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[plecostic]

If it weren't for LFS like petco/petsmart, most of us would never have any fish. Everyone likes to knock these stores yet if they were to try and run a LFS, they would end up the same way, it's a business. For the most part I think these stores are not so bad. All my fish came from petco/petsmart. Some think buying fish online will be better, they think because a website has cute pictures of healthy fish and educational articles that they are somehow magically better than LFS, even though they don't really know who they are buying from or how their tanks are setup. When it's business, all bets are off and even the best fish keepers will cram a dozen fish in a 1 gallon tank if they can make money. Just putting it into perspective that's all. Instead of complaining about it take responsibility for choosing your fish and I don't know maybe educate the aquatics person on the art of fish keeping. If it were not for the very knowledgeable petco fish keeper I would not be in this hobby.

There's this one LFS that claims to be the best and the largest and the very best, world's greatest, etc. I just had to go see what all the advertising hype was all about, so I paid them a visit. They got a lot of fish but their tanks are something awful, beyond nasty. Petco/Petsmart much better and these people are fish only, you would think they would take care of their fish better since that's what they specialize in.

You just never know what you're gonna get in a LFS. Many pet stores don't promise you the best pets, they sell pet supplies, that's their main business.

 

[oscaroo]

some petsmartsare okay but some are not so good the one that is nearer to our house is okay about 3 quarters of the people there are about as good with fish as me it is verry good compared to most petsmarts there was only one incadent where one of the 1 quarter of people who do not know much about fish they said that convict cichlid could live off tropical fish flakes well a month later the convict died from lack of nutrition.

the petsmart that is not near our house i have been to once the person there told me that she had a 20 inch cichlid so I asked her if it was a umbee or a dovi or a pecock bass she said she had never herd those aqarium terms before my parents said that she knows a lot about fish and that I should listen to her well she clamed that the 20 inch cichlid was a texes cichlid (they rarley get that big) that was thriving in a 55 gallon tank with 3 silver dollers(this does not make sense how chould a texes cichlid get 20 inches and even if it did how chould it thrive in a 55 gallon tank with fish that need to be in scools of 5 or more) the texes cichlid used to be in her 170 gallon tank (only people who are really good with fish should have tanks that size) so mabey the texes cichlid got big in the 170 gallon. my dad said that I was right about evrything and that the person thare was full of crap after he did some reserch before he said that.

 

[Itsadeepbluesea]

The problem with asking questions at a big chain store is you generally don't get the correct answers, so your best bet is to research them yourself.

 

[TaratronVaeVictus]

I worked at Petsmart for a few years. In short, you get what you pay for: pay minimum wage and don't ask for experience, because most highly experienced aquarists don't work for pennies, and you don't get knowledgable employees. The only reason I started keeping fish was because of a single tag on a tank that indicated ropefish ate frozen food. What frozen food, I wondered. I went home, did a search online, and up popped Aquahobby.com. And the obsession was born.

As with all things you need to research first. You can blame the employees all you want, but there is no incentive for them to learn more than catch and bag fish: the more I knew and the more I asked questions or turned people away from fish they couldn't house, the more management got on me. It was safer for your job if you knew basic **** and didn't go beyond anything that the company didn't tell you.