ATTN: LFS employees

[wesdaniel]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12247028#post12247028 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by mcbaes72
3) When buying some LR, this particular anemone was attached to a piece and I thought it was pretty cool because it was transparent and light brown in color. Then the LFS told me I didn't want that, it's aiptasia and is known as a pest (like weeds in a garden) and then killed it. Then, he showed me some anemones that were nice to own. I felt dumb.

My noob, self stupidity story...... Dishonesty doesn't pay.

We were at a store, browsing the live rock and saw a nice piece with that really cool transparent, light brown anemone on it. We discussed it amongst ourselves and decided that the store didn't know they were selling an obviously valuable invert with this piece of live rock, so we would take it. We bought it, brought it home, put it in the tank and when it sprouted 4 or 5 more decided to do some research. That's when we learned the word aiptasia. We learned that it's better to point out abnormalities that we don't already know about :rollface:

 

[wesdaniel]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12247028#post12247028 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by mcbaes72
3) When buying some LR, this particular anemone was attached to a piece and I thought it was pretty cool because it was transparent and light brown in color. Then the LFS told me I didn't want that, it's aiptasia and is known as a pest (like weeds in a garden) and then killed it. Then, he showed me some anemones that were nice to own. I felt dumb.

My noob, self stupidity story...... Dishonesty doesn't pay.

We were at a store, browsing the live rock and saw a nice piece with that really cool transparent, light brown anemone on it. We discussed it amongst ourselves and decided that the store didn't know they were selling an obviously valuable invert with this piece of live rock, so we would take it. We bought it, brought it home, put it in the tank and when it sprouted 4 or 5 more decided to do some research. That's when we learned the word aiptasia. We learned that it's better to point out abnormalities that we don't already know about :rollface:

 

[plyr58]

Swear to God this happened. Wish it didn't, but it did.

About a week ago, this lady walks into the store. She is acting really rude, like she knows all, and then she asks a really stupid question (which I unfortunantely cannot remember,) but I do know that the cashier is laughing in the background as I try to answer her without rolling on the floor myself. Anyway, we begin to walk down one of the aisles of saltwater fish and she continutally tells me that I am full of it, don't know what I am taking about, etc., as she tells me how reef safe angels are and about her 10 guppies in her reef. I wouldn't have been such a smartass if she wasn't both so rude and so full of it.

She stops and points out a dogface puffer.
"Hey, thats a balloon fish!"

"Actually, they are called dogface puffers."

"Oh yeah, I knew that. You know, I once had one of those back in the day when I had my saltwater tank setup. It used to jump out of the tank and hop across the floor barking at me and following me around.

"Oh really, you don't say."

"Yup sure did. Will this one do that?"

My response, which brought 4 customers, 2 other employees, and the store manager to the point of snorting and crying,

"Well only if you feed him Scooby Snacks, and we don't sell them here. Sorry"

 

[Moonstream]

plyr58, that was too funny. had be laughing myself. hahahaha!

 

[sk8rreefgeek]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11782498#post11782498 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Rendos

Being from the south, you would be surprised how similar "RO" and "Your Old" water sounds.

hahaha. "Come awn naow, don't you want summa RO'd watta?"

:lol:

 

[A.T.T.R]

crazy people are fun

i get this one crazy guy in all the time ( he wants a job with us and is insane. O_O im like if oyu hire him im going to work at big als lol)

anyways
guy just loves his tank and does a good job taking care of it for a guy with out much $$

the crazy part is he is quite insane and you cant walk away from him! he always tells storys about how the cops wrongly arrested him cause " i was chasing this kid and the kid ran into his garadge and my brain said ' if you cross taht line youw ill be breaking and entering' so i stoped but my arm flung out and knock over ALL THE SHELFS IN THE GARADGE"
and then storys about flare guns bouncing off the street and almost hitting some ones kids and so on

im scared of this dude

 

[Moonstream]

Hasn't she ever heard of the bubbonic plague? Rats and mice
are disgusting creatures. I would take a snake over a rat or mouse any day.

not trying to be mean or anything, but that is an EXTREMLY offensive comment to me, I love snakes, rats and mice, and have 2 rats now (as well as two that passed that were some of my favorite pets, more so almost them my cats and dog), and they really are not offensive. I know some people dont like them, but its unneeded to be so mean about it.

as for the two snake stories, that is toooooo funny, I mean really, feeding a puppy to a snake that gets like 3-5' long I mean really, and the mouse lady, I really wouldnt consider feeding the natural food of an animal a sin, especially if it wont eat pre-filled food, killing the snake would have been worse!

