Why blame Walmart? You bought all the fish without even knowing what you were buying. Your fault.
60 gallon freshwater aggresive
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reiverix said:
^^^.
this is why you're supposed to come home and google everything you're even thinking about buying before you put it into a death trap.
for future reference, you might want to snap digital pics while you're out shopping for livestock so you can come home and compare species profiles to know if the labels are right or not.
not shopping at walmart for fish (or at all,) is also a good idea.
you need to, like, convert 3 rooms in your house to a giant aquarium, or get rid of all these poor creatures.
If you really knew what you were buying you wouldn't have bought a mislabelled fish. Yes, Walmart shouldn't have the wrong label but in the end it's us who buys the fish and it's our responsibility to know what we're buying. At least share the blame.ryanhayes9 said:
There are a lot of people who are still learning and don't think about the fact that the store selling them fish might mis-label it or provide bad information. There has been a lot of jumping on people for their mistakes on this site lately, we should be helping each other and not making someone feel even worse for making a mistake. Are there any people here who didn't make a single mistake when they started keeping fish? God knows I have made a bunch of them. Lets help people learn form their mistakes and offer advice on how to avoid them in the future rather than becoming quite as judgemental and blaming the person who made the mistake. Should this person have researched the fish first, absolutely, bet he does in the future! But are you telling me no one here has ever made an impulse buy of a fish you saw and liked and thought you could keep based on the information provided by the retailer??? IF that is the case then I guess the original poster and I are just irresponsible and should be drawn and quartered 
Many of the people I have seen taken to task lately are kids 13, 14 years old or so and we are beating them up for trying to ask questions. That is just wrong in my opinion, we should be helping guide them to make better decisions regarding this hobby, but don't discourage them for crying out loud, or they WON'T come back and ask questions and learn, they will either get out of the hobby or try to do it alone without help and advice and kill a large number of fish, then get discouraged.
Many of the people I have seen taken to task lately are kids 13, 14 years old or so and we are beating them up for trying to ask questions. That is just wrong in my opinion, we should be helping guide them to make better decisions regarding this hobby, but don't discourage them for crying out loud, or they WON'T come back and ask questions and learn, they will either get out of the hobby or try to do it alone without help and advice and kill a large number of fish, then get discouraged.
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