On Fri, 17 Mar 2006 23:49:17 +0000, Gill Passman
wrote:

Koi-Lo wrote:

"Mr. Gardener" wrote in message
...

On Fri, 17 Mar 2006 16:46:22 -0600, "Koi-Lo"
wrote:

Moments before spontaneously combusting Nikki at
was heard opining:

I also called petsmart and your right they said they don't get them in
*most* of the time.
I do have a Wal-Mart not to far, I have never considered getting fish
there but maybe ill try.
thanks Nikki

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Make sure you treat all WM fish for ICK. I just bought the first
fish in
years at WM today. See my post above regarding calico Lionheads.
They'll
be treated for ICK, then flukes. They'll be in quarantine for at
least 14
to 21 days.


Now there you go again, spontaneously combusting Nikki. At this rate
you're going to everyone blown up and no one to talk to.

Why are you treating your new fish for diseases that you haven't
identified?

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Because there were several tanks of fish there crawling with ICK. There
was no way these GF weren't exposed, even though they were only in the
tank maybe an hour. No one there soaks the nets or specimen containers
in disinfectant. No one there CARES.

I've heard enough horror stories about flukes to go for the bucks to
treat them for that as well. I asked the young man there if they had
medication or salt in the water and he said they're not even allowed to
feed the fish anymore. They keep the tank-tops locked now. There were
starving plecos and puffers, dead fish floating..........

I'm not taking any chances.


sometimes when I read these horror stories I wonder why you don't all
just walk with your feet - stores that can't sell the fish will not be
there in a short amount of time but new ones will come that satisify the
market for good quality fish because if they don't they will fail as
well....everytime even one of you buys fish from one of these places,
for whatever reasons, it reinforces their policy of not caring for fish
not mattering - people will buy them anyway....

Now I'm going to duck again - as NetMax so elequently put in a recent
post - Gill Passman "hit and run"....

The lure of saving a dollar is powerful in this country, and most
likely in many other countries as well. Powerful enough that we will
purchase diseased animals and goods of questionable quality produced
by workers on the other side of the world whose wages and workplaces
are sweatshop conditions, from store employees working for barely
minimum wages who rarely speak up about the forced unpaid overtime,
missed meal breaks, little or no fringe benefits, wearing bright blue
smocks with yellow happy faces pinned to their chests - Hi, how are
you today - that will be $$ - thankyou now you have a great day NEXT?
- - but if we can save a dollar or two, it's worth it. And now that we
have spread our good fortune into a global economy, you can also
benefit from the great savings. Now, aren't you glad you lost the
revolution? Where would you be without us? Heck, even your Beatles and
Rolling Stones admit they learned their music from dirt poor
amerikans.

-- Mister Gardener