Whats the nastiest thing u have ever seen in a LFS

[BettaMomma]

Petstores are EVIL.

If you want to see something disturbing, visit this site:
Petco Cruelty Website

BEWARE - this is VERY horrifying, and will disturb you, so if you don't have a strong will don't go there.

MAN i just did what I said i'd never do - go back to that website.
GRRR now i'm all worked up again.

 

[Dwarfs]

I saw a poor terrified juvenile severum in a tank with some huge tilapia, a Jag( ), and a red devil( ) If the sev wasn't so expensive we would have taken him out of that hell, and saved him from impending doom.

 

[Nyte]

The fish the stores get in are usually sick and stressed, you put them in the tank and some die. 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.

I agree. I worked at a petstore for about 6 years and for the last 4 ended up as assistant manager specializing in the fish. More times then not the supplier would send sick fish. We would get such bad shipments from some suppliers that we had to stop dealing with them. But then if we noticed anything wrong with the fish we would treat them till they were better and most definatly NOT sell them to the public until they were.

That's the problem with a lot of fish stores, their suppliers are the middle men. Not the actual fish breeders. So the fish are from the breeders, to the suppliers, to the store, to our tanks. I don't see how any fish could go through all of that and not have problems.

I really like Big Al's for this reason and have never had problems with their fish. They cut out the middle man and raise their own fish in Florida. and sometimes the Big Al's near me buys fish from people who hobby breed...those are the best fish in my opinion.

Anyway, back on topic... I've seen some pretty nasty things working so long in a pet store. A few times we would get huge fancy goldfish in with anchor worm. Those things are AWFUL! We would medicate and pull the little buggers out of the fish ourselves...with tweezers. Disgusting. But it worked.

 

[fufanu360]

the grossest thing i saw....acually i give my fish stores credit, they are very good, but i saw a dead columbian shark that was being sucked on and all... not pretty

 

[Fishy411]

Petstores are EVIL.

If you want to see something disturbing, visit this site:
Petco Cruelty Website

BEWARE - this is VERY horrifying, and will disturb you, so if you don't have a strong will don't go there.

MAN i just did what I said i'd never do - go back to that website.
GRRR now i'm all worked up again.

I really REALLY hope the people who took those pictures got those animals rescued in time. That parrot is in Really dire need of some care.

 

[BettaMomma]

I can't answer that, but I do know that most times when these things were discovered, it was by places like PETA and such.

They should just shut stores like that down on the spot when animals are treated like that.

uugh - it really makes me just SICK

 

[Paul_MTS]

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

I'm at Betta Aquatics Clacton in essex

the minions have visisted me there a few times and toggle a newer member on here is a local.

 

[Synirr]

If you want to see something disturbing, visit this site:
Petco Cruelty Website

While I agree with a lot of things said on that website, one has to realise that pet stores are a business... and you can't save everything.
It's simply illogical to expect them to offer vet care to every injured feeder rat in the store, you know?

The same goes for fish shops. I expect them to medicate (or in the case of small, cheap fish, possibly euthanise) obviously sick fish, but it's no shock that you do sometimes find dead fish in the tanks. It's an unfortunate side effect of the business, I'm afraid.

 

[Paul_MTS]

I think alot of the poepl on here don't realise the time and effort that goes into the fish in a shop.

My work gets our fish from a supplier which imports them. Although it makes the fish alot more stressed when brought to us it saves us quarantining them as the supplier has for atleast 2 weeks before relising any fish.

All fish that do come in ill or show signs of illness are treated promtly, but when you have people on for a few days a week and then the shifts swicth some treatments might not get done and there fore fish get ill again.

When we have fish that are ill they are marked up not for sale. Some fish will dye from the ill ness and there will be some dead fish in the tank every now and then, but if we're busy serving dry goods then we don't get a chance to look in the fish house until you get some know it all customer point out the dead fish and ones with white which have not for sale written on the tanks already.

but back to the point i apartf rom the usual manky dead fish there's been nothing special...dead platties are the worth smelling dead fish though!!

oh and when you see fish sucking and eating on any fish it's because they are all kind of canabols (sp) all fish will eat any food going which includes over fish.

