DONT BUY FISH FROM WALMART.

[edh]

Just a thought, is the access to the tanks secure? I must admit I have never checked.

Is it possible that people are poisoning the fish at some of these stores?

 

[Lupin]

Last warning for this thread. No more negative comments that lack constructive structure. Thanks.

 

[OhNo123]

Walmart sometimes has good stuff.... you just have to wait. My walmart had bumble bee gobies one time, and large pots of dwarf hairgrass. But I didn't get any because there were no labels and the guy refused to sell them to me...

 

[NeonFlux]

Wow, I have never seen that much goldfish dead.. the person probably dumped them in without acclimating first. Oh well

 

[My_Goldie]

My local store is just as bad. It all depends on the size of the store (mine is a super walmart), and on the people that they have caring for the fish. In a larger store, they are thinking that they have better things to concentrate on then the health of their little fish wall.
It's sad, but that is just how it is.
I don't even bother looking at the fish because it infuriates me every time.

 

[7itanium]

I avoid walmart due to bad stock...

BUT... one of my walmarts here acctually has a seasoned fishkeeper running it.. shes nice and knows her stuff

as I said.. it depends on the store as far as care goes-- but generally they buy cheap which pans out to bad stock

 

[summer_of_41]

Yes, people are able to walk up to the tanks & open them up freely.

 

[Michi]

w.m. doesn't specialize in livestock and considering that many lfs have staff that do not know very much about fish it does not make sense to hold w.m. to a higher standard. I have worked at w.m. and they do not hire anyone special to work with the fish and the managers rotate departments so there isn't even a specially trained pet dept manager, imo the stores that have knowledgable staff just got lucky. In any case, the managers still do not want to lose money so I would appeal to their sense of the bottom line to rectify the fish problem.

 

[Reefscape]

I think enough has been said in this thread. Its done with..

Closed..