dacia
Active Member
I was at my LFS today becuase I wanted to add to my cleaning crew. I bought a cleaner shrimp and some hermits. While I was waiting on the lady to finish closing the bag with the hermits, I overheard a conversation between her and another employee. The younger employee said, "There is a customer on the other side of the store with a 29 gallon tank. In it he already has a yellow tang and a blue tang. He wants to know if it would be OK to add another yellow tang." The owner of the store said, "It's OK as long as you sell him a smaller yellow tang."
Then I overheard another conversation between the owner and another customer. The woman has been having problems regulating the pH in her reef tank and has had about half of her fish to die in the past couple of weeks. The advice that was given to her about the pH sounded good, HOWEVER, she turned right around and sold her 3 bags full of fish!
Sometimes I wish I could just go to these LFS's, stand outside the door, and educate people about taking care of their fish BEFORE they go inside. It would save fish lives and customer money.
Then I overheard another conversation between the owner and another customer. The woman has been having problems regulating the pH in her reef tank and has had about half of her fish to die in the past couple of weeks. The advice that was given to her about the pH sounded good, HOWEVER, she turned right around and sold her 3 bags full of fish!
Sometimes I wish I could just go to these LFS's, stand outside the door, and educate people about taking care of their fish BEFORE they go inside. It would save fish lives and customer money.