Dumb things you've overheard customers say at the LFS

Me: Do you do water changes?
Customer: I put more water in when it evaporates
Me: What kind of water?
Customer: More saltwater
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Customer: Can you test my water and tell me why my fish died?
Me: sure
Customer: (hands me a bag of water with the dead fish in it)
Me: Wheres the water sample?
Customer: with the dead fish
 
One day at my LFS, a guy and his kids just got a new salt water tank, It was an Eclipse-29. once they loaded it into their car, heres how it went:

Daughter: Daddy, can we get a clownfish?
Father: Maybe next time, they're too expensive. (clowns are 29.99)
Father: I think we should get a couple of these Yellow ones (points at 4-inch yellow tangs)
Daughter: O.K

Then they gave their order to the employee, who immdiatley asked "What size tank do you have?" and then told them about the yellow tangs ect. ect. and they still bought them.
 
OH LORDY LORDY LORDY.... let meee seeeeeeee....


Ok here goes.

"My puffer is putting off this mucus and it has killed all of the other fish in the tank can i bring it back so I can get more fish".. he brought the puffer back in a bug 5 gallon bucket and my buddy at the stre tested the water(get ready).... 40/40/pegged ... oh and the ph was 7. then he comes back and hour later and says "that's not right my test kit at home didn't say that"

kid: MAMA ....IS TAHTU FEISH (talking about a angler)
mom; yeah baybe I think shees dead.
kid: oh

LOOK THEY EVEN HAVE LIVE ROCK!!!!! (as in alive like people)

that was just yesterday in a 30 minute span that I was in there....

I'll post more if I can think of them..
 
I want to know how I get knocked for saying things on my posts, but this guy says ****... and nothign is done! Im all for the moderators not being so anal, but If you are going to go around being snooty then be consistent!
 
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This customer did not ask any questions but...

He was at the counter with a fish bowl, a white coral dead coral piece, a small box of IO salt and a bag with 2 clown fish. I can only assume.
 
Biggest gripe with me are people insisting on buying that really tiny juvenile [insert very large aggressive fish species] for their [insert rediculously small tank] because 'he'll only grow as big as the tank, and if not, well I'm sure someone will take him'. Sometimes I think there needs to be a license to run a marine aquarium! :mad:
 
what really gets me is when "knowledgeable" people shred other people about what choices they make when we all know they made stupid choices in there tanks and lives also.
 
O.K. I started a thread about dumb things LFS tell customers, so I'll tell on myself. When I first started my reef, I went to the store and went nuts over a new coral. The owner was busy and finally came over and looked at me like I was nuts. To my shock, she reached in the tank ripped a piece off and said it was macro algae. I can have as much as I want for free. Duh...
 
I dont know where to start about the stupidity I run into being a retailer in the hobby. But trust me, you get just as much dumb people talking to you from the distributers and companies than you do from the general hobbiest. I think people should take an IQ test before they get into this hobby, for the sake of the animals!
 
lol ya the nemo thing gets old. I have my nano tank at work and everybody that walks by says "oh wow you have nemo" then they say "what are you going to name him" of course their suggestion is to name him nemo :)
 
ya...when i first got into this hobby....i always enjoyed looking at the corals...had no clue what they were....but i knew they were coral.... and over time i noticed that 90% of the coral tanks were covered by these little "corals"...and every time i went there i got that much closer to asking one of the empolyees if i could just have frag of those...(like a single polyp)...

well....luckily i never got around to asking before my friend who was more edumacated saved me from my embarrasment.....
it turns out they werent corals.....they were aptaisia....im smart like that....

i was seriously this [ ] close to asking for one....wow....
 
The ââ"šÂ¬Ã…"œnemoââ"šÂ¬Ã‚ and ââ"šÂ¬Ã…"œdoryââ"šÂ¬Ã‚ thing has only brought this hobby to the next level. I believe ever since the movie came out tons of new people got into salt water aquariums (dumb and smart ) which in turn helps us all. Think about it. So every time I here ââ"šÂ¬Ã…"œLOOK NEMO!!ââ"šÂ¬Ã‚ I smile!
 
AL ur Pal said:
I must hear this a couple times a week:
"Are nemo's regular water?"
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mangroves look cool, but they don't remove that much nutrients. I know, i have a dozen of them.
Sorry for the off topic post, just wanted to warn you before you put them in your tank
 
for those of you who sell uneducated customers fish you knw will die, &$%* off!!! you are a disgrace to the hobby and a subject of all the complaints here. i went to the LFS here and a guy was looking at buying a mandarin. he told me that the manager told him that if your 10g tank has algae he'll live. this was the same manager that would scoop SW from a bottom tank to add to the top tank when it got low (ended up with +1.035 up top, and 1.009 in bottom tank and couldnt figure out why he lost the harlequin tusk that came in. same guy who says skimmers are a waste of money for FOWLR and reef tanks). Mad props to the new manager who checked the salinity, silently cussed the old manager, and got things back on track.
 
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