why do pet stores sell sick fish ?

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i got a betta he came with fin rot but i saved him i went back today to get him new gravel and i saw all these betta living in tiny tiny bowls and some had really dirty waterand i saw one with fin rot then i looked around and saw a tank with all these sick fish just sitting on the bottom all pilled on each otheris is like this in all pet stores ?do betts sell fast ?? cuz i can only have one i asked my dad to buy more but he said noi feel bad cuz i want more mine is living grate in a 2 gallon tank with plantsand no offecence to some bettas but some scared me the ones with pointy tails haha i was like AHH lol

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MMFCL

no its not and i wouldnt buy any more fish from this place

mr_gourami

no that sounds overly bad. but people buy from them so they see no reason to change thier practice. people buy sick fish...

XxNaruNaruxX

Unfortunately, Betta's are almost always kept in little tiny bowls like this. It's not fair. They all look so sad and sick, but maybe they do sell fast, I can never tell. I went to Petco a few days ago and got one and put him in a 2 gallon tank, he really likes it. And about the dead fish thing, fish always just naturally die, but pet stores shouldn't sell them if there dying juts to rip off customers, and they all should clean out there tanks more often. Petco's pretty good at that. Walmart is the worst I've ever seen. They used to have like 30 little 10 gallon square aquariums in their fish aisle and in the minnows tank there was always like 50 dead fish stuck to the filter, it was disgusting. But hopefully you can adopt more fish and other people will to so they can all have happy homes. And thank you for saving that fish! I hope he continues to bring joy to your home and to yourself.

Jet P

most pet stores wont sell a fish if it is obviously very sick becuase they know that it will probably die that day from the stress of moving it to another aquarium and they will have to replace it and lose money. But pet stores do have alot of sick fish because the fish are imported from exotic places far away alot of the time and get stressed out and this weakens there immune system which makes them more likely to get ich, fin rott,etc. never get feeder fish cause they almost always are diseased