OMG I HATE THIS LFS!!!!!!!!!

[Arashi]

Ok, good news and bad news here people.

Good News: I got my Pleco tank running. Yay!

Bad News: It's a friggin 10 gallon!!!!

Wanna know why?!?!? Well read on!

*sighs* So here's the story. I go into an lfs I'd never been to before with a friend, and I see that some kid had two Plecos and three small fish in a bag, ...ok so far. Well, then the little jerk sets the bag down behind some merchandise and covers them up, looks around to make sure no one's looking, and then runs out!! I was like OMG I gotta save the fishies! So I ran over and grabbed them and went to find an employee who could put them back in their tanks. So I do, and the guy says "Those aren't our fish...I don't know where they came from." So by now, I'm kinda freaking out, there are now two Plecos that nobody wants, and then I hear the most horrible thing ever...the employee I was talking too, had gone over and asked his manager what he should do about the Plecos, and his manager just said, "We don't need them, they're probably diseased. Just flush them." So, the employee comes over and tries to take the bag form me and I just flipped out. There was no way that these little guys were getting flushed. So I yelled at the employee, I yelled at the manager, and then I took the bag and walked right out.

Since most of my tanks are overstocked anyways (but overfiltration is our friend ), I had to do a lot of rearranging. I had a 10 gallon with 6 Mollies and a betta, so I moved the Mollies out, and moved the Plecos in. Unfortunately, my baby gibby is also starting to grow up, so I had to put him in the 29 gallon, and put the 3 Bristenoses (who were in the 29) into the 10 with the two new Plecos...all seems to be good so far, no fighting or anything. I also found an extra piece of driftwood laying around, so I added that to the tank, so it's got two large pieces of driftwood, a small piece of slate, and a lot of plastic plants. The three smaller fishies went into my 29 gallon.

...And more good news. The Plecos I rescued, were not commons or gibbys...one was a Clown and the other was a Tiger, both juveniles. So at least they will all stay small. Thats one good thing about them all being in the 10 gallon, until I can get a bigger tank to move them into.

And the smaller fishies? Turns out they were Longfinned Danios! They are so gorgeous. One is a Longfinned Zebra and the other two are Longfinned Blues. They are so tiny...probably only babies.

Sorry, this post was so long...I just had to tell you guys about my Pleco/Danio adventures. It's been quite a day.

 

[jasmine]

What a cool find Good job you found them before the lfs though

 

[StrontiumDog]

Yeah lucky you

 

[Arashi]

Thanks guys! And yeah...I can only wonder what that lfs was gonna do to those poor fishies.

I'm so loving my new Plecs. They are just so beautiful. I can't wait to give them some zuchinni tonight...yum! And the Danios are fitting in nicely with my Silvertip Tetras and shortfinned Zebra Danios. They are chasing each other everywhere.

I just don't understand how anyone could just throw their fish away. It makes me sick and very very angry.

 

[SirMinion]

Well done Arashi.
Those kids must have decided that they didn't want the fish anymore so attempted to dump them on the LFS. The fish are lucky the kids didn't flush them, and double lucky that you stopped the LFS from flushing them!

People are such arseholes.

 

[LadyMinion]

Heavens, those fish are so lucky that you were there! Well done!

*hands Arashi an award*

 

[cometcattle]

Those fish were lucky you found them.

Congrats!

 

[Paul_MTS]

very nicely done....

and nicely rewarded with some lovely plecs......

So where did the fish come from or is that unknown

 

[Melfice]

Some LFS are bad. Like the time my sister went to buy a few fish. She saw the beautiful Saltwater fish and asked what does she need to buy to keep these fish here. The worker told her this: You will need two fish bowls, this food and Instant Ocean. My sister knowing NOTHING about fish trusted him and bought the items she was told. She gets home, the fish are in the bowls (3 in total). In the morning, one was died and she returned the 2 fish who made it over night. When I heard about this, I could not believe it (this was a few years ago, before I started my tanks etc). She told me this a few months ago. To some LFS...it's all about sales and nothing more. Sad if you ask me.

 

[Arashi]

Thank you so much everyone for your very kind comments (and awards ).

paul_v_biker - I was visiting some friends in Madison, WI. I'm not too sure of the name of the store as it was just a little privately owned one, but I think it might have been something like Main Street Pets. Unfortunately there are so many of them called "Main Street something-or-other" that it's almost impossible to distinguish between them. Now I wish I would have wrote down the name, damnit.

Melfice - OMG thats a sad story. To think that that idiot actually allowed Marine fish to go home to life in a bowl?! Thats insane! I swear, some of these morons are only out to make a buck.

 

[Dwarfs]

Lucky plecos, what Kind(s) are they? That was a good deed

 

[Arashi]

One is a Clown Plec and the other is a Tiger Plec. Both are juviniles yet, so they are pretty little.

 

[fishdudein]

WOW--talk about being in the right place at the right time!!! Great job, Arashi! Sounds like you had quite a bit of work to do when you got home, but you have been rewarded with some really nice FREE fish for your efforts!

 

[Dwarfs]

One is a Clown Plec and the other is a Tiger Plec. Both are juveniles yet, so they are pretty little.

You got plecs that don't get huge! (At least I know the clown won't) Lucky find, they would have been expensive, I see clown plecs for $15 at most of my LFS

 

[Arashi]

fishdudein - No kidding, huh? All the work I had to do was worth it. I love my new little guys.

dwarfs - Yeah I got real lucky on the size thing, expecially since the little guys will be living in a 10 gallon for a little while yet. Clown and Tiger plecs are pretty closely related I believe, and both will reach about a maximum of 4 inches each.