DragonFish71
Great white snark
After a long, very bad week at work, my loving husband took me to Petco to get some danios for our river tank. They've been running all the long-fins for $.99 each for a few weeks now. A good buy I think, bring them home, QT, them move them in. We've never left there empty handed until last night.
After walking through their display tanks I was highly upset at what I saw. The last straw was when we walked past their bettas and we saw what had been a beautiful double tailed male, pure white, laying on his side, gasping. We left the store with me almost in tears, empty handed.
I'm a regular customer at your store in Longmont CO, #280. Last night my husband and I went into your store to purchase fish for one of our aquariums and left empty handed, which is something that never happens.
We were appalled at what we saw in the stores display tanks. Fish dead and dying, the tanks filthy, some fish in various stages of disease like fin rot and ich. Bettas dead in their cups or laying on their sides gasping. I understand your company gets fish for cheap and in abundance for quick sale, that they are seen as a commodity, but what we saw last night was heartbreaking. No animal should have to suffer this type of treatment.
Also, on a few occasions we have witnessed your employees selling fish that are either too large for the system the customer maintains (like a common plecostomus in a 5 gallon tank)or selling a new tank with fish at the same time. No education is given on the proper set up of that tank other than add water and add fish. New tanks need to go through the nitrogen cycle before they are safe for inhabitants. We've also seen them selling too many fish for the customers systems, siting the "one inch per gallon" rule, which is a farce.
We maintain 14 tanks in our home. Our smallest is a 3 gallon and our largest a 120 gallon. Two of these tanks are specialty tanks where the water quality must be carefully monitored each day. Yes, we experience an occasional fish loss, but nothing on the scale of what we saw last night.
After walking through their display tanks I was highly upset at what I saw. The last straw was when we walked past their bettas and we saw what had been a beautiful double tailed male, pure white, laying on his side, gasping. We left the store with me almost in tears, empty handed.
I'm a regular customer at your store in Longmont CO, #280. Last night my husband and I went into your store to purchase fish for one of our aquariums and left empty handed, which is something that never happens.
We were appalled at what we saw in the stores display tanks. Fish dead and dying, the tanks filthy, some fish in various stages of disease like fin rot and ich. Bettas dead in their cups or laying on their sides gasping. I understand your company gets fish for cheap and in abundance for quick sale, that they are seen as a commodity, but what we saw last night was heartbreaking. No animal should have to suffer this type of treatment.
Also, on a few occasions we have witnessed your employees selling fish that are either too large for the system the customer maintains (like a common plecostomus in a 5 gallon tank)or selling a new tank with fish at the same time. No education is given on the proper set up of that tank other than add water and add fish. New tanks need to go through the nitrogen cycle before they are safe for inhabitants. We've also seen them selling too many fish for the customers systems, siting the "one inch per gallon" rule, which is a farce.
We maintain 14 tanks in our home. Our smallest is a 3 gallon and our largest a 120 gallon. Two of these tanks are specialty tanks where the water quality must be carefully monitored each day. Yes, we experience an occasional fish loss, but nothing on the scale of what we saw last night.
