LFS is killing 2-3 dragonfish a day!
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spirals
i will eat you in your sleep
As stated before, talking to management does nothing. Store managers and pet care managers are tied down by corporate policy. No matter how many people tell us about brackish fish/crabs or mislabeled tags, we can do nothing until corporate decides to change it.
the tally was courtesy of the girl working in the fish department. I also went in 3 days in a row and each day the fish that were in the tank the day before had died. Maybe they get a large stock of them. My Wal-mart also stocks them and they had 7 or 8 in a really small aquarium.
mellowvision
Seafood Lover
this is what the reality of the situation is for this corporate situation: the stores can not and will not, any time soon, have brackish water tanks.
so, the real thing to do would be to petition the CORPORATION to stop selling brackish water fishes at all of their stores.
so, the real thing to do would be to petition the CORPORATION to stop selling brackish water fishes at all of their stores.
So, just like with everything else in the world, the hobbyists without access to a non big box store, will pay for the ignorance of those who don't care about the well being of the animals they keep.
I don't agree with that.
Like I said in my first post, the fish dying in the store has NOTHING to do with the fact that big box stores, and most LFS's, don't keep it in a brackish water tank, and I would prefer that fish are acclimated to fresh water before I buy them.
I think a petition for big boxes to stop selling fish that need an eventual brackish water environment is ridiculous.
Sometimes, when I read the fish store bashing posts it feels like serious fishkeepers want to petition stores to stop selling any fish that needs a special environment. Of course some species, as in true monsters should not be sold unless they would be properly housed (pacu, ID sharks, all those good ones) but you want to petition stores from selling brackish water fish??
What can we keep? I have yet to see a store that keeps brackish water fish in brackish water tanks, unless under very special circumstances like the fish were stolen right from the wild, in brackish water, and are held and shipped in it, and that almost never happens.
