Should Walmart sell fish?

lokel

lokel

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I was at Walmart today in the pet section, checkin out their fish, when I saw their feature of the month, the Knight Goby.
On the index card that tells customers about the fish it said that the Knight Goby starts out in freshwater and gets converted to brackish. To convert the water to brackish the customer needs to put Aquarium Salt in :eek:. I told the pet section lady that the card was incorrect. That to make the water brackish they need to put in Marine salt, not Aquarium salt. She said she would tell her supervisor.
I was a lil surprised to see that. I dont think place like Walmart should sell fish. Specially since they dont know anything about them. Mind you neither does my LFS. :duh:

What do you guys think?
 
Hmmmm,

I dunno about that....I didn't know WM had a pet department. I know I would not feel comfortable buying pets from any WM around here. Don't get me wrong, I shop at WM all the time, I just would not want to buy any kind of living creature from there. The place is always disorganized and most of the time quite messy and dirty, nevermind having the variable of fishkeeping thrown in.

Chris
 
Oh I hate walmart! Well the fact that they sell fish anyways! I went just the other day and oh my! The gold fish tanks were cloudy and WAY over crowded! They had 3 1.5-2 foot Kois in there along with oh I'd say 50-75 5" goldfish in there too! Even worse, one of the gold fish (5" one) had a massive ulcer! Approx. the size of a .50 piece! They had small tetras in with tiger barbs! African Cichlids in with freash water fish! Oh the list goes on. I did get a nice go to he$$ look from the guy working in that department when I mentioned the terrible shape the gold fish where in.
 
No but I don't think petsmart or petco should sell living creatures either as at least the ones by me tend to be horrilby understaffed and or poorly informed as to care and maintenence-Anne
 
I think with Walmart or any large chain store are perfectly fine for dealing in the aquarium trade. 90% of the time the person who is supposed to be taking care of the fish are simply not doing thier job. I won't condone all the store's for the neglect caused by a few. I've personally been to dozens of WalMart stores and some had great fish care and some had bad fish care.
 
no, wal-mart should not be allowed to sell fish EVER!! they have no idea what they're doing!! they put 10 dragonfish in a freshwater tank last week!! their tanks are always filled to the brim with dead fish, and the lazy female dogs and illegitimate children keep ghost shirmp in every tank so they don't have to remove the dead fish!!
 
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fishcatch22 said:
no, wal-mart should not be allowed to sell fish EVER!! they have no idea what they're doing!! they put 10 dragonfish in a freshwater tank last week!! their tanks are always filled to the brim with dead fish, and the lazy female dogs and illegitimate children keep ghost shirmp in every tank so they don't have to remove the dead fish!!
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That earns my "Best Post of The Day Award".
 
most of the wal-marts in my area are nice and clean. and the pet areas are ok. but i was at one wal-mart thats like a 30 min drive from me and it was nasty. i walked by the fish and the tanks were full of dead fish and it stunk like rottening fish. then a few months later i went back to that same store and it changed big time. the tanks were all clean nothing dead in the tanks and it stopped stinking. i guess it depends on who they have working in the pet area. if people are doing there jobs. i hardly buy fish at wal-mart. there is a pet store thats about 1 mile from were i live and every sunday they have buy one fish and the 2nd one is 1 cent. if they dont have something i want i just drive to lancaster pa. home of www.thatfishplace.com and buy them there. its only like a 35 to 40 min drive from my house. its the biggest place to buy fish i have ever seen
 
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