by ｂｒｏｋｅｎｑｕａｒｔｚ » Tue Jul 01, 2014 3:16 am
Yesterday, I learned to never reply on petsmart when buying fissh.
Sorry if there are spelling errors, im sing my ipad keyboard and its small.
Here's the story of my fish; Crystal, Glass, Arrowtail, Matthew and Patrisha.
Three weeks ago, I got a betta. The day after, i vwent to buy it a 5 gallon tank. i returned home, it was dead. I was devistated. My mom promised we would go the next day to get new fish. I was planing on getting another betta, but my mom said why not get a few different ones. i knew the rule of one gallon per inch of fish. but i didnt now what fish i was getting. the orker helped me. she said i culd choose four. so i did. i chose a silver lyretail molly, my mom chose a long-finned goldskirt tetra, my aunt chose a neon tetra, and i also picked a lyre tail guppy. the girl helping us said that neons come in twos. i asked if i would still be ok with five, and she said itll be fine. I happily took the fish home, oblivious of the terrible mistake i made. When i returned home, the tank all ready, i put the fish bag in the water to let them get use to the temperture. fter about 30 minutes, i let them out into the tank. The settled in alright. but after returning hom 2 hours later from a BBQ, i noticed a prblem. The molly was chasing other fish around. I thought this was just because she was the biggest and i ignored it. soon after, the goldskirt began chasing the molly and bein all around aggresive, but i was barily worried. Until resently. I noticed one of my Neon Tetras hiding away in the barrels i have in the tank. i ignored it for a day, thinking it was just that one day. Oh lord was i wrong. The poor neon is still reaining in those barrels to this day; rarily coming out. This is what really started to worry me. When ever the hiding tetra, that i named matthew, would leave the bvarrels, he would be chased by either the molly or ore likely, the goldskirt. I looked up anything to help, asked some questions, but no answers. Until yesterday. I returned to that same petsmart to uy things for my cat, and at the last minute i remembered the issues i was having. I went to the fish section nd someone asked if i was just looking or eeded some assitance. I told them what was going , and they knew right away what was wrong. She said that the tetras are unhappy unless they have at least five. the goldskir is being agressive because it is also a schoolig fish, and someone online told me the molly will need another of it kind to stand up to it. the only one that is ok is my guppy, Arrowtail. I was angery, heart-broken, and i felt selfish for not doing my own research. BUt tye she told me the worxst part. The tank was half the size it should be. I asked her if there was any waqy for me to fix this. she said my only option is to get a new tank, because theyre past their retur date. I knewthat that was not an option. My mom doesnt seem to care at all, and she would never buy me a bigger tank. Im stuck with this hellhole of a fish tank unless i find some way to sell them or return them, or anything. I feel like petsmart let me down, and that they lied. All that one girl cares about is money. She doesnt care whether the fish die or not; i could tell by the way she carried herself and the way she spoke that day. If i could see her again, id probably yell to her face she should be fired, as she doesnt belong working there. because i become connected with m pets, i feel as if im making them suffer. I dont care if there just fish, or if you think they have no soul or couldnt careless, because to me, They are iving things. and to me, all living things deserve a good habitat, no mater how big, or how small.
