Are They Wrong Again?

[Fraoch]

Hi, i was in Pets at home today and although they have done up their fish area and made it look really good, with loads more selection on breeds and size, i think they have their facts wrong? they have more unusual breeds in right now but list most of them as easy-moderate to care for such as, elephnat nose, halfbeak, golden panchax, discus, archer fish and twig catfish. I dont know much about them all but should they be more in moderate-hard care? or are they really that easy to look after? thanks

 

[jnms]

Discus and Elephant Nose are pretty easy to look after - dispite their reputation. However there is "aquarium hobbiest easy" and "pets at home easy" the two are not the same. Many people who go into Pets and Home are looking for a 'maintenance free pet'...in which case none of the fish you list are suitable for them.

Kinda surpised pets at home are stocking such fish. How much were that charging for the discus?

 

[Fraoch]

Discus and Elephant Nose are pretty easy to look after - dispite their reputation. However there is "aquarium hobbiest easy" and "pets at home easy" the two are not the same. Many people who go into Pets and Home are looking for a 'maintenance free pet'...in which case none of the fish you list are suitable for them.

Kinda surpised pets at home are stocking such fish. How much were that charging for the discus?

sorry, i didnt notice the price,i will look next time im in but i know they werent true colours, just mixes. only price i looked at was the elephant nose, £16 each.

also are glowlight tetras hard to breed since i saw that a few of them were wither pregnant or really bloated?

 

[Farrant91]

Personally I would take anything pets at home say with a pinch of salt. I once tried to buy some cherry barbs from them and was told they couldn't sell them to me as they would terrorize my other fish.

 

[Fraoch]

Personally I would take anything pets at home say with a pinch of salt. I once tried to buy some cherry barbs from them and was told they couldn't sell them to me as they would terrorize my other fish.

i dont really like them either but they are my only lfs for about 100 miles
i find it sad how they have quarantine tanks with fish that look quite healthy but have tanks for sale with dead and diseased fish, there was a tank of about 50 mollies all with fin rot and fungus

 

[Farrant91]

Personally I would take anything pets at home say with a pinch of salt. I once tried to buy some cherry barbs from them and was told they couldn't sell them to me as they would terrorize my other fish.

i dont really like them either but they are my only lfs for about 100 miles
i find it sad how they have quarantine tanks with fish that look quite healthy but have tanks for sale with dead and diseased fish, there was a tank of about 50 mollies all with fin rot and fungus

Seems that way at my local pets at home as well, always dead fish floating around, tried pointing this out to them once, staff wern't bothered. Shame it's the only place local to you as my LFS is about 100 times better than there. And I'm sure any 'proper' aquatics shop would be.

 

[StandbySetting]

Please, can we steer this thread back on course? A forum isn't the place to slag off a company, they could quite easily pursue legal proceedings, and not all Pets at Home stores are bad.

 

[Farrant91]

Sorry..

 

[Fraoch]

sorry, anyway, are glowlights hard to breed?

 

[jnms]

A forum isn't the place to slag off a company, they could quite easily pursue legal proceedings, and not all Pets at Home stores are bad.

Not to further derail this thread - but it's unlikely in the extreme that 'legal proceedings' would occur. Everyone is entitled to expressing an opinion in public.

But yes you are right not all Pets at Home are bad. My local one is actually very good.

 

[StandbySetting]

It has happened in the past where by other forum owners have been sued for damages, and will no doubt occur again at some point in the future.

 

[fluttermoth]

sorry, anyway, are glowlights hard to breed?

It's not hard to get them to spawn (condition them well, the sexes separate, on lots of live food, then put them together one evening and let the rising sun light hit the tank in the morning and they should spawn; a large cold water chane sometimes does the trick too), but it is hard to hatch the eggs (they're probably light sensitive; a lot of tetra eggs are) and feed the fry (they're too tiny for even bbs and need an infusoria culture; I've never had any luck with infusoria myself).

 

[eaglesaquarium]

Discus and Elephant Nose are pretty easy to look after - dispite their reputation. However there is "aquarium hobbiest easy" and "pets at home easy" the two are not the same. Many people who go into Pets and Home are looking for a 'maintenance free pet'...in which case none of the fish you list are suitable for them.

Kinda surpised pets at home are stocking such fish. How much were that charging for the discus?

There is only one "maintenance free pet"...

 

[jnms]

Discus and Elephant Nose are pretty easy to look after - dispite their reputation. However there is "aquarium hobbiest easy" and "pets at home easy" the two are not the same. Many people who go into Pets and Home are looking for a 'maintenance free pet'...in which case none of the fish you list are suitable for them.

Kinda surpised pets at home are stocking such fish. How much were that charging for the discus?

There is only one "maintenance free pet"...

lol - yeah - that's my point!!

 

[eaglesaquarium]

I know, I was just illustrating your point.