They treat the wholeseller as quarantine.
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And that's what they should be..
By Law!! When it comes to this and to make people (children) environmentaly aware what btw is momentary very fashionable, but fails big time. Anyway i plead for:
1 - controled regulated import - export, wholesalers need to contact a Vet to check on the animals.. He needs to sign a permit and health certificate before any animal is released on the market.
2 - Anybody who wants a Vivarium for keeping animals, needs to be 18 to do it, else with parents consent, needs a basic permit as well, to get this they need to attent to a class and take an exame. Under 18, parents need the permit. And not just 1 permit, no several, special aquariums, lets call them biotopes whatever or keeping special fish not fit for community tanks
You simply need a special permit...
Teach people that it is not about what they want, instead that it is all about what the animal in question needs. And how to manage that.
Not living up to the rules is punishable by a bombardment with rotten Tomatos in a public place.. And Cauliflowers as well for the serious offenders.
For example serious offenders are LFS owners selling inaccurate test kits, bottlles, pills and powders to change water parameters to inexperienced little kids to experiment on the fish he sells them at the same time..
If this doesn't change and stays as is, no child will ever get invironmentaly aware, they will keep on maltreating and experimenting on aquarium fish etc... Which is the least respected and most severely maltreated PET in the entire world, like it is a meaningless toy without feelings.
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That's realy what baffles me the most.. The LFS with 110 display tanks and 1 filter system.. Equals with all tanks have the excact same water, so the easy community fish have it as well as the rather difficult to keep Apistogramma and Discus they sell have it, very often for months. Than you buy one and suddenly it needs very special water? WTF is this? Should you buy this fish in the first place? It was in the same non suitable water as every other fish in the entire store for the last 3 months. Duh???