More than 700 fish mysteriously die at pet store
 

An article i found in this mornings enews.
More than 700 fish mysteriously die at pet store

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNew...304?hub=Canada

Oh my god! That is horrible.

I know, but being in such a big city it could of been any kid trying to make trouble, or a competitor.

That is so sad. What a crappy thing to do. And even crappier to find.

It is bad enough that someone did this.. but if it was a competitor?!? Man, how could you live with yourself or sleep at night..

No doubt imagine comming into work in the morning and seeing that.
I know how i feel when i loose one fish...

Could possibly be a crazed customer that just couldnt take it anymore.
Or a disgruntled employee.
Or a really good reason not to mix your calcium in a bottle that says bleach on the side.

that is ridiculous and so sick.....I sure hope they catch those responsible....asap...oh..and publish the names.....eh eh eh

Perhaps it was a pool/spa chlorine puck. A couple years back something similar happen in oakville (opposite end of the GTA as Indoor Jungle) with dosing a coral tank with copper (not an accident). Indoor Jungle only opened up last year, never been but its suppose to be massive.

+1

It is a MASSIVE location with quite a few tanks, but the crumby thing was that they were to opening a whole other section of saltwater tank next week,
i suppose that will have to take a back seat

Doubtful that it's a competitor. My guess is "tragic accident" but if it was malicious intent it wouldn't have been a competitor as the overwhelming driving factor for being in the business in the first place is the love of the livestock. If a vendor had it in for another vendor, they wouldn't choose the innocent livestock as the chosen forum.

Very sad no matter what.

Ouch it's hard to imagine this happening to someone. I hope business insurance covers this?

Maybe its some crazed PETA activist gone-off-the-deep-end. Its sad and disheartening.

Its hard to imagine they had all their tanks on one system. And coral tanks plumbed into fish tanks? Kind of weird. Maybe it was some something airborne?

all the better reasons to have good security cameras installed i assume.

can someone in toronto area tell me, is that the same place where big al's was. I remember it was there when i used to live there.

Apparently just a few doors down from BA's in TO.

Some more links to the story here.

http://www.torontosun.com/news/toron.../13103016.html

http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/arti...-fish-die?bn=1

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/sto...gh-police.html

This one has a small video
http://www.citytv.com/toronto/cityne...tore-poisoning


http://network.nationalpost.com/NP/b...arborough.aspx

http://www.cp24.com/servlet/an/local.../?hub=CP24Home

Thanks for the links Garry, just playing devils advocate but the news story said that there currently was a large insurance claim taking place, the only person who could actually turn out profiting from this is would be the petstore itself... And in CSI... thats MO (Insert Horatio Caine crouch down, take off sun glasses and say something witty)

Who ever did it that's disgusting, I can only desperately hope that it was an accident.

Had to be something in the air or cross contamination, as it affected the marine fish, coral, and freshwater fish.

freshwater & marine wouldn't be on the same system, si it was deliberate, also the bleach smell in the back room is suspicious. Maybe a staffer spilled bleach or acid accidently.

That shows the importance of video cameras, I know I installed them for thesafety of my staf & livestockneve know what people might do.

5 month old store too, makes it seem more suspicious, as the low season is about to start.

Just my observatiions.

Ken

Ken its really odd that in the video the guy seems to so positively believe that it was added to one tank which spread to the other systems but like you said that doesn't make any sense. You can't have your fresh and salt systems mix even the newest livefish store employee would know that.

Something smells fishy at this livefish store :neutral:.

the truth will come, im sure, just dieing to find out what it is.