So last weekend I spent a couple of hours driving in traffic to get a pair of Cross hatch trigger that was 6 months established. Because i was in a time crunch so I didn't really inspect them both carefully. Anyway I drove an hour home and opened up the bucket only to find out the male has been dead stiff. The female was doing just fine and was starting to eat pellets after an hour acclimation.
I'm stumped as what might have happened for it to die after one hour as the drive was not very long and the weather was nice and cool. But as I picked him up I can see on one side there was this white patch...like the skin was burned off plus a small puncture wound near the front edge of the white patch. THEN I remembered the seller has a carpet men and a rabbitfish in his tank. Asked him it the trigger was accidentally stabbed by the rabbitfish while he was being caught and of course the answer was no...didn't see it.
I really don't know what to make of it as I've bought fishes and brought them back in the bucket many times before for more than an hour before and never had it died like this. On top of that the white patch and that small puncture wound....but since I didn't see it happened so I cant really do much and the seller agreed to refund me 1/3 of the purchase. I appreciated the partial refund but still pretty pissed about what happened.
So I'm on here trying to get people opinions as what might have happened?
Left side as I first took it out of the bucket
Leftside after an hour
Right side
I'm stumped as what might have happened for it to die after one hour as the drive was not very long and the weather was nice and cool. But as I picked him up I can see on one side there was this white patch...like the skin was burned off plus a small puncture wound near the front edge of the white patch. THEN I remembered the seller has a carpet men and a rabbitfish in his tank. Asked him it the trigger was accidentally stabbed by the rabbitfish while he was being caught and of course the answer was no...didn't see it.
I really don't know what to make of it as I've bought fishes and brought them back in the bucket many times before for more than an hour before and never had it died like this. On top of that the white patch and that small puncture wound....but since I didn't see it happened so I cant really do much and the seller agreed to refund me 1/3 of the purchase. I appreciated the partial refund but still pretty pissed about what happened.
So I'm on here trying to get people opinions as what might have happened?
Left side as I first took it out of the bucket
Leftside after an hour
Right side
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