 

[Moonstream]

I just finished reading this thread from around page 7 or so, THAT is some entertainment! stupid people are funny .

I do have an off topic story from school, we were sitting in ELA, and our teacher was talking about the renisance, and this girl, lets call her Mari, says "yeah, and the pope is coming to NYC this weekend" so the class clown (and mainly un-inteigent guy) who we will call Dan goes "wait, the pope is real?!? now way!" to which the entire class started cracking up, and he sat there looking confused that we were laughing.

the funniest part was that he was 100% serious. I hope that this dosent fall under religion (srry if it does mods, feel free to delete it is it does).

and a more fish related story, a year or so ago I got it in my head to setup a 10g tank, at the time I was still using my local petco, and I was in love with the BBG they had in there own brackish tanks, and wanted to also get some breeding mollies. I went their, and all their decently sized mollies (they had either 4" sailfins or 1" babies) were sick. they had no BBG either. stupidly I trusted the employee and got a dragon goby (AKA violet goby) after he said it would be fine in a 10g for the month I was planning until I got it into the 29g I was getting read for it. I got it, introed it and a pair of largeish (2") mollies that were actually healthy, into the tank. it wouldnt eat anything. I tryed to get it into a smaller feeding tank, it jumped out and landed in a bag of salt. I scooped it out and thew it into the tank again, and sat there near tears as I worried about if it would be okay with all that salt.

fast forward a few days, I realized that they got 24-30" long and he still hadent eaten. I returned him and vowed to never again get another fish w/o knowing its requirments. the mollies unfortionatly died during a bad case of fungus in my FW community where they were living.

 

[mcbaes72]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12332132#post12332132 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by wesdaniel
My noob, self stupidity story...... Dishonesty doesn't pay.

We were at a store, browsing the live rock and saw a nice piece with that really cool transparent, light brown anemone on it. We discussed it amongst ourselves and decided that the store didn't know they were selling an obviously valuable invert with this piece of live rock, so we would take it. We bought it, brought it home, put it in the tank and when it sprouted 4 or 5 more decided to do some research. That's when we learned the word aiptasia. We learned that it's better to point out abnormalities that we don't already know about :rollface:

Wow, I see I wasn't the only one who thought they were cool before finding out that they're not. Were you able to kill them off pretty quickly or did it take a while since they started multiplying?

 

[RyanMKintz]

Great stories let keep it up, I overhead a customer threw away 90 pounds of LR into to garbage can to get rid of bristle worm. Bought another 90 pounds added it and wondered why all there fish died

 

[widmer]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11132810#post11132810 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by plyr58
Ok, I have spent a few days reading through all 18 pages of this thread, and I have to post a couple of my own.

1. Phone conversation between our manager and a customer, relayed to me after watching my boss honest to God blow the first snot bubble I have ever actually seen in person as he was laughing after hanging up:

Manager: Thank you for calling (fish store name), how may I help you today?
Customer: Uh, yeah. I think I have a problem...
M: Oh really? What seems to be the matter?
C: Well I was doing a water change and when I leaned over the tank, my Extacy fell out of my pocket and into the water.
M: Did you pull them out immediately?
C: No, I was kinda messed up at the time and so, well... I couldn't really see how to get them out all that well. (why was this guy trying to do a water change on extacy?)
M: Are they out now?
C: Oh yeah, i took them out after I was straight again.
M: How long were they in the aquarium?
C: Maybe 45 mins? I though they would be okay, but now my puffer is just inflating and deflating over and over.
M: Well that is definitely a problem then. Do you have any extra water available? How about a bag of carbon?
C: No.
M: Well why don't you come in and pick up some water and some carbon and we can talk about how to fix your problem.

