Weird Names Given by the LFS

[Phantom Thief]

Well, i'll start. The other day, my lfs's platies were labled 'Moon Fish'. I wonder if they bought them from the moon or something...

P.T.

 

[wrs]

moonfish is another name for platties.

 

[MrMashashin]

well.... one of my lfs has what they call "domestic Large Mouth Bass"

They wern't anything like bass.

To start they were blue... They also have some fish called a Jack Dempsey and it's black and they don't turn its light on

 

[wrs]

Jack Dempsey is also a real fish name.
maybe the other was a peacock bass? Those are real fish as well.
my lfs doesnt have any odd names for fish. They did call a bronze cory an emrald cory though.

 

[Phantom Thief]

Well im sure of this one. They called a clear, see-through Glass Catfish a painted catfish.

P.T.

 

[wrs]

were they diffrent colors? If so they were dyed and the painted means its dyed. lol. if they are dont buy them.

 

[nightlife20]

my old lfs used to call hoplo catfish 'spotted kp's'

no idea what the kp meant and i never asked

one of the 'cheap' lfs's calls albino plecs ' monster brown sucker loach' (i kid u not)

 

[The-Wolf]

I came accross a lfs selling leopard danios as
"burmese spotted greater danios" There is no such thing!
the best part is; in the tank next to them were more leopards
correctly labled and half the price.

 

[I_found_Nemo]

lol always be careful with shops that dont specialise in aquatics

 

[dead_letters]

I bought a 'Silver studded goldfish' really cheap and found out it was a rare koi carp.The pet shop really didnt have a clue.They thought it was a new type of goldfish.

 

[aloaring]

Well one of my shops called largesnout gobies- Indian rock gobies, and Bolivian rams were called clown butterfly fish!!!

 

[Koda]

Ours is careful not to label the fish.I'm never sure if it's to prevent the fish getting a complex or to allow employees to make up whatever names they want

Koda

 

[fishface33]

In my lfs they have the biggest, uglyest piranna named after the mayor

 

[BeannytheRipper]

our lfs has this HUGE Silver Arrowana. i think they got it from somebody else b/c it's in this huge tank and hasn't gotten any bigger than when they got him. i think somebody stunted his growth so they tried putting him in a bigger tank. ne way, he's huge and mean lookin n everytime my fiancee goes near the tank, he attacks it. lol

 

[Nina7777]

At a lfs near my house....where i do not shop.....they call cory catfish Giant kitties

and they call bala sharks.....great whites....