Walmart- Change for the better?

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FlamingFury5;2727922; said:
whats so bad about walmart selling fish? at least they don't keep bettas in snapple bottles like my local pet store.
Just because it's not absolutely terrible doesn't mean that they are good. Walmart still has bad conditions.
 
Walmart shouldn't be our biggest concern. There are much worse places...
 
A couple of the local Meijers are better than Wal-mart. Just like any chain store, it varies from store to store. The fish I've bought from Meijer have all been healthy. My second oldest fish is from Meijer. The people who net the fish seem to be highly inexperienced though(can only find people from other departments). Many of the Wal-marts seem to have a lot of dead fish in their tanks. Meijer, at least the ones I recall, doesn't carry oversized fish like pacu and clown knifes.
 
Man, words can't describe my meijer.
 
I think its great that a Walmart stopped carrying fish, now lets get more to do the same
 
arherp;2729714; said:
Man, words can't describe my meijer.

What shocks me is the people I've had net fish. One guy wanted to put gold mystery snails in the boxes they used for hamsters, etc :eek: I can understand that he knew nothing about snails, but isn't it common sense that if they are in an aquarium that they should be transported in water? A women who netted leopard danios for me was slashing the net around the tank like the net was a weapon :(

There is one Meijer where the aquariums were full of ick. I haven't bought anything from them
 
the thing is, me and puffcrusader696... well, before I start, some of you might consider this stealing, but it was for the fish!

Anyways, we went to a wal-mart, and they carried GSPs. they were TOTALLY unhealthy. so what we did, was we got some freeze-dried food, and when no one was looking, dropped it in their tank. the puffers looked at us with smiles!

But they didn't have treatment for finrot of hole-in-the-head, so we couldn't help them there.

but yeah, most wal-marts are going out of the fish bussiness. I'm particurly glad about it. they don't know how to treat fish. thats why I go to places dedicated to animals, like petsmart. almost all the fish I ot from them are healthy.
 
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