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Maybe I shouldn't have said Europe. I believe lasse is in Sweden. I have seen posts from him where he States it's against the law to sell sick fish.Im in the UK which is still unfortunately part of Europe as we speak! There are sick fish sold here all the time so i dont know where all these strict regulations are? I got back into this hobby after nearly 20 years out and last time i never used to qt,acclimate or anything. This time i have qt everything i have bought,some success and also sadly some failure but i know that out of the dozen or so fish i have bought,every single one of them has something wrong with it with the majority of them having flukes. So i will carry on doing what i am doing as i am sure everyone that has posted here will carry on doing what they believe is the right thing to do. I just think its a bit wrong of some people to try to change what people are doing based on their own beliefs instead of keeping it to themselves and let people make their own decisions as i am sure most people do anyhow
I agree that the decision is up to the hobbyist themselves for certain. Most people are going to do what they do including myself, regardless of what someone else says. I just want to make sure that these fish have the best chance of survival and a long happy life in captivity. Statements or claims made like the one in the top bold paragraph of the OP could be the difference between life and death for a fish unfortunately. I'd hate for an inexperienced hobbyist to read something like that and incur a loss.