Just another funny lfs store

[zack schwartz]

so I was trying out this place like a half an hour away from me. There corals looked ok but the prices were crazy like $35 for a med. size sand sifter star. So I was looking around talking to the guy and he ask me about my tank. I tell hium everything and whern I finish he is like" what u have a dsb omg! That is horrible. All the books are wrong when they say u should have a dsb! and another thing it a good thing u have those PC's becuse they are way better than mh's!" when he was finished I had my chuckle and left! Just something to give a lauhgh about

 

[robchuck]

LOL!!! Until you can trust a LFS, I guess you just have to take their advice w/ a grain of salt.

 

[tjkohler]

One LFS near me has air stones running under all their live rock and corals for effects. Needless to say nothing lasts long or looks good. It's actually a pet store and I almost called the cops on them because they had two kittens locked up in a wood and glass box with two one-square inch air holes and the temperature outside was in the upper 90's. Pissed me the hell off, then I talked him into letting them out.

 

[daisy]

Some people simply should not be in this business. *****, for example, makes me SOOOO mad. I've never seen healthy stock in their tanks in any of their stores around me. It's just so sad.
And they don't care. Not one little bit.

 

[eclipseagent]

The ***** around me is actually kinda good. I am suprised. They take pretty good care of their tanks, they look like they are shifting away from saltwater though. It is ok because I like their freshwater selection. The people I talk to know a little (nothing that I dont know) but they do clean the tank and test at least once a week.
Now walmart on the other hand should NEVER have started keeping fish. LOL

 

[brenner_jeff]

Yes I will Agree ***** can have questionable health but I must thank them for being retards. the one near me frequently mislabels fish. I almost expect this. So far I have goten 2 purple tangs (A medium Size) For 17.49, I believe they were labled as coral beauty angels, and A flame angel that was mispriced to 19.95. I put them in a quarintine right away first. But its total worth the gamble for me

 

[zack schwartz]

Ok the pecto near me is pritty bad too but there supplies are soooooo cheap I gotr a 200 gallon bucket of salt for $25!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

 

[smalltimer]

Yeah, well if you spend ANY $$$$ at a Pet Co, Petfart or any of the above listed you are just keeping them in business, and that is not good for anyone!!! Damn how many salt species breed in captivitivty, these things come from the ocean...and treated like ----, excuse my language but if you can't respect mother nature and that these are living breathing animals just like us, then buy from people like them, until then, my guy is like me...not in it for the money, he loves what he does and loves the animals...THAT IS WHAT IT IS ALL ABOUT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11

 

[fishymissy]

There is a store near me that carried mostly puppies, kittens, birds and freshwater fish. They had a saltwater section that was dimly lit and usually empty. (I only went in there to buy mice for my sons' snakes). Then Petsmart moved in down the street from them and while talking to the one employee there, she told me they were going to go more into saltwater fish since Petsmart doesn't carry them. Smart move, I thought, and she also said they were getting an "expert" in there to help them. REALLY smart move I thought. I'm still waiting to see something that looks like expert help. Again, I was in there the other day to get mice and looked (of course) at the salt section. Still dimly lit....with the coral tank murky and apparently without any circulation in it. Clownfish in another tank with fin rot. And the best? As I was walking past the freshwater tanks I spied a snowflake moray eel in a freshwater tank. That's right, in a freshwater tank. I asked the employee if that was indeed a fresh tank and she said yes. When I pointed out that a snowflake eel is a saltwater animal. A marine animal, she said "Oh, but they live LONGER if you keep them in freshwater"......we then proceeded to have a shouting match over keeping a marine animal in a freshwater environment. Needless to say I won't be buying mice there anymore.

 

[zack schwartz]

wow thats intresting so did they kick u out of thwe store?

 

[bryanh]

Zack,
I am just getting started in this hobby, but one of my LFS guys told me the same thing about DSB. He said that you should never use one. The way he had it set up he only had to do water changes at 50% once a year. He said that with a sand substrate, or any for that matter, irritates some of the corals to the point that they will not gorw well or have good color. I asked him why, he said "most of a natural reef is not on the ground anyway, so why use it? Its just more to keep clean." I just told him that when i decide to get started that I would get back to him.

 

[drew_tt]

Ive got the same a lot too... the anti-dsb attitude usually comes form older ppl who've been in the hobby since early 90's and were around when the idea of a sand bed came out... it wasnt accepted all too well back then.
Drew

 

[robchuck]

I've heard of SLOWLY adapting Mollies to SW, but a SF Eel in FW?!? Good for you FishyMissy for not supporting that business anymore.

 

[fishymissy]

No Zack, they didn't kick me out, I stomped out on my own!
RobChuck, I've heard of people doing that to snowflakes before, just never thought I would actually see it!
I just don't understand the reasoning behind it.....is it because the animal will die quicker so they can sell another one?

 

[blondenaso1]

Wanna hear something else funny that fits in hear. The guy at my lfs that I am good friends with told me a customer came in and told him that he had read on another message board that if you use instaocean salt it would eventually kill everything in the tank. The people on the board then advised him to collect his own sw from the ocean!! I got a good laugh out of that.
He also told me that in his last shipment from Fiji he accidentaly recieved 8 cone snails. If anyone is familiar with this species, they shoot out a harpoon that injests one of the most deadliest nuerotoxins on earth into the fish and kills them in seconds. Needless to say he had to dispose of the snails! Apparently someone in the states was doing reseach on them and the natives didn't know any better.

 

[zack schwartz]

yeah those snails can be very deadly. why do u think that ***** has such cheap supplies compared to only fish stores becuse I mean I sAve a hell of a lot when I go to ***** not that I do much anymore.