MWS
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Hi all,I had the misfortune to visit a local large garden centre on Sunday (I won't name it, but it is located on the Corsham road, Lacock, Wilts.).
The aquatic section was beyond horrible, I didn't get a photo, but the gravel in the tanks was entirely covered by a luminous carpet of cyanobacteria, there were dead fish in many of the tanks and the "aquatic" plant section prominently featured both Dracaena and Selaginella.
cheers Darrel
That's another one I see everywhere I go Darrell - Pets at Home always have a healthy stock of this, reason being is that it sells well - probably does so because its the only one not covered in Algae and actually looks like a plant in their tanks!
What really upsets me is recently all the Pets at home stores I've visited (it's a dog thing) have had loads of Oto's in their tanks. They are beyond hope, destined to die in the 10L pink tank they have just sold saying "give it two weeks and you can put fish in" then having the front to ask for your name and address, tank details before they will sell, apparently in the interests of the well being fish - tragic and cruel treatment of a live creature for a couple of quid.
Heartbreaking really.