i agree with you there. but it seems to me that alot of hobbies involve live animals and many people greatly enjoy those. some hobbies already have limits like hunting and fishing, but if you read the article on the first page, its not bad to buy tropical fish from a lfs, not at all. as long as the store is reputable. most tropical fish nowadays are bred in captivity then porvided to the lfs, like the one i go to, guy brought in a big batch of nice looking angelfish, and i purchased them.
Peta says: Fish Keeping = BAD!
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Reputable LFS are fine, but they are in it for the money, its a business.
Its petco, petsmart, walmart, other chains, and the many horrid (sometimes worse than the chain stores) private shops. The number of lives lost due to negligence is exponential. Probably on a daily basis, there is no question why they oppose it.
Its petco, petsmart, walmart, other chains, and the many horrid (sometimes worse than the chain stores) private shops. The number of lives lost due to negligence is exponential. Probably on a daily basis, there is no question why they oppose it.
I cant stand PETA-they give all animal rights activists a bad name.. i mean to see Pamela Anderson blab on and on about KFC chicken with her boobs half out of her business shirt just makes me laugh. There is a right way and a wrong way to advocate animal rights, and I think they approach things way over the top, infringe on human rights, and are abusive in their teaching..
the problem that a fishkeeper like me has is that a place like petsmart is really the only convenient place to go for fish. however they are good for supplies. my other lfs that i much prefer is petland, although they are a chain store, they sell a great variety and are highly knowledgable, and unlike petsmart and petco, they are willing to negotiate trades for store credit.
i would have to agree with you on that especially with walmart, they are horrible with fish care. they had african brown knifefish in one of their tanks, (newly renovated store nice stock for a walmart.....), but their tanks are bare bottom and with no place to hide, the knifefish were all crushed up underneath a filterpiece for shading. i was very surprised to see that they had a tank full of dwarf pufferfish!!! something ive never seen in my area. but they already had dead fish in the tanks, but of course that was the rosy reds. some are notoriously bad, but some chains can be reputable if given educated staffing.
Heh, i worked at a petco part time for a few years. No training at all...overall the employees had been there for years they had some experience though. Those places have horribly generalized concepts...in most cases they have no idea about specific differences between species. Like "cichlids" are lumped together and the pH just has to be "good" ...regardless if its a hardwater or softwater species. But thats what you get when you have a corporation selling live animals.
Bad private shops, no need to go there. I've been in some atrocious places, i dont understand how they stay in business. Thats where the chain stores have them, at least they have district managers come in and do inpections.
Bad private shops, no need to go there. I've been in some atrocious places, i dont understand how they stay in business. Thats where the chain stores have them, at least they have district managers come in and do inpections.
whenever i go into petsmart i have to bite my tongue when im trying to explain something because they moved up a weekend part timer to full time and all she knows is tropical community cant mix with tropical semi aggressive, and that since all the cichlids are labeled the same, they can get along...... yeah right.
Any way, mostly all the fish you buy at stores are bred at overpopulated fish fams. So in a way you're helping them.
