Fun in the Walmart fish aisle

good story. I've never had any luck whatsoever with my local wal-mart's fish aisle, other than a couple of ghost shrimp now and then (which more often than not generated a disgusted recoil by whoever was handling the tanks; not nearly as good as the ropefish story).

Up until about a year ago, though, the guy they had running that corner of the store managed to do pretty well with what he had to work with; he had little say on the variety or quality of the stock he recieved, but the tanks were always well maintained, and he gave the beginners better advice ("no, this betta needs at least two gallons, you can't keep him in that cup", etc) than expected.

Since he's disappeared, however, the whole thing's back to what you'd expect, sadly, including the occasional dyed tetra (boo! hiss!)
 
The Wal-Mart in my town stopped selling fish over a decade ago, I guess that's probably a good thing considering it's Wal-Mart.

Unfortunately the 2 LFS in my town aren't a whole lot better than a Wal-Mart would be.

I do remember seeing a baby Arowana in a Wal-Mart tank a long time ago though.
 
all our wallmart fish suck. i finally found a place i could buy ropefish. but they are expensive.
 
I always love going to walmart and listening to the people talk in the fish isle..the crap you hear is just amazing..
 
Since we're on the subject of Walmart fish isles, this post was posted in a different thread yesterday by Rod in California. It is good news for anyone who lives near a Walmart that doesn't take good care of their fish.

If you find the fish at Walmart in unhealthy conditions filthy tanks, etc all you have to do is call the main office in Arkansas and tell them the store location what the problem is and what time you were in the store and heads will roll and you will see a change. Me and a group monitor our local Walmart and we have only had to call and complain about (animal abuse - is also the neglect in providing a animal or fish basic care) the lack of care, sick fish etc. 1 time and they fired the entire pet dept. staff who could have cared less about the problems you point out and the new pet dept staff do a excellent job maintaining the fish area. The VP of Walmart called me himself personally and said he was sorry I found the dept in such a "tragic" state and (it had been that way for for several months) said if I find such a situtation happening again to call him at his direct # he gave me and he said he will take immediate action. All the foot traffic and pets Walmart sells we were the only ones who felt this wasnt right to house fish in such a state and made the call to have it changed. I wish people would call the corp. office and bypass complaining to store employees and help better the lives of pets sold at massive chain stores. Complaining to a store manager does no good but when the corp office calls them you see heads roll and things change.
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LOL thank god i dont have a walmart near me. From the way you guys describe it must be like fish ****!
 
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Seems like a priority of theirs should be to choose better fish to sell and look more closely at their typical customers who shop at Walmart for fish.
Keeping small pacus in good care at their store is still asking for trouble, even if it's an improvement. This too should be fairly easy to correct if they want to do it.
 
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