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so im in walmart yesterday and im looking at the fish and i see red bellied pacus and clown loaches and i look at the info on them and it says clown loaches obtain a length of 5 inches and the pacus said 8 i thought that it was pretty funny
cougar579
01-01-2006, 10:39 AM
For anyone who reads this, Do not believe anything WAL-MART rights on their tanks.
I agree, its really mis-informative =( I told a few people that when they tried buying a pacu. They didnt buy it either! yay.
AngelicGreenTerror
01-01-2006, 12:54 PM
I completely laughed when they listed the Pacu has growing to 10 inches. And I've even seen them selling Parrot cichlids that were dyed, as they had all different colors.
puffer_girl
01-01-2006, 1:12 PM
Especially the pacus! I'm not sure if clown loaches will out grow their tanks or only grow as big as the tank allows though...... Had one before but it ended up dying of white spot. Aparently they get sick if they have any stress at all..... I think my oscar stressed him out......
Yeah i also noticed that Walmart has totally wrong information on their fishes, and at the walmart that i go to i also saw some clown loaches but they were not orange with black stripes like how they were suppose look, Instead they looked light yellow (pale) with light grey stripes. Maybe they were really stressed out, and did not look healthy at all.
OscarHook
01-01-2006, 1:45 PM
i live in the Walmart capital of the world, Northwest Arkansas where wal-mart was born and let me tell you in aint any better here. I was a new state of the art walmart and they had the pacu labeled as pirhanas, they had oscars and neons in teh same tank, and they had butterfly fish in tanks with the goldfish. Then another one had Dragonfish labeled as some kind of catfish, cant remember just remembered a cory have one swallowed by one, i almost got the dragonfish because none of the storesa sell them around here, but then i thought, well my empty tank is now where my Rams and there babies are and that i would never by fish from walmart.
im gonna go back tomarrow im gonna get the list of tank mates they listed i dont remember but i know the pacu would have eaten most of the ones they listed
i was nice when i told the guy it was wrong info and he said i was dumb :ROFL:
its almost as bad as the place in philly that tried selling a guy a arowana and a aligator gar and said they can spend there lives in is 100 gallon after i pissed the guy who worked there off the customer left and didnt buy the fish
Vitaliy
01-01-2006, 2:01 PM
That is nothing new for a chain pet/fish store, they will tell you anything to sell you a fish. Funny that I recently posted a thread on some monster loaches:
http://www.loaches.com/species_images/clown_loach_big.jpg
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12776&highlight=monster+loach
im well aware of the size of both it just you just have to go there and listen to this man talk about how he is a expert keeper and all info is accurate and so on it was only out of respect for my fiance that i didnt laugh in his face
Vitaliy
01-01-2006, 2:50 PM
im well aware of the size of both it just you just have to go there and listen to this man talk about how he is a expert keeper and all info is accurate and so on it was only out of respect for my fiance that i didnt laugh in his face
Print the picture of that loach on some tshirt, walk in the store asking them how big do Clown Loaches get. :naughty:
o yea i can see it now he will go look at the tag on the tank and say 5 inches then the battle will start im so glad i found this one store by me and MFK between both i get all the answers i need thank god there are intelligent people in this world
lizardfishman
01-01-2006, 6:27 PM
wal-mart is horrible at labeling fish. the sad part is, the fish in my 12gal. are all from wal-mart. the only good part was, the labels were all messed up so the lady at the check out only made me pay for three of the 7 fish i bought. i will never buy fish from there again unless it is rare and under priced.
HarpoGarza
01-01-2006, 10:26 PM
I will give Wal-Mart credit for 2 things:
1- You can get a 55 gal. complete set up with a stand for less than $300
and
2- Their fish food prices are cheap.
That is all.
my friend had a tank from them she got a year and a half before the silicone failed dont know why it just did she lost all her fish so i buy nothing but soda from walmart i pay the dollar more for fish food from a quality place
omg i go back there today and look at the fish they have clown knives im gonna pop in again tomarrow to see the regular guy i wonder how big he will tell me they get plus the fish look like they are about to die so im curious about what he will say about that
fishnutham
01-08-2006, 7:47 PM
i cant stand the place went thereto buy some rabbit pellets for my bottom eaters and stuck my nose in the fish sect just to see if there was anything worth saving and wasnt i surprised ever tank was empty except one it had a couple of tetras in there just hanging on the tanks were all algae stained and yellow and this a big place they just built it
dodgefreak8
01-08-2006, 10:24 PM
omg i go back there today and look at the fish they have clown knives im gonna pop in again tomarrow to see the regular guy i wonder how big he will tell me they get plus the fish look like they are about to die so im curious about what he will say about that
I got into a huge argument with a wal-mart EXPERT in the fish department over clown knives. He had them labled as peacful community fish and a max size of 12". He actually insulted me a couple of times verbally. well little did he know that his manager was one of my oldest friends so i just let him know what had happend. But I did that after I took a page out of one of my fish magazines and professionally package taped it to the front of the aquarium that the knives were in. Needless to say I won that fight. :headbang2 chalk up one for the MFK's
Averi666
01-08-2006, 10:38 PM
I got into a huge argument with a wal-mart EXPERT in the fish department over clown knives. He had them labled as peacful community fish and a max size of 12". He actually insulted me a couple of times verbally. well little did he know that his manager was one of my oldest friends so i just let him know what had happend. But I did that after I took a page out of one of my fish magazines and professionally package taped it to the front of the aquarium that the knives were in. Needless to say I won that fight. :headbang2 chalk up one for the MFK's
man liemi like soem walmart deals other wise i hate it (especially died fish im against it) and so go dodge freak that must have been awsome ;)
Opiate
01-08-2006, 11:00 PM
that loach is crazy...seen 1 almost that size...but for there lifespan they actually dun grow that large at all....i've read/been told that loaches can live up to 50 years! which blew my mind...And as for walmart! wadda bunch of morons! :P
Vapor
01-09-2006, 10:32 PM
Yeah i also noticed that Walmart has totally wrong information on their fishes, and at the walmart that i go to i also saw some clown loaches but they were not orange with black stripes like how they were suppose look, Instead they looked light yellow (pale) with light grey stripes. Maybe they were really stressed out, and did not look healthy at all.
These were most likely YoYo loaches
ok so the half dead clown knife fish are adjusting still they are very peacefull can be kept in a community tank i looked at him said wow and laughed another customer that was there is now educated on fish more and going to the lfs that i go to im gonna speak to the manager and get this guy straightened out (hopefully not fired) its not his fault he is dumb they need some info seriously o yea they obtain a max length of 1 foot they get no bigger
:ROFL: :ROFL: these people kill me i should ask him how big a arrowana gets i wonder what he will tell me