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The other day a chain store employee told me to use prime as a fertilizer when I asked for flourish comprehensive.
 
Ayi said:
The other day a chain store employee told me to use prime as a fertilizer when I asked for flourish comprehensive.
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Oh wow! Did you tell him next time he is thirsty the toilet is the best place to drink from?
 
An hour ago, after work, at local lfs: customer looking at a fish that grows 1 metre long- but would it have to grow that big? Like- if I had in a smaller aquarium (holds hands 2' apart) it would only grow to the size of the tank, wouldn't it?
Fish *expert*- of course- any fish will only grow to the size of the tank it's in.
Me (butting in like a rude so-and-so) yeah, but it won't be healthy stunting its growth like that, and it will have a much shorter lifespan.
*expert*- not at all, it's a natural phenomenon, and doesn't cause them any harm at all. Once you put them in a bigger tank they just start growing again.
Customer- yeah, that's what I thought, because my Oscar lives in a 2' tank and he's fine- I got him when he was 2" and now he's still only 5". Besides, fish don't live very long anyway.
OMG
I felt like saying, no- well they bloody well wouldn't under those conditions!
 
Cactuspixie said:
An hour ago, after work, at local lfs: customer looking at a fish that grows 1 metre long- but would it have to grow that big? Like- if I had in a smaller aquarium (holds hands 2' apart) it would only grow to the size of the tank, wouldn't it?
Fish *expert*- of course- any fish will only grow to the size of the tank it's in.
Me (butting in like a rude so-and-so) yeah, but it won't be healthy stunting its growth like that, and it will have a much shorter lifespan.
*expert*- not at all, it's a natural phenomenon, and doesn't cause them any harm at all. Once you put them in a bigger tank they just start growing again.
Customer- yeah, that's what I thought, because my Oscar lives in a 2' tank and he's fine- I got him when he was 2" and now he's still only 5". Besides, fish don't live very long anyway.
OMG
I felt like saying, no- well they bloody well wouldn't under those conditions!
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People only say they don't live long because they don't know proper care and end up killing the fish...
 
Cactuspixie said:
An hour ago, after work, at local lfs: customer looking at a fish that grows 1 metre long- but would it have to grow that big? Like- if I had in a smaller aquarium (holds hands 2' apart) it would only grow to the size of the tank, wouldn't it?
Fish *expert*- of course- any fish will only grow to the size of the tank it's in.
Me (butting in like a rude so-and-so) yeah, but it won't be healthy stunting its growth like that, and it will have a much shorter lifespan.
*expert*- not at all, it's a natural phenomenon, and doesn't cause them any harm at all. Once you put them in a bigger tank they just start growing again.
Customer- yeah, that's what I thought, because my Oscar lives in a 2' tank and he's fine- I got him when he was 2" and now he's still only 5". Besides, fish don't live very long anyway.
OMG
I felt like saying, no- well they bloody well wouldn't under those conditions!
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Wow, a case of the employee AND the customer being a nutcase. 2 wrongs don't make a right, lol. I'm pretty sure if it was a "natural phenomenon", people would be keeping fw sharks in as little as a 10 gallon LOL
 
Cactuspixie said:
An hour ago, after work, at local lfs: customer looking at a fish that grows 1 metre long- but would it have to grow that big? Like- if I had in a smaller aquarium (holds hands 2' apart) it would only grow to the size of the tank, wouldn't it?
Fish *expert*- of course- any fish will only grow to the size of the tank it's in.
Me (butting in like a rude so-and-so) yeah, but it won't be healthy stunting its growth like that, and it will have a much shorter lifespan.
*expert*- not at all, it's a natural phenomenon, and doesn't cause them any harm at all. Once you put them in a bigger tank they just start growing again.
Customer- yeah, that's what I thought, because my Oscar lives in a 2' tank and he's fine- I got him when he was 2" and now he's still only 5". Besides, fish don't live very long anyway.
OMG
I felt like saying, no- well they bloody well wouldn't under those conditions!
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Perfect example of stupid people feeding off of each others stupidity.
 
I was on a family trip last year to another hawaiian island and I was told that there was a tank in the car rental area. There was a 55 gallon saltwater tank with dead coral, a yellow tang, a zebra eel, a Hawaiian flag fish, a soldier fish, a damsel, and a dog face puffer. Terrible
 
If that wasn't bad enough, a near by pancake restaurant had a 35 gallon hexagon tank with some yellow tail damsels and a malnourished 8 line wrasse
 
my sister is in the process up upgrading her tank to a 55 shes very new at it and im helping her a lot but she was at a chain lfs and they were looking at the filters. one of the employees was trying to tell her that if she bought this 200$ canister filter she could put twice as many fish in! she asked me and i said no they are trying to get you to spend money
 
aquandrew said:
my sister is in the process up upgrading her tank to a 55 shes very new at it and im helping her a lot but she was at a chain lfs and they were looking at the filters. one of the employees was trying to tell her that if she bought this 200$ canister filter she could put twice as many fish in! she asked me and i said no they are trying to get you to spend money
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I find this happens a lot. I will be casually talking about aquariums with someone, and they will say something like "the employee at the store said so"

Its like nails on a chalkboard to my ears -.-
 
i know haha i pretty much ignore the employees unless something is out of stock or they moved something. i go to petco so much that they know i know what im talking about and dont even try to get me to buy stuff because ive spent about 2 grand there just on tanks, filters, heaters, supplies, food and plants. i dont buy fish there and they know i wont ive even had them recommend me to go to another store and now its one of my favorite places lol
 
cgthebeast said:
I like the blowing bubbles in the tank in prefer to oxygenate it was the best Xp
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Especially the "every 15 minutes" part... Better not have anything to do all day every day! You are now a vital piece of aquarium equipment.

That's as bad as people who say to blow into shipping / transport bags to inflate them. I guess some people just don't stop to think that we breathe oxygen in and exhale carbon dioxide.
 
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