Originally Posted by armadillo

I went to my local pet store store today (well, one of them) and their fish situation was appalling. They had on average 3 dead fish per tank, and as you can imagine the other fish were feasting on those, which was just sooooo unsanitary (and unpleasant to watch). The worst was half of this poor dead fish' face had been eaten and he kind of flopped round against the lass from all the fish prodding and pushing him, giving me the worst fright. Oh, and there was this albino frog eating one of the dead fish while the fish were eating the frog. It was just awful.

And lots of female bettas kept in the same tank, as well as lots of males bettas each kept in tanks with random other species.

There were also black mollies with the worst and most obvious case of ich kept in the same tank as seemingly unaffected ones.

The worst thing is I genuinely think that one of the workers at least really cares. They probably don't know better and think it's normal?

Originally Posted by FLBettaCouple

Seems like it's common for these big chain stores to treat fish as disposable merchandise. it almost makes me hate looking at the tanks - i love to look at fish, but hate to see how poorly cared for they are.

Originally Posted by armadillo

Yeah, am the same. But this one was really bad. Worst I've seen so far I think.

Originally Posted by Tom

Why didn't you just say something to someone about the condition and most of the stores I go to appciate the notice of dead/dieing/sick fish.

Originally Posted by armadillo

Yes, it was rather depressing... Gawd, that half-faced fish. That's the stuff of nightmares.