Walmart- Change for the better?

[Eoibio]

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.

Well done I would do that... HAVE NO WALMARTS YAY

 

[Druu]

Walmart isn't all that bad. It's meijer you should worry about. I can't even begin to explain. Imagine 5 adult oscars and a jardini in a 25 gallon, covered in ich, not fed in a week, times 25. That's almost meijer.

You may be overstating it a little. Last weekend at the Meijer in South Bend, I picked out two tiny albino veil tail oscars from their tank of normal albinos. Not the most amazing find, but I've never seen them there before.

I've never seen any oscar in meijer above three inches or so. And where are you finding jardinis in meijer?

 

[Druu]

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.

The biggest species I've seen at meijer are oscars, silver dollars, koi, and tiretrack and peacock eels.

I do agree on the employees not knowing much about fish though. Most of the time they get frustrated with trying to net the one I want and just let me get it. No complaint here though- less stress when I do it.

 

[Docsoldlady]

I have to say MOST walmarts have HORRIBLE fish departments. But out of my local Walmarts (there are 2 closest to me) one looks to be getting rid and the other looks to be expanding. I have gotten some of the best fish from them, granted nothing special no monster fish or anything but healthy and happy as soon as I brought them home. So I guess it all depends on where you live and how much the people actually care. I guess my case makes up a whole 5% of the Walmarts but just my 2 cents worth.

 

[Druu]

I have to say MOST walmarts have HORRIBLE fish departments. But out of my local Walmarts (there are 2 closest to me) one looks to be getting rid and the other looks to be expanding. I have gotten some of the best fish from them, granted nothing special no monster fish or anything but healthy and happy as soon as I brought them home. So I guess it all depends on where you live and how much the people actually care. I guess my case makes up a whole 5% of the Walmarts but just my 2 cents worth.

Over 3800 walmart stores in the US. So you've got .005 % at best

 

[arherp]

Meijer doesn't have jardinis, I was just using that as an example. My meijer had literally and seriously, 65 2.5 inch oscars in a 20 gallon, Covered in ich and starving to where you could see bones. (very hard in fish) I got 3 ich- covered sick red eye tetras, and the person netting them missed the bag. They went on the floor and he kicked them under the display. I'm thinking, ok, maybe he has downs or somthing, i'll let it go. He got three more out, and the bag they went in leaked. He dumped the entire thing in the sink. I say I don't want them anymore, and he nods and goes right back at it. I ease away from him, but he is determind. This time he holds them *tightly* in the net, dumos them in the bag, looks through the aisles, finds me, and puts them in my cart.

The moral of the story is don't let severly autistic people net fish!

 

[seds]

That Meijer place sounds pretty crazy.


The petsmart I went to didn't give a flying flip about fish and they all looked underfed and at moderate health. There were few dead fish though. The best places I have been to is PJ's pets and Aquagiant.


One of the worst is my local LFS. They had a clown barb alone 2 tanks from the rest picking some huge dojo loaches alive.

I found 1 harlequin rasbora in with the fancy goldfish (the rest were across the aisle)

Tinfoil barbs need a minimum of 20 gallons and if they are albino they only need 10! (At least they put the max size on the price card things.)

Oscars are marked as EXTREMELY AGGRESSIVE!!!!!!!!!! While other cichlids are marked as just aggressive.

They were going to charge me for neon tetras ($2.40 around here) when I pointed at the white cloud minnows but that got straightened out. There are a few smart people there but they are always doing something managerial.
There are hordes of dead goldfish and rosy reds stuck to filter intake.

I suppose it is expected but they sell bowls and tiny tanks there and at the local walmart

The saltwater section is smallish but very healthy though. It is mostly the little things. I haven't seen epidemics there yet. The prices are high as they have a monopoly: the only pet store within 500 km.



WALMART here has no fish. I haven't had too bad experiences with the one in edmonton

 

[Nic]

whats the best way to put these walmart and terrible fish condition things into perspective.... O wait its simple dont buy there damn fish and get over it..

 

[seds]

That first sentence doesn't make much sense but I guess the point is:

You shouldn't support places that keep animals in crappy conditions. They wouldn't have them there if no one bought them. (Well, they would have them for a month until they succumb to illness.

 

[arherp]

A little off topic, but neons around here are .99 each.


That LFS sound like a lot of others: BAD