Wal-Mart woes

[Roan Art]

Instead of posting here and complaining -- and these types of threads surface every couple of weeks -- why don't you sit down and write a very long letter to the Walmart corporate office? Detail the store name, address, conditions, etc.,.

Don't use email. Write them a letter. Business-like. Use correct grammar and spelling and if possible, get as many fishy friends in your town to sign it as well. A "mini-peitition", if you will.

It may do something. It may do nothing. It sure beats posting another thread about how bad conditions are at [insert chain store name here].

Roan

 

[Candycat21]

I understand completely! Just last night I went to Walmart and looked at the fish as always...right away a bright yellow sign caught my eye. It was attached to the goldfish section of the tanks and on it was written: "LOOK! Bettas Go GREAT with Goldfish!" and indeed I look into the tanks and there are bettas in each of the goldfish tanks, none of them looking healthy, their fins were torn and the current was just too much for some of them. Poor things....Needless to say, I pulled that sign down and tossed it in the trash!!! :mad2:

 

[jason2894]

well i wasnt complaining i was just sharing what i felt was a funny lil story.

 

[Penfan66]

My thoughts exactly Roan!

:rant2:

 

[Debisbooked]

Hmm. Hate to say it but wal mart fish live the longest out of anything ive ever owned. Maybe mine has a good supplier. My sharks and the such are about 7 years young and were from a local wal mart. Even my wal mart danios lived to be 6.

You are probably an excellent fishperson that takes great care of your stock and is rewarded with long fish life. That being said, maybe its a survival-of-the-fittest kind of thing. If a particular fish can last through the carnage at wal-mart, than that fish can take pretty much anything.