Hmmm... Here's a bad one:
Let's see if you can guess the store when I'm done, hmmm?
I showed up at my local ________ and they had just been getting a shipment. I was looking at the freshwater fish because they order the fresh and salt shipments seperately. I absentmindedly started watching the guy add the fish to the tanks. Here is the mistake list:
1. He just opened the bags and dumped in the fish. Lights stayed on, no acclimation at all.
2. He didn't care where he put them. Clown trigger goes in first, next goes in a bag of snails and then a bag of hermit crabs.
3. Several fish that I could see had disease; it was easy to tell even from a distance. He put them in tanks with healthy fish.
4. He apparently decided to make a "tang tank"... this involved putting ONE member of several tang species into a tank together.
5. After being unsuccessful at catching a few damselfish with a net IN THE BAG, he reached in and grabbed them one at a time with his bare hand and tossed them into a tank from about three feet away. One missed, and he merely bent over, picked it up, and tossed it again!
I pointed out all of his mistakes, (or tried to)and he told me that he would see to it that they were fixed. I came back the next day and... you guessed it. He had done nothing. The "tang tank" was a sad sight, several large tangs had torn each other apart, and of course none of the snails or hermets survived the triggerfish.
Now, guess which store this was! I'll bet you can!
