ATTN: LFS employees
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thecichlidpleco
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I cannot understand why our country doesnt have standards for people to create offspring, there are uninformed people and then there are just dumb people out there.
zdawgnight
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A couple of my favorates.
Someone came in asking about pond fish. I listen on and he asks me to point out where the koe-I are. Um what ? you know the big goldfish... NOT saltwater but I couldnt help but laugh at his stupidity.
Another common occurence that I would experience dealt with the ever famous "nemo" fish. Although this happend to me countless times it was not really a stupid person as a very intelligent parent.
Parent: could you show me where the nemo fish are.
Me: well im sorry but we only sell freshwater here.
Parent: Well its for my young kid and hes not going to know the difference so just pick out a fish that you think most looks like a nemo.
Me: ok well here are some lovely feeder goldfish for ya.
Someone came in asking about pond fish. I listen on and he asks me to point out where the koe-I are. Um what ? you know the big goldfish... NOT saltwater but I couldnt help but laugh at his stupidity.
Another common occurence that I would experience dealt with the ever famous "nemo" fish. Although this happend to me countless times it was not really a stupid person as a very intelligent parent.
Parent: could you show me where the nemo fish are.
Me: well im sorry but we only sell freshwater here.
Parent: Well its for my young kid and hes not going to know the difference so just pick out a fish that you think most looks like a nemo.
Me: ok well here are some lovely feeder goldfish for ya.
Ok this happen 30 or so years ago.
Customer come in and is looking around, LFS employee says "want to see something neat?" Sure heads over to the saltwater tanks employee puts her hand in the tank and a little cute octopus crawls on to her hand and take some food. "Neat?" Customer nearly falls over and says that can kill you!!! "Do I look dead?" After customer left I or I mean the LFS employee looked the octopus up in a book. Guess what the customer was right!!! It was a blue ring Octopus.
Customer come in and is looking around, LFS employee says "want to see something neat?" Sure heads over to the saltwater tanks employee puts her hand in the tank and a little cute octopus crawls on to her hand and take some food. "Neat?" Customer nearly falls over and says that can kill you!!! "Do I look dead?" After customer left I or I mean the LFS employee looked the octopus up in a book. Guess what the customer was right!!! It was a blue ring Octopus.
kathainbowen
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Don't feel bad Victoria.... I had the "deadly, deadly cone snail" incident, if it makes you feel any better.
See, my manager and store owner decided to freak me out by talking about finding a cone snail in the tanks.... almost EVERY day for two or there weeks straight. Well, one morning, I was opening by myself and scrubbing down one of the lower tanks. I accidentally kicked up a bad dust cloud while rearranging rock and cleaning up, but no worries, right? I mean, I could just follow the sides of the tank with the scrub pad and clean by feel. Well, all of a sudden, I felt a sharp, sudden stab** on my finger, and the thought hits me that I've been stung by a cone snail. I grab my arm just below the elbow and push down on all my blood vessels before I can think of anything really rational to do.
Then, I decide my best course of action is to flush it with hot water ASAP, so I turn and run, screaming to the kennel tech, "Wendy! Wendy! Help! Cut on the hot water! Now! Wendy!"
I'm so freaking out on my sprint to the kennel, but not too much to notice my boss and my manager. My manager had stopped in on a way to one of his clients and, on hearing my screams for hot water, remembered my bad allergies to protein based toxins (like the lionfish and foxfaces we commonly had it), and started running for me. It is then that I finally bring myself took down at my stung finger and notice something just awful.....
..... there's an inch long bit of sea urchin spine sticking out of my middle finger.
Yes.... the "deadly, deadly cone snail" that I'm freaking out about was really a black, long spined urchin that I had forgotten putting in that tank earlier in the week.
*facepalm* *facepalm* *facepalm*
For those of you who don't quite get the joke or why this was so stupid, picture it this way.... It's the equivalent of sitting on a cactus but being convinced you've been bitten by a rattlesnake.
Feel better?
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**by the by... since when has the word ***** been a swear word which needs to be pilfered from the English language? I thought it meant something along the lines of a sudden, slight puncture by a sharply pointed object?
See, my manager and store owner decided to freak me out by talking about finding a cone snail in the tanks.... almost EVERY day for two or there weeks straight. Well, one morning, I was opening by myself and scrubbing down one of the lower tanks. I accidentally kicked up a bad dust cloud while rearranging rock and cleaning up, but no worries, right? I mean, I could just follow the sides of the tank with the scrub pad and clean by feel. Well, all of a sudden, I felt a sharp, sudden stab** on my finger, and the thought hits me that I've been stung by a cone snail. I grab my arm just below the elbow and push down on all my blood vessels before I can think of anything really rational to do.
