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BORING! they sold me fish with diseases.. N kept the diseased fish on sale for another week! Not bein a joker, but they shouldnt be doin that, just so the poor beginers in this hobbie have to fork out for treatments when in the first place they SHOULDNT HAVE BEEN SOLD!
Dont worry mate, I look at fish properly now thanks BRUV!
N also you can clean the plants but it can still hold snail eggs GEEZ!
Well no one really helps each over on dis site, ppl just gt dere own OPINIONS lmfao
BORING! they sold me fish with diseases.. N kept the diseased fish on sale for another week! Not bein a joker, but they shouldnt be doin that, just so the poor beginers in this hobbie have to fork out for treatments when in the first place they SHOULDNT HAVE BEEN SOLD!
Dont worry mate, I look at fish properly now thanks BRUV!
N also you can clean the plants but it can still hold snail eggs GEEZ!
I am sorry you find advice boring you need to weigh up the shop as a business and profitability versus customer satisfaction. I think your local P@H was generous to you and took a step that the majority of shops would never do. If your a beginner then you should research a pet before buying it not just walk into a store and listen to the salesman. Same with buying anything in your life.
My job involves sales and I will exaggerate the truth and give bias when stock needs to be shifted. If the customer doesn't know what he is buying then that is his fault not mine, as he has not properly investigated the market. A problem the small "good" shops have is people come in get good advice buy a minimal amount then go online and find it for cheaper and buy the majority. If you find a good retailer you should support it and promote it but if you find a bad one then write an impartial report of what happened, don't rant subjectively.
Your P@H may have an open loop system for all tanks thus there is one or 2 filters in parallel that treat the water for all FW tanks. As a result any ich or snail eradication treatment would effect all tanks and any aquatic life that is sensitive to copper or heightened salt levels would be affected. That is why some stores use UV to try and kill the suspended parasites and bacteria in the water column but its not as effective as UV+Medication.
P@H don't grow the plants they keep them from mass suppliers. To treat plants for snails use a copper soak and rinse then QT if possible. If you have sensitive fish or inverts in your tanks then it is best to ensure the plants are treated in a QT tank with snail medication then use a carbon filter for a week or two to ensure all the copper is removed. To test after you are 99% sure the tank is clean pick an invertebrate and acclimatise it to the QT tank and after 24hrs if it has survived as it should the plants are safe. If you don't have sensitive aquatic life then do a snail treatment when introducing new plants for a week or 2 after introducing.
Must say, I was at my local Pets @ Home (Borehamwood) this weekend, and I was pleasantly surprised. Not much of a range of fish. But all the tanks were clean and the livestock looked healthy.
Btw, I didn't go there to get fish..... my kids like looking at the rabbits & guinea pigs.
Hi all.
I have 2 local pets at home stores close to me, 1 is average and the other is quite good, the one nearest have been quite helpfull when i was setting up the tank, all the fish looked healthy, just snails though!!, plants were in ok condition but not amazing.
The other store, the tanks are always dirty, the plants half dead so never by from there.
There is another store that i have been to called World of Water. they are by far the worst i have seen, with so many fish with whitespot, and 37 dead fish on my last visit. staff did not know what they were talking about, so i asked if i could add 20 tetras to my tank having only set it up for 1 week. the response "yeh i guess so, not really sure" REALLY! there cheap as chips and seemed to sell alot of new tanks and fish with whitespot, which for begginers is not good.
I went to P@H in Colchester today. Perfectly fine, fish looked really healthy.
On the other hand, I also went to seapets, and counted at least 5 dead fish in their tanks...and they looked like they hadn't been cleaned for about 3 weeks. Definitely put me off buying anything from there.
yeah seapets has gone right downhill lately . i went there before pets at home , those poor oscars were in a shocking state werent they ,
I went to P@H in Colchester today. Perfectly fine, fish looked really healthy.
On the other hand, I also went to seapets, and counted at least 5 dead fish in their tanks...and they looked like they hadn't been cleaned for about 3 weeks. Definitely put me off buying anything from there.
yeah seapets has gone right downhill lately . i went there before pets at home , those poor oscars were in a shocking state werent they ,
Sorry guys, it's a shame the fish house has taken a nose dive again, I tried to tell them the current fish house manager would wreck it.
Rogue4fish, 3 weeks is probably a vast understatement for the cleaning regime.
I would encourage anyone to email in complaints when they feel standards have dropped in Seapets. It's only thorugh constant nagging that the current FH manager actually works.