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Today I was in walmart. I saw the most beautiful red oscars. I wanted one badly, but want to do something different in my other tanks as I already have two. But holy cow it was the prettiest red oscar I have ever seen.

The best part? The tag. 14". Right on walmart :headbang2: The other tags were all right too. Birchirs listed at up to 20" and plecos I think even said 24". Great job walmart!

Then I went to Petsmart. Not only were all the tags wrong. Jags ... 8" ????? :ROFL: 20 gallon tank ???? :eek: wtf petsmart? Walmart is outdoing you! And their oscars only listed at 10". One was dead. All the other oscar tanks had babies that were so young they had no orange coloring yet. :(

AND THEN ... a lady who has been talking about her 29 gallon tank with 3 neons (okay, cool) and couldn't think of what else :screwy: uh... the lady bags up 3... THREE... baby plecos. WTF??????

At least the lady had an established tank I guess :-/
 
Oh ... and the kid had a betta in a cup. Can I put a pleco in my betta tank? Thankfully the lady said "no, the pleco needs a heater" Guess she doesn't care that they can grow upwards of 20".
 
Guess the lady didn't care that the Siamese fighting fish actually needs the heater too!:irked: They live way over 3 years if treated right!
 
Believe it or not, but this is true! * I was at PetSmart and picked three fish, (had them bagged in sepperate bags). Get to the counter and realize my wallets not there. (Had given my kid some $$ before I left the house.) It was 10 after 8pm. I asked them to hold them, I would call to ask at home for my bank numbers. I went out to my car, called home, no one there. Went to Arbby's and got coffee, trying to figure out what to do. I had picked the very last JD that they had, and now I would loose it.....cr*p! So I go back there, and asked if they can hold them in like one of their sick tanks and I could get them first thing next morning? They can't, they have fish re-couping in them already. Now it's 10 minutes to 9. The manager for night shift says, "wait here a minute, I"ll be right back". She runs outside (it's sleeting/snowing out) and gets her purse from her car, paid for the fish for me, and says she knows me from seeing me in there before and trusts me! She signed the bottom of my receipt and handed it to me and says to just pay her back sometime before Monday close of store!!!This was on a Friday night! Now how many ppl would do that? When she opened her purse and paid and handed me the receipt, I was flabbergasted! I said -"WOW! Thankyou so much, thankyou very very much. I'll come and pay you tomarrow! I know her name and will never forget it!:D:D:D:D
 
i love this thread!

yesterday my LFS had a customer day and the had free giveaways and what not and this buy picked up a bad that had fish flakes and a sample water conditioner (for a 20 gallon). i kid you not he called his son and told him to take the news papers out of the tank and to take a hose and fill it with water. he then picked out 10 tiger barbs, 10 neon tertras, and a few black mollys. And the whole time hes tellin one of the emploies how to sex the differnt fish. i wanted to say something but the guy seemed like a prick so whatever. i knew all those fish would end up dead.
 
Just had a guy come in and tell me about his ex's attempt at saltwater. The tank lasted only three days, the salt wasn't added till the second day, and it was table salt tht she had bought at the supermarket. I was amazed the fish lived as long as they did.
 
I just have to vent!

It drives me insane when people aren't understanding that fish aren't going to be 100% perfect 100% of the time!! For example when we get a donation fish in and it's extremely stressed and laying on the bottom breathing heavy, or after a recent shipment so the fish are still adjusting and people come by and comment on how we "don't know how to keep fish alive" or how "they're suffering so badly" it drives me nuts!!!

Or another thing, when we get a live rock shipment and a day later get a guy whining and moaning because it stinks and looks like crap and yada yada yada, even after being told it's only been there a day so far!!!

ugh.....just had to rant!
 
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