Pet Forum / Aquaria / Goldfish / March 2008

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Yes that is true, but face it.I for one sure do not want any big box
petstore employee usujing his or her hands to grab my fish. No telling
what they were doing prior to being called by management to net a fish
for a customer. They could have been out back spraying weedkiller or
placing ant poison or using disenfectant to clean bird or rodent
cages....
Worst I have seens o far was a employee of Deathco wildly swinging a
net in both hands while pursuing a school of neons. No luck, and he
finally removed everything that was not nailed down from that tank and
went at it again. He would get a net ful after baracading the neons
with a couple of more nets, and then arbitrarily  dump them into the
bag he had placed in the colleciton container, on the FLOOR no less
and most fish would miss the container, and land on the floor, and lay
there until he made another fruitless swoop of the nets and collection
container, then he would stop and pick them up like dropped coins. No
telliong what damages he imparted o nthem with his fingernails and
finger tips etc, trying to pick up those little slick fish with his
fingers off that nasty dirty floor. HIs reply was thats why we have a
14 day replacement policy in case any die on customers. They got
pitched into the collection container or back into the display tank
only to be netted and sold to some other unsuspecting
customer........and folks wonder why a lot of big box store fish just
up and die for no apparaent reason. I had another deathco employee get
called from out front of the store where he was smoking a cigarete to
net me a common damsel fish. I told him in so many word, if he does
not get it in so many minutes or tires forget it, and if he does net
it and he puts his hands on it, don;t even bother bagging it,a s I do
not want it....What do you think he did.......barricaded the fish and
used a big  huge net to squeeze it into that tasnk and get the fish
and then after telling him to keep his nasty hands off the fish he
reaches into the net and pulls out the fish and tosses it into the
collection container only to miss and have it hit the floor from about
4 feet up..........It wound up back in the tank onbly to momre than
likely die from the typical treatment Deathco folks impart on
allliving critters/.......Bare hands yes with folks that now what they
are doing is fine, and for most even nets are a no no.