Fish the LFS can't get rid of
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At the LFS I work at.
We have had Borneo giant redtail gouramis for 40 each. We got them as babies, and now they are about 11". They have been there for a little under a year.
We have some humphead glassfish for 25. They have been there for over a year.
Borneo Marble Catfish. He has been there for a couple years.
We had a mystus wyckii for a couple years before I worked there. It would hide all the time so nobody saw it. After a few years it began to come out and it grew from a few inches to over a foot. And it also swam upside down.
We have a longfin albino oscar that looks like it's brain is pressing through the front of it's head. It's been there since Spring. The only person that was interested in it, saw it after we had to move him to a new tank and he was having a "I hate new tanks" fit, so they changed their mind.
And of course, the random barrage of large pacus and iridescent sharks. We don't sell juvies, but the other stores do and we always end up with the adults. Usually the fish are so beat up when customers bring them in, we aren't really going to be able to sell them.
We have had Borneo giant redtail gouramis for 40 each. We got them as babies, and now they are about 11". They have been there for a little under a year.
We have some humphead glassfish for 25. They have been there for over a year.
Borneo Marble Catfish. He has been there for a couple years.
We had a mystus wyckii for a couple years before I worked there. It would hide all the time so nobody saw it. After a few years it began to come out and it grew from a few inches to over a foot. And it also swam upside down.
We have a longfin albino oscar that looks like it's brain is pressing through the front of it's head. It's been there since Spring. The only person that was interested in it, saw it after we had to move him to a new tank and he was having a "I hate new tanks" fit, so they changed their mind.
And of course, the random barrage of large pacus and iridescent sharks. We don't sell juvies, but the other stores do and we always end up with the adults. Usually the fish are so beat up when customers bring them in, we aren't really going to be able to sell them.
We always get stuck with oscars that are usually beat up and have HITH, sold from Walmart or Meijer to the college kids who don't know any better and put them in a ten gallon. We've had a Lima shovelnose for quite a while, and a fairly big flowerhorn that the owner has priced at $30. And of course a RTC that has eaten most of the nice expensive koi out of the big pond.
Johnnybravo60025;4576202; said:
A lot of the pacus end up getting killed by their tank mates (usually oscars), and many die from transfer. If we get a large pacu that is obviously dying with no chances of getting better, we usually put it down so it doesn't die and rot in the tank killing the other fish overnight.
Most of the ID sharks end up getting beat up by tank mates, and the boss normally puts them in 40g storage tanks and tries to treat them so they get better. A lot of times though they normally suffer a lot of permanent damage from transfer and stress of new tank/tank mates so they just kind of live there.
aclockworkorange;4576229; said:
At one of the LFS by me, an employee admitted that when he saw customers looking at the e-cats and then walk to the counter, he would disappear and try to do another job out of sight. When they did catch him and asked about it, he would tell them that they grow very large very fast and try to shock people.
There is a very large Silver Dollar for $30 and it has been there for a year or so. I guess people do not want to spend that much money on a Silver Dollar. It is a nice size thou.
At one lfs they have 2 arowanas 12+14" with papers for £1500 and £2000 they have been there for at least 3 years if not more!
