speaking of dead fish in tanks at the fish or pet stores. i agree that some dead fish are to be expected after all the travelling they do, but to leave them in a tank is careless and a disease spreader. i suppose a lot of it boils down to the fact that the staff are expected to do too much in too short a time.
What irks me is this is the season for otocats in the stores. I only ever see them in December. the tanks are totally devoid of food and I do not know how the poor things will ever survive without algae. They desperately go up and down the sides of clean glass and starve.
I read they have a digestive bacteria in their gut that dies when they go without food and then when they do finally get something to eat there is no bacteria left in the gut to digest the food for them. Either way they starve to death.
It is plain wicked to abuse little aminals this way.
Ps our walmart store has a boy in the fish department that loves his fish and they are well cared for.
Mousey
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