Nemo Insanity

[naesco]

The major US boards are all posting insane reports of LFS and online stores offering NEMO packages which include a tang and clownfish in as low as a 8 gallon (US) tank.

Please post any stores involved in this or similar promotions as I will lay a formal complaint with the SPCA. Some may be stocking up on these fish and will sell them in these tiny tanks. Also let them know how you feel but don't get arrested.

Hopefully the SPCA will then pop by the store and while they are there check out what else might be happening.

I pray that this is just a US thing!

[Aquattro]

Just curious, but have the SPCA started to consider fish animals? Are they really going to do anything? If so, where were they with the aqua-baby rage???

[naesco]

I don't know Brad.
But, if the Nemo thing becomes a problem, I know who to contact.
IMO when a formal complaint is filed, they have the responsibility to investigate and they will. They have the authority to tell a LFS that in their (the SPCA's) opinion the fish are not adequately looked after.
Whether they lay charges is another thing. But, if they do, the courts tend to be tough on animal offenders.
Also the bad publicity could be very detrimental to the LFS

[Beverly]

Originally Posted by naesco

Please post any stores involved in this or similar promotions as I will lay a formal complaint with the SPCA.

Hah! I once lodged a complaint with the ESPCA about a local pet store that sold birds. Birds were just packed in way too small aviaries and there were many birds without feathers in several aviaries. It was disgusting the way these poor birds were warehoused

A few weeks after lodging the complaint, I stopped back into the store and talked to an employee I'd become friendly with. As far as she knew no SPCA constable ever showed up. I looked around and the birds were in as bad condition as before

If birds aren't considered animals by the SPCA, I really doubt fish are up their alleys either. At least whenever I've gone to the ESPCA to donate stuff, I've seen birds and/or bird cages there. But they aren't in the least way set up for fish, so abused fish probably don't exist for them.

Now that I'm on a rant about fish not being animals to professionals, vets have NO idea about fish. They know about cats, dogs, ferrets, large hookbilled birds (very little about finches), some reptiles, but NOT FISH

Except for these boards and a few good books on the market, we're basically on our own as fishkeepers. You can't trust the lfs for good information, vets are even more clueless than lfs employees, so it's d*mn good we're all here and we stick together and share the stuff that we know

Keep up the good work, everyone

<end of rant>

[Jack]

I could feel it comming

[saltcreep]

And the SPCA knows anything about fish and proper fish handling???

[Beverly]

Originally Posted by Jack

I could feel it comming

Heck, Jack, and you're even on the Island ....

[Jack]

We don't have any local LFS that deal with saltwater

Oh... but let me think. There's a Petcetera in Nanaimo!

[Aquattro]

Bev, there is a local vet very familiar with fish diseases....

I filed a complaint at the local SPCA about an Alaskan King Crab in a tiny little tank that didn't even have enough water to cover it. I was all but laughed out of the office!!
Agriculture Canada defines what is and isn't an animal for SPCA purposes, and crabs aren't animals. I didn't check on fish...

[Jack]

Wierd how an animal is or isn't labled an animal by who knows who. Kind of a botched system. What's the point of an SPCA that only deals with half the bunch.