I noticed something strange about Pets at Home yesterday when I went in to get a couple of fish bags. I think it confirms that pets at home is not a bad fish chain, it just has individual bad stores, such as my local one in Ipswich.
Evidence that the store sucks:
-Dead fish in every tank
-Cloudy water
-Ick in every tank
-Incompatable fish mixed (Malawi cichlids & a shredded betta)
-Gravel so filthy that you can barely see it below the layer of debris.
-Very unpleasent smell
-Plecs sucking on a ballpoint pen that had fallen in the tank.
-Too many fish per tank by far.
-Many tanks with no labels
Evidence that the chain doesn't suck as a whole.
-Excellent labels with details of fish adult size, it's temprement, whether is should be kept alone or in a school, what it eats, how big the tank should be, and a photo of the fish. If only all LFSs labeled like this.
-Generally good advice in the care leaflets "add only a few fish at a time" for example.
-Excellent advice printed on the fish bags about how to introduce the fish to the tank.
Perhaps head office need to do more spot checks.
Evidence that the store sucks:
-Dead fish in every tank
-Cloudy water
-Ick in every tank
-Incompatable fish mixed (Malawi cichlids & a shredded betta)
-Gravel so filthy that you can barely see it below the layer of debris.
-Very unpleasent smell
-Plecs sucking on a ballpoint pen that had fallen in the tank.
-Too many fish per tank by far.
-Many tanks with no labels
Evidence that the chain doesn't suck as a whole.
-Excellent labels with details of fish adult size, it's temprement, whether is should be kept alone or in a school, what it eats, how big the tank should be, and a photo of the fish. If only all LFSs labeled like this.
-Generally good advice in the care leaflets "add only a few fish at a time" for example.
-Excellent advice printed on the fish bags about how to introduce the fish to the tank.
Perhaps head office need to do more spot checks.
