by SplashOfColour » Sun Feb 19, 2012 4:43 pm
.iv been into **** ** **** a few times over the past year, only for food and poly pads in emergencys. everytime i have been in there, there has been sick or dying fish, of all species, due to a number of diseases and just poor keeping. seeing fish struggling to swim and fighting for their lives in large numbers isnt something you'd expect to see from 'a leading pet retailer' who 'care for their fish' and wont let you buy them if they think your tank is too overstocked, or if there fish hav died that you have brought, wont let you purchase anymore! coming from a store that keeps in some cases 30 fish in small tanks. anyway, i went in the other day and looked in a tank, full of corydoras at 2cm and gouramis at about 6 cm. i looked closer to find two dead fish, and several with finrot, one with only hours of life left, being attcked by gouramis. this was the case for a few others too. i then looked in a tank full of neon tetras to find two small sterbai corydoras very thin and struggling to live in the tank also. i then looked in their main tank, full of gouramis, tinfoil barbs, big plecs, xl corydoras and angelfish. i was shocked when i saw an angelfish being chased around the tank with an eye missing, fins torn and constantly being bombarded by tinfoil barbs, every fish keeper knows barbs will attack in groups. i then took a closer look to see another angelfish being pecked at by the barbs, and it had wedged itself underneath bogwood to get away from the attacks. this was very distressing and i had to leave. the next day i went in out of emotion and guilt to 'rescue' the sterbais, and when i pointed out that the fish were ill, he wouldnt sell the fish to me, as they needed to be isolated. i also told him about the angelfish, and they were both found dead, which he said he noticed that they were ill from when they were first put in the tank. i then questioned why the fish hadnt been isolated sooner, and he said he wasnt there, but regular checks should be carried. the bottom line is the fish are all in bad quality, and the place just do not care.