Very very concerned

Hey I was at a pet store today just for fun with my girlfriend...I would like to note that I do not support this chain of stores and that nobody in Southern Ontario should because their mistreatment of animals is disgusting. Big Al's it's called and at any given time you can spot 20-30 dead Fire-Belly's in their 10L tank that is stocked with 150 of 'em(Mississauga location is the worst!!!).

Anyways my question is as follows... they just recently got in a shipment of 30-40 Axies and every single one of them was missing every one of it's extremities. All of the Axies were lying on the bottom of the tank motionless and their gills were nothing but stubs!!! I addressed my concern and the dude there said this is what happens every single time Axies are shipped together in large quantities. He told me that they had eaten each other!!! First of all is this true? Then I was wondering if these animals can ever be 100% healthy again? and if they will ever have robust and colourful gills? HELP I'm going to be losing sleep over this.

The store was not selling the animals until they had nursed them back to health, but they were in such bad health I don't know how that's even possible,

Well I'm relatively new at this, but recently 'rescued' a lone axie from a pet shop in that condition, legs and gills all but nibbled off. He could barely swim and looked pretty sickly. I prepared myself for the worst but had to have a go at saving him!

Few weeks on he's got the beginnings of toes on his new legs and long drapy gills, he's a little dude. He just needed some attention, and food, and even from a beginner like me, he's transformed, so no doubt experts could do an even better job!

As far as the pet shop is concerned, who knows? I don't know if it's normal for them all to be in such bad condition, other folks on here will have more experience, but I do know that if they are well looked after the clever things do a great job of growing all their bits back!

Amazing.