Petsmart Screw Up

gotglock said:
There were more snails, though the poor things had there trapdoors in so far I though they'd disapear in there shells!

I only picked up 3 because they are for my sister, she wanted some blue brigs :)
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This is how I got most of my snails. I have to stay away from the LFS and Wallyworld. I get in trouble for taking the employees to task for the tank inhabitants.I got my last blue because he was housed with barbs and they were pecking the poor snails to death.
 
just as bad, the store I work for has copper piping, so we were keeping our snails in a separate tank off the main system. A couple weeks ago the district manage came through and flipped, making my manager move them to their "designated tanks" immediately despite our protests and reasoning. So we're losing all of our snails within 2-3 days of recieving them, as well as killing other fish because the decaying snails are tanking our parameters. I'm pissed. My manager is compiling the evidence, but in the meantime since district says so, we're stuck. I rescued an ivory out of pity last delivery, I'll probably end up with more before this is fixed. Grrr...
 
justahannah said:
just as bad, the store I work for has copper piping, so we were keeping our snails in a separate tank off the main system. A couple weeks ago the district manage came through and flipped, making my manager move them to their "designated tanks" immediately despite our protests and reasoning. So we're losing all of our snails within 2-3 days of recieving them, as well as killing other fish because the decaying snails are tanking our parameters. I'm pissed. My manager is compiling the evidence, but in the meantime since district says so, we're stuck. I rescued an ivory out of pity last delivery, I'll probably end up with more before this is fixed. Grrr...
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gah, corporate blockheads! Why did your district manager flip out in the first place?
 
She was in to check up on our store, and our snails were in a separate tank from the rest of our fish rather than in their corporate designated tank numbers/with the proper tank mates. This is apparently unacceptable even though it was keeping them alive and healthy. Tthe display system takes precedence over keeping the copper sensitive stock alive.
 
justahannah said:
just as bad, the store I work for has copper piping, so we were keeping our snails in a separate tank off the main system. A couple weeks ago the district manage came through and flipped, making my manager move them to their "designated tanks" immediately despite our protests and reasoning. So we're losing all of our snails within 2-3 days of recieving them, as well as killing other fish because the decaying snails are tanking our parameters. I'm pissed. My manager is compiling the evidence, but in the meantime since district says so, we're stuck. I rescued an ivory out of pity last delivery, I'll probably end up with more before this is fixed. Grrr...
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justahannah said:
She was in to check up on our store, and our snails were in a separate tank from the rest of our fish rather than in their corporate designated tank numbers/with the proper tank mates. This is apparently unacceptable even though it was keeping them alive and healthy. Tthe display system takes precedence over keeping the copper sensitive stock alive.
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Grrr. A wasted brig is a huge waste:mad2:
 
If you have copper piping, allowing the water to flush through before use will prevent an impact . Failing to flush the lines will most certainly kill copper-sensitive stock. Also the addition of a filter before the tanks will work.

In our area, 99% of commercial and residential is still copper. I have absolutely no problems as long as I flush the lines first.
 
It's not the building that has the copper piping, it's the actual aquatics system with the 90+ connected tanks and sump and whatnot (ours is an older set-up), so the water is constantly looping through it and copper continually leaching into the closed system. We did have a 10g set up with an HOB for the snails on a rack near the main tanks and we were doing WCs out of our utility sink in the back with no issue...little extra work, but the critters were doing well and totally worth it. It's actually our main set-up that's the problem, and that's where corporate wants the snails.
 
gotglock said:
4 inch Clown Loaches,

A lot of cracked shells and empty ones were laying in that tank.
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Cracked shells? Must be lack of calcium or insufficient amount thereof besides manhandling. Poor snails.:(
 
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