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andrea
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Last night, I purchased a juvenille C. Pyrroghastor from PetsMart in Largo, Florida. They were in a 10 gal set up, with about an inch of water and land, and were being fed small crickets, and were all in generally good looking condition. This PetsMart also sold Firebelly Toads, loacated in the tank next to the newts. Apart from their misspelling the latin name of the newts, there was nothing I could see wrong with they way they were keeping them. Well.... TODAY I went into the PetsMart in Clearwater Mall before work and found a very disturbing site. They're were the same newts, only this time in a 10 gal split into a 5 with a divider. There were less newts, so I didn't think anything of it at first, until I looked into the other partition and saw the Fire Belly Toads. I looked back at the newts and noticed at least 4 fire belly toads (fairly large, big enough to do some damage to the juvenilles) in with them. I emediately found the fish attentand and informed her that if she left the toads in there, they would either kill or do major damage to the newts. She had no idea that could happen (and with past experiences in there, she really doesn't know anything about fish or amphibians) and said she had sold them as a pair recently to people. I told her she needed to get them out of there as soon as possible or the newts would suffer. She said maybe that was why she had found a few newts dead this morning... DUH.... Anyay.... Please, if you have a PetsMart near you, please check and see if they are doing the same thing, if they are, please let them know that it will harm the newts! I'd hate to see all of those little newts hurt just because of someone's stupidity!!!! I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this, and if it's not, I'm sorry, but I really wanted you all to know what this highly respected pet store chain had been doing to it's caudates. Thank you.