I went in there today to get some brine shrimp for my betta (I'm trying to fatten him up) and was looking for some driftwood too. This place generally has very good prices for it. As always, I browsed through the store looking at the different animals and their setups. I was disgusted when I went to look at the hermies...
They had very little food (they feed the pelleted diets...) and no water at all. The bowls were not even damp! There were dead hermit crabs everywhere...all shapes and sizes. Limbs were scattered about all over the place. There were bugs and maggots crawling all over the dead crabs, and the live crabs looked horrible, aside from a few Es that were very active. The tanks smelled to high heaven!
I then went to look at the reptiles..They mostly looked ok, but then I saw a big tortoise, at least 1 ft long, in a tank it could hardly turn around in! It had no food and barely any water.
I was so mad I couldn't even think as I got the few things I had picked up and left the store. (This store is the only place out of the 4 petstores we have that carries this food and brine shrimp)
I can't believe a place would take such poor care of all of its critters...don't even get me started on the fish or birds either!
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