Re: LFS's well petstores *%#& *&^ %^& (to many curse words to allow me to post!!!!!)

[wobble]

Thats amazing...

Personally i would travel further to go to a good LFS and thats exactly what
i do. I have even heard the owners of my (not so local) LFS after testing
someones water refuse to sell them a fish! The only way round this problem
is to maybe make it so that you need a licence to buy such fish and have
passed a knowledge test to do so.. now you go about that i dont know...

W


"richard reynolds" > wrote in message
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> I have heard all the arguments before how the person at the LFS shouldnt
have to do all
> the research and all that well it blows, and today as i just about cryed I
watched a 25ish
> year old mother of a 5~6 year old buying a tank for her daughter.
>
> now IF i were to walk into sears go into the kids department pick out a
package of size 14
> underware walk the store looking for the dumbest pourest excuse for a
human on the plannet
> and ask him if with my 29" waist would these fit and hold up the package,
there aint no
> way he is going to say "yes" at the very least he will say no or ask
someone else or
> "???duh???" like blank stares time
>
> this is everything in this ladys basket (seriously EVERYTHING!!!!)
> 1 3.5" sail fin tang
> 1 20G High tank (tank/stand/light/all glass hood)
> 1 package of CC
> 1 bag of 20gallon red sea salt mix
> one of those fresh water heaters the 150W for $12 totally not waterproof
and specifically
> NOT for salt water tanks
> an aquaclear filtter the smaller one
>
> and for the only 3 half sane things on the list
>
> a bottle of amquel
> a couple of cheasy decorations (fake coral a plastic skull)
> a stick on thermometer
>
>
> and she had help picking out everything
>
> the guy at the fish desk told her to assemble this add water dump the
entire bag of salt
> into the water mix it up for a few minutes and dump the fish in, said she
will have to do
> monthly waterchanges but no information on how to do them or what exactly
to do with them.
>
> notice no hydrometer and the 3.5" tang in a 20H that alone started me
getting angry the
> directions he gave her had me soo ****ed off i just had to leave !!!
>
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> richard reynolds
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[Teeb]

You were probably witnessing a form of the deadly Nemo Syndrome..
characterised by bouts of major stupidity and impulsiveness. Unfortuantely
it's only deadly to the critters.. not the humans who contract it.

Teeb

"richard reynolds" > wrote in message
...
> I have heard all the arguments before how the person at the LFS shouldnt
have to do all
> the research and all that well it blows, and today as i just about cryed I
watched a 25ish
> year old mother of a 5~6 year old buying a tank for her daughter.
>
> now IF i were to walk into sears go into the kids department pick out a
package of size 14

[plaguebeast]

one LFS near me was selling Regal Tangs. They had three of them (very
small) displayed in a 7 gallon tank on the front counter. The guy there
said you can keep them in that tank for a long time, that they would be
happy there. It took alot of effort to tell him just how wrong he was.


"Teeb" > wrote in message
...
> You were probably witnessing a form of the deadly Nemo Syndrome..
> characterised by bouts of major stupidity and impulsiveness. Unfortuantely
> it's only deadly to the critters.. not the humans who contract it.
>
> Teeb
>
> "richard reynolds" > wrote in message
> ...
> > I have heard all the arguments before how the person at the LFS shouldnt
> have to do all
> > the research and all that well it blows, and today as i just about cryed
I
> watched a 25ish
> > year old mother of a 5~6 year old buying a tank for her daughter.
> >
> > now IF i were to walk into sears go into the kids department pick out a
> package of size 14
>
>
>