O.k., the title is pretty blunt, but I must ask what we can do about shoddy retailers. The distributors can be blames for importing some species that are unsuitable, but what about a retailer that knowingly sells difficult species to someone with little or no experience. Or those that willingy accept the impossible to keep species knowing that they will die shortly, only to blame the hobbyists tank conditions.
I'll give you an example. While I was in a LFS here (for the last time), a 11 year old kid that had just started a fish only tank walked in. I watched the retail manager watch this kid and his dad looking at a beautiful regal angel that had just come in. I know these are some of the most difficult to keep angels (apparently, those from Indian Ocean do better than Phillipines wonder why that is
) and I wouldn't try to keep them yet. Well, the manager eagerly told the father/son combo that this was a " easy to keep" species of angel. I wasn't sure what would happen if I stepped in and said otherwise, and not wanting to go to jail at that moment, I walked out after they bought the angel, shaking my head. I can only imagine the despair this kid felt a few weeks (if even) later when the angel probably died. By how excited he was about getting it, you could only imagine.
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I'll give you an example. While I was in a LFS here (for the last time), a 11 year old kid that had just started a fish only tank walked in. I watched the retail manager watch this kid and his dad looking at a beautiful regal angel that had just come in. I know these are some of the most difficult to keep angels (apparently, those from Indian Ocean do better than Phillipines wonder why that is
If this isn't the right area for this topic, sorry, please move to proper area then.