The guy said ok and hung up. At this point we both figured it was just a really imaginative prank caller and figured no more wold come of it. But, sure enough, ten minutes later in walks in a guy asking for the manager.

C: Yeah, I spoke to you on the phone earlier.
M: Oh, did you call about the puffer?
C: Yeah, so what do I need to do?
M: well how many gallons is your aquarium?
C: 55
M: Well lets just go ahead and fill 11 deltangs o water and have you do a 100 percent water change.
C: Well, I brought the fish in if you want to see him.

We both looked at each other and said, "yeah let's see him." Now, I want to say that I in no way condone exposing fish to illegal scedule three narcotics, but I must admit that I was more than slightly interested in how this fish was handling his high. They guy goes out to the car and come back with a puffer in a 5 gallon bucket full of water. He is inflating and deflating with startling regularity and actually slightly resembled that puffer in the not to be mentioned kids movie when he puffs up and rolls away.

It's ironic, this whole thread is based on peoples' misconceptions. Ecstasy is nowhere near being a narcotic, let alone a "schedule fill-in-the-blank narcotic". If you have a schedule II and schedule III narcotic, do you know which one is more heavily controlled? Anyways, narcotics are opiate derivatives, ecstasy is a synthetic variant of methamphetamine and its (psychological) effects are nothing like any of a narcotics' effects which btw it sounds like you are implying are like marijuana's effects. Moral of the story: no matter the subject, there's always someone out there who might think you sound like you're talking out of your a....I'm a biology bs w/ chem & biochem minors, researching drug delivery systems and working in hospital inpatient pharmacy and you just wandered into my LFS btw... Lol I don't mean to sound so hardcore, but it is indeed all relative.

That was an entertaining story though, peace.

 

[widmer]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11132810#post11132810 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by plyr58
Ok, I have spent a few days reading through all 18 pages of this thread, and I have to post a couple of my own.

1. Phone conversation between our manager and a customer, relayed to me after watching my boss honest to God blow the first snot bubble I have ever actually seen in person as he was laughing after hanging up:

Manager: Thank you for calling (fish store name), how may I help you today?
Customer: Uh, yeah. I think I have a problem...
M: Oh really? What seems to be the matter?
C: Well I was doing a water change and when I leaned over the tank, my Extacy fell out of my pocket and into the water.
M: Did you pull them out immediately?
C: No, I was kinda messed up at the time and so, well... I couldn't really see how to get them out all that well. (why was this guy trying to do a water change on extacy?)
M: Are they out now?
C: Oh yeah, i took them out after I was straight again.
M: How long were they in the aquarium?
C: Maybe 45 mins? I though they would be okay, but now my puffer is just inflating and deflating over and over.
M: Well that is definitely a problem then. Do you have any extra water available? How about a bag of carbon?
C: No.
M: Well why don't you come in and pick up some water and some carbon and we can talk about how to fix your problem.

The guy said ok and hung up. At this point we both figured it was just a really imaginative prank caller and figured no more wold come of it. But, sure enough, ten minutes later in walks in a guy asking for the manager.

C: Yeah, I spoke to you on the phone earlier.
M: Oh, did you call about the puffer?
C: Yeah, so what do I need to do?
M: well how many gallons is your aquarium?
C: 55
M: Well lets just go ahead and fill 11 deltangs o water and have you do a 100 percent water change.
C: Well, I brought the fish in if you want to see him.

We both looked at each other and said, "yeah let's see him." Now, I want to say that I in no way condone exposing fish to illegal scedule three narcotics, but I must admit that I was more than slightly interested in how this fish was handling his high. They guy goes out to the car and come back with a puffer in a 5 gallon bucket full of water. He is inflating and deflating with startling regularity and actually slightly resembled that puffer in the not to be mentioned kids movie when he puffs up and rolls away.

