I've never been to a shop where they did it *intentionally*... they're all just pretty uneducated, lol.
has your lfs ever played stupid?? even your fav lfs?
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Everybody I work with at my LFS know a lot about fish, but not everything. The one guy told me electric catfish grow a foot. The truth is, the microstoma species does, but LFS only really get electricus species in which have grown up to 39". I wouldn't give up trusting them because of that.
You cannot expect minimum wage hobbyists to know the difference between all closely related species. 99% of the time I would not be able to ID an African cichlid if I didn't see the name. Prolly a little more likely to know central American's apart though. I see as much variation in a species as I see in different cichlids.
It's one thing for them to hire some guy/girl who doesn't know about fish, but you cannot expect somebody who has to work 9 hours a day, 6 days a week just to pay their bills, to have much time to research fish on their own.
You cannot expect minimum wage hobbyists to know the difference between all closely related species. 99% of the time I would not be able to ID an African cichlid if I didn't see the name. Prolly a little more likely to know central American's apart though. I see as much variation in a species as I see in different cichlids.
It's one thing for them to hire some guy/girl who doesn't know about fish, but you cannot expect somebody who has to work 9 hours a day, 6 days a week just to pay their bills, to have much time to research fish on their own.
one of the reasons I like my LFS is that I once informed a salesman that a fish was mislabeled, and he told me it wasn't . . . they were SAEs mislabed as Flying Fox, which is a similar but different fish
rather than push the issue, I told him I'd be back after work to buy the fish (I wanted SAEs) . . . when I came back, the same guy told me he had looked it up while I was gone and found out I was right, and thanked me
no big deal, but I was impressed that he researched it . . .
rather than push the issue, I told him I'd be back after work to buy the fish (I wanted SAEs) . . . when I came back, the same guy told me he had looked it up while I was gone and found out I was right, and thanked me
no big deal, but I was impressed that he researched it . . .
the fiunny part was... the girl that told me i was wrong was the lfs owners daughte ( and HOT to btw! )
