how do yall fell about fish at Wal-mart!?!?!?

Question

the pet fish. and i meant to say feel.

the fish live in bad conditinos, but they are the only fish that i have had that live.
i dont get it.

Answer 1

The reason Wal-marts fish are so bad...Is because most of their stores have central filter systems...1 tank gets sick and all the tanks get sick....all the water from all the tanks run through the same filter...the other reason Walmart fish die is because most of the wholesalers guarantee their fish to Walmart..if they die in the store the wholesaler picks up the expense..Walmart has no incentive to clean those tanks or make sure that all the fish are compatable in each tank.

Answer 2

I feel like they should hire someone who actually knows somehting about fish. The stupid thing is the Walmart that I go to rotates people in the fish section. So they would be in it for like a month, then switched by someone else. The fish at the Walmart I go to are usually fairly healthy, but the staff is fairly dumb. I am guilty of getting fish at Walmart, but most of them have lived for a pretty long time. They don't label thier fish correctly however, currently I am trying to figure out what species of loach/catfish they have. They are the only place I have got corydoras so far except for one fish store. I think that if they dont take care of the fish at a particular Walmart, then they shouldn't have fish. Also, they need to hire people who know stuff about fish. Such as identiing a guppy from a goldfish!!!!!

Answer 3

Wal- Mart fish is what we have and they do fine. If anyone gets one they can always find out what day Wal-Mart gets their fish in and get one the day after. Gives them time to rest up from the first shipping.Pick one from a clean tank that has no dead fish. If you notice the fish are looking bad, tell the manager so he can put someone in that departmant that knows how to care for them. He won't know unless somebody tells him. If his fish look good, also tell him so he doesn't move the person takeing care of them.

Answer 4

For purchasing animals. I do not like Wal-Mart, PetsMart, PetCo, Meijers or other department type stores. The people there are not educated in how to take care of fish. Go to a local pet store. The fish are usually the same price though even if they are more expensive the advice you get will help you save and care for so many more fish that you will definitely save a lot of money in the long run.

Answer 5

I can only speak for the 3 walmarts in my area, and all are terrible.

Filthy tanks, dead fish, tons of food and fish waste everywhere. No actual "fish" person, just whoever you can flag down to grab a net.

I think they should stop selling fish, they do not have a trained fish associate, no one to maintain the tanks, and it smells really bad back there. For the heck of it, I asked someone back there if I could keep a neon tetra with the assorted cichlids. He said sure. !!!! And they list the pacu as getting 2 inches. Um, no. lol

Just my opinion, my walmarts are really bad.

Answer 6

more than once I was at a walmart (same thing happened at several walmarts I've been to) and I see a ten-fifteen gal tank with twenty-five to thirty fish dead at the bottom and three to five fish alive eatting the dead ones (of course I could barely make that out because the tank was so full of algae that you could barely see through the glass ... and at some of the better walmarts I've seen incompatible fish in the same tank ... what really kills me is when a little kid goes in the aisle and sees that (I've seen a kid like five years old screaming in horror at the sight of a half dead fish eating a dead fish in the middle of a walmart)
for that same token my betta is from walmart...he was sick when I got him but alittle medication and now he is reaching his two year birthday mark completely healthy and working on a bubble nest as we speak :) I have the most success with walmart fish as well (bettas and danios mostly) I have a therory on this...because walmart fish are so unkept and not cared for at all, the ones that live live because they develop a stronger imune system and by the time we get them and give them better care they are more apt to stay alive when we screw up alittle on the temp of the tank or feed them to little/too much where as petstore fish are properly cared for from birth/hatching until the day we get them and take them home so they are effected more by the little things we do/don't do...sort of like the movie War Of The Worlds when all the aliens died because they lived in a perfect world with no disease so when they came to earth and earth has disease they were unable to fight off earth's diseases and they died...(bad analogy...but same idea) of course this is just my theory and I've never done any research to prove it...but think about it when you buy a fish from walmart it has already been through the worst so what more can you do that would possibly hurt it worse than walmart already has?! (not that any of us would want to hurt a fish)

Answer 7

Fish at Walmart are not healthy,they don't know what their doing when it comes to the fish dept.! Everytime I've ever looked at the fish at Walmart their were more dead fish than there were live fish! I would NEVER buy fish from Walmart!!! Stick with your local pet store.

Answer 8

ok since i just got 3 dwarf gourmis from there -- they were my first fish from walmart and the basic story was --

dwarf gouramis around town ranged from 5.09 --and they were doing spins on their tails (not a good sign) -- to 7.99. i thought that was a really stupid price for a dwarf gourami.

walmart -- 2.24 a gourami. i can deal with that better. but i was concerned so i stuck em in a small tank for a week and think that was worse on them than being crammed in a tank with 50 assorted gouramis and paradise fish.

i also got a couple plants.

while i see lots of dead fish at walmart i don't see diseased fish. i was thinking about some mountain minnows for a 5 gallon i have sitting around but they had ich at one store -- walmart didn't have them and another store wanted 2.00 a piece. for a flippin minnow. no wonder everyone goes to walmart.

Answer 9

Most walmarts have sickly fish. I got my betta from walmart because I felt bad for him and I liked his unique coloration. He had tail rot that he's just now getting over.

I really hate the fact that they sell the dyed/tattooed fish there. I think walmart needs to give up the live fish business and only sell supplies.

Answer 10

personally, i believe that the people that work at walmart are not trained enough to work with the fish. ive seen some horrible things in the pet section at a nearby walmart that id rather not say because it makes me sick.
the people are hired to work whichever department they are needed in, therefore anyone could be working in the pet section anyday and not even know a tetra from a betta!
i think they should hire people that know about fish and want to take care of them and sell them to people who WILL give them the care they need.