Glofish dying?

[angelfish123]

walmart guarantee

dont know, but if you buy them at walmart there is a 90 day guarantee on all of their fish. If they last 90 days they're pretty much fine, so thats where i get my fish that im scared to waste money on if they die. Hey Wal-marts not all bad, lol but if I had to survive the hell they put them in, your tank'd look darn near like paradise 2 me.

 

[tmtpowers]

Thanks guys for posting!!!!! Thus far it does look like it was just stress on both glofish that I lost but I'm still studying them seeing that they are fairly new as pets. So anyone feel free to post how long you've had your and how many you've lost over that period of time

Thanks again!

 

[tmtpowers]

dont know, but if you buy them at walmart there is a 90 day guarantee on all of their fish. If they last 90 days they're pretty much fine, so thats where i get my fish that im scared to waste money on if they die. Hey Wal-marts not all bad, lol but if I had to survive the hell they put them in, your tank'd look darn near like paradise 2 me.

I've bought very few fish from walmart however, I did buy the glofish (they are the only people to carry them around here) 3 pictus, and one peacock eel. I have for every fish made sure to buy them the day they come in seeing that wal mart doesn't always properly feed their fish. For example, they feed their peacocks flakes! If you don't get them the day they come in, they are usually half starved Its terrible. The day their fish come in they look so healthy and happy. Give them a week or so and they are skinny and sickly

 

[plah831]

I have for every fish made sure to buy them the day they come in seeing that wal mart doesn't always properly feed their fish. For example, they feed their peacocks flakes! If you don't get them the day they come in, they are usually half starved

It's exactly the same with dwarf puffers at Petsmart. Petsmart breeds their own, so they are the largest supplier of them. But at the stores they feed everyone "tropical flakes". I highly doubt puffers would even touch flakes. akapaul just had his dwarf puffer die because it was so emaciated, either due to starving at the store or possibly internal parasites.

I had no idea Walmart had a 90-day guarantee on live fish. I'm surprised since everyone says their fish are so bad, that the store wouldn't lose money on that guarantee all the time. I'm still not going to buy any fish there.

sorry to hijack your thread. The recent postings on the hardiness of glofish are very interesting!

 

[tmtpowers]

No problem It really is sad to see people feed fish the wrong foods. Or tell you a 10G tank is just fine for a pacu

 

[reptileguy2727]

most big places can afford to replace the few fish that actually come back. i dotn think most people actually bring it back, at least under a certain price, its just another task in their oh so important life.