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woolfie

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hi all
got a question for all of you i go to some lfs and i was wondering what happens to the fish that are not sold i have bought fish came back about 6 weeks later the fish are still there same size where as mine have put on a good size do you think the shops just feed them a minimal amount
i know of one shop who have had the same fish in the same tanks for near on a year all the same size where as the one i got are double the size
do you guys think the shop keeper really look after them what happens to the unsaleable

anyone got any thoughts on this

cheers woolfie :thumbsup:
 
Ah, a good subject indeed. Almost all of the fish that I see in my lfs are malnourished. They do feed them minimal amounts, every day. Fish are kept in basic conditions, smallest tank possible and lots of fish in each tank to maximize space available.

Fish need love and a lot of care, which lfs cannot provide. It's a buisness, and they treat fishes like products they have to sell. Some lfs are better than others, but still the majority couldn't care less for the fish imo.

As for the un-sold fishes...my guess is they either die or staff take them for free after a while. Never seen a fish not sell for more than a few months, or they told me they sold it but in fact they just got rid of it? Who knows...anybody working in lfs can answer??
 
woolfie said:
hi all
got a question for all of you i go to some lfs and i was wondering what happens to the fish that are not sold i have bought fish came back about 6 weeks later the fish are still there same size where as mine have put on a good size do you think the shops just feed them a minimal amount
i know of one shop who have had the same fish in the same tanks for near on a year all the same size where as the one i got are double the size
do you guys think the shop keeper really look after them what happens to the unsaleable

anyone got any thoughts on this

cheers woolfie :thumbsup:
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I think the lfs' usually keep them in small tanks that hardly gets water changes or maybe they get the same fish consantly and it looks like the same one.
 
big corporations NEVER do water changes ever. Overpriced fish that never sell just sit there until they eventually die.
 
i work at a pet shop called animal house and its basically a damn nazi camp for animals the manager told me to not feed the fish as much as i have been cause "they only need a pinch once every other day" they also had a spotted eel that was severely mishandled during shipping and obviously wasnt getting any better i told the mngr that maybe we should freeze it to put it out its misery and he said "nonsense this morning he ate fine when i through in ghost shrimp" which is pure B.S. cause the poor f@ck!ng thing cant even sit up right it just stays on its side huffing and puffing all day so three weeks later its still in the same shape but now growing cotton-like fungus all over it and i tell the dick again "look that eel is infected and it has to be treated or its eventually gonna infect everything else" thats when he finally says "toss it" and they treat the reptiles the same way sunday i had to buy veggies and fruit (my own money)for the uros cause all he was giving em was old-ass romaine needless to say im hunting for another job
 
ArowanaCichlid said:
That NAZI sob someone needs to call the ASPCA on him before those fish really do start to die. You know he'd probably try to sell a dead animal to a customer

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yeah if he keeps it up ima do it, the funny thing is he drives a hummer h2 but cant afford to buy proper food for uromastyx n the other reptiles ( :swear: what a joke he is )
 
yeah the shop i was talking about has birchirs at over a foot long about 15 in a 18 inch tank half of them there backs are all limp and hanging to one side damm shame he also offered me discud which were paper thin you could spit through them i told him to stick them where the sun dont shine the place is a house of death he gets fish in that no other fish shop get in then no one wants them and they sit for ages and ages getting thinner untill they die or he feeds them to his alligator gars three of them in a 2and a half foot corner tank he also fed 6 or 7 channa dont know the strain but it was a discrace
 
I have to disagree with some of this. I worked for a national chain pet store back when I was in college. We had an awesome fish staff that really cared. Animals got optimal treatment, multiple feedings daily and great water quality (from both H20 changes and filter cleaning). I can't think of time when we had an animal that didn't sell or just stayed the same size. I will say that often times even though that animal looks the same, it was a new animal. I personally was accused of things similar to this. Any sick animal was treated in a quar. tank, nothing was ever put down, given to staff or left un-accounted for.

I also hear what you mean about companies treating them like a product rather than an animal. But, not all places are like that.
 
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