t.ropical_m.istx3
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Dear Sir or Madam:
I visited your Petco location in Mentor on April 13, 2007 and I was very unhappy with the conditions of some of your male bettas. I found a VeilTail in a tank of mollies with no hiding places for either the mollies or the betta. I had seen him in this same tank a week or two before and he was getting along fine with the mollies. When I arrived this time, his fins were torn up and he allowed himself to get stuck to the filter intake many times within the five minutes I watched him. I then walked over to your large bow-front tank that had gouramis and angel fish in there and I was shocked to find another male betta. Gouramis and bettas are in the same family of fish and they both occupy the same water space so there was bound to be some fighting. The gouramis were at least twice the size of the betta and would have easily torn him apart. I was told by one of your employees two different stories on why they weren't fighting. He first said "They have just arrived and they haven't established territories yet, that's why they aren't fighting." If this was true, were you going to let the betta stay in with the gouramis until territories were established and fighting did break out? When he went to go get the betta for me, he then said "Oh, this tank is big, that's why they aren't fighting." I also watched this male betta for a few moments and I lost track of him because he spent his time hiding from the larger gouramis.
In the same tank with the gouramis and the betta, there were plants strapped to the wood with rubber bands. One of your employees pointed that out when one of the rubber bands had rotted away and the fish were attempting to eat it. That would kill the fish that were eating it.
The same employee pointed out that you had another betta in with gouramis in a different tank but when we went to find him, he was no longer in there so she assumed he had been sold.
I was then looking at the bettas kept in the containers and was sickened to see that many of them only had half a container full of water and many others had algae growing in their tanks. All of the other tanks are kept in decent condition, is it that hard to simply do a water change when their containers need it? Or even just replace the water in the half-full containers?
Needless to say, the two bettas in the "community" tanks came home with me, along with another male in one of the algae-filled containers. I was not happy about paying for the one with the torn fins due to the fact it was your employees' fault he looked like that for not keeping a betta in his own tank - even if it was one of those small containers. I was a bit more willing to pay for the one with the gouramis, he was torn up a bit, but he looked like he did a good job hiding. I don't know how long he was in there, that was the first time I saw him in there but as I stated before, he was a good hider. The male in the container I brought home was in decent condition except for the fact his container was filled with algae...
okay guys, this is where you come in. i'm so bad at wrapping things up (essays, letters ect) so i need help with the end. i also want you guys to read over it and tell me what you think.
yes, these are the conditions in which maverick, goose and chris all came home with me from.
I visited your Petco location in Mentor on April 13, 2007 and I was very unhappy with the conditions of some of your male bettas. I found a VeilTail in a tank of mollies with no hiding places for either the mollies or the betta. I had seen him in this same tank a week or two before and he was getting along fine with the mollies. When I arrived this time, his fins were torn up and he allowed himself to get stuck to the filter intake many times within the five minutes I watched him. I then walked over to your large bow-front tank that had gouramis and angel fish in there and I was shocked to find another male betta. Gouramis and bettas are in the same family of fish and they both occupy the same water space so there was bound to be some fighting. The gouramis were at least twice the size of the betta and would have easily torn him apart. I was told by one of your employees two different stories on why they weren't fighting. He first said "They have just arrived and they haven't established territories yet, that's why they aren't fighting." If this was true, were you going to let the betta stay in with the gouramis until territories were established and fighting did break out? When he went to go get the betta for me, he then said "Oh, this tank is big, that's why they aren't fighting." I also watched this male betta for a few moments and I lost track of him because he spent his time hiding from the larger gouramis.
In the same tank with the gouramis and the betta, there were plants strapped to the wood with rubber bands. One of your employees pointed that out when one of the rubber bands had rotted away and the fish were attempting to eat it. That would kill the fish that were eating it.
The same employee pointed out that you had another betta in with gouramis in a different tank but when we went to find him, he was no longer in there so she assumed he had been sold.
I was then looking at the bettas kept in the containers and was sickened to see that many of them only had half a container full of water and many others had algae growing in their tanks. All of the other tanks are kept in decent condition, is it that hard to simply do a water change when their containers need it? Or even just replace the water in the half-full containers?
Needless to say, the two bettas in the "community" tanks came home with me, along with another male in one of the algae-filled containers. I was not happy about paying for the one with the torn fins due to the fact it was your employees' fault he looked like that for not keeping a betta in his own tank - even if it was one of those small containers. I was a bit more willing to pay for the one with the gouramis, he was torn up a bit, but he looked like he did a good job hiding. I don't know how long he was in there, that was the first time I saw him in there but as I stated before, he was a good hider. The male in the container I brought home was in decent condition except for the fact his container was filled with algae...
okay guys, this is where you come in. i'm so bad at wrapping things up (essays, letters ect) so i need help with the end. i also want you guys to read over it and tell me what you think.
yes, these are the conditions in which maverick, goose and chris all came home with me from.