Whats the worst thing you've ever seen at your fish store? Mine was a cichlid and guppy tank. There were 8 dead guppies stuck to the filter intake and the 2 dead jack dempseys at the bottom of the tank. Both of which were decomposing. I asked the store manager about it and she said she would take a look at it. 2 Days later I'm back to pick up some dog toys and theres another dead dempsey and the guppies are still there.
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2 pacu in a 40 gallon display
Don't they get like 4 feet long?!
These guys stayed 12 inches each for years. And one was blind as well.
But pacu get huge.
Just imagine 2 in a 40...
kwi
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In Jollyes on Friday, Corys in a barebottom tank, and 4/5 discus swimming at a 45degree angle.
At least not as heavily stocked as the local P@H.
At least not as heavily stocked as the local P@H.
Clownfish in freshwater, african cichlids in salt water, pleco skeletons (6-7 inches)... lots of bad shops out there 
Just remember not to name names in a thread like this please guys
Just remember not to name names in a thread like this please guys
At Walmart:
I counted 15 dead rosy’s stuck in the intake, along with a baby Oscar. (In the same tank)
The remaining rosys in the tank, were riddled with ich, bent spines, fin rot, and fungus. Probably the worst looking fish I have ever seen.
Thankfully, Walmart has got rid of most of their fish sales.
At my sisters friends friends house:
Saw a 20g high: 3 long “fancy” tailed goldfish, 1 Chinese algae eater, 1 black fin Tetra, one Corydora, and 1 pleco. (Common)
They didn’t even have a filter, heater, or sand! That made me so mad, never wanted to go back there again.
I counted 15 dead rosy’s stuck in the intake, along with a baby Oscar. (In the same tank)
The remaining rosys in the tank, were riddled with ich, bent spines, fin rot, and fungus. Probably the worst looking fish I have ever seen.
Thankfully, Walmart has got rid of most of their fish sales.
At my sisters friends friends house:
Saw a 20g high: 3 long “fancy” tailed goldfish, 1 Chinese algae eater, 1 black fin Tetra, one Corydora, and 1 pleco. (Common)
They didn’t even have a filter, heater, or sand! That made me so mad, never wanted to go back there again.
Can I name like Walmart? Or are you speaking of specific human names?Clownfish in freshwater, african cichlids in salt water, pleco skeletons (6-7 inches)... lots of bad shops out there
Just remember not to name names in a thread like this please guys
My LFS had a tank with two very big chilids. One was jammed behind the filter. The other swimming very weirdly. Betta in tanks with loads of other fish. One I found very upsetting was big chain shop with a dead Pleco. The other pleco kept kinda attacking it so it pushing the dead one all over the tank, flipping it up and around. Was really awful.
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The one things that always makes me cringe is the LFS (not the chains P@H, Maidenhead ect) which is just willingly selling fish with Ich or other visible diseases. I have walked in and straight back out a couple of places which have done it. I mean even P@H and maidenhead put up little signs saying fish under treatment not for sale.
evanb
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Never seen so many Guaramis in a tank before at my local p at h! Worse than a football stadium
In one local shop, two half dead, finless male bettas in one small tank.
Shop names.
Check out the filter system. Here some of the LFS link all there tanks to one big filter. So every tank is connected. It makes me cringe.
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