Please check it out and sign it if you want I just feel that they should NOT be able to carry any fish at all they are all sick looking and they have absolutely no clue on how to care for them.
WalMart and Green Spot Puffers!
- newpuffergrl
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WalMart and Green Spot Puffers!
The WalMarts here in Austin,TX will not take anyones advice on the Green Spot Puffers..... They have them like 20 to a little tiny tank(maybe 5-10 gallons) and they put them in fresh water with a tbsp of aquarium salt!!! The poor things are skin and bones, turning black and have ich. I googled cruelty to fish and have found this petition on WalMarts cruelty to fish... http://www.petitiononline.com/sickfish/petition.html
Please check it out and sign it if you want I just feel that they should NOT be able to carry any fish at all they are all sick looking and they have absolutely no clue on how to care for them.
Please check it out and sign it if you want I just feel that they should NOT be able to carry any fish at all they are all sick looking and they have absolutely no clue on how to care for them.
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Re: WalMart and Green Spot Puffers!
Thanks for bringing this to our attention. I signed it & will post it on other forums. I hope others will do the same!
You are getting sleepy... you only hear the sound of my voice... you must do water changes... water changes... water changes... water changes...
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"The solution to pollution is dilution!"
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Re: WalMart and Green Spot Puffers!
I signed it too. It's about time I say.
"Okay. You! Out of the Gene Pool!"- Don't know who said it but I enjoy using it
I'm learning that puffer fish are like pringles. There is no such thing as only wanting one.
Tanks:
38 gallon: 1 Figure 8 puffer, 1 Dragon Goby, 1 Knight Goby, 3 Black Mollies
30 gallon: 1 Blue Acara, 1 Bristlenose Pleco
120 gallon: Ratchet the Fahaka Puffer
I'm learning that puffer fish are like pringles. There is no such thing as only wanting one.
Tanks:
38 gallon: 1 Figure 8 puffer, 1 Dragon Goby, 1 Knight Goby, 3 Black Mollies
30 gallon: 1 Blue Acara, 1 Bristlenose Pleco
120 gallon: Ratchet the Fahaka Puffer
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Woodbutcher
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Re: WalMart and Green Spot Puffers!
+1
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Re: WalMart and Green Spot Puffers!
I'm going to call my local walmart AGAIN, or go to the manger in store.
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Re: WalMart and Green Spot Puffers!
+1 woot woot
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- newpuffergrl
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Re: WalMart and Green Spot Puffers!
Thank you all for the replies and taking the time out of your day to support this, I feel very bad for those poor puffers, it made me tear up seeing them in that condition!
- marksrush
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Re: WalMart and Green Spot Puffers!
I agree, it's very upsetting. I had to stop going by their fish department because it just kills me seeing those poor fish in that condition, and it's all I can do to not adopt one.
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herplover22
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Re: WalMart and Green Spot Puffers!
i signed it
i work at a petstore and people are always coming in saying "i got a fish at walmart and it made all of my other fish sick" or "but walmart said i could house it in this tank etc"
i work at a petstore and people are always coming in saying "i got a fish at walmart and it made all of my other fish sick" or "but walmart said i could house it in this tank etc"
- marksrush
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Re: WalMart and Green Spot Puffers!
Same here, I get that all the time. People are really grateful to finally find a place where they can talk to someone who at least has something that even resembles a clue.