[SirOneEighty]

Story about my LFS.

http://www.piranha-fury.com/pfury/index.php?showtopic=71820

Its rather amazing...and sad.

 

[K fizzly]

god...wut a bummer dude that f*cking sux...loosing jaguars and A PEACOCK BASS THAT BIG id kill myself...its cool u donated some fish tho...i dont get wut u mean about the water changes t ho how did i thappen..?

 

[SirOneEighty]

It is a system that allows you to release water from the system, while adding tap water. You put dechlorinator in the system at some point, I didn't ask too many details, the lady that runs the place was almost in tears as she was telling me. That is why I offered the fish to her.

I did get two 25 lbs bags of black gravel out of the deal. But I gave her way more in fish than what she was selling them for. That is okay, anything to help them out. Family owned business, sad really.

 

[K fizzly]

u think theyll recover or no?

 

[SirOneEighty]

Depends. Not too long ago they posted a tenative going-out-of-business sign on their front doors. A lot of frequent visitors, but not customers, realized that they were spending all their money at the big, beautiful, PetCo that just came to town. So a lot of folks started dealing with this LFS again. They used to sell everything from Pacus to Chinchillas to Rabbits. Now they stick to reptiles, Fish, and a few mice/fuzzy critters. But they were on the comeback.

I really hope they don't go out of business. They have the best prices on just about everything feeder-wise. Incredibly nice folks.

 

[psychofish]

That really sux

 

[MR.FREEZ]

i try to give as little support to any large corprate company and like to support all my local

business

 

[Enriqo_Suavez]

There is no local owned pet store around where I live at school (that I know of) but when I am at home I stick exclusively to the two family owned pet stores.

 

[SirOneEighty]

There are a few LFS in my area, unforunately one has very strange hours and days. Like open two days a week for 12 hours each day. Bizarre and very hot inside. The other has burned my roommate twice, sold him fish that were just timebombs full of disease. Two days after each was bought, all his fish caught sicknesses and died.

This LFS that lost the fish was amazing. Great people, and Pete was the coolest, most interactive fish I have ever seen. Little kids loved to feed him. Sad to see him go.

 

[Fido]

eeek, sorry man.

 

[K fizzly]

wut i would do for a 24 + inch peacock bass...damn nice pick up its a shame it died how big of a tnank was it in

 

[acestro]

Makes me think actually. We need to set something up where we list the best pet stores in each of our states (has this been done? ).

 

[K fizzly]

nope^

 

[MR.FREEZ]

Makes me think actually. We need to set something up where we list the best pet stores in each of our states (has this been done? ).

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i think theres been something like that a long time ago here, before my time

 

[SirOneEighty]

When Pete was at the store he was in a 125 gallon. Wayyy too small for him, but he was very old. Had been abused by the owners that had him before them so he couldn't swim well anymore. He was really just a living trophy, they had him in a huge tank, but he had been in a smaller tank so long he wouldn't swim around, he just chilled next to people walking around him. Beautiful fish. Too bad he was abused before they had him, he would have been a wonder in a 500+ gallon, able to swim freely.