Ignorant people

[Giannis86]

Originally Posted by Talon242

Tried explaining it, I used to work in customer service so I'm pretty good at keeping cool. I pointed out how the goldfish if it lives, has potential to grow much larger than the glass. How it's swimming in toxins, ammonia and nitrites and I let them know what they would need for a proper set up.

Also the reasoning for the glass, they said they don't have room for a tank. I was thinking of kidnapping the fish but I think they would just get another and there are security cameras too lol.

Edit: Added a photo. I didn't take this, I just took a screen shot from a video that one of the front end workers took and posted on facebook.

It is unbelievable how cruel some people are to goldfish...

Great topic by the way

@alghazi
Thats is insane! Did you go back to store to complain? (Although Im sure they would say it was your fault anyway)

Personally i have never had such an experience in an LFS. However i have had cases that they didnt know much about tanks.

A while ago i was looking for a CO2 kit and the guy at the LFS was constantly talking about it not existing because CO2 was "poisonous" to plants and fish
I tried explaining him that adding CO2 can promote plant growth but he wouldnt listen

[Jshaffer79]

I used to work at petco and you aare right there are alot of stupid people out there. I hated when someone would come in wanting to put a bunch of goldfish in a small tank let alone a filterless tank. whats worse is when someone else would just sell the people what they want and then a few days later they would come back wanting to know why all their fish were dead. Then they get mad at you when you tell them why. They get even madder because the person that sold them the fish didn't warn them.