Bad Experience at LFS
- Thread starter spitz006
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I guess your talking about South American Puffer (Colomesus asellus)? If so, then yes, they are as far as i know the only puffers that do better in groups and actually appreciate being together in a shoal...
As for the Congo puffer, since they bury themselves in the sand and wait for un-suspecting prey to move on by and then attack them from underneath... Even big fish are actually at risk of getting killed by Congo's since they tend to attack the softer underside of fish...
Eitheway, always sucks to lose a new fish pretty much as soon as you get it... but as you said, at least now you know not to do that again...
Yeah, actually I kept the SA puffer with lots of other fish in a community tank. It beat up the peacock gudgeon but other than that it got along great with the community of barbs, loaches, plecos, rams, etc. I'd like to get some more someday.
^ Yeah, i've never kept them personally, but have had friends keep them and say that they were to a certain extent community fish... only P.I.T.A about them is the teeth clipping... since from what i've heard and read, it seems even on a constant hard shelled diet, they still seem prone to over-grown teeth...
The guy at the store does sound like he is a tool but I don't see how you expected him to give you any kind of consolation after one of your fish killed the one that he sold you.
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Yeah, if I were that store owner, I wouldn't have given you a dime.
You have to remember.....They are a business, and they have to put food on their tables. So giving you money because one of your fish killed a fish they sold you doesn't really bode well for them.
You should have put him in your bare bottom 10 gallon immediately. I don't understand why you went to get sand first. He'd have been fine.
Sounds like a classic case of "you bought a fish, and didn't do your research first."
You have to remember.....They are a business, and they have to put food on their tables. So giving you money because one of your fish killed a fish they sold you doesn't really bode well for them.
You should have put him in your bare bottom 10 gallon immediately. I don't understand why you went to get sand first. He'd have been fine.
Sounds like a classic case of "you bought a fish, and didn't do your research first."
Good point. It's just that he assured compatibility. Whether you would have given me a dime or note is irrelevant, because from a business point of view he is losing money now because I'm boycotting the store because he's a jerk. I've worked in sales for many years. You always need to make the customers happy if you want their business.
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