Why Does It Happen?

[demonmagus]

I went down to pets at home to get some guinea pig supplies today and I realised that above each fish tank there is always a sticker with how large fish grow, how aggresive they are and it is about two sentences, so it doesn't waste time. However, outside the shop there was a huge poster that says 'Christmas is coming, buy this great value hexagon tank for only £39.99!

So, you may say, nothing wrong with that, but, on the picture, in a tiny hex tank there were 6 fancy goldfish.

I am just wondering why do they have the informative stickers, but then sell 'complete goldfish setups' which kids want with 5-6 goldfish who then proceed to die?

If they can be bothered to get fish info for there tanks, why do they contradict themselves by selling overstocked fish bowls?

 

[dwarfgourami]

I went down to pets at home to get some guinea pig supplies today and I realised that above each fish tank there is always a sticker with how large fish grow, how aggresive they are and it is about two sentences, so it doesn't waste time. However, outside the shop there was a huge poster that says 'Christmas is coming, buy this great value hexagon tank for only £39.99!

So, you may say, nothing wrong with that, but, on the picture, in a tiny hex tank there were 6 fancy goldfish.

I am just wondering why do they have the informative stickers, but then sell 'complete goldfish setups' which kids want with 5-6 goldfish who then proceed to die?

If they can be bothered to get fish info for there tanks, why do they contradict themselves by selling overstocked fish bowls?

Yes, indeed. And a lot of the fish they sell grow too large for any of the tanks they sell, so what are people expected to do? Read the label and not buy their fish?

 

[kris-b-]

To places like that it is only about the ££££ and nothing else! Do you really think they care once they have sold something? We all know its wrong but that is what happens when profits are involved!

 

[Kopix Nation]

I work at a fish store and people are trying to get us to start selling fish bowls which all of us that work there know that only bettas are the only fish that can sucessfuly kept in bowls. I really don't even think bettas should be kept in a fish bowl... A fish bowl is as much a tank as a closet is to a house!

claire

 

[Aqua Andy]

It's the manufacturers that are to blame. They produce the packaging.

Here's a link to my similar rant.


Andy

 

[Ethos]

To places like that it is only about the ££££ and nothing else!

Haha, that made me laugh. I dunno why. Maybve because I'm not use to seeing the £ sign, and I'm so use to seeing the $ sign.
Lol.

Back on topic, people see fish as a cheap, non-binding pet.
Soon as they die, they can be cheaply or easily replaced.

 

[Kopix Nation]

I don't understand Petsmart... Now instead od Pets-mart they are calling it Pet-smart... Yea RIGHT! more like Pet-morons!

claire

 

[BOD]

and causes things like this........HMMMM
just had to post wot i found!

 

[OohFeeshy]

Funny how hypocritical they are.
http/www.petsathome.com/invt/7084

Surely the most popular of all fish, the common goldfish is as happy in a tank as in a pond. The biggest misconception with goldfish however, is that they can be kept in a bowl without filtration. All fish need filtration to keep the water clean, plus breaking the water surface oxygenates the water allowing the fish to breathe. Goldfish can grow up to 20cm so certainly need a lot more space than a bowl can offer.

Strange that.

 

[Gaylord]

I went down to pets at home to get some guinea pig supplies today...

You have a guinea pig?

 

[kat and james]

everyone rants about the pet stores selling totally inappropriate fish, but james was in a fish shop the other day picking up some supplies, and they had paroon catfish, also known as chao phraya GIANT catfish, james recognised them, and asked the shop keeper whether he knew exactly what they were, and explained to him how large these fish grow. turns out the supplier just offloads fish like this to the shops, for free (and without the shops knowing what the fish is, or that they have even received it.. until they do a stock check). so the lfs get stuck with a whole bunch of fish that people can't keep as pets, and which they can't keep in thier store. obviously they aren't a charity and they have to sell the fish, which is how people who don't know about certain types of fish end up with fish that grow huge!

i don't condone this behaviour, but in this case it is the suppliers fault, for ordering the fish, and then for dumping them on the lfs.

kat

 

[catxx]

i bought a 4 gallon acrylic tank for my betta
the "instruction" booklet that came with it said "How To Care For Your Goldfish". i frowned at it a lot.
in the same store was a TINY hex tank, must have been a 1 gallon at the most, i wouldn't even put a betta in it, had a picture of a comet goldfish in it. BLEH!!!!

 

[kakihara]

I have to say that it is unbelievable what some pet shops have in their tanks. Definitley cruelty to animals, or as close as it couild be.

There was a 3 foot tank for sale in a pet shop I was in the other day and they had 2 fish that were at least 10 inches long and 5 inches high in it, along with some type of Ray and they were selling the lot for 700 Euro. Now I don't mind the price but it was the fact that they were selling it all as a complete package. Thereby saying that it was ok to keep these 3 very large fish in a tank so small.

 

[demonmagus]

I went down to pets at home to get some guinea pig supplies today...

You have a guinea pig?

yes I do have a guinea pig... Two in fac