UK Stockist warning.
Posted: Sun Oct 17, 2010 11:22 am
I visited Water World (not to be confused with World of Water) near Chester and the place was shocking. The tanks were about 50L and heavily stocked (not usually an issue with a large water system i know, but hear me out).
All the Goldfish tanks also had other species in them too, and there were about 8 Goldfish tanks. 2 contained maybe 50 Gastromyzon each, in low flow tanks with no additional powerheads, which wouldn't work anyway as the Goldfish were big round things with no dorsals.
Then about 4-5 tanks had 30-40 weather loach each, they were very emaciated and each tank had 1-2 dead loach and others dying and being eaten by the others!
In the tropical section was a larger tank maybe 100L which has rainbow fish and 3 4-5" clown loach. Now most clowns look orangey with black marks, these looked grey with black marks and were all crammed into a small cave in the corner.
None of the tanks looked clean either. I know some fish prefer algae and I can understand that, my hillstream tank has a lot of algae but I think it is also clean as I look after it and hoover the gravel, but none of their tanks looked to have been cleaned in weeks, the outsides were clean though!
I told the staff but the one guy who listened said he would go and make sure the weather loach were fed but after looking about for the exit I just noticed him talking to a customer about tanks
All the Goldfish tanks also had other species in them too, and there were about 8 Goldfish tanks. 2 contained maybe 50 Gastromyzon each, in low flow tanks with no additional powerheads, which wouldn't work anyway as the Goldfish were big round things with no dorsals.
Then about 4-5 tanks had 30-40 weather loach each, they were very emaciated and each tank had 1-2 dead loach and others dying and being eaten by the others!
In the tropical section was a larger tank maybe 100L which has rainbow fish and 3 4-5" clown loach. Now most clowns look orangey with black marks, these looked grey with black marks and were all crammed into a small cave in the corner.
None of the tanks looked clean either. I know some fish prefer algae and I can understand that, my hillstream tank has a lot of algae but I think it is also clean as I look after it and hoover the gravel, but none of their tanks looked to have been cleaned in weeks, the outsides were clean though!
I told the staff but the one guy who listened said he would go and make sure the weather loach were fed but after looking about for the exit I just noticed him talking to a customer about tanks