Fish Cruelty...?

[supadave]

Sorry guys...just didnt want to see this blow up in someones face. May not be yours, but sh@t travels downhill you know.

Your absolutely right...Dave !!! Sometime we as friends..want to type and discuss things like we're standing in front of one another....not realizing that we have to use more discretion due to this being a public forum. But it's all good...no complaints here.

[supadave]

Now...back to the topic at hand. What about the stores that have most of their fish in say 20-30 gallon tanks? They usually have 200-300 1-2 inch fish in each one. That seems cruel to me also. Or the fish feeding frenzys at some stores... or when they bag your fish 10 of them in a really small bag and frown at you when you ask them for a bigger bag or multiple bags.

This is just one of the reason why I don't buy fish from LFS anymore. For the most part... I just never feel like the fish are just "healthy".

[imagirlgeek]

OMG. Did you guys just self-moderate? I am the happiest Admin in the whole world right now. :biggrin:

[stevenallenbarnard]

OMG. Did you guys just self-moderate? I am the happiest Admin in the whole world right now. :biggrin:

Traci, isn't it great watching your "kids" grow up right in front of you? :-)

[imagirlgeek]

I am still crying happy tears.

[nikkijean1]

while i agree about calling out names of stores may not be the best idea, I was with frontosaurusrex at the store with the poor birds and it made me sick to see them like that, I dont know the "politcal" way to get them to fix it, but it is really sad and something needs to wake them up to it

[imagirlgeek]

This is just one of the reason why I don't buy fish from LFS anymore. For the most part... I just never feel like the fish are just "healthy".

I've bought an entire tank of fish after noticing they weren't being cared for properly and were just slowing dying (malnutritioned and covered in ich). Now they live fat and happy here.

[Kittysnax]

If that resturant you speak of is in Baytown...I think I know which one you speak of LOL. I dont dine in, cause their take out is 2million x's better......and they deliver. But I didnt like what I saw when I went in.

Most of the time, when I go to a LFS, I dont even bother with looking at anything else other than fish. I personally hate birds with a passion. If I could gather up every one in the world and nuke em, I would. (joking. I have just had repeatedly bad experiences) But still, I dont think its right to keep an animal in a miserable setting.

[davesolo29]

OMG. Did you guys just self-moderate? I am the happiest Admin in the whole world right now. :biggrin:

Sorry Traci... Didnt mean to make less work for you... lmao. Just thought id help a bit.

I am still crying happy tears.

YES!!!!! My plan worked!!!!!

[FrontosaurusRex]

The only reason I look past the tanks full of fish, is because they are for sale and usually they are gone in a week or two. I've seen some stores though that cram a ton of fish in a little tank and put an outrageous price on em so they sit for months. I'm like Traci, every time I go to walmart, I wanna buy every fish in there cuz i feel sorry for them. I dont really buy from LFS anymore cuz like Supadave said, they usually arent has hardy as the ones you get from fellow boxers or from group buys.

[TaTeR ToT]

i used to work for the shop in example 1, those fish diserve better then they are getting, i have talked with the owner several times about it and he just says oh, they are fine, they will be moved to a larger tank asap.

yet they have been like that for over 8 months just withering away to nothing.
and probably will never tolerate being in a community envirenment ever again.

its sad.

[FrontosaurusRex]

we should plan a heist....

[TaTeR ToT]

thats what im sayin!
im talkin bout it if you are LOL

THIS IS A HOLDUP!!!
GIVE ME ALL YOUR FISH!!!

[paranoid1123]

Re: Fish Cruelty...?

Now...back to the topic at hand. What about the stores that have most of their fish in say 20-30 gallon tanks? They usually have 200-300 1-2 inch fish in each one. That seems cruel to me also. Or the fish feeding frenzys at some stores... or when they bag your fish 10 of them in a really small bag and frown at you when you ask them for a bigger bag or multiple bags.

You have to remember that the LFS has a high turn over on fish. Those 100 fish in a 30 gal. Tank don't spend much time In there.

[TaTeR ToT]

alot of them spend more time in there then you might think, they have some mbuna in there they have had since i worked there in 2006.

they also have over 100 trophs that are still in thge same 40g tanks they were in a year ago do to them not being sold.