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

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

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

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