Went To My Lfs On Tuesday....

[alessasavoca]

Basically we bought a new tank last Saturday, complete with fish. Before I put them on here (as I didn't think anyone would want them-how wrong was I?!) I thought I'd pop to the LFS in my lunch hour and ask if they would by them/let me have store credit for them.

It wasn't the usual chap I speak to (who is very very helpful, although I think that may be because of other reasons . I asked this other chap anyway, and he basically said that they wouldn't give me store credit because they would make a loss from these fish killing their other fish! BTW, the fish are 2 large Balas, 1 large Angel, 2 Pearl Gouramis and several types of tetra.

I was completely gobsmacked as he then went on to say that if I gave the fish to them for nothing it would be ok. Excuse me but if they were gonna eat the fish when they paid for them they would still eat the bloody things if they were free! And they arent even agressive fish!

Luckily I have now found good homes for all the fish bar the gouramis but they can stay with me until I find them a good home, but what utter crap, I am not going to give a shop several fish for free that they will then sell on for a lot of money and probably make about £60!

Sorry, Rant over.

P.S went there today to get some fish bags, spoke to normal chap (not about fish incident) and he gave me a handful of fish bags, and several poly boxes, when I went to pay he said not to worry. Just odd how two staff can be sooooo different!

 

[tropicalgirl2007]

My local store have a pictus catfish for sale and on the label it says 'friendly, keeps himself to himself, eats flake, bloodworm' good community fish' (YEA RIGHT). Tried to tell them that the infomation was wrong, and they had the cheek to tell me my infomation was wrong!! I said they eat tetras, to which he replied 'I keep three fully grown pictus of these in my tank with neons and they are all fine'!!!!

When we first got into fish keeping we made the mistake of buying a pictus and it was about 2 inches and it ate all of our neons!!! We soon gave it back. but that was our fault for not researching first, these poor people are going to buy this fish and think its prefectly safe for the other fish.

Theres my rant about my lfs. sorry its on your post though.

 

[alessasavoca]

its ok it can be a generalised rant thread but the cheek of them!

 

[Lion007]

lol go on then - name and shame
I used to have problems like this with pets at home (or whatever they may have changed names too nowadays) - i only use a deticated aquarium retailer now, who are the mutts imo

 

[Musho3210]

My local store have a pictus catfish for sale and on the label it says 'friendly, keeps himself to himself, eats flake, bloodworm' good community fish' (YEA RIGHT). Tried to tell them that the infomation was wrong, and they had the cheek to tell me my infomation was wrong!! I said they eat tetras, to which he replied 'I keep three fully grown pictus of these in my tank with neons and they are all fine'!!!!

When we first got into fish keeping we made the mistake of buying a pictus and it was about 2 inches and it ate all of our neons!!! We soon gave it back. but that was our fault for not researching first, these poor people are going to buy this fish and think its prefectly safe for the other fish.

Theres my rant about my lfs. sorry its on your post though.

down to the individual fish, i have heard that story many times and i believe it. Its like getting fully grown angelfish and neon tetras

 

[AJGray]

yeah i went to pets at home to buy some more cherry barbs....1st bad point was there was way to many fish in the tank the were in 2nd she didnt actually
know what cherry barbs looked like and she tried selling us rosy barbs 3rd there was dead fish in the way over stocked tank and when i say over stocked tanks arewhat 2 foot giveor take and there was about 40 fish of random sizes and plants and one of them skull things

oh and to top it off she stressed them that much one died just after we got it home

 

[AJLee613]

the nice one is probably single, the mean one probably is taken, and u are probably fine LOL the only explination

 

[alessasavoca]

AJ Lee, you might be right lol the nice one is forever chatting me up but alas, I'm taken LOL

 

[Straydum]

AJ Lee, you might be right lol the nice one is forever chatting me up but alas, I'm taken LOL

haha i wonder if his attitude would change if u told him that

 

[tropicalgirl2007]

lol go on then - name and shame
I used to have problems like this with pets at home (or whatever they may have changed names too nowadays) - i only use a deticated aquarium retailer now, who are the mutts imo

you got it, I was there buying my cat food and I always look at the fish but never buy fish items there.