Please Sign and Circulate FDA INVESTIGATE WALMART PUFFER POISONING!

[monkeybike]

Maybe you should get in touch with Cornell University, they have an excellent veterinary program, rather than basing your movement on hearsay and conjecture.

You wonder what is killing Wal-Mart fish? Here is my conjecture:

They probably don't quarantine, medicate, buy quality livestock, feed properly, have properly educated staff, or provide specific environment for species.

If it is a central system type rack, then without medicating the whole unit, disease can spread thru quite easily. I see this at our local Petco occasionally. If it's lucky enough to have a UV unit are the bulbs getting changed annually?

 

[PufferCorps]

As for the puffers isolated from their valuable stock, perhaps these puffers are known for fin nippers and very aggressive to other fishes?

No, not for fin nipping.
I'm not sure why some are finding it hard to accept. The best I can do to assure you that I'm telling the truth is an article I saved that backs up what I was told by those supporters.

Please see the link. Half way in the interview with Phil Shane of Quality Marine, he is quoted as saying,:
"conditions "in the bag". This treated water (yes, it is Tropic Marin tm)) is vented to waste and blended slowly with the 'blue valve' water that is of 'normal' system make-up. The puffers here are being routinely isolated (as they secrete toxins when shipped) and treated with tetracycline"

http://www.wetwebmedia.com/aqbizsubwebindex/qmpropc.htm

 

[PufferCorps]

Walmart employees, general lack of care, packed tanks, etc. I'm with the don't get the gov involved side, while the horrible conditions at Walmart is bad, it would be better to get people to not buy fish from them. Although good luck with that knowing the general public.

Just know that with the American government that any regulations or actions taken by them won't affect Walmart, but will have harsh effects on your lfs when most lfs are struggling to begin with.

I'm sworn to keep my promise to Spike and so many others. There are plenty of opportunities for people to better their lot in life. Fish and Puffers have no rights, no voice, no choice. I'm not trying to hurt anyone. I had to take action because nobody else was.

I bring out the best ad worst in people by doing this. I just hope that stop and think about it. Whats realy at stake here? I for one wouldnt want to see any LFS suffer, but right now hundreds of thousands of tiny little insignificant lives are in pain and dying right in front of us and we do nothing. That tiny fish represents so much that we have lost in ourselfs as human beings.
I'll never turn my back on them. Their our brothers too. No, their more than that, they are our souls.

 

[MN_Rebel]

And the water from the bag went in the drain directly, not in the tank. You still didn't explain to me why some Walmart still lost lot of fish when they have no puffer in the stock for years? Lot of Walmart didn't carrying the puffers. And how come the other local fish stores didn't lost their entire stock to the puffers?

 

[MN_Rebel]

I'm sworn to keep my promise to Spike and so many others. There are plenty of opportunities for people to better their lot in life. Fish and Puffers have no rights, no voice, no choice. I'm not trying to hurt anyone. I had to take action because nobody else was.

I bring out the best ad worst in people by doing this. I just hope that stop and think about it. Whats realy at stake here? I for one wouldnt want to see any LFS suffer, but right now hundreds of thousands of tiny little insignificant lives are in pain and dying right in front of us and we do nothing. That tiny fish represents so much that we have lost in ourselfs as human beings.
I'll never turn my back on them. Their our brothers too. No, their more than that, they are our souls.

You ain't one of these animal rights activists, are you?

 

[PufferCorps]

Walmart employees, general lack of care, packed tanks, etc. I'm with the don't get the gov involved side, while the horrible conditions at Walmart is bad, it would be better to get people to not buy fish from them. Although good luck with that knowing the general public.

Just know that with the American government that any regulations or actions taken by them won't affect Walmart, but will have harsh effects on your lfs when most lfs are struggling to begin with.

I'm sworn to keep my promise to Spike and so many others. There are plenty of opportunities for people to better their lot in life. Fish and Puffers have no rights, no voice, no choice. I'm not trying to hurt anyone. I had to take action because nobody else was.

I bring out the best ad worst in people by doing this. I just hope that stop and think about it. Whats realy at stake here? I for one wouldnt want to see any LFS suffer, but right now hundreds of thousands of tiny little insignificant lives are in pain and dying right in front of us and we do nothing. That tiny fish represents so much that we have lost in ourselfs as human beings.
I'll never turn my back on them. Their our brothers too. No, their more than that, they are our souls.

You must wearing the tinfoil hat, because there is no proof that the water is full of Texododoxin at Walmart. How do you explained the fish deaths.......when some Walmart didn't stock puffers? Ironically the local fish stores never had any problems with the puffers in their stock.

Maybe because they feed them. Walmart does not.

 

[PufferCorps]

You ain't one of these animal rights activists, are you?

Absolutely not. Im an advocate for the Puffers of Walmart.

 

[PufferCorps]

And the water from the bag went in the drain directly, not in the tank. You still didn't explain to me why some Walmart still lost lot of fish when they have no puffer in the stock for years? Lot of Walmart didn't carrying the puffers. And how come the other local fish stores didn't lost their entire stock to the puffers?

Puffers under stress continuosly excreet ttx. I want to find out if they are in fact poisoning the others. I think it would be a problem you too would like to see resolved. You do care about fish, I imagine or you wouldnt have them.

 

[predatorkeeper87]

Puffers under stress continuosly excreet ttx. I want to find out if they are in fact poisoning the others. I think it would be a problem you too would like to see resolved. You do care about fish, I imagine or you wouldnt have them.

I think the point everyone is trying to make is they agree walmart shouldn't be allowed to sell fish at all being that they don't take care of any species, not just puffers.

The point I believe most are making here, myself included, is getting the FDA involved about a fish that has a toxic chemical in its genetic makeup is only going to lead to puffers being placed on the federal banned species list. If the FDA actually goes the distance and investigates this, and they indeed find TTX in the water and trace it to the puffers...they will ban the fish, not punish the place they find it at.

 

[MN_Rebel]

Puffers under stress continuosly excreet ttx. I want to find out if they are in fact poisoning the others. I think it would be a problem you too would like to see resolved. You do care about fish, I imagine or you wouldnt have them.

Obviously I do care but let's be realistic this is Walmart we are talking about. You still didn't explain to me WHY many fishes has died at several Walmart when they do not stock any puffers for years?