Will it never end? More lame customer moves.
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MommyJulia;1693948; said:
It depends on the puffer (see my avatar... fahaka wouldn't eat if we seperated it from the goldfish)
Idiots go to retail stores, but the food industry has hungry morons. You wouldn't believe how many people would come in and say, "I bought a sandwhich [many days ago]. It was bad so I tossed it. I want another!" When they started yelling demanding my manager I would spin in a circle and introduce them to me... the manager.
this is about fish store owner
there was a red texas which did not have any red and he had placed a tag of 46$ it is 4.5" and has been so since 5months or so and by an accident had jumped into the neighboring tank and had its tail chewed of the first day i had seen him
i had asked the owner to give th fish to me with some discount as it does not have a tail and he had told me that the tail would grow back and i had said that his tail is chewed along with a lot of his spine and flesh and the tail will not grow back
yesterday i went there again and saw the fish no tail yet still almost the same size and the same price tag
i asked him for discount and he says he will give a discount of 3US$
i was "thank you very much for your time and i walked out, was laughing at the guy as soon as i went earshot from the shop"
there was a red texas which did not have any red and he had placed a tag of 46$ it is 4.5" and has been so since 5months or so and by an accident had jumped into the neighboring tank and had its tail chewed of the first day i had seen him
i had asked the owner to give th fish to me with some discount as it does not have a tail and he had told me that the tail would grow back and i had said that his tail is chewed along with a lot of his spine and flesh and the tail will not grow back
yesterday i went there again and saw the fish no tail yet still almost the same size and the same price tag
i asked him for discount and he says he will give a discount of 3US$
i was "thank you very much for your time and i walked out, was laughing at the guy as soon as i went earshot from the shop"
This thread is crazy. I hope people are being helpful with their knowledge, because talking @#$% about someone who doesn't know about the hobby sure isn't going to help the hobby progress. 
NilePufferFanatic;1714367; said:It depends on the puffer (see my avatar... fahaka wouldn't eat if we seperated it from the goldfish)
Idiots go to retail stores, but the food industry has hungry morons. You wouldn't believe how many people would come in and say, "I bought a sandwhich [many days ago]. It was bad so I tossed it. I want another!" When they started yelling demanding my manager I would spin in a circle and introduce them to me... the manager.
LOL!
I think that is sooo cute, your puffer has a best friend the goldfish hehe. None of my puffers get along with other fish, just their own species. I have seen GSP sold as freshwater fish and also community. My GSP, I would say is the most aggressive, and playful. When I clean the tank with the magnet cleaner they chase after it and bite it lol.
I've always wanted to try working at a LFS, at least for a bit. Not all customers are bad, I've met plenty, but there's always going to be that one guy who doesn't know what he wants and is a total jerk at the same time.
Then again, it isn't just customers...
Recently, I gave my 7" Arowana to a local fish farm that I visit frequently.
Now every time I give them fish, they always suggest selling it under "Commission" or whatever. Basically, they hold and sell the fish and I come back and collect all the profit.
They asked me a selling price and I put the Arowana for 40$. It got sold that very weekend and I called back a week later to find out if it had gotten sold yet.
This fat obnoxious lady answers the phone and tells me I won't get all the money and that she has to take 5$ off of the sale price.
I asked, "Well, none of you mentioned you'd be making a percentage off of the sale beforehand and never have for any of the times that we've done this."
She responded with, "It's not my problem, that's how we do things here. You can't just come in here and give us fish to sell for you."
I tried to tell her that it was her own employees that suggested it in the first place and that it wasn't exactly fair to claim money after the fact but she didn't care.
In the end the guy I know there slipped me the whole 40$ while she was on her lunch break.
Then again, it isn't just customers...
Recently, I gave my 7" Arowana to a local fish farm that I visit frequently.
Now every time I give them fish, they always suggest selling it under "Commission" or whatever. Basically, they hold and sell the fish and I come back and collect all the profit.
They asked me a selling price and I put the Arowana for 40$. It got sold that very weekend and I called back a week later to find out if it had gotten sold yet.
This fat obnoxious lady answers the phone and tells me I won't get all the money and that she has to take 5$ off of the sale price.
I asked, "Well, none of you mentioned you'd be making a percentage off of the sale beforehand and never have for any of the times that we've done this."
She responded with, "It's not my problem, that's how we do things here. You can't just come in here and give us fish to sell for you."
I tried to tell her that it was her own employees that suggested it in the first place and that it wasn't exactly fair to claim money after the fact but she didn't care.
In the end the guy I know there slipped me the whole 40$ while she was on her lunch break.
I grew up thinking fish only lived a year or two because ALL the people I knew that had fish, kept them in tiny bowls! 
Most of them were fancy goldfish. Of course as a little kid I therefore accepted keeping MY goldfish in a bowl, although even at THAT AGE I felt there was something bad with this, wondering how he could possibly be happy always going around in that closet! Since I was at the age when you believe everything your parents say is true, so when they would tell me goldfish are happy in bowls I somewhat tried to make it seem ok in my mind. Little kids are brought up to see fish as decorations and low maintenance, so most learn to see them as disposable and unimportant... and then grow up thinking this way. When I bought my first fist Beta I believed what everyone around told me... and what the petsmart people told me: "they are unexpensive, need no more than a .5 gallon, Beta pellets and room temp water... 
WHAT A JOKE!!!
