Walmart should be BANNED from selling fish

[misstish]

and this is why!!!

this isn't the best picture. but these little Green Spotter Puffers were in a tank with a dead one and two plecos. Who knows how long they have been in there with a dead one.
One is extremely well fed and its nice and plump(bottom left corner)
the one in the middle. SKINNIER THEN A TWIG! Its sad.
So I brought these babies home with me and I'm hoping for the best on their survival. I've had one before and he lasted a couple years before deciding to go poof on me.
I've tested my water, added actual saltwater salt in order to make sure these babies live. I've got their diet food on hand still from the last one. Thankfully they are brackish fish like my goby dragon. I do have to be careful on watching them with my goby because they will nip at the fins.

I don't think walmart should be allowed to sell ANY kind of fish what-so-ever! One tank had a dead fish that was covered in white fuzz that was an inch think. They use the same filtration system. I asked the lady if they change the filters often and how they can just not notice dead fish like that. Its horrible living conditions for any kind of fish.

 

[brown2010]

agreed

 

[Pyramid_Party]

Yeah I saw some bad looking GSPs not long ago at walmart. One of them was sucked up and black looking. Same thing with the Oscars, they didn't look too pretty. The sad realization is fish being sold at stores like walmart are viewed as no different than products on the shelf. They dont care whats dead and/or dying, they write it off as part of their losses as they do with everything else in the store.

Thats how business is with fish, the fish business is that they hold fish to be sold. They don't care about tank sizes, feeding them, medicating them or whether they are dead and/or dying. This is the way it goes at LFS's too. Until fish are viewed as animals with rights they will continued to be sold in this manner.

 

[Reptilesfishbirdsmammals]

my walmart sells completely healthy fish i dont know what your guys problem is

 

[yogurt_21]

already had a thread and petition about this last year. nothing changes no matter how much we hate it.

 

[Industrial]

That is a terrible argument for why walmart should not carry fish.

I have seen worse at LFS (long dead corpses floating in the current). Even at work occasionally a fish dies under a rock and isn't noticed for a couple days. Dominant avacado puffers (I know that's not the kind you were talking about) will not let the other puffers get any food so usually one is fat and the rest are thin. The more you try to spot feed the thin ones, the more the dominant puffer attacks them.

Walmart should not carry fish because they use 8 gallon cubes that are way overstocked. The local super walmart does not even use gravel. They just use bare tanks with pictures of gravel on the bottom.

 

[misstish]

my walmart sells completely healthy fish i dont know what your guys problem is

how many people do you know that bought a fish from walmart and it lasted more then a month? Because I don't know any.
If you aren't specialized fish/animal store you should not be allowed to sell them, thats my opinion.

 

[Cookie*]

I've got 2 Walmarts in my area and I would never buy fish from either. The fish always are sick or unhealthy/inbred looking. There is never an attendant at the fish area either, which is only 16 ten gallon tanks. Crappy fish, crappy selection, crappy service.

 

[Madding]

Just an FYI - starting a thread about banning Walmart from selling fish and then telling us about the two fish you bought from Walmart is completely contradictory and the entirely wrong way to support your belief or add merit to the cause.

 

[Cookie*]

how many people do you know that bought a fish from walmart and it lasted more then a month? Because I don't know any.
If you aren't specialized fish/animal store you should not be allowed to sell them, thats my opinion.

My friend keeps buying africans from there and wonders why they're always dying and his water is fine. I keep telling him it's the fish not the tank but he won't listen.

I wish there was a license requirement to work with fish. Too many commercial/franchise lfs hire people that just don't give a crap or know any better. Yesterday at a Petco looking for dither fish for my 55 gallon w/chocolate cichlid and 6" L91, the employee was trying to tell me it was ok to put in 2-3 more SA/CA cichlids as long as they were not aggressive.