Then, I decide my best course of action is to flush it with hot water ASAP, so I turn and run, screaming to the kennel tech, "Wendy! Wendy! Help! Cut on the hot water! Now! Wendy!"
I'm so freaking out on my sprint to the kennel, but not too much to notice my boss and my manager. My manager had stopped in on a way to one of his clients and, on hearing my screams for hot water, remembered my bad allergies to protein based toxins (like the lionfish and foxfaces we commonly had it), and started running for me. It is then that I finally bring myself took down at my stung finger and notice something just awful.....
..... there's an inch long bit of sea urchin spine sticking out of my middle finger.
Yes.... the "deadly, deadly cone snail" that I'm freaking out about was really a black, long spined urchin that I had forgotten putting in that tank earlier in the week.
*facepalm* *facepalm* *facepalm*
For those of you who don't quite get the joke or why this was so stupid, picture it this way.... It's the equivalent of sitting on a cactus but being convinced you've been bitten by a rattlesnake.
Feel better?
EDIT///
**by the by... since when has the word ***** been a swear word which needs to be pilfered from the English language? I thought it meant something along the lines of a sudden, slight puncture by a sharply pointed object?
Scissorhand
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Are you sure you weren't being pranked?
OceanSpray
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My wife keeps small children in our home. They all love to come into my study and look at the fish. Some of our conversations make me wonder about myself.
Small 3 year old boy looking into my tank: Where is Nemo?
I look for my Maroon Clownfish and point to the large female. Over here on this side I say while looking at the fish.
Thats not Nemo.
I'm thinking its the size thing, so I point at the male Maroon clown and say oh.. look Nemo is over here..
3 year old: Thats not Nemo.. Nemo is over here...
Now I'm looking at my clowns, and I know I only have 1 pair and they are on the side of the tank I'm on. 3 year old is on the other side of the tank. So I explain...
Well I know my Nemo's aren't the same as the Nemo on tv. Thats because Nemos are clownfish and not all clownfish are the same color. My clownfish are Maroon instead of Orange. yada yada yada...
3 year old: Nemo is over here.
No he isn't
He is
He isn't
He is
Finally I decide to see which of my other fish he is mistaking for good ol Nemo. I look up and he is pointing to the new plastic seaweed clip that is stuck to the glass on his side of the tank.
Yep thats Nemo!!!
I spend all this money on a reef tank with lots of live fish swimming around and all he notices is the 2 dollar plastic seaweed clip .
Never argue with children. They have their own kind of logic...
You gotta love em though!!:rollface:
Small 3 year old boy looking into my tank: Where is Nemo?
I look for my Maroon Clownfish and point to the large female. Over here on this side I say while looking at the fish.
Thats not Nemo.
I'm thinking its the size thing, so I point at the male Maroon clown and say oh.. look Nemo is over here..
3 year old: Thats not Nemo.. Nemo is over here...
Now I'm looking at my clowns, and I know I only have 1 pair and they are on the side of the tank I'm on. 3 year old is on the other side of the tank. So I explain...
Well I know my Nemo's aren't the same as the Nemo on tv. Thats because Nemos are clownfish and not all clownfish are the same color. My clownfish are Maroon instead of Orange. yada yada yada...
3 year old: Nemo is over here.
No he isn't
He is
He isn't
He is
Finally I decide to see which of my other fish he is mistaking for good ol Nemo. I look up and he is pointing to the new plastic seaweed clip that is stuck to the glass on his side of the tank.
Yep thats Nemo!!!
I spend all this money on a reef tank with lots of live fish swimming around and all he notices is the 2 dollar plastic seaweed clip .
Never argue with children. They have their own kind of logic...
You gotta love em though!!:rollface:
Not a prank at all. I get about two of these a month. Most of them don't go as long as this one did though. And most of them occur with people who are not native English speakers. Usually we have a good-natured mutual chuckle when they realize the mistake. This particular one had a problem listening mostly... Oh well.
Appaloosa1224
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i was checking out a LFS once and this Asian guy comes in with his cooler and buys all the sea urchins for dinner! The employees looked confused. They were trying to bag them up and he kept telling them not too, in his not so good english. I think both parties were confused.
Hormigaquatica
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Back when I worked in a full range aquarium store (only do salt now), we had this group of guys come in about twice a year and ask for 300 feeder goldfish. The first couple times I was completely stumped as to why the would need that many- they werent stocking a pond, didnt have any large predatory fish, etc. Finally one of them told me- Old Fashioned Southern Goldfish Chugging Contest. Whoever could eat the most goldfish- live and whole- in a certain amount of time was the winner. Apparently a long tradition with these guys. I looked around- Johnny Noxville was nowhere to be seen.