 

[Fishy411]

I think alot of the poepl on here don't realise the time and effort that goes into the fish in a shop.

My work gets our fish from a supplier which imports them. Although it makes the fish alot more stressed when brought to us it saves us quarantining them as the supplier has for atleast 2 weeks before relising any fish.

All fish that do come in ill or show signs of illness are treated promtly, but when you have people on for a few days a week and then the shifts swicth some treatments might not get done and there fore fish get ill again.

When we have fish that are ill they are marked up not for sale. Some fish will dye from the ill ness and there will be some dead fish in the tank every now and then, but if we're busy serving dry goods then we don't get a chance to look in the fish house until you get some know it all customer point out the dead fish and ones with white which have not for sale written on the tanks already.

but back to the point i apartf rom the usual manky dead fish there's been nothing special...dead platties are the worth smelling dead fish though!!

oh and when you see fish sucking and eating on any fish it's because they are all kind of canabols (sp) all fish will eat any food going which includes over fish.

I do realize what yur saying but this time i was horrified. I mean almost evry tank had dead fish in it. Im not saying it ws anyoones fault but they must lose a lot of money because this looked like a new shipment. They had plecos in every tank and they normally have 1 or 2 total.

Also myLFs does usually treat a tank or two and have it on hold because of ich or something.

 

[jflowers]

Worst thing I have ever seen at an lfs is a tank full of south american puffers that all had sunken bellies and had almost NO colouration. They were labled Brazillian puffers and obviously had not been fed anything they would eat for some time. I wished I could have done what the minions did with cookie, but I dont have the room for 30 SAP's BTW this was not a shop in Peterborough, but one near Wisbeach, not gonna mention the name. They also had a lot of dead fish in tanks and no detailed lables on brackish or soft water tanks, or any tank for that matter.

Jon

 

[BettaMomma]

While I agree with a lot of things said on that website, one has to realise that pet stores are a business... and you can't save everything.
It's simply illogical to expect them to offer vet care to every injured feeder rat in the store, you know?

EHH? WHY NOT?
I'm sorry, but if your business is a pet store, your number one priority should be to make sure you have happy, healthy animals. At LEAST ones that aren't literally knocking on death's door - and if you do have ones like that, you need to take care of them.

While I completely understand that some fish may die in a tank (that's just life), and go unnoticed for some time, there should NEVER be an instance when a fish is left dead in a tank long enough for his roomies to eat his eyeballs out.

AND, there should NEVER NEVER EVER be a time when a rat is allowed to be so sick that when a customer is peeking through the aquarium glass at her and the rat sneezes, everything that comes out is lime green mucus mixed with blood. So what, these rats are ONLY feeder rats - so then do you think that makes them any less important, or makes the amount of pain they feel when they're sick and/or dying any less?

While I'm not quite radical enough to belong to PETA, I very strongly believe that somebody has to be a voice for the poor little souls whose existence means little more than being a means for someone to get rich.

 

[Paul_MTS]

When you start taking sick animals to the vets you start bringing the costs of that animal up and thus bringing the price of the animal up.

If all pets stores used the best and most expensive medications and best vets on any sick animal they would either go bust from paying the bills or go bust from no customers as whos going to pay high prices so the business can cover there costs.

whats the point in paying a vet say £10 for a rat that costs £2 to buy in, it's cheaper to euthanize it.

 

[BettaMomma]

Good thing health insurance companies don't have that philosophy

 

[jflowers]

Personally, I would rather pay more for fish if I knew they were cared for, thats why I go to the best lfs, not the cheapest.

A £2 rat has as much right to a good life as a £20 rat, or a £1 neon.

If vet care was required by all pet shops, an insurace company or two would soon jump on the opportunity and offer policies for it. Yes it would push up prices, but the fish would be better quality and worth the extra money IMO.

Jon