ok im sorry for all the nonsense but petsmart must really get there sizes wrong it said that it would only get 6 inches thats what it said on the card.............
yeah they do it all the time, which is precisley why you shoudl do your own research before buying fish and don't just rely on the store to tell you, they just want your money, they'll tell you anything.
i've seen all sorts in shops, juvi versions of tank busting fish sold as small versions...... like they're not gonna bloody grow, anyone who knows hte fish can see they're just juvi's.
sad as it is the poor little catifsh will almost certinaly die from being in too small a tank, even if you take him back to the shop he'll still get sold to someone else who won't take the time to look this up and will also house him in a small tank and he'll die. While there's a market for it they'll still be in the trade, everyone should boycott stores that sell them, tell other customers who are looking at the how big they get, kick up a fuss with the managers everytime they see them on sale, the more negative response the retailers get the less likely they are to sell them and the less of them will die.
It really upsets me sometimes to think how many of these fish must die every single day from being in cramped conditions, I mean you see them for sale everywhere. It's really bad.
fishluver, i hope your not a troll, and i hope you'll take everyone's advise and return the fish now. The trade is swamped with fish like this that have outgrown they're tanks, no one will take them, there was a really interesting study done and was in PFK a few weeks back about big fish and how many public aquariums were able to take. Aadly the numbers were very very small. Most of them just die.
call us geeks if you like, but to my mind it's a nescessity, if I take responsibility for another creatures life I want to make it the best it can possibly have, not just adapt it to suit my needs. To make they're life the best I must do some research and find out how to do things properly. If your not prepared to do that you shouldn't keep animals.
(although we prefer the term "fish lovers")
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