Had the same thing happen to me... twice. CB is healthy, eating well, stops one day and is dead the next. It's quite frustrating. I figured when it happened the second time that it must be something else at work. Cyanide makes sense.

If the stats people are throwing out on here are true, then the collection of these fish is truly unacceptable and unsustainable. Does anyone have more information about the place in Richmond? All I know is that it is not retail.

No info yet but I will post when he gets back to me.

I would love to see a shop open up using them as a wholesaler...Hmmmm gives me some ideas :) My dad has been debating opening a business when he returns to Vancouver in a few years to retire and since he wouldn't need to make profit and easily has the start up cost....

I am going to have to talk to him ;)

He lives and often dives in the South Pacific and has been greatly bothered by the whole situation, so I bet he would be quite open to the idea of a shop selling MAC fishes.

hey GSP what store did you get your "bad" CBBs from? just wondering so i dont get one from there:)

i got one and it seemed nice and healthy, eating and everything my first one and a vary nice fish, but it had some flukes(i think)and when i put it into my QT i had a PH crash and it died, sucks sence if i left in the tank and did FW dip probebly would have lived, iam going to try another and most likley i will get it from the same place,

but this cyanide thing brings to mind other fish, like black/bue ribbon eels, and orange spot file fish, both i think after a bit of experiance and a lot reading dont seem to be the impossible fish people seem to say they are, it just comes down to the fish and i think the fact they must be caught with cyanide, it also makes think about other fish like eels and jawfish, that would seem to me to be vary hard to get out of there holes/rocks any other way but with cyanide yet they dont seem to have the dismel survival rate of the other fish??

Oh I don't want to name names ;) Thats not the point of this....

I think many of the LFS here in Vancouver get livestock from the same wholesalers and this store does not buy these fish knowing they have been caught with cyanide...well they must know by now I guess but...I do wish they would stop bringing them in but we all know they are not going to do that as they sell very well.