What fish would you like to see gone from petco?

[Deadeye]

I aggree. The stores frag tank is a disaster. I have no freshwater puffers at my store thankfully. Are longfin varieties impared? Elaborate

For something like a fin nipping barb or tetra, all you are doing is paying extra money for what will be a short finned fish in a week.
Long fins also make it a target for any other fin nippers in the tank.
The fins cause a lot of drag in water and make it harder to swim. Compare a veiltail betta to a wild type, the wild type is going to be much faster and more agile than a fish that has to lug a huge fin around.

 

[Deadeye]

Pacu

Lol pacu belong only in the amazon...unless anyone has at least 10,000 gallons to spare.

 

[Magnus_Bane]

Personally I would pick both the chinese algae eater and the common pleco all due to the same reasons. 1 they grow incredibly fast, 2 they can both get upto 2ft fully grown, 3 once they are past the 6in mark they tend to become very aggressive and are known to kill other fish.

 

[Jim bean 20055]

I say rosy red minnows. They look horrible every time I see them at the store.

 

[Magnus_Bane]

I say rosy red minnows. They look horrible every time I see them at the store.

They just never seem to understand that minnows need cold water and tons of oxygen.

 

[Deadeye]

I say rosy red minnows. They look horrible every time I see them at the store.

They are really just there as feeders. Minnows and goldfish are bad feeders, but are common for that purpose.
I bought a few from petsmart as pets. They looked just as bad but actually did pretty good once they settled in and got some food in their stomachs, competed head on with dwarf puffers.

 

[tlindsey]

B bridget1476 I applaud your effort especially to limit the larger growing and difficult to keep species that wind up in a newbee fishkeeper's aquarium. Hopefully your new manager won't have a problem with that because some manager's and supervisors are often relocated.

 

[Potato Patatto]

B bridget1476 I applaud your effort especially to limit the larger growing and difficult to keep species that wind up in a newbee fishkeeper's aquarium. Hopefully your new manager won't have a problem with that because some manager's and supervisors are often relocated.

I think petcos should do more research on their areas and some of the fish shops near them, what they carry or specialize in. I often hear people say the only fish store within 45 minutes or an hour is a petco. If that’s the case, I’d go the large variety and oddball market for sure. If I’m going up against a predatory fins 20 minutes down the road, rethink that strategy ?. I’m not sure the issue is what petco carries, but the information to the newbie people who might solicit a petco. It sounds like the person here and that petco does a good job on informing customers of the fish they're buying and the needs of it which goes a lot further. I’m not sure what buying power a petco has but I do feel like they could get some extra fun oddballs if they wanted.

 

[esoxlucius]

Your "petco" in the states is probably similar to our "pets at home" in the uk. From what i've seen so far i'd say it's not the fish that need "thinning" out, it's the inexperienced and often can't give a toss store personal that need improving upon. That would be a better starting point.

That said, if there was ever a scenario where store personnel improved drammatically there'd still need to be certain fish that were out of bounds to these type of non specialist stores, and I think Jexnell earlier idea of no fish with the potential to get larger than 6" is good one.

I don't know about petco but I find in my local pets at home the customers in the fish dept all seem to be the clueless mum and dad type characters who just want to get little screaming johnny a basic set up but they haven't got a clue what to do. You can tell the way they talk to one another or the line of questioning they have for the similarly clueless store operatives.

 

[bridget1476]

I don't know about petco but I find in my local pets at home the customers in the fish dept all seem to be the clueless mum and dad type characters who just want to get little screaming johnny a basic set up but they haven't got a clue what to do. You can tell the way they talk to one another or the line of questioning they have for the similarly clueless store operatives.

I saw on customers recept that he bought a 2.5 gallon. Reterned 4 dead glofish skirt tetras to me. I asked about the tank size and he pointes to a 10 gallon.