hey guys!
i'm bored and thinking about all the crazy stories i heard about aquariums while i worked at petc0. i think the winners are as follows:
this one woman, about 27, had a 29 gallon tank, in which she kept FIVE comet goldfish and 2 common plecos. she used to brag that she was going to use one of them as a show fish. when i asked what she was going to do when they got big, she replied that she "didn't feed them too much," so they wouldn't for a long time. and when the plecos got aggressive, she would reach in the tank and "flick" them on the nose. apparently this would make them stop. she was also hell-bent on adding a black ghost knife fish, and i'm sure she did. here's the clincher: she was the official fish specialist of the store, and i had to go with the advice that she gave, as her underling...
good story!:
one of our regular customers was this guy who lives in manhattan. he'd come up from the city cos he liked to talk to me about his tank. it used to be a BEAUTIFUL 400 gallon reef tank built into the wall, he showed me pictures. gorgeous, with a chiller and everything. and then, well, during the brownouts last summer...the power went out in his office, the chiller/filter/etc failed, and everything died. he lost hundreds of thousands of dollars. so he cleaned out the tank and replaced it with a single red-tailed catfish! those things are so cool. well, i suppose that story comes out neutral, considering all the money he lost,
stories? aquarium tales are always entertaining.
i'm bored and thinking about all the crazy stories i heard about aquariums while i worked at petc0. i think the winners are as follows:
this one woman, about 27, had a 29 gallon tank, in which she kept FIVE comet goldfish and 2 common plecos. she used to brag that she was going to use one of them as a show fish. when i asked what she was going to do when they got big, she replied that she "didn't feed them too much," so they wouldn't for a long time. and when the plecos got aggressive, she would reach in the tank and "flick" them on the nose. apparently this would make them stop. she was also hell-bent on adding a black ghost knife fish, and i'm sure she did. here's the clincher: she was the official fish specialist of the store, and i had to go with the advice that she gave, as her underling...
good story!:
one of our regular customers was this guy who lives in manhattan. he'd come up from the city cos he liked to talk to me about his tank. it used to be a BEAUTIFUL 400 gallon reef tank built into the wall, he showed me pictures. gorgeous, with a chiller and everything. and then, well, during the brownouts last summer...the power went out in his office, the chiller/filter/etc failed, and everything died. he lost hundreds of thousands of dollars. so he cleaned out the tank and replaced it with a single red-tailed catfish! those things are so cool. well, i suppose that story comes out neutral, considering all the money he lost,
stories? aquarium tales are always entertaining.
