please do not buy discus from rainforest international

[lito2712]

Hi every one I recently bought wild discus from tom ,(rainforest international)and after 2 reschedules
I got my discus, some of them arrived dead , most of them half dead ,all of them were sick ,with open sores and with fin rot. Its been 3 days since I got them and only 4 have survived from the 26 discus
.and also none of the discus looked like the ones in his pictures .on his website. Has anybody else had the same experience from him ? , I have video and pics of how bad this discus look at arrival ,I been having discus for 8 years and this the worst discus I ever received.

[Discusgeo2]

Sorry to hear that Tom sent you some bad Discus but I see you just joined this fabulous forum. If you had known about this site before buying Discus from Tom you would have never gone there. Please do a search for Tom here and you will find several reason to have stayed away from him. I hope you can get the discus you have back into good heath. Please post your photos and in the mean time make sure they have clean water, it's warm around 86 degrees and add a little salt to it to heal they wounds.

George

[lito2712]

Yes thanks for the advice ,I did put some salt ,but apperently they were too sick ,I started a metro treatment on the 4 left ,hopefully I can get those back to health . I have the temp at 86-88 .I had one or two sick but never this many, I had to disinfect all my buckets ,because. I did a water change on one of my. Tanks and I used the buckets where I put the discus when they arrived .and one of my discus started to get the same thing ,(fin rot) .luckly I noticed it right away and I have him in a seperate Tank ,it looks like he's going to be fine ,he's pretty fat and healthy ,hopefully I can put him back in a week .

[lito2712]

im having trouble dowloading pics , it says that my pics kb bites exceed

[peterhql]

you want to use a photo hosting service like photobucket. you load the pics onto there and just link to them on the forum. its free and they dont spam you.

In any case, check this thread out:
http://forum.simplydiscus.com/showth...+international

might make you feel better... you are not alone at least? or not...

[lito2712]

i can post emails or links yet, i need at least 10 psts if you want to see pics email me, thanks

[wheelsdeal]

Terrible.I can only assume you get a refund for the dead fish.

[lito2712]

Here's a pic

[PAR23]

WOW......I'm sorry this happened to you....I hope you got a FULL refund......Unacceptable.

[RudeDogg1]

omg they are horrible

[William Palumbo]

How the hell is this a$$hole STILL getting away with this? Somebody needs to lawyer up and put a hurting on him and his worthless business...Bill

[PAR23]

How the hell is this a$$hole STILL getting away with this? Somebody needs to lawyer up and put a hurting on him and his worthless business...Bill

+1........This guy is nothing but a thief......Should be reported to the BBB.

[RudeDogg1]

I hope your gonna take action after losing 22 discus that must of bee a hell of a lot of money lost

[ockyra215]

Well I have no experience with Rainwater discus but if you spent a good amount of money on 26 fish and he hasnt offered up a refund I would agree a Lawyer is your next step!
Now that your a simply member before you buy check out all the sponsors on here!

[peterhql]

You should just file a charge back through you credit card company. There are avenues of getting your money back... to the detriment of honest small business owners such as myself. You could get your money back through the credit card company even if it isn't the merchant's fault. BUT in this case it is the merchant's fault. Your CC company should offer you some protection.

I'm amazed nobody's mentioned this yet. Especially if you pay with Amex. I haven't had a chargeback in 3 years though. And the chargebacks I've encountered before then were total BS.