Don't always trust your LFS

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divemaster99

divemaster99

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Well I think this is something we have all learned or even knew before getting into the hobby. Unfortunately I wasn't a member of MFK at the time but when I got my 30 tall a few years ago , I would just go to the LFS and ask them what would Be good with what I already have. While most of them were properly informed and knew what they weretalking about, one day I went in to get a pleco not sure what kind but planned to be some small type. They convinced me to buy one labeled as columbian spotted pleco and it was not until I got extremely serious about the hobby that I thought to look up his species info on planetcatfish. Couldn't find anything so looked it up on Google and apparently columbian spotted pleco is just a nickname my LFS gave the fish when it was actually pterygoplichthys gibbiceps. Yeah, then I realized that i had been fooled into buying one of the largest (16-18in.) plecos readily available. Luckily a slow grower. I am about to move him from my 30 to my 75 in a few weeks once the tank is cycled. Then probably wind up getting him a 155 wide or 180. But grown to attached to him to get rid of him. What have we learned today: DONT FEEL STRESSED TO IMPULSE BUY!!!!!!
 
Man its funny how there is stores out there that will do anything to make a buck, even at the owners expense. Def sounds like your pleco got lucky with you and is gonna get a good home, alot of them arent so lucky! Def dont feel bad man I think just about everyone has been hoodwinked like that at some point or another I know i was too haha.
 
A lesson sometimes hard learned. Similarly, the trust of my lfs convinced me to bypass a quarantine once. $1200ish in lost fish to a bacterial infection done learned me about that problem.

Good looking out for what you have! Swim on.
 
House of tropics in glen burnie is the best around me but the other day they labled gold dojo loaches as golden moonlight eels. For 40$ each. And they have common peacock bass they are calling "azuls" for 75$


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there seems to be many out there . I have picked up a few mystery's . A montaganese labelled as a salvini and another fish which recently died labelled as a hornet cichlid. It was sick and I wasn't able to save it . I do believe it had dropsy.. It was some sort of veja hybrid or a flowerhorn. I knew the montage was a montage and was very delighted to see one since where I am from there is practically nothing interesting for predators.
 
I just feel sorry for the people who don't know a lot about fish and get these fish thinking they will only grow to 6 inches and they get something else totally different and larger ~!
 
Smart phones are a beautiful thing, always look it up. I don't take their word for it and make impulse buys any more.
 
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