS for 1/3 the price of what they sell for.
I'm assuming your reforming your bb puffers, and the corries? Remember corries need a shoal of at least 4-6 IMO ( others say 6) and a 10 gal won’t give you enough room. and don’t forget about those chinese algae eater, they will need to be rehomed because they will outgrow a 10 gal.

I'll offer him that deal. Chances are he will decline it and I will end up "donating" them back to him. But if nothing else that helps me keep my money arrises on this forum, I'll go to my LFS tomorrow. I can't have my tetras and danios dying from stress.

 

[CoryBoi]

I'll offer him that deal. Chances are he will decline it and I will end up "donating" them back to him. But if nothing else that helps me keep my money arrises on this forum, I'll go to my LFS tomorrow. I can't have my tetras and danios dying from stress.

1/3 is just the rate at my LFS, for every type of fish you trade in, you call and make sure they have availability, and then they write you a little slip called”fish bucks” over the years I’ve made at least $200 but It can only be used on livestock ( which is fine because I buy so many fish from them!)

 

[saltwater60]

the problem for the LFS is that your fish my bring disease. wouldn't they have to be quarantined? lota work for a few fish.

LFS don’t quarantine fish. They don’t have the capability to do so.

 

[CoryBoi]

LFS don’t quarantine fish. They don’t have the capability to do so.

actually a lot of LFS’ use an X system(mine included) were they put an x on every tank that has sick fish or new fish, the x stays on the tank for a week and people can fill out holds on fish under quarantine

 

[Donthemon]

Get another tank to put them in.

 

[saltwater60]

actually a lot of LFS’ use an X system(mine included) were they put an x on every tank that has sick fish or new fish, the x stays on the tank for a week and people can fill out holds on fish under quarantine

I’ve seen the x on sick fish tanks but never for QT for a week. Some sensitive fish are QTd but not in general. There are numerous LFS for both fresh and salt in my area. I’ve also traveled outside my area to other fish stores and no QT.
of course I can only speak for the 10-12 I’ve visited though.

 

[CoryBoi]

Yeah, my LFS uses it for all their fish coming in, last week I passed a tank full of female guppies that were swimming around looking so healthy, but they had just got there and had an X