yellowwatchmen
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Thats funny. Keep them comin.
ATTN: LFS employees
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kathainbowen
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.... *blush* yes.... my fingers move faster than my brain sometimes..... much faster. Unfortunately, this means that seemingly simple and obvious matters of English grammar and punctation poff out of existence from time to time.
Although, I could ask where your question marks ran away to. Just kidding! :love1:
fishworm
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I had a guy come in one day and he wanted to buy this big maroon anemone we had in our 180 galllon display at the store.
problem was that there was a small percula clown hosting in it. I tried for almost a half hour trying to get that clown out of the anemone, but it definately would not leave. I finally just took out the anemone, with the clownfish inside, and sold it to the guy. he got a free clownfish out of the deal because I got tired of trying to get it out of it's favorite home.
problem was that there was a small percula clown hosting in it. I tried for almost a half hour trying to get that clown out of the anemone, but it definately would not leave. I finally just took out the anemone, with the clownfish inside, and sold it to the guy. he got a free clownfish out of the deal because I got tired of trying to get it out of it's favorite home.
midgetwaiter
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The place I used to work had a 3 foot mangrove monitor that people always wanted to handle no matter what we wrote on the tank. They are often aggressive but this one was unbelievable. This thing wasn't just mean, fast and well armed it was SMART and had figured out how to open a couple different cages already. I was terrified of it and I'm usually too dumb to get scared.
I found the best way to talk people out of handling it was to get 2 helpers and hand the customer a pair of welding gloves while saying "watch your face". One day I had someone come in with a big bandage on his arm saying "I want to put a deposit on the mangrove please". I took his money and though nothing of it until somebody told me what had happened the day before. Apparently he was quite insistent on letting him handle it, "I have years of experience with reptiles" etc. It got him good in the forearm with the claws, bit his other hand and whipped him in the face. All before the girl that had taken it out of the cage had even let go of it.
He didn't leave a deposit the night before because he couldn't get back from the emergency room before the store closed.
littlefish72
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"watch your face"
I like that
I like that
crazyseany
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I was at petco and heard an older couple looking for a square sponge for their filter. so being someone that talks to everyone I asked if it was an aquaclear. she didn't know so I showed her the replacements. she said yep those are the right ones. then she asked if a 50 watt heater they had would be good for a 55 g tank. I told her to go with a 150-200w so we found a submersible on sale and I explained the best way to set it up. she asked about food. had a fw community tank so got her some flakes and explained how the fish would go wild over some frozen... she got some. then she wanted me to bag a couple of small tetras. I had to explain I did not work there. she got the manager and asked why I refused to bag her fish after helping her with her other stuff... then he explained I did not work there... I don't think she believed him either ..... so I bagged the fish and she was happy. he half jokingly asked if I was looking for a job
I really should stop talking to everyone... I am a nosey person....lol
I really should stop talking to everyone... I am a nosey person....lol
beez
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<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10911345#post10911345 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by beez
When I was in high school a lady came into our store and asked me to bag up some type of fairly pricey butterflyfish because she was having a dinner party that night and "all her other fish had died over the last week."
After looking at her as one would to an unflushed toilet I tried to talk her out of it, explaining that she was almost certainly handing the fish a death sentence, but I wasn't allowed to refuse sales. So I bag it up, she pays and leaves. Not 5 minutes go by, and she comes back in looking like she's been crying, sets the bag angrily back on the counter, and walks out never to be heard from again. Didn't even ask for her $$ back.
For those that asked about my little story back on page 16, the fish lived. I guess I guilted her just enough and she she apparently turned her car around and brought the lil dude back. Sorry for this late reply, ha ha.
shabreeson
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my friend once asked me "when the fish turns belly up, is he sleeping?"
I had this image in my head of my friend buying a dead fish at a fish store because he felt it would be well rested when it woke up.
I had this image in my head of my friend buying a dead fish at a fish store because he felt it would be well rested when it woke up.
littlefish72
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"WAKE UP FISHIE! WAKE UP! WHY ARE YOU SLEEPING?!?"
*Nemo quote for those who didn't get the reference
*Nemo quote for those who didn't get the reference
littlefish72
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BTTT
on multiple occasions people have came in and told me their water kept disappearing so they took their tank down. I told them that Adam west has the same problem
Hormigaquatica
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:lol: Now thats funny..
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10508490#post10508490 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by gregg@AMS
that reminds me of a good one.
i worked at an aquarium installation/service company which shall remain nameless. anyway, we "installed" a tank that had the filtration in the lower level. well, the boss wanted several return lines going into the tank, so he essentially manifolded right out of the pump, and split it into 8 separate 1/2" lines that went 16' vertical and about 35' horizontal. needless to say, the water trickled ino the tank.
so,we filled it up w/ fresh water and ran the system to do a leak test. then, the next day we added salt by mixing it at a high concentration and adding it to the sump. a few days later we took a few fish over, but before adding them, we test the salinity.
well, we dipped the hydrometer in and got no reading. did it again, same thing....0. we were like. well, i was walking by the front of the tank, and when i looked in, i saw a perfect lens serarating the freshwater from the salt. the flow going into the tank was so slow that the more dense hyper-saline just sank in the freshwaterr. it couln't even mix the water.
Halocline....awsome. there's an episode of Planet Earth on caves, and they have these divers swimming through a halocline, looks so trippy.
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