Lucky Lefty
10/17/2014, 04:12 PM
Stopped at Petco in Lawrence township NJ, mercer mall plaza. They had a very big fish display front and center of the store so I thought I was going to see some nice tanks considering it was such a large part of the store.
I was wrong. Very wrong. In one of the first tanks I found what you see in the attached photo. A rotting corpse of a yellow tang atop a piece of coral. Bubble algae everywhere, another dead fish in a different tank. Every anemone was white, and their bodies looked deflated and melted. I think every single snail was dead, there were what had to be hundred of dead snails and shells. I saw maybe 3 or 4 living hermits, out of hundreds of shells.
The Ich was insane. Close to every fish had several white spots/lumps, and we are talking maybe 50 fish give or take, possibly much more. Pink tail trigger with its tail speckled with white lumps.
2 or 3 of the many clownfish had large spots on either side of the head where their scales were gone and the flesh was turning a purple and green color. One juvenile clown was the worst of them all, aside from the pictured zombie tang. Covered in white spots, had some sort of slime ripping of its body, and all of the fins were ripped and falling apart, he was in the same tank as a baby sailfin tang that was also covered in white spots.
I'm not trying to bash Petco here, but what I saw today made me angry and just left with a terrible feeling. If those were cats or puppies, people would be boycotting Petco. Something needs to change at this particular store.
I was wrong. Very wrong. In one of the first tanks I found what you see in the attached photo. A rotting corpse of a yellow tang atop a piece of coral. Bubble algae everywhere, another dead fish in a different tank. Every anemone was white, and their bodies looked deflated and melted. I think every single snail was dead, there were what had to be hundred of dead snails and shells. I saw maybe 3 or 4 living hermits, out of hundreds of shells.
The Ich was insane. Close to every fish had several white spots/lumps, and we are talking maybe 50 fish give or take, possibly much more. Pink tail trigger with its tail speckled with white lumps.
2 or 3 of the many clownfish had large spots on either side of the head where their scales were gone and the flesh was turning a purple and green color. One juvenile clown was the worst of them all, aside from the pictured zombie tang. Covered in white spots, had some sort of slime ripping of its body, and all of the fins were ripped and falling apart, he was in the same tank as a baby sailfin tang that was also covered in white spots.
I'm not trying to bash Petco here, but what I saw today made me angry and just left with a terrible feeling. If those were cats or puppies, people would be boycotting Petco. Something needs to change at this particular store.