Fake plat gar

[azon]

Originally Posted by Kohaku

Well sometime u can't blame the lfs. They may have taken their stocks from a supplier that pass them off as other fishes instead of the correct fish. Other than jzx, stones, I believe there are other lfs as well. The most recent one I seen is a sb Senegal being labeled as a sb mokelembe.

We, as buyers, have to be careful when buying them. Look out for signs when collecting the fish and if not, learn from expensive mistakes.

I think if those LFS who specialise in exotic fishes should know or must know what they are selling cos we are paying a premium price if C328 aunt say that she dunno or not sure than I'll buy her story..

[llewellyn]

Originally Posted by Kohaku

Well sometime u can't blame the lfs. They may have taken their stocks from a supplier that pass them off as other fishes instead of the correct fish. Other than jzx, stones, I believe there are other lfs as well. The most recent one I seen is a sb Senegal being labeled as a sb mokelembe.

We, as buyers, have to be careful when buying them. Look out for signs when collecting the fish and if not, learn from expensive mistakes.

To be honest, up till the part before I posted the pixs up, I still thought my plat gar is just low grade, not wtt...
Because I was also told plat gars do have spots and these are low grade ones.

[noobmiyavi]

Originally Posted by llewellyn

Thanks for all your concern.
I bought it from stones.
There were 3 in the tank, and I choose the medium size piece.
Frankly speaking, I am not sure whether Agus even knew they were wtt in the first place.

Bro,

Just wanna know, how long before you actually spotted the true identity of this gar? Weeks? Months? Because if the realisation period is too long, many can cheat us still and we will be kept in the dark.

[llewellyn]

Coincidentally the gar was kept inside a white oyama tank together with my baby panglong gh ffl (I am wtt the gh) in a 2ft as tankmate.
But after few weeks, I ve decided to transfer the gar with my discus in a 322 as the poor thing kept getting chased by my aro.
At that stage, the back part starts turning greyish....
Then I transfered him into a blue oyama base tank (current tank) and everything came out

[Kohaku]

Originally Posted by llewellyn

To be honest, up till the part before I posted the pixs up, I still thought my plat gar is just low grade, not wtt...
Because I was also told plat gars do have spots and these are low grade ones.

Well, so far I have not own any platinum gar before due to its size and price. But those I see I a few brothers house are all white with no signs of spots. Another fish that I encountered with problem before is plat senegal. There are many different grades and the lousy grades have milky white skin like that of a albino Senegal. I have even come across a WTT lap that turn to normal lap after 2weeks.

Whether the lfs specialised in exotic fishes or not, not all owners know the background of the stocks they are selling. It's from questions I asked when I show interest in the fish. Even importers also receive wrong fish from time to time, it's just that we dun see it from their point of views. That's another reasons why we need forums like af to share knowledge and experience.

[llewellyn]

Originally Posted by Kohaku

Well, so far I have not own any platinum gar before due to its size.

My gar is growing very slowly and the appetite is very poor. At most an inch per year. I didnt constraint its enviroment, plenty of mp and squid. It just ignore totally.
And I alway read in the forum gars got huge appetite and grow fast.....
Double suay ~

[washywashy]

Originally Posted by Kohaku

Well, so far I have not own any platinum gar before due to its size and price. But those I see I a few brothers house are all white with no signs of spots. Another fish that I encountered with problem before is plat senegal. There are many different grades and the lousy grades have milky white skin like that of a albino Senegal. I have even come across a WTT lap that turn to normal lap after 2weeks.

Whether the lfs specialised in exotic fishes or not, not all owners know the background of the stocks they are selling. It's from questions I asked when I show interest in the fish. Even importers also receive wrong fish from time to time, it's just that we dun see it from their point of views. That's another reasons why we need forums like af to share knowledge and experience.

Bro, the one with yellowish skin is not plat lah, that's a leucistic senegalus!

Bro llewellyn, did you feedback to Angus?

[llewellyn]

I just got to know its not a plat gar from you guys few hours ago.....

[mictok]

Originally Posted by llewellyn

I just got to know its not a plat gar from you guys few hours ago.....

Clarify with him and see the respond.

[llewellyn]

Anyway, no intention to contact stones also.
So long ago. Even got credit card transaction histroy also cannot prove that particular fish was bought from his shop. In the end, might end up another round of dispute again.