The honesty thread

[lnevo]

Haha same reason I don't use my quarantine either..needs to be cleaned up

 

[Cu455]

I get fish because they look cool. Buy first, research second.

I guess it is better then not QTing. My qt tank is the styrofoam box the fish stores get their fish in.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=YMQ7yvdV2Y8

 

[evoIX_Reefer]

^eel? Mawr pictures!

 

[evoIX_Reefer]

What kind?

 

[Cu455]

I don't want to hijack this thread to much. i just started a thread here.
http://www.manhattanreefs.com/forum/fish/176346-tiny-moray.html

As for the type of eel. Just as I said earlier in the thread.

I get fish because they look cool. Buy first, research second.

I am still on that second part.:biglaugh:

 

[Frank@Wall]

When i go to new stores that aren't vendors here I pretend to have zero experience and a tank that was just finished cycling.

I use a polyfilter in my ato.

I dont ramp my lights on or off, they're either some on, all on or off.

+1 on acting dumb in a store. I do that as well to see the stupid things LFS's come up with.

 

[LatinP]

well done sir...thanks for wasting peoples precious time they could have used to do work on the fish tanks. well done. Don't show up at my store.

anyone else who does that, don't show up at my store.

I know this sounds bad and in theory it could be a waste of time. But quite honestly it's the best way we as consumers have to see what kind of a vendor we're dealing with. I just walked in to the shop, if I don't know you as a person or as a businessman I will put you to the test and see what advice you'll give me, I can make my own determinations from there.

It's honestly not a waste of time, I only really do it once if it's a new shop that's opened up and if I like what I see you'll have a customer for life so in the end the shop wins.

 

[evoIX_Reefer]

^I personally just keep my ears open and hear if the employees tend to give bad advice. You can tell if they are just in it to sell their items or genuinely help the customer while making a sale.

Once I know what type of advice they give just people walking around then I decide to ask them a question I may have but did the research already.