Creamhorses
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- Feb 20, 2006
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Went to LFS #2 yesterday, after leaving store #1 due to second hand smoke from salesperson standing in side door....then sending her 7 yr. old to ask if I need help with something.
Saw a tank full of mollies.....very active, some very large. They were in a salt water set up, and were being kept as food for larger SW fish in a nearby tank. So I asked about them because they looked so healthly; much more so than mine in a FW community tank. So the owner says: "Well mollies are brackish water fish". Bla bla bla .so I come home with a new 20gal long, hood, filter, bag of sea salt, a $$ pfffff...$175.23 later. [I have some wild mollies coming via FedEx early next week] so I needed another QT anyway.
So I go on ine this am and find nothing about brackish mollies, other than they like a bit of salt in their water. This ain't my first cruise, but I guess I'm becoming nieve in my old age.....listening to someone and believing everything they say. One thing for sure....those mollies which looked so healthy seemed to thrive in that salt water. That part of her story rang true.
I'm wondering why I hear so many stories about LFS owqners/employees who seem to need to peruse this AA forum in a serious way.
Any experiences on this thought would be helpful.
TIA
Dave
Saw a tank full of mollies.....very active, some very large. They were in a salt water set up, and were being kept as food for larger SW fish in a nearby tank. So I asked about them because they looked so healthly; much more so than mine in a FW community tank. So the owner says: "Well mollies are brackish water fish". Bla bla bla .so I come home with a new 20gal long, hood, filter, bag of sea salt, a $$ pfffff...$175.23 later. [I have some wild mollies coming via FedEx early next week] so I needed another QT anyway.
So I go on ine this am and find nothing about brackish mollies, other than they like a bit of salt in their water. This ain't my first cruise, but I guess I'm becoming nieve in my old age.....listening to someone and believing everything they say. One thing for sure....those mollies which looked so healthy seemed to thrive in that salt water. That part of her story rang true.
I'm wondering why I hear so many stories about LFS owqners/employees who seem to need to peruse this AA forum in a serious way.
Any experiences on this thought would be helpful.
TIA
Dave