walmart betta cruelty

[50000_tears]

i learned bad news...we have a walmart. w/ betta fish saw a comercial i looked it up..there is one 10 mins from Oulu (where i am). i drove there w/ my mom and they had a load of dead bettas .and i saw a poor little clown loach oh it made me sick!! it was covered in ICH and it had a missin eye. i wish i bought him to give him a good last minutes of life

 

[BettaMomma]

City and state of this WalMart, PLEASE....

 

[Platy16]

Are walmart has the cups the tops at least have air holes in not all are getting air though because they have they stacked on one shelf like three layers high and the water is blue the lady told me it was to prevent from ich but who knows there were a couple dead and they dident seem to care usaually its are goldfish that have the ich at are walmart and are guppys have kinks its pretty sad but what do you expect walmart doesent care about living things only products.

 

[BettaMomma]

WalMart only cares about ONE THING....
Money.

One thing that makes me smile about that hellhole is knowing that the consumer products company that I work for - our biggest customer is WM. Therefore (as I think I already stated before in this thread) they inadvertently pay my salary. Which, in turn, buys me bettas. So it's all good, I suppose.

I bet good ol' Sam Walton rolls over in his grave about how big of crapholes their stores have become.
Every store manager I call and ream out - I tell them that they have a monopoly on pretty much everything else - why animals? It's just not right.

 

[Synirr]

Are walmart has the cups the tops at least have air holes in not all are getting air though because they have they stacked on one shelf like three layers high and the water is blue the lady told me it was to prevent from ich but who knows there were a couple dead and they dident seem to care usaually its are goldfish that have the ich at are walmart and are guppys have kinks its pretty sad but what do you expect walmart doesent care about living things only products.

I guarantee you the water came blue from the supplier... like Walmart would ever spend an extra penny on their fish to add medication to the water
When I see sick fish at Walmart, I often take some Melafix off the shelf and add it to the tanks myself... no one seems to notice or care

 

[air_me_up]

-cough- Being probably the only decent walmart fish department employee on this planet (ok im sure there are a few more of us) I do use Melafix for my fish if we have any that look like they have fin damage. In fact the store supplies it along with salt and a few other bottles of this and that.
But having to treat fin damage is a rarity in our store since we do almost daily water changes (at *least* twice a week). Sometimes we get fish that come from our supplier with damaged fins which is beyond irratating but they are given as much TLC as we can at the store.

It's just sad that most Walmarts do not make a point to hire knowledgable people for their fish/pet departments. My store was smart and hired me along with my supervisor who is also a big fish keeper, breeder and betta hobbiest.
But you guys are right, many Walmarts make me sick in their ####ty attempts at running an aquarium. I can only stick up for my store because I know whats being done "behind the scenes" and I personally, truely care for those fish. But other stores; hmph. They are on their own in trying to justify the toliet bowls of death they supply their fish with.

 

[Dane]

what a shame... people should have a license to sell fish...

 

[ladyhawke]

-cough- Being probably the only decent walmart fish department employee on this planet (ok im sure there are a few more of us) I do use Melafix for my fish if we have any that look like they have fin damage. In fact the store supplies it along with salt and a few other bottles of this and that.
But having to treat fin damage is a rarity in our store since we do almost daily water changes (at *least* twice a week). Sometimes we get fish that come from our supplier with damaged fins which is beyond irratating but they are given as much TLC as we can at the store.

It's just sad that most Walmarts do not make a point to hire knowledgable people for their fish/pet departments. My store was smart and hired me along with my supervisor who is also a big fish keeper, breeder and betta hobbiest.
But you guys are right, many Walmarts make me sick in their ####ty attempts at running an aquarium. I can only stick up for my store because I know whats being done "behind the scenes" and I personally, truely care for those fish. But other stores; hmph. They are on their own in trying to justify the toliet bowls of death they supply their fish with.

I'm really glad to hear that at least ONE WalMart cares about the fish, kudos to you and your boss. But with all the neglect and poor conditions in most of the other stores I just can't muster a favorable opinion of the chain. Sorry.

 

[50000_tears]

well im going to make a letter for our local english news paper on the walmart betta cruelty. i am workin on it.so far im thinkin of takin a picture of a betta at the walmart. it is pretty bad but to show stupidity. i asked a worker (i said this in finnish/suomi) "do you medicatre these fish?" and they said "that is a waste of money why bother (the person then laughed)" its not that exspencive..betta momma i am going to take this one into my own hands ok? i got the mount vernon one (In ILL) to stop sellin them

 

[BettaMomma]

Are walmart has the cups the tops at least have air holes in not all are getting air though because they have they stacked on one shelf like three layers high and the water is blue the lady told me it was to prevent from ich but who knows there were a couple dead and they dident seem to care usaually its are goldfish that have the ich at are walmart and are guppys have kinks its pretty sad but what do you expect walmart doesent care about living things only products.

I guarantee you the water came blue from the supplier... like Walmart would ever spend an extra penny on their fish to add medication to the water
When I see sick fish at Walmart, I often take some Melafix off the shelf and add it to the tanks myself... no one seems to notice or care

Hey, just FYI - I was on the phone the other day talking w/WM here in town, and I was trying to get to the bottom of how my fish's tail (Lucky's tail) was ripped off. The first thing he asked me was if the fish was in blue water. He said if it was in blue water then they had handled him after he got to the store, and he'd been put into the meth blue after he got there. If he wasn't, then they hadn't done anything w/him since he came in.

From every incident I've had with WM, I have to say that I know for a fact that the ONLY thing that WM (either store) here in town does for these guys is just dump them into the meth blue, and they don't necessarily even ALWAYS do that. They don't medicate or do anything - not salt, not melafix - nothing.

That's how I got Jack. (See below)... he was laying on the bottom of the cup covered in several cottony patches (some were so bad that they'd grown under his scales and several of his scales were sticking out because of the cottony crap) with fins that looked like they'd gone thru a shredder and had nails pounded thru them everywhere. When I approached an employee in the store with him and told her he was in dire need of some treatment, she said they don't treat their fish and there was nothing she could do. That's the point that I sort of went ballistic on her and, in front of several Sunday afternoon WM shoppers, said....
"And that is EXACTLY why you guys should not sell fish here."

I put him in my cart and headed him home. One dose of Maracyn AND Maracyn 2 and he is now one of the most very beautiful fish I have in my arsenal of pets.

 

[BettaMomma]

well im going to make a letter for our local english news paper on the walmart betta cruelty. i am workin on it.so far im thinkin of takin a picture of a betta at the walmart. it is pretty bad but to show stupidity. i asked a worker (i said this in finnish/suomi) "do you medicatre these fish?" and they said "that is a waste of money why bother (the person then laughed)" its not that exspencive..betta momma i am going to take this one into my own hands ok? i got the mount vernon one (In ILL) to stop sellin them

Sounds like you've got everything handled.
Great job.