so, i went to petsmart today to pick up gravel and a filter, maybe. and of course, to look at the fish. my boyfriend and i decided that we'd get the gravel and 5 kuhli loaches, since we didn't think we'd be able to find them again any time soon and we wanted those in our tank. he also wanted to get his platy for our tank. so we waited patiently for the lady in the fish department to finish helping another customer and she asked me what we wanted. i told her i wanted all the kuhli loaches which i believed was 5, but if there were a couple more, we'd take them too. she hesitated, and in a really cocky, know-it-all sort of way, she asked me how big our tank was. i told her it was 60 gallons. then she asked if there were any other fish in the tank. i told her there was one angel and she said, you can't put those loaches with an angel, angels are semi-aggressive fish. i told her that they are actually quite peaceful with bottom dwellers, which those loaches are. then she told me that i was wrong, angels were semi-agressive fish, and that they aren't community fish and should only be kept with other semi-agressive fish. i told her they were kept in community tanks all the time, and that i'd done research and talked to other people with angels, and that i knew what i was talking about. she just looked at me like i was nuts, so i asked her if she would sell me the loaches or not, and she said she couldn't sell them to me knowing i would put them with an angel. then i asked if she'd sell me a platy, and she said the same thing. so i told her i'd take my buissness elsewhere, and stormed out. i actually felt bad for my boyfriend, i was so furious, and i was cursing like a sailor in the truck all the way home. =/ i wanted to tell the manager that they need to educate their staff, but i was so mad i couldn't talk to anybody. i plan on going back eventually because it's the only place i can find kuhlis, and if they give me crap again, i'll take all their brochures off the walls and prove them wrong. i want those fish, and i don't want to have to lie about my stock to get them. ugh, i hate chain employees. what a lovely story though, eh? =P