I'm ashamed

[Boggle]

I don't think Sean_Buckley keeping his couple of bucks in his wallet would have made Wal-Mart stop selling fish.

Mabe he could have made the management aware of the problem to prevent further incidents like this.

He is not risking his healthy fish at home, unless the newbies can jump out of the quarantine tank & into his established one.

And he did not waste his money, he got some fish he liked and was going to get anyway, and it's not money wasted unless they go belly-up in the next 4 weeks.

As to the 'ashamed' bit, he said he was ashamed because he bought fish at Crap-Mart, not because he saved them from being killed.

 

[canarsie11]

I don't think Sean_Buckley keeping his couple of bucks in his wallet would have made Wal-Mart stop selling fish.

I is thinking like this that will keep them in business. If everyone stop buying from poor quality fish store, it will force them to do 1 of 2 things.

Stop selling or improve quality.

 

[Sean_Buckley]

Now, now children, no fighting!
Sean

 

[canarsie11]

I am cool,

 

[Boggle]

And how will you get 'everyone' to stop buying from them exactly?

Millions of $ worth marketing from one of the biggest retailers VS your humble opinion?

The only thing that's EVER stopped Crap-Mart selling live anything was a lawsuit when one of the birds they were selling injured a shopper.

You can't fight ignorance with some silent protest.

If you read my post on a local shop in my area selling painted glass fish, I didn't just not buy from them without saying anything. I wrote a letter to the manager, followed with a complaint to the RSPCA. People have to be made aware of what they are doing wrong before they can attemp to fix it.

 

[canarsie11]

I dont want to shut down the whole walmart Just talking about fish dept, which is not spending millions on marketing.

I love walmart, shop there all the time. Just dont buy fish

If people stop buying pepsi from walmart, they will stop stocking it, same premise with fish

 

[Sean_Buckley]

HEY! I SAID NO FIGHTING! GET BACK IN YOUR CAGE! DONT MAKE ME GET THE HOE! (if no one got that, its from Mrs. Doubtfire, lol)
Sean

 

[Boggle]

I'm getting a headache...

S_B you did the right thing. Now go stand in the corner for starting this thread!

 

[canarsie11]

I'm getting a headache...

S_B you did the right thing. Now go stand in the corner for starting this thread!

Take two and call me in the morning

 

[NinjaSmurf]

I like walmart. I like buying fish from walmart. Seven of my fish are from two different walmarts. I've had a better ratio of fish that stayed alive from various walmarts than from the small lfs in my own town, even though the lady's tanks are kept well and her fish are healthy, walmart fish seem to last me longer. Not to mention my walmart actually has a better selection of fish than the lfs, who only has community fish. Did I just recently buy fish out of a tank with some dead fish? Yeah, I did. And they're fine. See, I actually watch the fish for a while before I buy them, and if none of them act healthy or have anything obvious like ich, clamped fins or that swim funny, guess who isn't coming home with me?.

I bought the my pictus from walmart, from an overcrowded tank with RTBS, bala sharks and some other sort of catfish, with one other pictus who was swimming sideways and looked pretty messed up. Pictus is fine. Lost a few female guppies from walmart, but that was my fault, because I didn't cycle the tank.

I often wonder if sometimes the fish that make it through the overcrowding and manage to stay healthy looking and acting after being in walmart for awhile aren't actually better fish to get, since they're so used to having water variations and stress, and you know they aren't weaklings. Would I tell other people they should definetely buy from walmart? No, but I won't tell them not to buy from them either.


Sean, cool find on the fish, good luck with them.

 

[lucky62]

All newly acquired fish should be quarantined , it doesn't matter where you get them from .