I applaud your conviction , however to a big faceless corporation. Your purchase indicates $$ and profit which in turn will cause them to just keep ordering... a total boycott of all pet supplies is the only way to get Wally mart to shut the department down.......
Another WalMart Rescue Attempt...
- Thread starter Keeper of the Ropes
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Mr Pleco;1116007; said:
Corp will not listen until when we unite as one big organization against it. It's sad what people will do to maximize profit. Unfortunately, the general population still see fish as a food item and dogs or cats as a pet. Therefore, not enough people care enough to provide proper care for a fish in a store. People will start protesting if find a dog @ a store in a 2ft x 2ft box and it's underweight but people will not do anything for a fish.I sent WalMart a lengthy well thought out and well written letter about my beliefs on all of it. I bought a small guarmi years back - had Hexamita and knocked out an entire healthy fish population in only 3 days. Not only did I complain in this letter, but I also offered ideas. I brought to their attention that a lot of their problems could be solved with the products they sold not even 20' from the troubled tanks, and I gave them the idea of creating a new job. An aquarium tech. Not one per store, b/c the company as a whole loves to cut corners, but one per division, to go to the stores and use those products on the tanks and fix as many ailments as they can. I didn't even stop short of volunteering for the job. No reply from the company, as you may imagine. I also compared them selling sick fish to selling a child in school a computer desk that will collapse as soon as it assembled, only to ruin the electronics they put on it and damage the foundation of the floor beneath it.
Now, as far as these fish, YES I complained when I bought them. I tore into the guy pretty good, and informed him I was not buying them because I needed or wanted them, but because they were starving to death. I also criticized him and told him about how little time it would take him to feed the fish on a daily basis and pointed out some food. As for them making profit, they really didn't. There were over 20 in the tank, and I can promise that they will all be dead within two or three days. There's no way, even buying at cost, that selling three out of 20 fish can bring them profit.
The babies are doing so-so. One of the three seems out of danger of dying from starvation, but he has more of the disease than the other two. The smaller ones are staying at the top of the water unless they go down to eat. None of them are capable of swimming properly.... imagine rowing a rowboat with only one oar. Drift to the right, then to the left. Last night the three of them devoured an entire large bloodworm cube, and today I let them snack on some high quality flakes. I'll get to the shrimp tonight at my normal feeding time.
Jessie*
Now, as far as these fish, YES I complained when I bought them. I tore into the guy pretty good, and informed him I was not buying them because I needed or wanted them, but because they were starving to death. I also criticized him and told him about how little time it would take him to feed the fish on a daily basis and pointed out some food. As for them making profit, they really didn't. There were over 20 in the tank, and I can promise that they will all be dead within two or three days. There's no way, even buying at cost, that selling three out of 20 fish can bring them profit.
The babies are doing so-so. One of the three seems out of danger of dying from starvation, but he has more of the disease than the other two. The smaller ones are staying at the top of the water unless they go down to eat. None of them are capable of swimming properly.... imagine rowing a rowboat with only one oar. Drift to the right, then to the left. Last night the three of them devoured an entire large bloodworm cube, and today I let them snack on some high quality flakes. I'll get to the shrimp tonight at my normal feeding time.
Jessie*
To the Keeper of the Ropes, I applaud your effort and wish you the best of luck. To the "you are just supporting corp. greed and suffering" crowd, you are absolutely right. It will cause them to order more and not care about those either, I know, I work for a corp chain also. But as caring people concerned about animal welfare, seeing the suffering of a living creature causes us to think with our hearts and not our minds. We can't save or educate everyone, but we have to try, if only for our own peace of mind.
I hope you have success with those little guys .. if they make it they may end up being so special to you.. i know a few of my rescues actually turned out to be quite beautiful and healthy after doctoring.. i hope these two little guys live a happy healthy life with you.
Keeper,
Keep them on bloodworms for the next week and 1/4 some high quality pellets and add them to the meals.Letting them gorge after approaching starvation can worsen an already bad situation-Anne
Keep them on bloodworms for the next week and 1/4 some high quality pellets and add them to the meals.Letting them gorge after approaching starvation can worsen an already bad situation-Anne
its what they did in band of brothers... if they over eat after not eating for so long it can and mostly will kill them... they need to slowly increase the size of their stomach... not all at once or will burst and kill them slowly by eating their insides out... I know it hurts, but feed a little at a time until healthy...
Yes,i break this into peices and give it to ALL of my fish.My Polys love 'em.Just make the peices really small.Keeper of the Ropes;1116656; said:
