Is It Right

[atmmachine816]

Yup it's perfectly legal but my buisness won't be going to them most likely. Tomorrow I will go in and do what you guys say, they are stiill hiring new people so they probably won't know me and I will be ok and I can tell you guys what happens. And of course there are things that we all do that we all think are wrong. I bet if any of us here went to everybody's house and watched how they took care of there fish for a week they would find tons of things that they don't agree with because everybody has different expierences with different things. I know people who love whisper filters and literaly HATE penguin bio-wheels while I like the bio-wheels and the whisper's aren't my first choice.

Austin

 

[atmmachine816]

A problem that might arise is that I may not get the owner since I don't know who it is and may get an inexpierenced person and they wouldn't know any better.

 

[T1KARMANN]

i would say that only 1% of all silver aros sold ever make it to adults

look how many of them you see for sale and how many have you seen at 3ft

back to my main rule get the biggest tank you can and then think about stocking it and resurch every fish before you buy it

 

[atmmachine816]

Well I talked to a guy there and it's definatly all about the money. Here's more or less or conversation

Can I help you?
Uh no but why do you guys sell silver arowanas?
Somebody will buy them.
Ya but how many people actually have a tank for them?
Most don't, but how many people have a tank big enough for a goldfish, and how many people only keep goldfish with other coldwater fish? People are going to buy the fish no matter what, and if they can't find them here then they will go some place else.
Ya but why are you selling multiple red tail catfish?
Same as the arowanas, people will buy them and if they can't get them here they will go somewhere else. Just like the channel cats, they get four feet twenty pounds but we still sell them.So you don't care that they are going to die anyways.
Nope people are going to buy them, most people will buy them anyways no matter what we tell them, they don't research. Usuall somebody will buy them anyways.
So that's why half the fish you sell now all grow over two feet?
Yup, it's not like most people have room for an oscar and they buy them anyways. It's what people will buy.
So it's all about the money and not about the fish.
Yup.
And that's why you sell painted glass fish.
Yup it doesn't hurt them.
Actually it does.
No it doesn't.
O and why do you sell so many plants that aren't aquatic and should be house plants or outside?
Because people will buy them.
Ok thank you.

So basically he told me that that petstore is all about the money and doesn't care about the fish. The funny thing is, that unless you want to drive 20min. there are no petstores that sell aros, gars, oscars, rtc, and other large fish. And the closet store that sells large fish tells you not to buy them because you don't have a big enough tank and will have you buy smaller fish. So they are definatly all about the money



Austin

 

[Nevergone815]

it's sad when a store is like that! . well although it is true that people WILL buy them, you should help discourage this and incourage research instead of rejecting it. YES people do buy oscars because they are "cool" but still, the sale only goes through if the crew allows it. am i right?

i've seen a load of lfs' that do that such thing, to me it is poor business to actually tell a potential customer that you are selling these fish for profit only with NO regards to the buyer or fish. the lfs around me actually started to shape up and ask questions like that. i see them with a heck of a lot larger plecos and other fish that appear to be from returns. they probably don't want to go through the headache of needing to resell them so they actually answer those questions. i bought a female blue ram today and a male betta. and she actually asked me if i intended to put them together. i told her i wasn't (i'm not that dumb). and she said good. she even asked what i was putting her with and where the male betta was going. i told her both of them.

it's amazing how the business works ans sometimes it's sad, but that's capitalism for ya!

 

[atmmachine816]

Yup and almost a month later those two aros are still in there teeny tiny tanks not sold. And now they have two moray eels that are a foot big each in the same tank in maybe a five gallon tank, they can't even turn around. It's so sad, they even moved them, they had them in a larger tank five days ago and they moved them into a smaller tank. And five days ago they had a large pleco with ich and red fins and now it's gone and I'm thinking it died or they killed it and not somebody bought them since they have other large plecos that looked healthy. It's so sad what this petstore is doing.

 

[jayjay]

i would say it's ok aslong as they give correct advice and make sure the people have big enough tanks to put the fish in. they shouldn't sell they to people with tanks that aren't going to be able to cope with the adult size of the fish.

but it's everyone's opinion to themselves

 

[atmmachine816]

But they don't do that, they just sell them to anybody, all they care about is the MONEY

 

[jimi priest 0189]

well the only live areos ive ever sceen is in my lps aqua tec and it is in a huge tank with a bunch of koi which it kills and are repeatedly replaced there has to be somthing rong there