Walmart??What are thinkin'?

[oscarowner559]

I saw PACUS at walmart today..oscars are bad enough, but a fish sold at 1" that gets 3 feet long is just stupid..What do you think about selling PACUS at walmart?

 

[Biorium]

....ARRRRRRRRRRRR....... #$%^ WALWARMT .... They are the cruelest company ever. There are soo many articles about how bad they treat your fish .... they only care about $$$$

Here are some articles :

http://www.petlibrary.com/goldfish/walmart.htm

http://www.petitiononline.com/khaki/petition.html

http://fins.actwin.com/aquatic-plants/month.9801/msg00270.html

http://www.fishforums.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?p=54372&sid=60e6feb5761698285caf11f74a482072

http://www.consumeraffairs.com/pets/walmart.html

the list is endless ... Never buy a fish there ... Guys

 

[blueturq]

Well, it is bad your absolutley right.

But the fish will be stunted anyway.

But I think fish like Pacu's and I.D. Sharks should be banned for sale, and can only be ordered by people that have the capabilties to have such large fish i.e. zoos, public aquariums, and possibly chinese restaurants

 

[oscarowner559]

LOL....chinese restaurants...did you mean they eat them, or put them in a tank that they cant even turn around in and dont clean it out for months?? I have seen a chinese restaurant that had 5 8" oscars in a 29 gallon tank (how I dont know) and they said they dont clean it out for 3 months..nasty and mean

 

[Avalon]

So whaddya gonna do? The majority of Wal-Mart shoppers are only looking for one thing: low prices. They subconsciously have in their head that fish purchased at wally world will be the best deal (in every sense of the word). Upper management has already done the thinking for them. What's that tell you?

 

[oscarowner559]

cheap prices..walmart.HAH... I saw a yellow lab not even 1 inch yet for 6 dollars as opposed to one at my lfs 1 1/2 iches that was 2 dollars..

 

[Biorium]

I know, 1 sick Zebra danio = $2.99 , What the Hell !!! .

 

[oscarowner559]

yeah..half the fish at walmart are either sick, dying, or dead..They rarely feed them, so all of their alive tankmates eat the dead fish..they are so lazy they dont even care..I took a dead fish out myself once..and this guy at meijer didnt know the first thing about fish, so he grabbed the smallest net to try to catch a pleco..He couldnt get it, so I did it myself..

 

[Biorium]

Heys guys, lets sign this :

http://www.petitiononline.com/khaki/petition.html

it's not much, just a little grain of sand....

 

[oscarowner559]

I signed..there is only 503 signature..when did this start??

 

[Biorium]

Well , I don't really know ... But i found it around 3 weeks ago ...

 

[CAPSLOCK]

I saw two 3 inch oscars in Walmart chewing on a 2.5 inch goldfish...if the poor goldfish wasn't already dead, I would've found someone to put it back with the other goldies. I can't imagine that their customers want their little kids to see a fish getting the guts eaten out of it.

 

[knifefishfreack]

its not fair that these fish must suffer. Have u seen how many they put in one tank. There is about 4 silverdollars and 10 ranibow fish in one of those stupid tanks. then they have 4 oscars and 4 pacus in the same size tank. It is just cruel to the fish. I saw one of the walmart employes saying its ok to put neon tetras with oscars. I said to the guy that was buying them that they would be eaten. walmart is sending these fish to die.

 

[oscarowner559]

and they about kill the fish when they try to catch them with the net.They ram it into the glass trying to catch it and they squish the fish in-between the glass and the net sometimes.

 

[Cichlid-Man]

Boycott them and don't buy fish. Its what i do.

 

[blueturq]

I know Wal-Mart doesn't know their *** from their arm, and they have bad fish departments all around North America, but when you really think about it, is Petsmart not just as bad? Are any of your lps' or lfs' any different? NO they aren't! (with few exceptions)

 

[Biorium]

Read this, ... The most terrible things here ...

Walmart-Thread

* Notice the guy who used to work for Wal-MArt

 

[Biorium]

Actually you are kind right, But the conditions at Petsmart can't be really compared with WalMart.

Its true that sometimes they overcrow some tanks, but at least they are with fish of their same specie with clean water, a substrate and somebody who is dedicated to them ....

Seriosly there's no comparison between them ...

 

[tomadabomb]

It won't do much good not to buy fish there if you buy tanks, filters, food and everything else from them. The trick would be to boycott them completely and support local businesses where you might possibily have an impact on the way they treat their fish because you get to know the owner/operators...a.k.a. your local LFS.

IMHO

 

[Lotus]

Walmart doesn't care about its staff, why should it care about its fish?

Some Walmarts apparently have decent fish depts., it all depends on the manager.

It's much better to go to your LFS, where at least you might get *some* advice. I know some only have the pet chains. Petco has a hotline to call if you see any poor treatment of animals in its stores, use it as necessary.