Ok guys im taking the plunge...going against all my beliefs and applying for a job at some chain pet/ department stores. Maybe I can make a small difference. Wish me luck!
Miss Bug will be the resident fish expert.........................woohoo..........I think it's a great idea to have someone vested in the hobby to give advise that is worth something and not just push fish out the door to suffer a slow cruel {or fast in some cases} death in a bad environment .................not to mention how many people go to these places because they are interested in aquariums but not ready to jump into the high cost LFS world................and end up leaveing the hobby because ............joe blow who doesn't give a crap said "sure you can put 7,000 guppies in that 2 gallon tank" .......lol
i'm also trying to get a job at a fish/reptile shop... but they're huge and require me to know how to propigate and frag corals... also breeding and species identification...
they tested me with two fish... they had four synodontis in a 4g tank... then they asked me to name them... LOL...
there were two synodontis multipictactus, one synodontis petricola and a marshal synodintis... ha... they didn't think i knew the difference since they all look the same and are kind of rare fish in the trade... jerks...
and they still haven't called me back for another interview or anything... fail...
well good luck christina and i hope you school those other big chain petshop fools...
if you did that at my local LFS ...they would say........."i think penecillin will fix that" LMAO.....I am in no way at all a fish expert but on more than one occasion I have swayed them to move different species from tank to tank as they will eat each other ....like my favorite save was ......i walk in to see what they had in stock one time....................as I'm watching the fish ...the little girl that works there is first of all dumping {not acclimating} a huge volitan lion {as big as my hand easily} into a tank full of domino damsels, all about 1/2 to 3/4 inch.......................................lol.......I asked her how much for the fancy feeders? she was like "what do you mean"? ............................two days later i go back in and she says ....yeah I had to cach the lion cause he ate half a tank of damsels.......................as scary as it is to say ...i think serial32 and I could run that LFS 10 times better than they do.................
It's so hard to function without a good LFS ....this site is where most all of my interaction information comes from............books and online articles as well...........
that's my plan serial... i'm going to sell the house, move to texas and buy a big house for cheap... then open a awesome LFS with reptiles... i don't like birds or vermin...
i love owls and ravens... i had a gorgeous pet raven a couple years back... he was intelegent and had a amazing personality... he would fly around the house loose at times since he would open his own cage up... my aunt took him and i think he's 7 years old now... i want another one but they are hard to come by...
but i can't deal with birds... i don't have patience for birds and i kind of feel bad for birds that are all jailed up in a cage all thier lives... that's why i only have pigeons right now... they're on my roof or in the trees all day and at night they go back into thier huge cage...
i hand raised a timini grey parrot when i was in the service {Smokey} yeah I know real original eh? lol....he was the best, I didn't have a cage for him ....he lived on a perch and had a couple pieces of furniture he hung out in the house.........he had a pretty good vocabulary too......my favorite episode was when i walked across the street to see my cousin and my X wife got into the shower..........a few minutes later my neghbor came over and pounds on the door.......Smokey yells "come in!!" and he does .....just as the X is coming up the hall way with nothing but a towel .......on her head LMFAO !!!!!!
but ....she got pregnant and was affraid the bird would hurt the baby and made me get rid of him ..............................
Yeah, I love reptiles. They are freakin' awesome! Except snakes, I don't mind the ones that have been hand-raised and are calm. But I'm not fond of them, especially when snowboss and I had to remove one from a garage at work the other day. I pretty much let him do all the work with that one!
When I get my own house I'm gonna have a shitload of reptiles though like water dragons, monitors, geckos, you name it.
i went all crocidile hunter on his ass..............................lol...................im usually scared shitless of them but my wife works there and her boss is a little lady too.....so i had to put my "man" face on a get the mean ol snake out of there .....4 foot bull snake ...i know he's harmless but ..............................well crap i don't like snakes.....lol
