Walmart

[CFC]

You know what i do if i find a bad fish store, i dont go there any more!!

If a place is bad then where you can hit them hardest is in their tills, stop using the shop to buy ANYTHING and buy all your goods elsewhere even if it is going to cost you a bit more. It only takes a fraction of the customers who use each store to do this and pretty soon someone upstairs will notice a drop in sales and takings. When figures drop shops drop staff and departments, if the fish section isnt doing as well as it should be they will close it down and fill the space with something that does sell.

 

[geezer]

That's a pretty good idea, but probably only the fish fanatics would go to them lengths

I'm tempted to take pictures of the two I go to. None of the tanks have any substrate (i guess this is the norm with all walmarts) and each one is covered in algae, looks more like a thick layer of moss

every single tank has no ornament/fake plant/hiding place

 

[funnibunni80]

I went to Wal-Mart twice yesterday. Cycling my tank was really putting my daughters beloved goldfish in danger. So I went to get some feeders (which I will later take to LFS... prolly won't get anything, but Nemo is def worth a buck's worth of fish, lol) Anyways, the first time, I went and I had to wait FOREVER for someone to help me. I chased a few people away, & sent them to discount pet. Not as good as the LFS, but better that Wal-Mart! I would have gone there... but I'm lazy & needed diapers too. Bad Dotti.

Anyways, I finally tracked someone down, and I asked him if he was aware that all but one of the goldfish tanks had ich. He said he was treating them. I was plesently surprised! Then I asked what there were doing about the ancor (sp?) worm. He said they didn't have that, and I pointed out all the fish in a tank with red sores and worms OBVIOUSLY sticking out of them! He's like Oh! gee, wonder what I do for that? :smacks self in head: I had been there plenty of time to prepare, and plucked the appropiate bottle off the shelf, and handed it to him.

I went back that night (decided a few more would make the process go faster... and one was looking like it was going to bite it. I pulled him outta the filter intake!!! But he was ALIVE! - Tough fish!) Anways, all the fish with the worms... gone. I helped a 12 yr old pick out some food New fishy. Then I really got on the poor Wal-Mart girls case when I saw a koi EATING two black moor goldfish! One was dead, and the other wasn't quite there yet.

THEY MAKE ME SO MAD! But it was 11:30pm, and I gave them my 43 cents. Not sure if that makes me a bad person or not. Oh well...

As far as Wal-Mart fish living... I have bought 5 fish from them (not including these guys) 1 is still living nearly 9 mos later, so that it pretty cool. The others probally died from a combonation of being Wal-fish & my beginners neg. So, no, I do not like that place. I do visit the vist asile nearly every time I go there (which is a lot) and hassle the employees/managers, and redirect people whan I can. So that makes me feel a little better.... A little. As for fish things, sometimes I buy things there.... but I would NEVER go there during reg. business hours for only fish stuff!

 

[xJake]

I've talked to the manager of the pet department at my local Walmart and she seems to know what she's doing. (Except she's not always around, so things do get messed up by people who have no idea what they're doing) I've bought a total of 8 fish from there and only 1 has died so far. It sickens me how they keep some of their larger fish though. Last time I was there they were keeping 5 red oscars and 3 red-bellied pacus in the same 10-gallon tank. Needless to say I berated her for this (as the oscars were nipping the hell out of the pacus fins) and she immediately moved the pacus to a separate tank. The one thing I can't stand is the shared filter system many stores have. She said they had an ich outbreak during the first week and it spread like wildfire through all the tanks.