I will never go back to my LFS again

petluvr

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So I went to my LFS today and there was a tank that was completely overran with MTS. So i asked the owner if he was selling them since there was no sign or if they had just come in on some plants and were pests. He said that no he was not selling them and that they were just pests that had overran that particular tank. I asked if they were just pests if I could have some to put into my tank with my tetras and blue gouramis. The dude then said well people by them for puffer food and I said I thought you said you weren't selling them so he tells me besides your tetras will eat them.:confused::confused: I said that I didn't think my colombian tetras COULD eat them and walked away. I then asked him again if he sold flourish for my plants because I really didn't want to pay shipping like I did on the last bottle, the shipping was more than the product, and he said no he did not sell tetra products.:confused::confused: Isn't flourish a seachem product I asked, not the last time I checked he said. So he hands me this bottle of stuff that says for tanks with co2 injections ONLY and says this is the same thing. I told him that I didn't have co2 in my tanks and he said don't worry about it. Now am I wrong in my thinking that if the product specifically states for tanks with co2 ONLY then maybe it should be used in tanks with co2 ONLY. This man must have thought that I am some type of idiot or something. Needless to say I was a little PO'D:angryfire::angryfire::angryfire: I left the store and made my purchases at a chain store nearby.:angryfire: NEVER EVER AGAIN WILL I SET FOOT INTO THIS STORE!!!!!!
 
sorry to hear that. thats why i rarely talk to anyone when im shopping for my stuff-if i have any questions i come here first. lol-i have a funny lfs story too. i applied to my lfs because they were hiring but when i took in my application and the lady at the register read it over and told me i wasn't a good canidate for the job. i was really bummed so i went back about a week later and bought a trio of platies for my younger sister's community. The guy who helped me was the owner of the store and he was curious to see how long i had been keeping freshwater fish. he liked the way i handled the aquarium questions he threw at me and when i went to pay, the same lady that had turned me down the week before handed me an application and said that the owner (guy who helped me) would like me to work for him! lol-i told her i already had a job as a waitress and i had applied last week and reminded her that it was she who turned me down. i thanked her-took the application nodded to the owner and left. weird how life is sometimes!
 
sorry to hear about your mishap at your LFS. Most of the ones around me are just as bad, they have quotas to reach and just sell fish to meet that quota. I used to work at a petsmart part time and actually got written up and almost fired because i refused to just sell fish to people to meet a quota. I actually heard a lady at petco yesterday advise a lady that a goldfish would live happily in a glass bowl.
 
The bad part is this is not a chain, it's owned by one man. I am still fumming over this this morning. I mean aaaarrrrrrrrrggggggggggghhhhhhhh!!!!!!! I can understand if you don't want to give me something but to tell me that my tetras WILL eat MTS I mean come on. The tetras couldn't eat them if they wanted to.
 
the only thing i can think of is that maybe he has a customer with a puffer and only sells the snails to that guy. that's why he didn't want to sell them - he probably didn't expect you to ask for them for free. was he stupid about it? yes.

but that's a possible explanation.
 
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