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I was at a walmart the other day and took a look at there little "fish market" they have about 15-20 different types of fish in there. But thats not what concerned me.....they had a tank with 3 baby O's in it(about 1-1/2"), 2 tiger and one albino. The albino was dieing. This kinda pissed me off because I have a albino O that I love allot...so seeing that really made me sad. I have also see seen some older O's in the walmart tanks that were very heavily diseased. (fuzzy mold looking stuff on them)
So when dose this kind of treatment turn into cruelty? Because I think it's obvious that they have no idea how to take care of fish. I'm not saying I'm a pro, but I know enough to keep my fish happy.

Walmart has never been know to take care of their fish department.. THEY hire kids to take care  of them and they dont' know how.. So the fish suffer.. Also the tank system they have is ALL THE TANKS are connected together. So one tank gets sick, most of the others do too.. They usually are in three different tank systems, those big blue ones. So taking care of ONE problem tank is almost impossiible to do.. MY wal-mart here took out the fish tanks.. I hated to go their and i saved some fish but I could not get them all. To many complants I am sure..

Well, one positive thing -- WalMart is no longer selling live fish in my area. I'm wondering if it's a nation-wide decision, I don't know -- but the fish and the tanks are gone here in the West Texas WalMarts!

I was just at wal-mart the other day and it was the worst I had seen, dead fish in almost every tank and the girl was just throwing all the dead ones in a container. She had to empty it twice!!!! Is there anything we can do to stop the insanity? I've saved fish from there, but I'm running out of room. Any ideas on how to get them to just stop selling fish?? Thats the only way this is gonna stop.

I think they just need to take it more seriously. I worked at Walmart, in the Seasonal dept. which they had right next to pets.The girl that worked in the pets dept. knew absolutely nothing. I told her to let me take care of them. They told me that when I started caring for them, the fish stopped dying. They were healthy looking and started selling. When I was quitting, I got them to hire someone who knew what they were doing.

They just need people that actually know something about fish.

I read somewhere recently that WalMart was discontinuing selling fish -- even they knew they were terrrible.  Then shortly after that I read that they were -- in certain stores -- reinstituting fish sales, but subcontracting it to another organization.  Can't remember the name.  If I stumble across the info again I'll post it.

DanRad wrote:I read somewhere recently that WalMart was discontinuing selling fish -- even they knew they were terrrible.  Then shortly after that I read that they were -- in certain stores -- reinstituting fish sales, but subcontracting it to another organization.  Can't remember the name.  If I stumble across the info again I'll post it.

Even with a subcontractor, I hope they stay out of the business of selling live animals. They do not have a good track record