local fish stores lie too

[Joe M]

At the time of purchase, I pulled out my phone and looked up pics of Festae fry on Google. Seeing the fish on a glance looked similar in the thumb nail I asked the owner to bag a select 3. I them asked the dude if he was positive they were Festae as I had some doubt. He replied yep those are Festae and pointed at the tag on the tank and even went down a fish characteristics list such as whether or not it had bars, showed me the "y" bar on the three, in retro spect the y wasn't complete. So I did the nourish mistake of paying for the fish on his word and from a picture from Google. I got home did somemore research realized they were the wrong fish. Confronted the owner and got told to pies off because I wanted to return my fish for a refund or instore credit. Then the fish died anyway.


I went to the shop today with images and evidence as to why the tank was marked wrong. But the owner said who cares its not worth his time to change the label on a tank with 6 fish in it

Probably shouldn't trust a quick google image search on a phone either. Not the most accurate form of fish I.D.

Didn't you say the fish died anyway? So it doesn't really matter if the fish was the right one or not.

 

[longliveledzep]

have you told the lfs i was at a lfs and got a jd and they gave me a texas when i got home i called them and told them and they stayed open late for me to bring it back

 

[pshtex]

just research the fish u want to buy before u buy it. if you know your stuff about the fish u want all will be smooth sailing. well most of the time

 

[pshtex]

This is one of the many fine reasons to go native. If you do your own collecting you never have to worry about a fish store lying to you and any mistakes are all on you. LOL sorry just had to get my native plug in there.

not just that but they are freeeeeeee

 

[Ryken73]

I agree!