Rcpilot
Reef enthusiast
Thanks Yote.
You're not going to believe this ......
Thats the flame from the Petco down the street. :shock: I was in there a few weeks ago and spotted it. But, it wouldn't eat. I kept going back every 3 or 4 days to check on it. It finally got ich. I gave up. Told the kid at Petco it was sick with ich. He didn't even now it had ich. He said he would take it out and put it in a different tank with some medicine. That was like 2 weeks ago.
I go back in yesterday to have a look--fully expecting this little flame to be gone--as in DEAD and flushed down the toilet. And there it is!! Swimming around looking pretty as can be. I spent a good 20 minutes just staring at it and checking it over. Looking for spots or signs of ich. Looks clean.
So, I called the fish manager over and talked him into selling it to me for $40. (list price was $55) He was reluctant, but the salesman in me was persistant. I told him all about the huge risk I was taking with a fish that was sick only a few weeks ago. Ask him if he is REALLY going to sell that fish to anyone--or is it gonna sit in his tank for 3 months until it finally dies from stress.
I said something like, "What did you pay for it? Maybe $15 or $20? I'll give you $40 for it right now and you make $20. Or, you can sit on it until it dies in your crowded tank with 30 clowns and 2 foxface butterfly fish."
He sold it to me. :bounce:
I just love a good deal. :mrgreen:
Now if the little bastard takes a dump and dies--I'm gonna feel like an idiot.
You're not going to believe this ......
Thats the flame from the Petco down the street. :shock: I was in there a few weeks ago and spotted it. But, it wouldn't eat. I kept going back every 3 or 4 days to check on it. It finally got ich. I gave up. Told the kid at Petco it was sick with ich. He didn't even now it had ich. He said he would take it out and put it in a different tank with some medicine. That was like 2 weeks ago.
I go back in yesterday to have a look--fully expecting this little flame to be gone--as in DEAD and flushed down the toilet. And there it is!! Swimming around looking pretty as can be. I spent a good 20 minutes just staring at it and checking it over. Looking for spots or signs of ich. Looks clean.
So, I called the fish manager over and talked him into selling it to me for $40. (list price was $55) He was reluctant, but the salesman in me was persistant. I told him all about the huge risk I was taking with a fish that was sick only a few weeks ago. Ask him if he is REALLY going to sell that fish to anyone--or is it gonna sit in his tank for 3 months until it finally dies from stress.
I said something like, "What did you pay for it? Maybe $15 or $20? I'll give you $40 for it right now and you make $20. Or, you can sit on it until it dies in your crowded tank with 30 clowns and 2 foxface butterfly fish."
He sold it to me. :bounce:
I just love a good deal. :mrgreen:
Now if the little bastard takes a dump and dies--I'm gonna feel like an idiot.
