LFS is killing 2-3 dragonfish a day!

If you are going to give advice, back it up. These corporate places usually have a manual or something that they follow. So you have to proove it is wrong. Bring in a book or printed article from the internet to proove they are brackish fish, and what type of water brackish actually is (not just adding some salt).

They can't put them in brackish water because the corporate office does not instruct them to. So if they tried it, they'd be in trouble for not following the 'policy and procedure' handbook.

It sucks, I know. They also keep Columbian Sharks and Mono Sebaes in fresh water.

I think you will have to go to the top which is their corporate offices. That is the only way you will effect any change in their policies.

Marinemom

you should write to the corperate offices and tell them about it.

you'll have to tell them that they need MARINE salt in their water, not aquarium salt.

they'll need to find a way to seperate the brackish fish from the others, because the other fish that they carry (excluding mollies) wont appreciate marine salt in their water. or, they could give instructions (like a typed up sheet of paper, my Petsmart has some on certain types of fish already) to the customers buying the fish on how to properly acclimate them to a true brackish environment.

While I agree that Dragons need brackish, in the over a year I've been working at PetSmart I've never seen a dead one yet. Go fig.

But PetSmart is supposed to be updating some of it's information and is starting to at last label some of the fish as brackish.

You have to go to corporate if you want to see changes with things like water salinity, space, species carried, labels, etc. Basically the only thing the people at the stores (including the managers) can do is alter how many times/what the fish are being fed and how clean the tanks are. Even with that we have manuals for how we are supposed to do it (with fairly specific feeding charts). Our tanks are also hooked up to one main system, so having one or two tanks which are brackish while the rest are not wouldn't be feasible. Sadly enough the only thing I can see coming of this is corporate ignoring the brackish water argument, or for us to stop carrying the gobys.

Do you know what day their shipments come in? Most of those gobies come in on their last legs anyway; we usually lose ours within three days, if not hours. I highly doubt the DC has them in brackish either. Basically, my manager just block them from coming to our store because of the loss. Petsmart also has to keep them on gravel, and our store has gotten in trouble for our sand tanks for the peacock eels, horseface loaches, dojo loaches, etc.

You have to go to corporate. The manager's hands are tied in that respect, because blocking off the tanks and setting up a seperate system is not allowed (however, it is doable in the old fish systems, if you have a cannister filter).