Mike Bauer;174665 said:
Sorry to say, I just found out that some are! But because there is no list posted of store not to use because they are banned from this site, I will just have to use trial and error. I have been away for a few years after I lost my two cuttlefish due to a five day power outage a few year back. I searched for about a year and couldn't find anyone who could get any type of cuttlefish. I was put on waiting list at some places that claimed they could get them but they never could. Now I am laid off work and had some time to kill, I logged onto here and found a site posted on TONMO and I order eggs from them. I posted thanks and I had good luck and got posted to death that I shouldn't deal with them and to remove them from my posts and never post a link to them again. I have never had this type of cuttlefish before and they seem much harder to raise past the first week. Instead of getting hopeful post on how to take care of them, all I got was complaints about using a store that this site sent me to in the first place. I have lost 2 baby cuttlefish out of the 7 that I had from what looks like a feeding issue. When I joined this site in 2003 the people seen nicer and more willing to help.
Mike - the non support of that site is new, but has been brewing for a while. There is a very long thread in the Sources for Cephalopods forum where many vendors are discussed (its been easier to keep them in one place for reference sake). I think the reason that you didn't get lots of instant help was compound - you referenced articles that have the information we now know you are/were looking for so we thought you had the info, and you didn't actually ask for help or ask questions which made it hard to know that you were looking for.
Once I knew you were looking for help I started helping you and giving you information, but given your post I can't help feeling that that help is unappreciated. I hope I am wrong.
I feel a little taken aback by your saying that you were posted to death about them given that you have contacted the company and asked them to contact TONMO and to contact individual TONMO members. In a very significant way, you have been keeping the discussion going.
I hope you can see that disagreement about a vendor is not not being nice. While members of the TONMO community can get busy, they are almost all willing to help wherever they can. I hope we can put this behind us and move forward.
Thanks!