Comments on: Do you research fish before you buy them? http://northernlightsaquatics.com/blog/fish-questions/do-you-research-fish-before-you-buy-them/ Pet fish news, photos, and info from our tanks to yours Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:50:20 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: Sarah http://northernlightsaquatics.com/blog/fish-questions/do-you-research-fish-before-you-buy-them/comment-page-1/#comment-3996 Sarah Mon, 23 Feb 2009 14:37:00 +0000 http://northernlightsaquatics.com/blog/?p=394#comment-3996 Thanks Jay - the problem I had with discus is that I could find so many people said that something worked, and just as many people that said it didn't. I think it's good to read about the fish you want in the store - especially when you live so far away. A lot of employees don't know about every single fish in the store - and even if they do some fish can be more aggressive over time, so it's good to discover that before you get home and realize that you made a mistake. Thanks Jay – the problem I had with discus is that I could find so many people said that something worked, and just as many people that said it didn’t.

I think it’s good to read about the fish you want in the store – especially when you live so far away.

A lot of employees don’t know about every single fish in the store – and even if they do some fish can be more aggressive over time, so it’s good to discover that before you get home and realize that you made a mistake.

]]> By: Jay http://northernlightsaquatics.com/blog/fish-questions/do-you-research-fish-before-you-buy-them/comment-page-1/#comment-3977 Jay Sat, 21 Feb 2009 00:33:51 +0000 http://northernlightsaquatics.com/blog/?p=394#comment-3977 I try to find out all I can about a fish before I go to buy one. Most of the time this works out well, that is if you can find two keepers of the fish in question that say the same thing about it! Sometimes that can be a job in it self. From time to time I will be somewhere like Pet-smart to get some fish food & a few fish that I have researched for months. After looking around awhile I sometimes will spot a fish that I know nothing about, never seen before and just got to have, NOW!!! I can't make myself buy it by just reading what it says on the shelf tag. Those tags tell you just enough to get you and the fish in trouble. I know the people that work there must think I'm strange, but I will pull every book they have on the shelf that says anything about that fish and read it. The last time I was at Pet-smart I spent two hours reading about a fish before I spent one dime on it. If I lived close to the store I would just go home and read my own books, but I live an hour away each way. After stocking several tanks with fish that add up to a lot of $$$$$$ I cannot afford to put anything in my tanks that I have not done my very best job to find out everything I can, so that me and my aquatic friends will have success and a long, great life together. I try to find out all I can about a fish before I go to buy one. Most of the time this works out well, that is if you can find two keepers of the fish in question that say the same thing about it! Sometimes that can be a job in it self.

From time to time I will be somewhere like Pet-smart to get some fish food & a few fish that I have researched for months. After looking around awhile I sometimes will spot a fish that I know nothing about, never seen before and just got to have, NOW!!!
I can’t make myself buy it by just reading what it says on the shelf tag. Those tags tell you just enough to get you and the fish in trouble. I know the people that work there must think I’m strange, but I will pull every book they have on the shelf that says anything about that fish and read it. The last time I was at Pet-smart I spent two hours reading about a fish before I spent one dime on it. If I lived close to the store I would just go home and read my own books, but I live an hour away each way.

After stocking several tanks with fish that add up to a lot of $$$$$$ I cannot afford to put anything in my tanks that I have not done my very best job to find out everything I can, so that me and my aquatic friends will have success and a long, great life together.

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