Electric Warrior
Fishaholic
Jeez the report is absolutely ridiculous!! I dont even like P@H and in fact, I work for 'the other side'....
But that report is embarrassing! Not for Pets @ Home but for the idots featured on it.
Its a shame, they made it look like all those dead fish were in one shop which they quite clearly werent! One fish dying now and then happens, it just does! Whether in a shop or at home, whether itssick or someones horrible child has been smacking the glass.
They *complete* went off on one with the fluffy animals to a point of being ridiculous. Young syrian hamsters are absolutely fine while they are babies. Its ridiculous... thats like saying you cant grow on a batch of baby cichlids in a tank, just because as adults they would properly batter each other!
Baby rabbits dropping dead.... well i hate to say it... but who is to say the woman didnt keep them calm and quiet? Young rabbits are incredibly susceptable to gut problems made worse by stress and unfortunately it does happen....
I sold someone a fish that quite promptly died the other day... water was fine... cant guarantee they took the fish right home, that it didnt get shaken or that the kept the tank dark for an hour or so... cant be sure they even acclimatised it.. all i could do was replace the fish... thats what pets at home did with the rabbits...
And to have a speaker on their point out white spot on a goldfish that quite clearly didnt have white spot but more likely lymphcystis if it had anything at all more than a nick on its fin.
Baaaahhhh i am so dissapointed by the whole thing, expected something other than misinformation and serious exaggerations.
Oh and for all you 'haters'... if you found yourself nodding and agreeing... bear in mind that most LFS and MA all have systems, not individual tanks atc so they are slating that system... they dont consider that there just wouldnt be fish shops otherwise because doing daily water changes on 200+ tanks is just impossible! Stocking wouldnt be possible, deads would be higher and mistakes more common.
Just bear in mind that anyone 'attacking' pets at home over the ridiculous thing this programme has brought up is 'attacking' their favourite fish shops too because this *will* have knock on effects.
All I know is that I have two MA near me that I use to buy my fish, and the few P@H I have been into (in England mainly) are far inferior to the MA shops, in terms of stock, quality, and health of the fish. I am sure that there are some decent P@H, and some crap MA, but I would much rather buy livestock from a places that specialises in fish. I don't hate P@H, I will go there to buy supplies for my dog sometimes, but livestock is a different story.