I work at a supercenter walmart in wisconsin. I work in the pet department and I must defend my department. I hate walmart in general but our pet department is very well run, my manager is knowledgable about the fish and so am I. We have a lady clean the tanks once a week and I clean them during the week, I scrub down the walls and syphon the tanks. I treat them with medication everyday and we salt the tanks. We use melafix and blue medication I cannot remember the name of right now. we are constantly treating the fish to keep diseases at bay.
We change the filters immediately when they are dirty. I am very concious of the diseases of our fish. I realize many walmarts are not as they hire any old idiot. I would just like you all to know that there is one walmart out there with decent fish.
The betta fish get their cups changed 1-2 times a week but usually are sold by that time as we go through about 200 bettas a week. The only reason the bettas are kept in cups is because of the lack of tank space, the quantity we sell and how fast they sell. we do not put them in the cups, they come this way from our supplier, either the cups or tinier bags.
The funny thing is we receive the same fish as Petco next door, the same supplier the same day. We do communicate with our supplier but many other walmarts do not and that is why they are over crowded. They are ordered like everything else in the store, by how much we sell. Often times though we recieve whatever they send us because basically the supplier is a processing line with people just scooping and putting in bag then shipping. We get what we recieve. Alot of the times our fish arrive with diseases, often times we will refuse the shipment.
A big problem we have is the goldfish tank is all run on one filter and water system, it is a bio wheel. There is a refridgeration system and a
UV system with a sump. The tropical tanks are all run on another system with a bio wheel, heater and
UV system. So it is a huge problem to try and isolate diseases as it all runs through all the tanks. T
What really pisses me off is the idiots that come in and buy fish that know nothing about fish and buy the tank and the fish the same day.
The store 25 miles away on the other hand has algae growing on the walls and algae that looks like moss coming off of the water spouts.The guy that scoops fish doesnt know crap and cant catch them. Their tanks are very overcrowded, people dont buy any fish there so the shipments kepp coming and the tanks keep getting overcrowded.
We try to keep our tanks not AS crowded as others. most walmarts dont care enough to worry about it they just want money, which by overcrowding makes us lose money.
I am by no means trying to get you to shop at walmart as it is a huge monopolistic white trash store but i just want you to know that there is at least one walmart that TRYS to do things right.
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