This is the guy to listen to... LOL

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I work at petsmart :cry: i've been there for almost three years, i get customers who come in all the time convinced that oscars are the most aggressive cichlid ever :ROFL: Whenever i yell them my cichlid sthey give me very strange looks as if the word motaguense is some strange word froma langauge on mars.
 
you should tell them astronotus ocellatus and really confuse them :ROFL:
 
No i should just tell them that cichlids don't exist, :ROFL:they'll probably believe me
 
Funny things I get at my shop.....


Fish names;

Guffy= Guppy
inmate= convict
maganese= Managuense
Chicklit = Cichlids
gormy = gourami
prima donna = Pim. Pictus

I'm sure I'm forgetting a few...

The LFS advise.....

The local chains sell P Palmus and tell the customer that they are bottom dwelling scavengers, within a few days it has eaten all thier fish.

"Fish only get as big as the tank they are in..." yeah, put that pacu in a 10 gallon.

"All you need to do is add (insert one of many "miricle" products) to fix you water quality". (how 'bout a good filter and good maintenance?)

"feed your lion fish gold fish....feed your iguana lettuce, it's all they need......"

"An aquarium will hold 1 fish per gallon of water, except salt water, it will hold one fish per 2 gallons of water..."

"Pim. Pictus (Prima Donna) is a peacful comunity fish" (they forget to mention that they will eat all your neons)

"Betta are agressive and will kill all your fish," or "the only fish that can be kept with a male betta is a female betta," or "all a betta needs is a small bowl or a vase with a plant in it, they like that..."

"all aquariums need a 25% water chang once per month" or even better than that, "if you add this product to your aquarium, you only need to do a 50% water change once per year"

I bet I could go on for days on this subject......

Joel
 
I work at Petsmart and I had some guy who thinks he knows EVERYTHING come in. I tried to make conversation with him by asking him what sort of fish he kept and all he said he had were some fire eels and some bichirs (which he mispronounced). He kept talking down to me and being rude and all I was thinking in my head was "HA HA my fish are way cooler than yours!" :) I asked him if he kept cichlids and his response was "NO! You can't feed them live food!" He only feeds the fish he has live food just because he likes watching them eat it. :screwy: I don't know about anyone else but my Oscar and my Jag are definitely cichlids and they definitely will eat live food!

Oh oh, and I just thought of another one. The other day a guy came in and couldn't decide what sort of fish he wanted for his tank. I asked him how big his tank was and he said "Oh it's like the biggest you can get -- a 29 gallon". He then told me that he'd like to buy one of our Red Bellied Pacus. I informed him that the Pacus may look cute and sweet now but very soon they can grow to be about 22 inches. He didn't care and I had to sell him the fish. :(
 
Ornatapinnis said:
Funny things I get at my shop.....


Fish names;

Guffy= Guppy
inmate= convict
maganese= Managuense
Chicklit = Cichlids
gormy = gourami
prima donna = Pim. Pictus

I'm sure I'm forgetting a few...

The LFS advise.....

The local chains sell P Palmus and tell the customer that they are bottom dwelling scavengers, within a few days it has eaten all thier fish.

"Fish only get as big as the tank they are in..." yeah, put that pacu in a 10 gallon.

"All you need to do is add (insert one of many "miricle" products) to fix you water quality". (how 'bout a good filter and good maintenance?)

"feed your lion fish gold fish....feed your iguana lettuce, it's all they need......"

"An aquarium will hold 1 fish per gallon of water, except salt water, it will hold one fish per 2 gallons of water..."

"Pim. Pictus (Prima Donna) is a peacful comunity fish" (they forget to mention that they will eat all your neons)

"Betta are agressive and will kill all your fish," or "the only fish that can be kept with a male betta is a female betta," or "all a betta needs is a small bowl or a vase with a plant in it, they like that..."

"all aquariums need a 25% water chang once per month" or even better than that, "if you add this product to your aquarium, you only need to do a 50% water change once per year"

I bet I could go on for days on this subject......

Joel
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A pet shop I went to yesterday had their Frontosas marked as "Frontosis". I also hear a lot of people mispronounce cichlid when I am at work. (I work at Petsmart) I actually heard one lady say cichlid like you say ciclet, that gum that comes in little squares. "I want some cichlets!" :ROFL:
 
You see allot of people at LFS's that don't know what they are talking about. I saw a group of baby wolves at a pet shop with tetras in it. I told the guy about it and he said,"Oh yeah, they should be in the soft water tank". We all know Central America has soft and acidic water. lol. This was the owner.
Red Devil's do change color during their life cycle. I had one that just died that was 14 years old. He was a mustard yellow with grey bands when he was around and inch and a half when I bought him. He turned all yellow at around three inches and turned ornage when he reached six inches. By the time he reached close to a foot, he was white with red edging around his head and fins. So, Red Devil's do change.
 
A couple of years ago A guy bought a fairly large goldfish from me, 5 or 6 inches or so, and call shortly afterwards wanting to know if he could return it.

He showed up at the shop to return the fish and explained it he couldn't get it into the fish bown he had. I was like "what!!!", he went out to his car and brought back in one of those soft ball size "betta" bowls.

Let's ignore the fact that bowls are a bad idea for a minute.....That bowl was like 4" max across and not only did this bumb ass buy this large of a fish for it, he actually tried to make it fit in it.

Un freek'en believable!!!! I laughed my ass off when he left....There litterally had to be more fish than water in that bowl when he stuffed it in there. THe fish survived the ordeal and got a new home with in a few weeks...

Joel
 
i was helping a guy and he had a 30 gallon, he cam in ona day that i wasn't working and bought six pseodotropheus, he came back after a month and a half with three deads ones, i asked a barrage of questions, ieven tested his water it was fine, i asked him a far-fetched question :"do you have a filter?" he said noROFL:
i thought it was common knowledge for even the most incompetent people, guess not
 
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