LFS Totaly disgusted read this

[Wannapuffa]

I have recently found a LFS who seems to know what they are doing. I went on saturday to buy a catfish for my boyfs tank and was chatting to this guy while he sorted me out my fish.

We got chatting and i was admiring the gorgeous veil tail betta that they had for sale. He spun round quicker then a bullet out of a gun and said to me in a dropped voice, "would you like him? if he doesn't sell over the weekend he will be killed as the mngrs have ordered too many bettas in and we don't have the space for him" As i have had bettas i said that i would take him and give him a loving home so i took him home with me. I went to a different local odd job shop and brought him his own tank and spoilt him rotten.

I can't beleive that managers and owners would be so cruel to kill off this gorgeous fish ! he isn't battered except for a slight nip in his tail which he probably did to himself because he was bored. He's in good health from what i can see. I was so happy that this man gave me this fish as he obviously didn't want it killed either, what a sad world we live in.

Rant over, i was just so disgusted with them ! ! He is a total gem and i won't be parting with him thats for sure

 

[DeadlyAlliance]

Thax You another fish gets rescue. We need to do anything and everything to protect all of our fishes all over the world. Thank You.

 

[Wannapuffa]

Just glad i mentioned him really, it's horrid to think he would be dead now if i hadn't

 

[jesssa]

SO many stores around here overstock bettas its sad. Glad one got rescued before an untimely and undeserved demise!

 

[Def]

Erm, sounds like a sales tactic to me. Bloke chatting to a girl, knows she likes fish, knows she's looking at that particular fish...

 

[Paul_MTS]

Yep sounds like that to me, no real shop would kill stock because they have too many. If they did have too many it's more likely they would be put in un suitable tanks before being killed by tank mates!

At the shop I work at we euthanase fish that we can see aren't going to recover, but they get a quick death straight into the red tail catfish's belly.

 

[daniodude]

even if it was just to get u to buy the fish, you got a wonderful fish, possibly saving him, and you evidently like him, so it all sounds ok

DD

 

[Dwarfs]

At the shop I work at we euthanase fish that we can see aren't going to recover, but they get a quick death straight into the red tail catfish's belly.

Isn't that risking te cat's health, by feeding it sick fish?

 

[jeffrey]

Erm, sounds like a sales tactic to me. Bloke chatting to a girl, knows she likes fish, knows she's looking at that particular fish...

sounds like a get in pants tactic to me.


Pet activist people aside. killing good fish is the stupidest business move ever...
why kill extra fish when you can put them on sale?
buy tank, get fish for free...

No manager/owner with more then 4 brain cells would kill good fish, jsut doesnt make sence.

 

[Dorkhedeos]

i dont think people will just destroy merchendise. merchendise costs money, and people dont just go around throwing money away

 

[rvm]

At the shop I work at we euthanase fish that we can see aren't going to recover, but they get a quick death straight into the red tail catfish's belly.

Isn't that risking te cat's health, by feeding it sick fish?

Exactly what I thought!!!

 

[Ben]

Erm, sounds like a sales tactic to me. Bloke chatting to a girl, knows she likes fish, knows she's looking at that particular fish...

i was just about to say that

 

[JustinSane]

Erm, sounds like a sales tactic to me. Bloke chatting to a girl, knows she likes fish, knows she's looking at that particular fish...

I'd say it's a bad and condemnable sales tactic. Customers shouldn't be misled in such way. They are ready to lie that they are going to kill the fish, what else are they ready to lie about? I wouldn't support such LFS (ie. wouldn't buy anything from it, not even foods or tech, they bring money to the shop and further keep it in the business)

 

[Vip]

Sure it just wasnt a sales tactic? i cant see a shop killing its own money.

 

[Paul_MTS]

At the shop I work at we euthanase fish that we can see aren't going to recover, but they get a quick death straight into the red tail catfish's belly.

Isn't that risking te cat's health, by feeding it sick fish?

Exactly what I thought!!!

we do check for signs of diseases. Infact we don't often feed it tropicals, it mainly gets fancy goldfish. Although he's sold now to a better tank (7x3)