Let it be known, Dearest, that all of this stuff happened while following
the directions, on healthy tanks, and with only one dose. No water changes
were skipped in the making of this story. ;-) A second container of the
stuff was given to us; a small bottle that another employee took home to try
out. He reported no ill effects and even thought it made his tank look
clearer (and he didn't neglect any water changes either -- kept doing em
even as he was using the stuff).
Like I said, my only problem w/ Tetra is their propaganda regarding not
having to do water changes. I had a bad experience w/ the product, that is
all. I was rather impressed w/ the response by Tetra and their reps -- they
were genuinely concerned that their product caused these problems and took
immediate action to try and figure out why this happened. At least they back
up their snake oil, eh? ;-)
As for the expensive fish, well at this point in the hobby, I don't have any
tanks w/ fish I don't value. :-) :-) ;-) At least I still have the
parents of the ones that died. They have done their part to replace my
losses quite admirably.
Heck, Marineland's pics of setups of their Eclipse line of filters and tanks
are just as offensive to me. Have you looked at the huge/inappropriate
stocking levels of those tanks??! Talk about misleading advertising! I am
continually on the reps' cases about that (just as I am about Tetra's "no
water changes for 6 months" BS). And I *like* and *use* those products.
Julie <><
> I guess the worse possible thing you can do as a fish keeper is to try
> snake oil on very expensive fish. We worked very hard to get this crap
> removed from the back cover of the Aquarium Fish Magazine. Note that it's
> now gone. Might want to
> write this down somewhere Jules so the next time you'll remember :-)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bowluvr <bowluvr at email.msn.com>
> To: rainbowfish at pcug.org.au <rainbowfish at pcug.org.au>
> Date: Tuesday, October 10, 2000 11:41 AM
> Subject: Re: [RML] mmmmm
>
>
> Dennis
>
> Don't *even* get me started on this!!!!
>
> I am one of the few people that has used this product (according to Tetra)
> that has had problems. But, what problems they were! In all tanks in which
> this stuff was used, the water turned a cloudy brown and the fish became
> very distressed (gasping and uncomfortable). In the store I work at, there
> were no mortalities, but in my fishroom at home I lost several fish --
some
> rather expensive! It was used in about a total of 6 tanks.
>
> All this came from one bottle that the store's Tetra rep gave me to try
out.
> That bottle has since been sent to Germany to be analized, and I have
spoken
> w/ a person from their Blacksburg, VA, headquaters here in the USA. They
> take this stuff seriously, let me tell you! I haven't heard back as to
> whether the bottle was bad or if it was ok, but I will never use the
product
> again. Even if all had been well, I would *never* advocate not doing a
water
> change for one month let alone six -- water changes are just too important
> for a multitude of reasons. Needless to say, our store doesn't carry it.
> ;-)
>
> Mmmmm is right. Be very wary of these types of claims by anyone.
> Julie <><
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dennis Holmes" <dhdesign at onthenet.com.au>
> To: <rainbowfish at pcug.org.au>
> Sent: Monday, October 09, 2000 11:43 PM
> Subject: [RML] mmmmm
>
>
> > http://www.tetra-fish.com/usquiz/featurebenefits.html
> >
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