The ever-popular waiting room aquarium....

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...was hideous. I just got back from the pediatrician's office (for my daughter's well-check). They had a cichlid tank that must have been about 55 gallons. The crud in that tank was astounding.... more fish poo than gravel, it seemed. There was a pleco that was about a foot long and about 14 7-10" cichlids. I don't know my cichlids very well, but I think they were convicts... half were B&W, the others were yellowish. They all looked sick and sluggish.

It looked like just UGF with no external filtration, low light. One of the fish was floating at the top with some kind of gill inflammation in obvious distress.

It really p*ssed me off that they had the gall to display a tank in such bad condition. It was overstocked and dirty with sick fish. What kind of example does that give to the children and parents who come to that office?! :rant:

Anyway.... just had to get that off my chest...
 
I Hope they take better care of the kids than they do the fish! :eek:
 
Yeah, I agree that gross waiting room tanks are irritating. Here in Brooklyn, it is actually the restaraunts who are the worse offenders, which in a way to me is almost worse.

There are two places in my neigborhood that I partiucarly have it out for. One, a Thai place, has a young arrowana and a goldfish in a ten gallon that is invariably filled to 3/4 capacity with soup green water. Suffice it to say I don't eat there. The other is an upscale sushi place which has what must be a 90 gallon tank with no decoration and probably 40 gold and opaline gouramis in it. No plants, no decoration, just a thin layer of blue gravel along the bottom. Sometimes I'm tempted to walk in and try to set up a side job helping them out with their tanks.

Still, it's appauling. Makes me miss the dentist I had before leaving Vermont. The guy had no tanks in his waiting room, but every other room in the place had large salties including a huge, gorgeous reef tank. Refreshing to see someone showing off their hobby at work and obviously caring.
 
A chinese restaurant near me has a gorgeous sw tank, prob about a 100 gallon. The fish there keep changing too but only beacause the owner pays a service to take care of the tank and cycle different fish, not because they died.

Austin
 
The Market Broiler restaurant in Fremont, Ca by me has a saltwater tank that looks to be approx. 120 gallons with about 20 damsels, a couple of clowns and a yellow tang - the tank is always pristine and the fish look happy and active, but not overly aggressive. Very nice tank.
 
Usually doctor's offices contract out to someone to maintain the tank.

They are "renting" it from a fish store.
 
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