Sheila of Ny NY (09/23/07)
Every time we go into this Petland Discounts store, there is a sick or dying betta fish up for sale. Once, the betta was just lying on the bottom of the cup, grey, with visible fin rot, and I told the employee that there was something wrong with the fish. The employee flat out denied it and said, Maybe he's a special fish.
I was totally disgusted (I have two alive and well bettas at home, so I know a sick fish when I see one) and brought him in back to the fish guy, who literally said, My god, he's dying.
He claimed he would medicate the fish, and took him in back. That was the end of that.
That happened a couple of weeks ago. The most recent incident was that I walked into the store, and there was this blue betta obviously very close to dying. He was upright in the jar (totally unnatural for bettas), was gasping for air, had a bloated stomach, and popping eyes (a symptom of the betta disease Popeye, which happens when the water they are kept in is not taken care of). The water was filthy.
I took him in back to the fish guy, who was this kid who obviously didn't know the first thing about fish. He knew enough to think that the betta was dying, though. I asked him if they would medicate him, and he said no.
Totally disgusted, I decided to try to save him myself, and bought him. I put him in another container with nice, clean water, water conditioner, and aquarium salt.
He died within a half hour.
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