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My fish have fleas.


Crystalina wrote: Have you ever heard of such a thing before? dry.gif I went to Petland and bought a couple Black Mohr and one started acting strange and just sat at the bottom of the tank. Well the next morning I noticed something on his side and it was alive and had little legs moving. ohmy.gif Eww, I freaked. DH took the thing off of the fish and we put it in a cup. This thing looked like one of those horseshoe fish and it moved the same way the horseshoe fish moves. Gross. So I called Petland and asked them if they charged me for the extra passenger. I then described it to them and they said it was a flea (or a tick). The woman was a bit rude and said to bring the fish back or I can wait and it will get better now that the flea had been removed. I told her I would wait and see if he got better. Well, within an hour he was dead so I brought the corpse in and she said that he probably got it from the "fair fish" that I have. I've had the "fair fish" for awhile and I would have noticed this "thing" on them. So she says, "All I can do is replace him." Whatever just give me a fish. So she goes in the tank and gets another fish and this fish had 2 fleas on him. U-huh. Tell me it's my dirty "fair fish" now. happy.gif We inspected the tank and most of the fish in that tank were covered in them AND you could see the little suckers swimming around. dry.gif So I got a live plant instead until they fix their flea problem. Now I have to treat my entire tank though. Has anyone heard of these things before? They are gross.

redchief replied: Yes, I've heard of them. Thankfully we've never had to deal with them... Yuck.

gr33n3y3z replied: emlaugh.gif I'm sorry I've done nothing but laugh bc I can just picture you on the phone then in the store LOL
Yes I've seen pics of them on the net but never had that problem

Looking at my fish now staring at me saying come on mom do the tank 1/2 change and clean the air stones.
Dang they make you feel guilty as all heck
Off to do the tank

Boo&BugsMom replied: Ewww! Gross! Never heard of such a thing.

Our Lil' Family replied: Ok honestly, when I read the title I thought it was something cute Evan said to you!! LOL

I had no idea fish could get fleas!

Crystalina replied: No, not something Evan said. He did, however, walk up to me today and say, "Mommy, I'm a moron.". ohmy.gif ohmy.gif ohmy.gif Don't ask because I have no idea. dry.gif

~Roo'sMama~ replied: Ick! I've never heard of that before. Sorry your fishy died. sad.gif

lisar replied: Wow I have never in my life heard of that.

Maddie&EthansMom replied: puke.gif That's so disgusting. I'm so sorry!

kimberley replied: yuck! never heard of that before. funny there are even fish snobs rolleyes.gif rolleyes.gif glad you set her straight happy.gif

mom2my2cuties replied:
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Fish snobs - I so needed to hear that today! smile.gif

C&K*s Mommie replied: huh.gif never heard of that before either.

CantWait replied: puke.gif Gross!!!!!!
I have yet to hear of this, but the last few days I'm beginning to learn a lot about fish that I didn't think was possible.


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