Store fish delivery

**Lady Hobbs** · 12-20-2006, 03:50 PM

I was at the store last night when the fish man come with his delivery. Now, this is a store not much different than WalMart but with much higher standards. Tanks are clean and fish look good (since I complained to cooperate office about them.) That story comes further down.

But the way these fish are delivered you wonder how any survive. They come in huge trash bags just loaded with fish. Maybe 30-50 to a bag. Now I know why I see nipped fins, ragged fins and stressed fish.

About my complaint: I was wandering around this same store getting fish supplies about 6 months ago and noticed the tanks were really going downhill. Following week went back and even worse conditions. I emailed cooperate office about how crummy these fish were kept and immediately got a phone call from them. Tanks were all cleaned up that week and have remained cleaned since.

Then.........complained to cooperate office at WalMart. Nothing. Zip. Natta. They could care less. WalMart needs 20 lashes for keeping fish in the conditions they keep them in. When they walk past those aquariums and see 10 dead fish in a tank you'd think they could at least remove them instead of allowing them to rot in the tanks.

YES. I complain when I see a dog tied up to a 5 foot chain with no food or water, too. What can I say? Animals and fish don't deserve to get what they get from humans.

**jeffs99dime** · 12-20-2006, 04:14 PM

excellent point hobbs! animal cruelty ticks me off to no end!

**crackatinny** · 12-20-2006, 09:22 PM

People who treat animals in that way deserve the same to happen to them, it is unacceptable.

Talking of fish deliverys, our local pet store was expecting a delivery the other day, so me and the wife went down to see what they got, it ended up that only half the delivery got there, the other half turned up the following day (after being lost in the post), half of them where dead.

**Neithan** · 12-20-2006, 09:31 PM

o.O

Fish deliveries to stores here are done in large styrofoam boxes, with each species in its own plastic bag. Maybe you should see if you can find out whoever they get their fish from and complain directly to them about the conditions they ship their fish in?

**crackatinny** · 12-20-2006, 09:38 PM

Originally Posted by Neithan

o.O

Fish deliveries to stores here are done in large styrofoam boxes, with each species in its own plastic bag. Maybe you should see if you can find out whoever they get their fish from and complain directly to them about the conditions they ship their fish in?

Transport here in Aus is done in this same way

**Lady Hobbs** · 12-20-2006, 10:15 PM

These come in styrofoam boxes as well but those huge bags of fish were inside in trash bags. They were also sorted out but still, sooo many in each bag.

**jman** · 12-20-2006, 10:45 PM

I have a walmart near by that just got rid of the fish, i guess because it was a serious lost especially when the workers don't care.

**Lady Hobbs** · 12-20-2006, 10:50 PM

Well, when you run a store on either people too disabled to hardly walk or hire school kids who don't give a darned and know nothing about fish........? They get what they pay for. They have the same people run the nursery here that run the fish section of the store. Nursery is busy in the summer and the fish aren't yelling so ....guess who gets ignored?

**jman** · 12-20-2006, 10:54 PM

sometimes the whole fish keeper thing makes me so upset because you can find some really nice fish but then you have a employer who just can't catch a fish that is already too sick to swim away. lol

**Lady Hobbs** · 12-20-2006, 10:58 PM

LOLOL That was really funny. I've wondered on occassion if their nets didn't have holes in them.

I have two long finned danio's and wanted a dozen of them. Lady was sweating like she'd been jogging about a year, scooping, scooping for forever and could not catch any more so after 20 minutes of this I told her to forget it. I still want more!