Battered Corys...

[Harlequins]

Went to MA today and their poor matae corys had been well to say the least battered,there were loads(20 +) of young ones in with larger tetras and the poor wee things had most of their dorsal fins missing and their tails weren't looking too good either

I did mention it to the sales assistant and they said they'll look into it,(so i doubt it)

If i'd had the room & the money i would've saved all these wee things although they were expensive...but although it tugged at the heart strings,i knew there wasn't anything i could do to save them their torment...

It was hard to walk away,but has i had already just purchased 2 gouramis,
I'm sat here now wishing i had done more...

 

[hughessomefish]

That reminds me of my trip to my lfs and they had also batterd panda coryies but they one where way over priced and very small.

 

[VaegaVic]

What would you have done then?

Would you have bought them all for going on £100? (assuming they were £5 each, the average for rarer cories)
Would you have added 20 cories to your tank in the hope of saving them, only to possibly cause and ammonia spike in your tank, taking the lives of your own?

You did all you could, all that was possible without causing risk to yourself or your own fish.
I would have done the exact same.

If you want to do more, make sure you write in and complain.

In all honesty, there is nothing else than can be done right now.


If you want, I can join you and perhaps we all should in complaining, just tell us what you want us to say.

 

[Tokis-Phoenix]

I wouldn't feel too bad about it. If you bought the corys the petshop is only going to buy more of them (especially if you bought the whole lot), so you should only buy fish you actually want and can look after.

I do know how you feel though- i have seen quite a number of situations like this. There have been times when i have felt quite guilty to this year for not buying certain fish. My tanks are very understocked right now, but i moved house recently earlier this year so kept the stocking low on them intentionally.

Probably the worst thing i ever saw...There was a petshop that used to be one of my LFS. Its quite a good petshop but they don't feed their fish or critters enough food. There was a sick little fancy goldfish in a small tank with some other fancy goldfish and a huge number of Amano Shrimp (there must have been 30+ of them in the tank). Amano Shrimp are VERY peaceful shrimp by nature (just harmless algae eaters/scavengers), but these shrimp were STARVING. When the sick goldfish started to weaken too much the shrimp literally piled on top of it, dragging it to the substrate, and ate it alive. I literally saw all this happen in front of my eyes, but there was nothing i could do about it. The poor goldfish was hyperventilating as the shrimp piled on top of it and started to eat it. I couldn't watch it, but when i came back to the tank a minute later the goldfish was dead (probably died of shock).
I felt terrible for the goldfish, but i also felt terrible for the shrimp which had become so starved they ate a fish alive (which for Amano shrimp would be like a herd of sheep being so starved they ate a cow) .

But yeah, thats one of the worst things i've seen. I did really want to buy some of those shrimp (i already keep some Amano Shrimp) and there have been numerous times i've wanted to save fish from that shop (in fact there have been some fish i've saved from that shop in that past). Its not a bad pet shop though (actually in the big picture of pet shops its one of the best i've been to, although Aquajardin is a million times better than it).

 

[Verminator89]

What would you have done then?

Would you have bought them all for going on £100? (assuming they were £5 each, the average for rarer cories)
Would you have added 20 cories to your tank in the hope of saving them, only to possibly cause and ammonia spike in your tank, taking the lives of your own?

You did all you could, all that was possible without causing risk to yourself or your own fish.
I would have done the exact same.

If you want to do more, make sure you write in and complain.

In all honesty, there is nothing else than can be done right now.


If you want, I can join you and perhaps we all should in complaining, just tell us what you want us to say.

+1

 

[guppy love]

I saw the same thing today when we took a longish drive to a MA for the first time. All the tanks and stock looked excellent but one tank contained a very stressed masked cory and one slant bar with chewed away dorsal fin and tail, along with a bunch of lively kribs. We ended up bringing the masked cory home along with 2 pandas and asked the assistant to move the slant bar to another tank, and he was placed in a more peaceful tank with albinos and a couple of discus. I bet he's a much happier fish!