I'm having trouble believing a lot of the stories in here. If they are true then I am shocked at how businesses in seemingly every area (aside from where I go, evidently) are allowing their employees to talk to customers.
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Darth Scohin;4112306; said:Hate that kid comes in with his gf and looks at the goldfish ask him the array of questions, and he mentions that he does once a MONTHWC so when he wants to get the moor for his gf I suggest him to up the WC to once a week, he replys "Not to be rude, but I have 30 tanks I know what Im doing"
What is it with people and high numbers... its like anything in this world... once people accumulate a certain number of "X" item, they automatically think of themselves as professionals...
I mean i've seen it too, both in the fish hobby (Lots of tanks/Fish) and other hobbies i have and it never ceases to amaze me, or make me laugh... especially when its in something like in the sneaker hobby and a person has 100 pairs of fake sneakers thinking they're all real and that their collection is the S***...
TTTT;4151647; said:
I saw an employee debating with a customer.. the employee told him that 3 german blue rams and 3 angel fish would do fine in the mans tank which he claimed was "large". He already had a school of serpea tetras and a senegal in the tank. It turned out to be a 10g and then the man got mad at the employee for reccomending all these fish.
It ended with the employee screaming at the man "DO YOU EVEN KNOW WHAT CYCLING IS? DO YOU EVEN KNOW WHAT STUNTING IS? DO YOU EVEN HAVE A HEATER?"
I laughed.
PWN'D!!
What did the customer say?
_Jessica_;4151780; said:Touche, touche.
Latest story was a guy who wanted to try and breed EBJDs. I explained the whole blue gene thing, you can't breed two EBJDs together, etc etc. Was pretty much told I was an idiot and of course it would work. Okay, sure, good luck with that. Then he asks if our EBJDs are in fresh or brackish. Um...fresh...they are freshwater fish. He tells me no, they are brackish, they are from Africa, so of course they like lots of salt in their water.
This reminds me of another post on here, someone heard an LFS customer say Discus are andromous and swim from the ocean into a river in China to spawn. I gotta find that post.
TTTT;4152010; said:
The man who breeds two brackish African EBJDs together.
If he succeeds, we should all pitch in and send him a gift basket
I wonder where people get these insane ideas...
Well honestly I think that kids was "BSing" with the 30 tanks thing. When I was younger I used to make up stories about me having x amount of something and i knew everything about it because I didn't want people bugging me about it so i made that up to get them to leave me alone and not make me feel stupid or i just didnt feel like listening. (stupidity in my youth xP)Fat Homer;4152411; said:
snyder810;4116725; said:
Not really...I work in a lfs that specializes in saltwater, and our 84 gallon reef display runs off a fluval 405 and the water is pristine. Granted, it also has a refugium and a protein skimmer, but it is heavily stocked with corals, and a few fish. As long as you maintain them properly they work great, I have never had a problem with them. Any filtration system will need some maintenance anyways.
I volunteer at a zoo, and I was displaying a Blue Tongue Skink yesterday, and some Hispanic guy with like 3 lip rings, a white tank top, and like 8 tattoos comes up to me and goes "Hey you better watch out, those things pack a bite." I smiled and politely said "They are very good tempered animals, they rarely ever bite." He rudely responds "Excuse me, I worked at Petland for 7 years, they can bite." I once again smiled and said that they rarely do, and we wouldn't handle a biting animal for the public to touch. I thought... I wasn't aware that Petlands sell $100 Lizards.
Maybe two months ago this guy came in, was picking out various fish, if I remember right he got like angels, cherry barbs, etc. Then he comes across a crayfish...ooh, I'll have that too! I warn him that eventually the cray will start catching and eating his fish, he did the eye roll thing and said yeah yeah he'll be fine. As I was bagging his selections he asks what the cray eats...I couldn't help myself, I said "Your fish." Nonetheless I showed him some pellets and recommended picking up some market shrimp or something meaty to keep him full.
Fast forward to yesterday...guy comes in, asks for 20 feeder fish. I kind of eye balled him and he goes yeah...that crayfish I got, I just don't understand it, he's eating 3 or 4 of my fish a day! Will you take him back? We very rarely will take in customers' fish, so it was pretty much a no. He ended up getting a new 5g set up just for the cray. If people would just listen or do a little research, y'know?
Fast forward to yesterday...guy comes in, asks for 20 feeder fish. I kind of eye balled him and he goes yeah...that crayfish I got, I just don't understand it, he's eating 3 or 4 of my fish a day! Will you take him back? We very rarely will take in customers' fish, so it was pretty much a no. He ended up getting a new 5g set up just for the cray. If people would just listen or do a little research, y'know?
Yesterday at the aquarium where I work/volunteer, I was showing off some animals from the 1200g tide pool (horseshoe crab, channeled whelk, spider crab, hermit crab) and someone came up to me and said, "Why do you have them in this pond? They should be free in the ocean! They aren't happy here!" I smiled and told her they are perfectly fine here because they have lots of food and no predators. She walked away in disgust at me 