I think there are a lot of people out there who actually trully care about their fish, but the crappy misinformation they get keeps them from knowing how to really care for it. Or they simply don't know how to observe closely their fish. Now my sweet royal blue crowntail is happily blowing bubble nests in a 5 gallon, with a few large amano shrimp tankmates, a heater, filter, plants, frozen brine shrimps and freeze-dried bloodworms! Inexpensive my ass LOL! Heck it winded up costing me well over a 100$, and its not like I bought too much stuff or useless crap either! Ah well, I never regreted buying him all of that stuff, and he is the healthiest Beta I have ever seen in live! 
He is so active and full of surprises now!
We can't really blame people for ignorance... I guess... but it kills me how people are not only ignorant but also don't give a dam as well! My roomates both bought a rose Danio... which they each kept in a container of..... 1 LITRE!!!!!!! The worst part is that they are both BIOLOGY students at university!!! 
The container each had a ball of java moss which took most of the space, there was big (low quality rusting) gravel in the bottom and the water was an inch from the top... so NOT EVEN 1 litre of water!!!! They just did not care and even when told the fish requirements they did not care nor bothered to do a thing! They kept the Danios in there for months! I still don't get how the fish managed to survive but they are freakin hardy indeed! I inherited the fish when school ended (cause they knew they could not bring it back in plane to their places) and I gave the poor things to another friend with a bigger tank because I only had my 5 gal with my Beta in it! They are such morrons!!! 
Barely ever changed the water too!! One of the girls wants to get a puffer next year .... 
I'll make sure that this will NEVER EVER happen!
I don't even know a person who actually cares about their fish... or know how to take care of them! Even my mother made me regret getting her a Beta fish when I discovered it had fin rot and she plainly said "I'm not paying a 20$ medication for a 7$ fish!". I guess that sums up my interior question of "does she care about the fish or not?"...... She keeps on complaining about the bloodworms she finds disgusting (she is such a whimp my mom!), so, knowing her, before I moved out I went through all the closets and took away all of the old flake foods and goldfish food that had been in there for ages... I'm pretty sure she would of fed those to him instead!
Most of them were fancy goldfish. Of course as a little kid I therefore accepted keeping MY goldfish in a bowl, although even at THAT AGE I felt there was something bad with this, wondering how he could possibly be happy always going around in that closet! Since I was at the age when you believe everything your parents say is true, so when they would tell me goldfish are happy in bowls I somewhat tried to make it seem ok in my mind. Little kids are brought up to see fish as decorations and low maintenance, so most learn to see them as disposable and unimportant... and then grow up thinking this way. When I bought my first fist Beta I believed what everyone around told me... and what the petsmart people told me: "they are unexpensive, need no more than a .5 gallon, Beta pellets and room temp water... WHAT A JOKE!!! I think there are a lot of people out there who actually trully care about their fish, but the crappy misinformation they get keeps them from knowing how to really care for it. Or they simply don't know how to observe closely their fish. Now my sweet royal blue crowntail is happily blowing bubble nests in a 5 gallon, with a few large amano shrimp tankmates, a heater, filter, plants, frozen brine shrimps and freeze-dried bloodworms!
Inexpensive my ass LOL! Heck it winded up costing me well over a 100$, and its not like I bought too much stuff or useless crap either! Ah well, I never regreted buying him all of that stuff, and he is the healthiest Beta I have ever seen in live! He is so active and full of surprises now! We can't really blame people for ignorance... I guess... but it kills me how people are not only ignorant but also don't give a dam as well! My roomates both bought a rose Danio... which they each kept in a container of..... 1 LITRE!!!!!!!
The worst part is that they are both BIOLOGY students at university!!! The container each had a ball of java moss which took most of the space, there was big (low quality rusting) gravel in the bottom and the water was an inch from the top... so NOT EVEN 1 litre of water!!!! They just did not care and even when told the fish requirements they did not care nor bothered to do a thing! They kept the Danios in there for months! I still don't get how the fish managed to survive but they are freakin hardy indeed! I inherited the fish when school ended (cause they knew they could not bring it back in plane to their places) and I gave the poor things to another friend with a bigger tank because I only had my 5 gal with my Beta in it! They are such morrons!!! Barely ever changed the water too!! One of the girls wants to get a puffer next year .... I'll make sure that this will NEVER EVER happen! I don't even know a person who actually cares about their fish... or know how to take care of them! Even my mother made me regret getting her a Beta fish when I discovered it had fin rot and she plainly said "I'm not paying a 20$ medication for a 7$ fish!"
. I guess that sums up my interior question of "does she care about the fish or not?"...... She keeps on complaining about the bloodworms she finds disgusting (she is such a whimp my mom!), so, knowing her, before I moved out I went through all the closets and took away all of the old flake foods and goldfish food that had been in there for ages... I'm pretty sure she would of fed those to him instead! That's horrible. My sister does the same thing... It's been ages since she's done any water changes to her little 5 gallon octagon tank and most of her fish, (my very first fish ) have died due to her neglect.
Now the walls of her tank are a solid green and there's a convict and one zebra danio left. =\ I would put them in my 20 gallon tank but I'm afraid they'll bring in some disease to my fish.
) have died due to her neglect.Now the walls of her tank are a solid green and there's a convict and one zebra danio left. =\ I would put them in my 20 gallon tank but I'm afraid they'll bring in some disease to my fish.
Today an employee of an lfs near me told me that freshwater shrimp grow to a foot and are viciuos... WTF???????? Where did he come up with this?
