Sounds like your typical neighbourhood market LFS.
There is a LFS at my place which totally sucks! Plus point is that they sell all sorts of hardware, name it from Eheim Professional 3 to the different sized CO2 tanks to an entire range of Ocean-Free products as well as Dennerle.
The only issue with this place is that they do not check their live stock, I was quite upset when I saw a 1 1/2 fish tank housing 4 Arowana (RTS) about 8-9 inches and a tank filled with dyed albino corydoras.
There was even a tank of about 40 or so mid sized lion head goldfishes and 3 were half-dead floating whilst 3 more were already dead and an albino pleco feasting on the dead carcass.
Another 2 feet tank housed five 8-9 inch african knife fish with tattered and ragged torn fins and it even had panda corydoras which looked as if they were suffering, the tanks are totally unkempt and deritus floating all over the place. I wish I could mention this to the LFS owner for the fishes sake but looking at him I believe he's just running the shop for money and not the passion of fish keeping.
His display tank is pretty much a joke, the cardinals he had in there were pretty nice (jumbo sized) but the flora was horrible, floating brown riccia and half dead taiwan moss with blue gree algae all over the place.
Really sad to see the live stock and flora in such a pitiful state. Btw, its over at Blk 4XX Bedok North Ave 2, can't quite remember the name of the shop.
Last edited by Justikanz; 25th Mar 2006 at 15:26.
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Sounds like your typical neighbourhood market LFS.
Aron, call the SPCA on this guy. That and check your PM
Hey there, just as a correction, it's Aaron, not Aron.
Read your PM already, I guess the first step is for me to call SPCA huh? Will give them a call probably in the office tomorrow, so all I will need to do is to let them know that the LFS is selling dyed fish?
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Well it's better than that time i called you Ivan right?
How's the snails anyway?
Erm, is selling dyed fish illegal? Or it's just that to dye a fish is illegal?
Both are not illegal... It is just cruel to tattoo fishes without their consent.. Just like tattooing your beloved dogs, cat or rabbits with ugly neon colours...
It should be... not only because it's cruel, but also because you're selling inferior stock that for me has ALWAYS,100% of the time, come down with freaking tumors all over the body! And it's transmitted by touch!Originally Posted by TROUT
i'm living around there too. he's not interested in the fishes, it's some other "things"
Steve Chua @ Reservoir
You know which shop I am talking about? The name of the shop is LXX XXXk Aquarium.
Wonder what is this other "things" you are referring to?
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Money? Urgh... it's shops like this that make it hard for places like NA and Biotope to survive.
Haha, people sure know that LFS as there is only one Aquarium shop at that block
Last time that LFS is ok, only recently they partiton part of the shop for those game machines, they dont seem to be interested in selling fishes.
Originally Posted by grey_fox
During the time of the "Luo Han" boom, I think about 5-6 aquarium shops sprung out of no where as there was originally only 1 around my place and so far, only 3 have survived.
2 selling pretty bad and crappy stuff and 1 selling mid-range stuff. Although I wish they'd bring in better items so I don't need to travel all the way to places like NA just to get proper aquarium items.
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I've even seen LFS tattooing their luohan with the chinese word "longevity" on it's body. It's a big tattoo - about the size of an MRT card. Can't imagine the pain it was subjected to.
Anyway, not only is the Bedok XXXX LFS guilty of animal/fish neglect, he's also doing himself a great disservice to his own biz (or whoever he's working for)
I'd imagine shops like this will die out as the population grows more affluent... Correct me if i'm wrong but isn't his customer base made up of "aunties" who keep fish for the sake of having something swim around in the house?
Anyhoo, grey, did the SPCA have anything to say about his neglect?
yep, i supposed that's his main income. his fishes are only a "show", saying that it's an aquarium shop, analogy to a chinese saying "hunging a goat's head, selling dog's meat"....erh..got that right?
Originally Posted by sheng
Steve Chua @ Reservoir
Damn... I saw this post too late... Guess wat? I just returned from that fishshop 5 minutes ago! (Luckily all i bought was fish food... )Originally Posted by grey_fox
This is the first (and last) time I patroned that shop and this is wat I have to report:
I totally-hands-down agree on the half dead (and now almost dead) moss and the super-grossly-disgustingly-bloated goldfish... ew. Didnt see any dyed fish tho.. but....... i did see this HUGE dead COCKROACH floating on one of the highest tanks... EEEWWWWWWWWWWW...
But to the shop's credit, they have really nice branchy driftwood... and very cheap too.. and they have alot of equipment variety... but til now i am still very traumatised by the vision of that humongous floating dead cockroach....
Who made up all these rules?
We follow 'em like fools.
Believe 'em to be true.
Don't care to think 'em through.
unfortunately,even lfs that I like still sell some of them,someone should advise them.
Last edited by Justikanz; 3rd Apr 2006 at 17:03.
Dude you should check out dead BLOATED floating cockroaches in their tanks. Will always remember that from THAT fish shop. But yeah, credit goes to them for cheap bog woods & lots of hardware.
Originally Posted by Freakin' Fraud
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Ok... Guys, a reminder... While it is an avenue to let others watch out for bad LFSs, do watch out what you post and post sensibly. We don't want troubles with LFSs claiming we are defaming them... Thank you.
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