How You Know a LFS is Full of Crap

we have a big als close to our place and the tanks are clean. the fish look nice.
I just bought a pleco there that was marked "red pleco". is that it's real name? no. will I buy from the store again? yes! they also have a 1.5ft catfish in a 30 gallon. do I wish they put him elsewhere? yes! will I buy from the same store? yes!
clean my aquarium outside glass with ammonia glass cleaner. you just have to be carefull where you spray. it's not so bad.
as for giving bad advice. I wouldn't set my lfs standard so high as to not expect it.
 
Genral72 said:
Yeah I said that once and somebody imformed me that peta is against keeping fish at all.
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peta shouldn't even be recognized as being interested only in the well being of animals. it is a totally in for themeselves society.
 
I went on a fact finding field trip last weekend with another fishy friend. We looked up all the LFS's in our area at fishstorereviews.com and visited 4 that we hadn't been to.

At one store a high school kid spent 45 minutes helping my friend plan out his new saltwater setup. He was polite, well informed and didn't mind spending time with us even though we weren't buying that day. Thier fish seemed healthy and happy and they were willing to order any equipment we didn't find in stock.

Of course the 2nd store had a bunch of dead fish and the whole place smelled. The 3rd one was great but the 4th had parrot fish with I LOVE YOU tattooed on their sides.

The first question I ask a lfs employee is whether they keep fish. I want them to tell me about their tanks.

We are going to hit a few more stores next weekend. I am lucky to live in an area with lots of choices. It allows me to vote with my business rather than trying to change the bad ones into good ones. I'll definitely reward that high school kid's store with my business even though it's a 45 minute drive and their prices aren't the best.
 
why do people still buy from the petcos and walmarts? several reasons, many times they are the only place available, the cheepest, they are always open, or the most convienient. several other reasons: i went to the store to buy a few cories for my 30gal tank, only to find that petco had mislabeld the fish that they were selling as cories. i walked out of the store with a $20 synodontis sold as a $3 cory (yes all of the pet stores in my area charge too much... i think they are in legue), because the store didnt know anything i benefit. when it comes to advice, or buying anything important, if it is sold at them i like to buy these things at the mom and pop store down the street. other than the fact that the owner cusses and smokes, he loves his saltwater, and the people he hires fills in the gaps on the stuff he doesnt know about freshwater. the thing that bothers me about that store tho is the 5 foot long camen they just bought for the store window... i guess to bring in more people off the street...
the thing that bothers me most about the stores in my area are the prices... i bought my 30 gall for 299$, which compared to the other stores was average... unfortunately the petco in my area doesnt have sales on their tanks often and they usually cost just as much... i enjoy the hobbey either way, even if the synodontis i bought may turn out to be one of the two tipes out of a hundred that grow to be over 6in...
 
I go to a local petsmart and there are 3 guys on duty. 2 guys are standing around betting if the fish is going to die :(. If you manage to get a hold of beast 1 or beast 2 every question you ask them they just ask the 3rd guy. The third guy new everything he ever told me to come to this site if i needed some help.
So if your reading this post then thank you sooo much!!! :D :D
 
sumthin fishy said:
Whats wrong with using amonia for a glass cleaner? We have all these nice bacteria that break down amonia living right in our filters. Get a little in your tank, and it will be nitrate in short time.
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[Mr. Mackey voice]Uhhhhh...ammonia's bad, ummmmkay?[/Mr. Mackey voice]
It's not just ammonia in the window cleaner, dood. I will use it to clean the outside of the glass, but I spray the paper towel lightly a few steps away from the tank before I start wiping.
 
Calico Goat said:
Wal-Mart is full of crap...especially claiming that Pacus get to be 10"...Wal-Mart shouldn't sell fish. Can't we push to get a law passed?
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i plan to make a graph of the count of dead, deaseased and whatsoever i find wrong and chart theremistreatmemt over several weeks
 
sky.eyes.woman said:
[Mr. Mackey voice]Uhhhhh...ammonia's bad, ummmmkay?[/Mr. Mackey voice]
It's not just ammonia in the window cleaner, dood. I will use it to clean the outside of the glass, but I spray the paper towel lightly a few steps away from the tank before I start wiping.
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I was thinking using amonia for cleaning the glass, not an amonia based cleaner. I do understand using windex or something being bad.
 
I have 3 fish stores in my town. Wal-mart, Earl May,and a locally owned Dan's Pet Palace. all but the walmart are great.The pet palace charges $2 for yoyo loach when they are $7 other places, a 5" glass catfish for $7 thats worth at least $20, $10 for rocket gars and african butterflies, and that 10" blood parrot only cost $20! eral mays has a longer garentee incase i wanted to buy something expensive, and they give me special deals and so on. But before Dan bought the store, it was Pet Shack, run by a real a$$ named willie. he would often tell kick me out of the store because i wasn't buying anything, the reason being, the fish were worse than wal-mart and very expensive, he would tell people they could keep africans in 10 gallons, and so on. dan keeps them healthy and happy. he quarinteens each fish rfor a few days after they arive and if you have a question he'll go the extra mile and reseach all night until he gets you the awnser.
 
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