Have to love Walmart's fish section lol 12" haha
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Love Walmart!
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I need to get some pics at my local Wal-Mart. I don't know a lot about fish, but did see a couple of labels that struck me as blatantly incorrect...
The baby pacus were SOOO much smaller than the baby oscars.
Of course, by the time we got them at a moving away yard sale, the pacu had outgrown the 55 gallon tank they were raised in and had trouble turning around in the 12" wide tank
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I talked to the manager of our local WalMart and showed him this picture.
They stopped selling pacu. Now there is a local pet store that now sells pacu. They are in a 10 gallon tank.
atleast walmart stoped selling them, saddly this happens way to much...they things people do to make a buck
The baby pacus were SOOO much smaller than the baby oscars.
Of course, by the time we got them at a moving away yard sale, the pacu had outgrown the 55 gallon tank they were raised in and had trouble turning around in the 12" wide tank
.
I talked to the manager of our local WalMart and showed him this picture.
They stopped selling pacu. Now there is a local pet store that now sells pacu. They are in a 10 gallon tank.
Only readon I buy the occasional fish ftom walmart is to save it from death
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Petsmart does the same thing, saying fish like tinfoils only get 6in max when they can really grow twice that size. I actually haven't seen my local walmart selling pacu for a while now, but the places that still do and lie about the max size should be held accountable in some way because its the same thing as false advertising except the wellbeing of a living thing is at stake. I made the stupid mistake of believing the tag at walmart without doing any research and bought a pacu as my first serious fish 5 years ago, and after feeling like a prison warden the last year watching her struggling to turn around in a 90g, I'm now risking getting evicted if I don't break a floor joist first with a 240 in my upstairs apartment. I'm just glad I only bought one but it's already 17in and I still dont think a 96x24x24 tank is halfway big enough. I love that stupid fish but pacu shouldn't be sold to the public period
I've read and reread the WalMart label through the years. "Red belly pacu grow to 10" That's true, but what is omitted is that they then grow to 20", 30".
It's amazing that your pacu survived in a 90g. You must have maintained excellent water parameters. Typically, they die suddenly at about 2 years when kept in 75 gallon tanks. I joined a pacu forum. Everybody was gung-ho on keeping pacus. There were no moderators after both of them lost their pacus at two years. They gave out great advice like "change your water when you can smell it" The owner of the forum was also a non-participant. I suspect he had also lost his pacus. On a more positive note, Liz had her two pacu in a 210 for 7 years until they died as a result of a fire. (She had ordered a 500 g for them.) My two have been in a 300 g for 7 years. It is pitifully small for them. August will make 4 years since we started a big tank upgrade for them.
I can't say that pacus should not be sold to the public, but I think that any place that sells pacus should also sell tanks big enough to house them properly for their entire life....I guess that does eliminate all sellers as no vendor is going to stock custom made tanks big enough to house a pacu.
I agree that fish are pets as any other animal. The really sad thing is that when properly kept, pacu can live 30+ years. That's far longer than a dog or cat. Pacus should be priced like long-lived parrots and macaws. When it comes to fishkeeping, many people have a feeder fish mentality--that all fish are disposable. Nobody buys a $6.50 fish with the intention to spend thousands of $$$$ to maintain it for life. A local restaurant put in a 30 g tank with five pacus and seven oscars. When I went and spoke with the WalMart manager, he knew about the 30 g restaurant tank because he had sold the tank and fish to the restaurant owners.