I wonder what Nox-Ich does to your system after eating that many treated goldfish...
cubanheat1
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Ive got this guy that comes into the store that we have named "Hay Buddy!" cause thats all he saids right in your face when he asks you about fish. he comes by usually on sundays and the guy always ask the same questions and tells us about his 46g bow marine FOWLR tank every sunday like we just me him for the fist time. The thing is this guy has the stupidest reasons for why fish are male n female. He saids that female are smaller and males have 2 black dots on all damsels. He has made up so many ridiculous reasons why marine fish are the way they are. We just laugh all the time, but what makes everybody mad is that this guy comes in and looks at every fish a 4:50 when we close at 5 and everyone wants to go home.
archie1709
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A coworker of mine here at the office bought a small fish bowl and placed a Betta fish.
Then the Betta died the next day. Two days later she came in and put freshwater Angelfish in the small bowl.
I told her, wow, those fish need at least 30 gallons. 55 gallons preferably.
Then she said "well Petsmart said they're ok with fish bowls". And argued with me.
The next day, the fish was dead. She was then angry and thinks that the "cleaning people" killed her fish.
I dunno....nothing convinces anybody anymore...
Then the Betta died the next day. Two days later she came in and put freshwater Angelfish in the small bowl.
I told her, wow, those fish need at least 30 gallons. 55 gallons preferably.
Then she said "well Petsmart said they're ok with fish bowls". And argued with me.
The next day, the fish was dead. She was then angry and thinks that the "cleaning people" killed her fish.
I dunno....nothing convinces anybody anymore...
chriskirby101
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I run a large Salt only aquarium place in Northe East England, anyway a guy comes in and buys a blue face angle for his aquarium. We ask him all the questions and he seems to know his stuff. Off he goes with the blue face..
A week later he rings up to tell me that the fish is dead, he says it got white spot so he fresh water dipped it.. I say that fresh water dips have to be done correctly to be effective and there are better options.
He says he knows how to fresh water dip and explains to me how he does it.. It seems he nets the fish and throws it into his tropical tank with his oscars for 5 minutes!!
omg!!
Chris
A week later he rings up to tell me that the fish is dead, he says it got white spot so he fresh water dipped it.. I say that fresh water dips have to be done correctly to be effective and there are better options.
He says he knows how to fresh water dip and explains to me how he does it.. It seems he nets the fish and throws it into his tropical tank with his oscars for 5 minutes!!
omg!!
Chris
balz2dwall
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Not a LFS story, but goes hand-in-hand with the "Nemo" crowd:
I've been to both the Monterey Bay Aquarium and the National Aquarium in Baltimore this past year. I dread when I see the reef tanks because I know it's coming . . .
"Where are the Nemo fish?"
"Where's Dori?"
"Look honey it's Nemo!"
The kids I can take, but it's the parents who get to me . . .
I got so frustrated at the National Aquarium because it was so packed and I had parents on all sides telling their kids about stupid Nemo fish in stereo. I was on the verge of cracking and yelling, "Nemo was a gimpy freak fish with apparent bad genetics who should have been culled!"
My wife pulled me out before I had the chance . . .
I swear, I won't ever let any of my future children see Finding Nemo until they are old enough to clean my tanks!
I've been to both the Monterey Bay Aquarium and the National Aquarium in Baltimore this past year. I dread when I see the reef tanks because I know it's coming . . .
"Where are the Nemo fish?"
"Where's Dori?"
"Look honey it's Nemo!"
The kids I can take, but it's the parents who get to me . . .
I got so frustrated at the National Aquarium because it was so packed and I had parents on all sides telling their kids about stupid Nemo fish in stereo. I was on the verge of cracking and yelling, "Nemo was a gimpy freak fish with apparent bad genetics who should have been culled!"
My wife pulled me out before I had the chance . . .
I swear, I won't ever let any of my future children see Finding Nemo until they are old enough to clean my tanks!
littlefish72
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I'm bored at home and need new stories...
BTTT!!!
BTTT!!!
glassbox-design
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women points to a large emperor angel 10in+
"i want that"
me, okay what size tank is this going in...
"i'm going to get this" points to a 1 gallon fish bowl.
me, "excuse me, miss that wont even fit inside"
"oh" storms out of the store....
"i want that"
me, okay what size tank is this going in...
"i'm going to get this" points to a 1 gallon fish bowl.
me, "excuse me, miss that wont even fit inside"
"oh" storms out of the store....
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