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Old 07-02-2009, 11:57 PM   #11 (permalink)
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Default Re: Who has a horror story about Walmart fish?

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Originally Posted by ema2276 View Post
My worst experience was at Petland. They had a row of dead, rotting betta cups sitting behind a row of barely alive ones. Like seven or eight of them. They never bother to change the water; just shove the dead ones back and put new ones on the shelf. It was sickening. I complained to the president of the company in writing and he allegedly sent a memo to all his stores to make sure to take proper care of their bettas. Like it will make any difference.

I don't even go near the fish section in Walmart. Too afraid of what I will find. But then again, I live in New York. Everything's evil in New York. The Petland I refer to above was in the Bronx.
i can comment on this from the inside. i work at Petland, we got no such memo....correction, i have herd of no such thing but there was one point where my manager was very uptight about the betta's, and i have the same problems at my location, it seams like no one else knows are even cares how to take care of the fish, so needless to say every time i go to work i am playing catch up doing water changes and such, i do my best to keep it lookign good but its hard to manage 2 or so thousand gallons of fish when i dont have the final decision on everything, if it was up to me i would have UV filters and sumps for each tank, instead of no UV and one sump per wall but im not the one who pays the bills
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