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shubunkin DEM via PetKB.com 03-18-2008
Posted by on March 20, 2008, 7:25 pm
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you can also tell them to simply move the net very slowly. or keep one net
still and
move the fish toward it with another.

Actually, a WET hand is better than a net, it is less likely to strip scales or
slime
coat. best is to use your hand to move a fish towards the plastic bag.

Ingrid

you do not want a
>stressed out fish to contend with. Best to come back another day for
>it and hop[e someone that knows how to net a fish is there instead of
>the idiot that merely swipes a net around. I have seen clerks net
>fish and reach into the net with their hands to grab the fish and
>place in bag etc etc.Thats a no no, as is any time a fish hits the
>floor or touches bare hands I tellem to forget it that your no longer
>interested........and then go turn em in to the manager (not that they
>will always do anything about it though)

Posted by ExPat on March 21, 2008, 11:08 am
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On Mar 20, 6:25=A0pm, dr-s...@wi.rr.com wrote:
> you can also tell them to simply move the net very slowly. =A0or keep one =
net still and
> move the fish toward it with another. =A0
>
> Actually, a WET hand is better than a net, it is less likely to strip scal=
es or slime
> coat. =A0best is to use your hand to move a fish towards the plastic bag. =
=A0
>
> Ingrid
snip

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.

Posted by Tynk on March 19, 2008, 11:48 am
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my local petsmart guys told my that gold fish creat a mucus
> that kills other fish
>

Ah ha ha ha ha =3D )~
Oh I haven't had a good laugh like that in a while.
Like Expat, I've not heard that one before either, and I've heard
enough crap from shop employees to fill the Grand Canyon up.


Posted by DEM via PetKB.com on March 20, 2008, 6:10 pm
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if they cant cache the fish in a mater of mins i tell them to hand over the
net if i like the fish enough ...
Tynk wrote:
>my local petsmart guys told my that gold fish creat a mucus
>> that kills other fish
>
>Ah ha ha ha ha = )~
>Oh I haven't had a good laugh like that in a while.
>Like Expat, I've not heard that one before either, and I've heard
>enough crap from shop employees to fill the Grand Canyon up.

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