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Midas Madness;3053853; said:
Just came back from one of my local fish stores that opened about 2 months ago. There was a kid a year or two older than me selling some discus to unsuspecting lady who only had a 29g. "A huge tank in her opinion". I walk over and start talking about the care required to keep them healthy and started to tell her about mine. Well i convinced her out of buying them and angered the kid who brought the manager over to yell at me. Well the manager fired the kid for being ignorant and trying to sell those fish to the lady and offered me a job there. Well since i'm only 15 i can't work yet, but my b day is coming soon. So i'll be able to work during the summer. The manager said he'll have a position waiting for me. :D Can't wait till my b day now.
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Congrats on the future job :)
 
Bogwoodbruce;3056559; said:
Congrats on the future job :)
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Thanks maybe i'll be able to share some stories once i get the job. :D
 
Midas Madness;3056629; said:
Thanks maybe i'll be able to share some stories once i get the job. :D
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o man, i hope you're ready for it. you will not believe the ignorance of most people. informed people are the exception not the rule in this hobby.
 
Lady came in yesterday and told me about how she had a 5 gallon and wanted to add like 5 or 6 more fish to her tank with I think 4 other ones in it already. Then she went on to tell me about how her first tank failed. She said the water looked clear. Then I asked what the stock was. 10 tetras in a 1 gallon. Good try lady.
 
This thread is so sad to me since I no longer have a job taking care of fish... damn budget constraints... I'm going to visit there soon, I'll tell you how much of their livestock has perished without an expert.
 
I had a scary "LFS" incident on Saturday. I went to Greentree Pet Center in southern Indiana (across the river from Louisville). I walked in with my grandson who is 15 and we started looking at their fish. We began to notice that it really stunk in there...bad! I look over at their feeder goldfish tanks and one of the tanks is packed with Goldfish, the other has just a few. In the tank with just a few there was also a Tiger Shovelnose and an Arowana, both in the 2 foot range. The tanks were probably 75 gallons each... My grandson looks at the Arowana and asks me "do they always swim like that?" The Arowana is standing on its head, dead as a doornail! What a shame! I pointed it out to the store manager who goes and gets a net and begins fishing this dead beauty out of the tank. As he is doing this, we are looking at some albino bullfrogs floating in the top of another tank. I poke one to see if it is alive and it dives, still alive. Then my grandson points out a pleco sucking on another of the frogs. I proceed to poke it also and it was stiff...dead! I'm just about to run out of this store and have decided that I wouldn't buy a fish from them on a bet! We look down the aisle a little further where all of the smaller fish tanks were and every single tank is crammed with 3 times the fish I have ever seen in a small tank and here is a worker going along netting dead stuff out of the tanks. He has 3" of dead little fish in the bottom of one of those little plastic "hang on the tank" boxes.
It's really too bad that this place was so gross as they did have some nice fish but I'll never set foot in there again!!
 
bobbyd;3059937; said:
I had a scary "LFS" incident on Saturday. I went to Greentree Pet Center in southern Indiana (across the river from Louisville). I walked in with my grandson who is 15 and we started looking at their fish. We began to notice that it really stunk in there...bad! I look over at their feeder goldfish tanks and one of the tanks is packed with Goldfish, the other has just a few. In the tank with just a few there was also a Tiger Shovelnose and an Arowana, both in the 2 foot range. The tanks were probably 75 gallons each... My grandson looks at the Arowana and asks me "do they always swim like that?" The Arowana is standing on its head, dead as a doornail! What a shame! I pointed it out to the store manager who goes and gets a net and begins fishing this dead beauty out of the tank. As he is doing this, we are looking at some albino bullfrogs floating in the top of another tank. I poke one to see if it is alive and it dives, still alive. Then my grandson points out a pleco sucking on another of the frogs. I proceed to poke it also and it was stiff...dead! I'm just about to run out of this store and have decided that I wouldn't buy a fish from them on a bet! We look down the aisle a little further where all of the smaller fish tanks were and every single tank is crammed with 3 times the fish I have ever seen in a small tank and here is a worker going along netting dead stuff out of the tanks. He has 3" of dead little fish in the bottom of one of those little plastic "hang on the tank" boxes.
It's really too bad that this place was so gross as they did have some nice fish but I'll never set foot in there again!!
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Thats bad, even the best shops will miss the odd one or two dead fish but not a 2' long dead arowana how he miss that!
 
wow i dont understand why workers wouldnt want to take care of the stores tanks
 
Tstove15;3061364; said:
wow i dont understand why workers wouldnt want to take care of the stores tanks
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because a lot of workers are people who don't care much about fish or have much knowledge. to them it is just a job to get money, and $8 an hr doesn't usually inspire people who don't care to take interest. now this is by no means everyone, but just in the store i work at i've seen many of these types come....and then go quickly
 
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