Whats the nastiest thing u have ever seen in a LFS

[Fishy411]

Yesterday i went to a LFS near my house and was absolutely disgusted. THere was a fish dead in almost every tank. I had to buy my fish from the aggressive section because they are run on different filters and i dint want to risk disease. I saw a dead Pleco that turned white and had 3 otos attached to it. It was really nasty!

 

[Candyco]

A couple of months ago i went into my lfs (which i don't use any more) There was a 5 inch silver shark in a tank which had died... it must have been there a while as it's eyes had been completely eaten away... you could literally see right through it's head. GROSS!
Poor lil guy.

 

[sylvia]

I've seen hundreds of dead fish in LFS but one very sickening sight was a large tinfoil barb with fungus all around its penduncle. The fish was still alive but it looked absolutely horrible and I couldn't see how the LFS could possibly over-look it and not treat it. The other thing that sticks in my mind was a 6" or so common plec, dead, lying upside-down and floating at the surface in a tank with baby RTBSs. For some reason, the dead plec was realy disturbing for me.

 

[Jezah]

I think the worst I have ever seen was a head and tail light tetra with no eyes. The other fish in the tank had eaten them out of his head while he was still alive, and he was swimming around like a maniac cause he couldnt see.

 

[rich]

I was in a 'Pets at Home' store and the assistant was going through the tanks picking out what were presumably the ill/slow fish and throwing them in a plastic bag with no water, just a brown paper bag on the outside.

While I was there there must have been at least 20 fish put in .... all dying together. I went home sad.

 

[OohFeeshy]

The other week I saw a dead betta at pets at home.... it was covered in fungus and had 50 or so neon tetras eating it I won't buy fish from there now.

 

[CatLover]

One time at Petland, I saw a 10 inch channel catfish, dead, half decayed, stuck on the filter.

Previously, at the same store, I saw a tank they had drained all the water out of, and there were dead, dried and crusty, painted neons laying on the gravel. They had placed crickets in the tank to eat the dead fish. Well, the employees might not have placed the crickets there - they might have crawled in there on their own. The Petlands around here are crawling with crickets and roaches.

 

[littlefishie]

Petsmart = disgusting. Almost every time I go in 50% of their bettas are covered in fungus, and they still keep them on the shelf for sale. They don't tell the customers that they're sick. It's annoying.

At my LFS of choice, there was a betta in a tank with black moor goldfish. Yes, they keep bettas with their goldies.. whenever I come in the bettas get moved on weekends, but John [fish manager] makes the employees put 'em back on Monday. I dislike him. The betta that was in the tank had a bit of a fungal infection on his side, but it also looked like internal parasites cos he'd been scraping himself against a rock and his dark blue scales were light pink. Really sad..

 

[Gourami Lover88]

At a large retail store whose name will remain anomyous, I saw a four oscars about 6in long coved in ick fungus and had dropsy. And in the tank across there where about 8 dead angles who where being eaten by clowns which also had ick.

 

[Mollybreeder]

Man, i havent seen anything that bad but at Petco i saw two dead saltwater fish who were a beautiful blue color. What amazes me the most is that the store will leave these fish in here while customers are looking at the tanks!!! Bad for business...

 

[Jezah]

I must defend Petco. I worked there and its a individual thing. The fish the stores get in are usually sick and stressed, you put them in the tank and some die. If you have taken a second to look at how many tanks there are? Cleaning dead fish out of every tank is incrediably time consuming, and most employees were too busy to do it. I know how hectic it is. You are pulling out dead fish and a customer comes up and wants something and you have to stop. If the fish dept. manager is a good fish person, like ours was, then its unfair to judge by the dead fish. Its hard to get massivly stressed out fish to survive. I mean they come to the store in little tiny baggies all squished together in a small box. Sometimes they put like 20 fish in one bag. Its the suppliers that are the issue.

 

[DannyBoy17]

I hate seeing the koi at Petsmart. They are always in tiny little tanks, and cant turn around.

One of the worst thing Ive ever seen was when I was Florida, we went to a shabby aqaurium in downtown Tampa, and a man was catching some seahorses. Well, everytime he netted one, he would violently whip the net, so that they would bounce into the bucket beside him on the floor. And bounce they did. You oculd hear them smashing against the side off the bucket everytime he did it

DB

 

[CFC]

Sometimes they employ those really ugly people that shouldnt even be allowed to show their faces in public, all covered in pussy boils and such

 

[Paul_MTS]

lol that a good one CFC, sounds like the weekend boy at work!!

 

[trimacdevilconvict]

Sometimes they employ those really ugly people that shouldnt even be allowed to show their faces in public, all covered in pussy boils and such

lol and they say to you yeah a jag will be fine with a molly oh you NEED a plec and yes they are all compatable with red tail cats
ps which store do you work in paul