"Nikki" wrote in message
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"Köi-Lö" $##$$@$##$$.#$$ wrote in message
The Wal*Mart stores here keep them in the plastic shipping "bowls" or
cups with tops. There is a hole in the top for feeding and air exchange.
The boy working there told me they are no longer allowed to feed the
fish. I suppose they allow those not sold to starve to death. The
Plecos were like skeletons......
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They don't feed them? humm, I don't know what to say, other then no wonder
they die so often when people bring them home.

That's what the young man said that works in that dept. He's forbidden to
feed them and they keep the thing locked so no one else can feed them
either. There's a board of some kind with an actual lock on it that must be
unlocked so they can see the fish or remove the dead ones. Judging by some
of the skeletons I saw and fuzzy corpses I don' think they remove many of
the dead ones. :-( I avoid the pet section when I go there now. It gets
me too upset.......

The best set up I found was petsmart because they were in a filtered tank,
however they did not look to good to me so who knows maybe they are better
separate at the stores, unlike other fish female bettas go though a
process of figuring out who is boss and that can take a good week, I guess
them going though that twice, once at the store then again when someone
gets them home...is not good for them.

I agree. The poor little critters suffer a lot of stress between their
breeder and their final home.
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KL....
Aquariums since 1952.
My Pond & Aquarium Pages:
http://tinyurl.com/9do58
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