It's ironic, this whole thread is based on peoples' misconceptions. Ecstasy is nowhere near being a narcotic, let alone a "schedule fill-in-the-blank narcotic". If you have a schedule II and schedule III narcotic, do you know which one is more heavily controlled? Anyways, narcotics are opiate derivatives, ecstasy is a synthetic variant of methamphetamine and its (psychological) effects are nothing like any of a narcotics' effects which btw it sounds like you are implying are like marijuana's effects. Moral of the story: no matter the subject, there's always someone out there who might think you sound like you're talking out of your a....I'm a biology bs w/ chem & biochem minors, researching drug delivery systems and working in hospital inpatient pharmacy and you just wandered into my LFS btw... Lol I don't mean to sound so hardcore, but it is indeed all relative.

That was an entertaining story though, peace.

 

[Hormigaquatica]

It's ironic, this whole thread is based on peoples' misconceptions... Lol I don't mean to sound so hardcore, but it is indeed all relative.

Keep the stories coming- this thread is my relief after a day working at the LFS...

 

[phish guy]

i swear to god, someone asked me what the difference between salt and fresh waterwas. i swear, im not joking, they actually asked me that. course my store is close to Camden, NJ. ignorance capital USA.

 

[phish guy]

o another good one

"can nemo go in with a goldfish, i have a small tank, maybe 2 gallons?"

now seriously, obviously they saw Finding Nemo, and it takes place in the ocean. they fill their goldfish bowl up with dechlorinated tapwater. does saltwater come out of anyones tap?

 

[FastFish720]

Well this is one funny thread....I read through about page 10, but I though I'll share my own story. I used to work at one of those large pet chain stores. So one day this guy comes and starts looking around...

Day 1:

Me: Can I help you with anything?
Him: No, I have been keeping freshwater for over 20 years, longer than you have been alive. I don't need your help, I know what I'm looking for.
Me: I walk away and go and help another customer with PowerFilters.
Him: (I can see him looking over the top of another aisle trying to listen in on my conversation about filters).

Next....Another co-worker approaches him and he freaks out on her. She says to me, What got up his @&S^.

So the guy finally leaves.

Day 2:

The guy returns and I know I'm in for a rough day. So as an employee, what are you to do, but try and hide from the guy.

So I spend the next 3 hours of my shift over in Dog, Cat, Small Animal, Bird, etc trying to avoid him. But he keeps following me. So I finally stop and ask if he needed help. And he says no, I'm just browsing. (He's been browsing and stalking me for 3 hours!)

Then he leaves.

Day 3:

He returns again and complains that we didn't have a certain power filter and that no one was around to help him find a different one.

WOW!!

 

[melev]

 

[Jovreefer]

When I worked at Rainforest Cafe I had a guy come up to me & start to lecture me on how irresponsible we were for having live coral in the tanks.( As I was watching my buddy presure wash the corals & scrubb them with a wire brush) I politely told him the corals were fake & he called me a lier & said he was a "dive master" & knew what real coral looked like.

I also had a few people argue with me that the Mono's (brackish fish we kept because they schooled well) were parana.

I have had several people call me "fake" while I was diving in the tanks to clean them. It would go something like this
Kid:"hey look at the diver in that tank!"
Parent: "thats an animatronic, Disney does not have real people in their tanks"

My spotter would then bang on the glass & tell me to turn around and wave.

Parent's response to me waving: "hey thats neat, where do you keep the remote?"

 

[chuckawobly]

Me answering LFS phone: Thanks for calling XYZ store how may I help you?

Insane "customer": Yeah, Y'all got any elephants?

Me: Let me check...

(Waiting a couple seconds while I check for elephants...)

Me again: Nope, fresh out!



True story!

 

[ggk1988]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12421827#post12421827 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by chuckawobly
Me answering LFS phone: Thanks for calling XYZ store how may I help you?

Insane "customer": Yeah, Y'all got any elephants?

Me: Let me check...

(Waiting a couple seconds while I check for elephants...)

Me again: Nope, fresh out!



True story!

Was he looking for elephant noses are something?