jetajockey
come get me tang police!
I'm going to say male but it's hard to tell.
And I don't know of any serious aquarist that regularly does equipment or fish shopping at walmart, they have mostly junk (yayyyy tetra equips, lol) and an extremely limited selection, and everyone knows how terrible their fish are. LFS don't go out of business because of big box stores, they go out of business because they don't adapt their business model to stay competitive. I know this from dealing with local pet stores (including a couple of closing ones), but it's always easier to place blame on some faceless entity.
Honestly man it seems like you got sold a sob story. That's a ton of money to pay for a single discus anywhere, let alone in a shop that is closing.
Even if they were completely getting rid of everything including a moderately small tank in their own house that could hold those couple of fish, they aren't forced to do anything, and rehoming via breeders isn't a bad thing, so I'm not sure why it's being portrayed negatively. (Petco is another story)
And I don't know of any serious aquarist that regularly does equipment or fish shopping at walmart, they have mostly junk (yayyyy tetra equips, lol) and an extremely limited selection, and everyone knows how terrible their fish are. LFS don't go out of business because of big box stores, they go out of business because they don't adapt their business model to stay competitive. I know this from dealing with local pet stores (including a couple of closing ones), but it's always easier to place blame on some faceless entity.
Honestly man it seems like you got sold a sob story. That's a ton of money to pay for a single discus anywhere, let alone in a shop that is closing.
Even if they were completely getting rid of everything including a moderately small tank in their own house that could hold those couple of fish, they aren't forced to do anything, and rehoming via breeders isn't a bad thing, so I'm not sure why it's being portrayed negatively. (Petco is another story)