Sad story about Walmart and Clown knives

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The last time I went to Walmart there was a dwarf frog on the ground and he was trying to swim in the mass of hair he had acquired. he was mostly dried out. I just cried while my husband attempted to track down someone to put him out of his misery. It was horrible.

They also seem to always have bichirs that are small and look like they have never even seen food.

Lilly
 
That is a terrible story. Unfortunately, it is the fate of many fish that are sold by these chain stores. I think you should have to have a trained person on staff when you sell live animals. Just like you have to have a trained person in a retail food establishment (atleast in Maryland you do).
 
if i had a tank or resources to (or in the future) to purchase and house all of those knifefish, i would have if i was there. i love clown knives, fish in those stores live terrible lives. i saw like 6 african brown knifefish in a walmart all huddled under a filter tube for protection. i dont think they ever turn off the lights in those tanks either.... every time i go to walmart i always see a pure silver koi, and are tmepted to buy it, but i dont have room for one, sucks. usually i see fish come and go in that store so fast, they all die off then they just clean and replace all the fish.
 
Very few fish can "survive" in the Walmart and get to live to see another day. In my walmart, goldfish (any types) and oscars rarely survive more than 5 days. Walmart have always bad batch of corys especially in fact the corys dont have any tail fins but just stump. Puffers do poorly always starving become cannibals, hunting down other members and chew their faces off while the unlucky puffer were alive. Not even feeder guppy or convicts can survive in my walmart. Feeder goldfish dont even survived on third day. Only two lucky giant danios which managed to survive for three months and gambusia & african cichlids do allright. Neon tetra and glofish stuggling to stay alive. The rest ones just give up and laying on bottom..

I saved two lucky giant danios that survived for 3 months and are now in my 20gal tanks along with "Walmart" mosquitofish.

What it make me sick is when an employee just scooped all dead fish and dumped into oscar tanks, thinks the oscars can take of the dead fish. Stay away from cannibal puffers and anything in the tanks!
 
Camphilophus;2092153; said:
every time I buy fish at walmart, meijer, and other terrible stores I bag them up myself and right down the code for the $.12 comets, then go through the self checkout. Its much easier paying $2 and rescuing a tank full of fish.

I've even gone as far as letting the employees bag them up and changing the codes they write on them. Am I stealing? Yes. Do I care? No. They shouldn't be selling fish. If they lose their asses on them then maybe they will stop selling them or they'll pay more attention to the fish section.
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if we all did this 2 times a month, they might stop selling them. i'm not a scofflawer but this is a great idea i think we should all contemplete at least. I'll send you $1.44 so you can do it at least 1 a month for the next year
 
niblit;1985693; said:
wallmart only sells ich but you get the fish for free
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yes, this is the best description i have ever seen!!!! and you all realize how much jepordy you put your fish in when you "rescue" the Wmart fish. I've thought about bring in a bottle of bleach and kill every tank. but i don't know if it'd do any good. they'd just restock and make a stupid excuse. don't try this unless you willing to pay a price.
 
I went into walmart the other day and we always go by the fish because my 2 year old likes to look at them. ALL of their African Cichlids were emaciated and pathetic looking. It was horrible. I work in the Aquatics department at Petco, and I get complements daily on how healthy our fish are, along with many complaints of how horrible Walmarts fish department is. I can't imagine letting my fish go that long without feeding them... it is just sad. We have some Oscars that came in as Medium size...well they didn't sell and they were getting way to big for the tank that they were in...so I got with my manager and we waited till all of our Koi sold out (they have their own very large tank, probably 100g or so). Once they were all gone, we quit ordering them (winter is coming anyway) and moved all of my once-medium-sized Oscars into the Koi's old tank. They look sooooo happy :) I love to see them swimming around in that huge area. Ok, sorry to get off subject...just giving an example of how a fish department SHOULD care for their fish lol :D
 
wow walmart sucks big huevos!
 
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