White Widow Tetras on sale! All postage is combined, so it is $14 flat no matter how much you buy.
These tetras are a pale white, and resemble mini-piranhas! A little shy at the beginning, but once accustomed to the tank, will school and take turns ravaging any food you place onto the top of the tank.
We usually recommend getting at least 4 together so they can feel safe.
Feel free to ask us any questions you have!
They place them into a nearby waterway and you need to be ready to catch them when they come up your toilet.
"Ok kids! You got your nets ready?"
"Yeah!"
"Alright here they come!"
Incoherent child screaming as they promptly smash the flying fish all around the bathroom in an attempt to catch them
Is what's going through my head atm.
We use breather bags with plenty of water sent through Express post (Next day delivery)
I was about to ask this, was very curious how these are shipped haha
You don't speak fish how do you know they feel safe with 4????
By their behaviour, you can visibly see them act different when they are alone and when they are with a group of at least 4 others. They are bolder, shy away less from the front of the tank, get used to you faster, are more bold when grabbing food etc. Often with just one it will hide constantly.
How do you know they don't speak fish?
agree. one of the boys can speak octopus
Can I mix these with guppies?
Yes they should be alright.
Would they be ok as fillers with goldfish?
Do you have a heater in your tank? These are tropical fish. This seller is notorious for neglecting to mention the correct temperature requirements of the 'products' (live animals) they sell here on OzB.
The reality is that in most Australian cities and houses, in-door temperature IS tropical temperature, and heaters are pushed as an up-sell by stores when they are really not needed. This applies to like 95% of Australians.
We do have recommended temperature ranges on all our listings though. I'd argue that many more people waste money on heaters, over-heat their tanks or give up on the hobby all together because of being scared about precise temeperature warnings when room-temperature would be perfect already.
And I don't usually comment on this, but are you Vegan?
This is possibly the most ludicrous response ever to appear on OzBargain! Fancy claiming that 'like, 95%' of Australia has a tropical climate, and attempting to use that erroneous assertion in a feeble attempt to explain away your repeated disregard for the welfare of the animals you are selling.
You write like a child, and given your apparent misconceptions about Australia's diverse climate range, I now suspect that perhaps you are one.
With respect to your bizarre question about my diet, I am a breatharian.
Peace out, 'man'.
If it is indoor and your house desn't go bellow 20 degrees in winter temperature wise they will be fine. If the goldfish are already very large (~10cm) then I wouldn't recommend them, if not though they will be fine.
Do you post with French fries as well?
In this heat not sure is it’s safe to express post fish?
What about delivery? Hardly something that can be left on the front porch for too long!?!?
We refund or replace all dead on arrival stock, so we wouldn't be selling them if a large portion doesn't arrive safely.
With express post, they are sent in the evening and arrive in the morning next day, so the only situation that can be really bad is if they are left in the sun when delivered. That rarely happens, anyone who is getting fish is ready for them and posties leave in a "safe place" which usually is not in the sun.
'A large portion'?
What do you consider an acceptable level of foreseeable/predictable/totally avoidable animal death?
10%? 5%?
No fixed percentage as long as a profit can be made, I guess.
Are you vegan? If not then YOU would accept 100%. Otherwise, my personal morality would be satisfied if we provide fish in captivity a better life on average than your average fish in the wild. Seeing as wild fish constantly die from starvation, polution, predation, I'd roughly estimate 10% of jouvenile fish grow to adulthood and have a "good" life in the wild, and that would probably be about 0.01% if you are counting baby fish.
So as long as 10% survive, we are doing better than nature does. We aim for 0% of course, but a few deaths during transport is nothing in comparison to the grand crewelty of nature.
And I sure hope you are a Vegan, if not then having the gall to preach about a few fish when a single of your meals causes more animal creulty than a week of our business is just absurd.
@Brandingo: The simplistic nature of your juvenile 'arguments' is amusing, though not surprising given prior form. For a start, you are asserting that every product generated by the Australian meat industry involves cruelty to animals. That suggestion is demonstrably false, and would be downright offensive to many primary producers, not to mention meat eaters.
AustPost regulation prohibits the posting of live animals except bees, leeches, and silkworms, but no one wants to own the problem and no one cares about complaints.
AustPost doesn't care unless the postal workers are put in danger. Unless you can identify a parcel contains live animals at the time of lodgement, or unless you can provide a tracking number, they don't want to know.
RSPCA doesn't care unless the animals suffer in transit. If you cannot provide no evidence that the animals suffered during postage, they don't want to know.
This store doesn't care about postal regulations.
Hey Alvian, yes, the reason AusPost doesn't want to know is the only reason they have such a policy is so they are not held leagaly liable for any deaths during postage. They have no issue with it otherwise.
We have tried other postage services and AusPost is by far the most reliable at a reasonable price, with by far the best and fastest delivery rate. So we don't see any reason to charge customers more for worse postage services just because of TOC's which aren't enforced anyway.
This isn't really a benefit for us but our customers, we just pass on the exact postage cost. I guess you could argue it is indirectly due to increased sales but either way the point stands.
the reason AusPost doesn't want to know is the only reason they have such a policy is so they are not held leagaly liable for any deaths during postage. They have no issue with it otherwise.
Where can we examine AustPost's reasonale for the prohibited goods policy? Where can we see that AustPost has no issue with the posting of prohibited goods?
Where is it written feel free to ignore our T&Cs (section 2) because it is there only for show, in case we need to cover our corporate arses?
(a) You must not lodge a Prohibited Item
The Dangerous and prohibited goods and packaging guide contains the standards of the Australian Postal Corporation regarding contents of articles that can and cannot be excepted by both Australia Post and the conditions, regulatory and legislative requirements for posting and processing for various articles.
How do they post them