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03/17/2005, 07:16 AM
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i was at my lfs recently and their was a guy in there with his son and this is what i heard
customer:i want to buy some goldfish attendant: ok, which ones? customer: anyones, the last two lots we had my son tried to give them chocolate milk |
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#52
03/17/2005, 09:26 AM
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It's a little known fact that Goldfish love chocolate milk. Hehehe
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03/17/2005, 09:57 AM
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I had a guy, when I was at the lfs, that was talking about all his fish kept dieing, and didn't know why, start talking to him about his set up, fish, etc... The guy did not have a clue. I told him to buy a good book (even showed him some) and said that he would save a lot of money by reading and researching.
he said " I'd rather learn by doing it myself and killing stuff than to read what someone else has done"
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03/17/2005, 10:07 AM
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#55
03/17/2005, 11:50 AM
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Good Thread! Keep them coming!
Thanks, Fzech
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03/17/2005, 11:54 AM
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saaad....
LFS Employee making small talk: "so my friends bet me that a choco star wasn't able to survive in a reef tank, so i put one in my 55 and it's survived for 3 days so far, ha ha" me: blink blink "you serious?" LFS: "yeah, made a few bucks" me: "oh... aren't you afraid it'll eat your corals?" LFS: looked at me like i was crazy.... i give up on these people. i hate to butt in and give my two cents because very seldom is good advice appreciated. |
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#57
03/18/2005, 03:11 AM
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Indigo Montoya, thanks lol i wasnt sure if people would find it amusing but im glad i could help
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03/18/2005, 03:49 AM
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This wasn't in a store but just as relevant and stupid.
I was taking a marine bio class and we went on lots of field trips. One trip we took was to some tide pools. As we reached THE OCEAN! one girl looks at me and asks " is this salt water?" Remember that this is a marine bio student. We were halfway through the semester already. Another time in that same class we were watching a film on tropical ecology. The film shows some scenes of a RAIN FOREST. Another girl asks the teacher " is it HUMID there?" WHAT!!!! Do you know what a RAIN forest is? |
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#59
03/18/2005, 03:53 AM
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I worked in LFSs for years and I have a bunch of 'em. One that stands out was when a customer wanted to return a pleco(for you salt only people thats an algae eater). I asked her why and she said that it wasn't eating the algae in her tank. I asked her if it was eating at all and she said that it was. Get this. Her assumption was that we didn't train the pleco properly. I told her that we don't train the fish to eat algae. They just normaly do. She left still convinced that we were a bad store because we sell untrained algae eaters.
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03/18/2005, 08:21 AM
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You mean you don't train them? We keep a tiny wip behind the customer service counter to keep them in line. LOL
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03/18/2005, 01:38 PM
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Aquarium maintanance companies go to your aquarium (home or business) and take care of the tank. I own such a company and some tank don't even need to fed by the owners. We just put automatic feeders on them and check the feeders regularly.
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03/18/2005, 03:38 PM
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03/18/2005, 04:24 PM
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"How many koi can I put in my whiskey barrel pond?" For anyone that doesn't know, koi will easily reach 8" in a year, and a whiskey barrel pond is about 35 gallons. Also common is how many koi can I put in a 55 gallon tank.
My favorite is always about water in the bag with fish. "Doesn't it need more water in the bag?" After explaining that they breath oxygen just like humans and water only holds so much oxygen blah blah blah, "Ok, will you put more water in the bag?" I had one lady come in during lunch and buy 6 cardinal tetras (FW) and ask that I put 5 in one bag and 1 in a bag by itself. Curious as I knew she had a 55 gallon angel tank, I asked why the 1 was by himself... "I like to take one to work with me."  "You mean you take 5 of them home, put them in the tank, and take the other one back to work with you, then put him in the tank when you get home in the evening?" "Yes" "Don't you think that's cruel to the fish? I mean it's a pretty big world out there to him, and he's only got so much air, the pH will change, and he poops and pees in the water he's living in..." "I've only had a few die." 
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03/18/2005, 08:31 PM
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that just makes me cringe!!!!!!! although seeing a lady walking around work holding a fish in a bag all day would look pretty funny.
Al G Blenny " As we reached THE OCEAN! one girl looks at me and asks " is this salt water?" -- this ones deffinatly winning so far. im still trying to wipe the tears from my eyes
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#67
03/18/2005, 10:00 PM
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I still want to know what the heck a Nemo Home is.
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03/18/2005, 10:48 PM
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I can only assume a nemo home is an anenome.
My favorite was a lady who came in to my store and asked me why her clownfish always kept dying after only a couple hours...she blantantly told me that we were scam artists selling unhealthy fish (they were captive bred clowns btw...nice and healthy)...so I probed a bit, how big is your tank, filter, etc...then I asked what type of skimmer she had...she gave me that blank look that any LFS employee knows quite well...so the bells and whistles start going off in my head....so I ask her what her salinity is at...again, blank stare..."you do know that clownfish are saltwater fish right?" Open the flood gates, here come the tears. I worked at LFS's for 5 years...it's a love hate relationship...you want to choke some customers, but there are a select few that keep you going.
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03/18/2005, 11:25 PM
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6.5 billion friggin' idiots and counting...
somedays i'm so embarrassed to be human... sigh. 
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03/19/2005, 12:37 AM
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 I have been to many LFS and I will say I have heard more dumb customers than Dumb employees! I seen a lady walk out of a LFS because they wouldnt sell her 8 SW fish for her new tank, she was mad and just walked out. No matter what LFS I go to I see clueless customers!!! And no I dont work at a fish store. Kaye |
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03/29/2005, 04:23 PM
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Me: Wearing our store shirt and cleaning a tank.
Customer: Do you work here? Me: Nope. |
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03/29/2005, 04:32 PM
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I have gone into LFS wearing work clothes from other job, that say AutoZOne or DNR (depending on which job) And have people come up to me, and ask " do you have any dogs?" or just the other day, " how much would a 40 gallon set up cost?" It amazes me how some people can go through life so stupid.
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03/29/2005, 07:24 PM
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It happened a couple more times today so I figured I'd post this one.. Ok, long spine diadema urchins.. You know the one. Aren't their eyes so coooooool? Sometimes I tell them. Sometimes I don't. A clownfish is a common name for an anemonefish. A clownfish is a not-so-common name for a clown loach, a freshwater botia. You can imagine the arguments I've gotten into before somebody realized it was a semantic problem. What I really hate are the question you're asked that are both yes and no answers.. Ie. We have a 72 bowfront display in the store with a Prizm hanging off it and then a whack of powerheads inside it. *pointing at the Prizm* "Is this the only filter on this tank?" Well.. Yes.. No.. A skimmer is technically the only filter a system can have since it's the only thing that physically removes waste.. But the LR is "filtering" the water through chemical action... But then the powerheads aren't technically "filtering" anything but they're aiding the LR through currents... The blank look usually comes up long before I start hurting myself. I love this one: "Is saltwater really that hard to do?" "No, it's actually pretty damn easy." "Then why do people always say it's so hard?" "It needs a little more care, but as long as you know what you're doing it's easy." *frightened look* "I'll stick with freshwater"
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