Okay so here's the story...
I walked in walmart, and planned to only go to electronics, but couldn't resist going to the fish dept to "look". Well when I got there, I saw this woman standing at the goldfish tanks. She was asking some other lady who was back there getting a 25 lbs. bag of gravel how to tell when the fish has ich. Well I over heard and so I stepped over to see what was up. I showed her AND the employees the sick ones (pretty much 1/2 of the whole stock). Then she pointed to a healthy one in a sick fish's tank and asked if that one was great and I said, "IMO, you need to stay away from any tank that has a sickly fish in it b/c 99% of the time, the healthy ones will get it too." So she said, "well, i have to get some to replace my others." SO I asked her whay size she had and she said a 10g! I asked her how many she had and she had 8!!!! in a 10g!!!!! SO I quickly corrected her and told her, "No ma'am, you can't do that. Goldfish need 10gs each AT LEAST." Then she told me a slaughtered version of our 1"/g rule. I think she said 1 fish per gallon.
ANy way, I corrected that with the employee standing there, and convinced her to get some much smaller tropicals. Then she started up with the, "I dont got no heater set up", but she had one!
I told her that she needed to put the heater up to 75 F and only get 2-3 fish at a time. I finally got her to get some serpae tetras, and convinced her to set up her heater. Really, how much trouble is putting that on? I also let her know she needed to stay away from aggressive fish, and I listed a few they had there that were aggressive, so she knows what ones to stay away from (Still, the employee's there) I also told her about shoalings, and she need atleast 5 per each one. SO I told her the best thing for her to do is buy 2-3 per time, of the serpaes until she had 7 or eight of them and that would be all she'd get in that 10g.
And of course I told her wait a month before getting anymore and do several water changes per week for a while. Then after the new ones wait 2 weeks, etc. Then she thanked me and told the employees they needed to take a class and that i was a God send and all that Jazz.
So any way, that employee knew absolutely nothin' 'bout goldfish b/c she said he sold her the goldfish the day she bought the tank, and didn't tell her they WERE going to die. Glad to know I saved 8 or maybe even 16 golds today!
I surely hope I didn't tell her anything wrong b/c if I see her again I want to correct her, and myself... ANy comments?
Sorry to ramble, I was VERY talkative at the walmart tonight with other people as well...
I walked in walmart, and planned to only go to electronics, but couldn't resist going to the fish dept to "look". Well when I got there, I saw this woman standing at the goldfish tanks. She was asking some other lady who was back there getting a 25 lbs. bag of gravel how to tell when the fish has ich. Well I over heard and so I stepped over to see what was up. I showed her AND the employees the sick ones (pretty much 1/2 of the whole stock). Then she pointed to a healthy one in a sick fish's tank and asked if that one was great and I said, "IMO, you need to stay away from any tank that has a sickly fish in it b/c 99% of the time, the healthy ones will get it too." So she said, "well, i have to get some to replace my others." SO I asked her whay size she had and she said a 10g! I asked her how many she had and she had 8!!!! in a 10g!!!!! SO I quickly corrected her and told her, "No ma'am, you can't do that. Goldfish need 10gs each AT LEAST." Then she told me a slaughtered version of our 1"/g rule. I think she said 1 fish per gallon.
ANy way, I corrected that with the employee standing there, and convinced her to get some much smaller tropicals. Then she started up with the, "I dont got no heater set up", but she had one!
I told her that she needed to put the heater up to 75 F and only get 2-3 fish at a time. I finally got her to get some serpae tetras, and convinced her to set up her heater. Really, how much trouble is putting that on? I also let her know she needed to stay away from aggressive fish, and I listed a few they had there that were aggressive, so she knows what ones to stay away from (Still, the employee's there) I also told her about shoalings, and she need atleast 5 per each one. SO I told her the best thing for her to do is buy 2-3 per time, of the serpaes until she had 7 or eight of them and that would be all she'd get in that 10g.And of course I told her wait a month before getting anymore and do several water changes per week for a while. Then after the new ones wait 2 weeks, etc. Then she thanked me and told the employees they needed to take a class and that i was a God send and all that Jazz.
So any way, that employee knew absolutely nothin' 'bout goldfish b/c she said he sold her the goldfish the day she bought the tank, and didn't tell her they WERE going to die. Glad to know I saved 8 or maybe even 16 golds today!
I surely hope I didn't tell her anything wrong b/c if I see her again I want to correct her, and myself... ANy comments?
Sorry to ramble, I was VERY talkative at the walmart tonight with other people as well...
D im proud *pats lee on back*
