Newbie with a fungus problem? Q FOR RAY
OK. For future reference, when we refer to an LFS (Local Fish Store), we mean a privately owned specialized fish store where the owner and employees are a little more likely (but not definitely) to know what they are talking about. While there are going to occasionally be knowledgeable fish people at PetsMarts and other chains, you cannot count on them. Allie, who posts out here on occasion, actually works at a PetsMart but considering the thousands of PetsMart employees and the rare appearance of them in the many forums I’ve been involved in over the years, I would suspect that the majority of them only have limited knowledge from some little training program. You could ask them to explain the nitrogen cycle, Fishless Cycling and Cycling With Fish and if they can’t explain them three things, they probably know very little about modern fish keeping.
I remember when I first switched from having ponds, where I did not really have nearly as much knowledge compared to today, and could not have passed my own suggested tests above, compared to what I know today and kind of let nature take its course with the ponds but my goldfish all did well, lots of breeding, only fish loses were to predators (damned Cranes) to having my first indoor aquarium where I got some really BAD advice from PetsMart.. including a copy of the “Goldfish Care Sheet” right from the PetsMart training manual… where it suggested no more than five goldfish in a 10G Goldfish Starter tank… yes, that was in writing. I had long-bodied goldfish in my ponds and I was told that the fancy goldfish “stay small”… yeah, right!! Yes, with five goldfish in a 10G tank, they will stay small from being stunted and then they will have lots of health problems and die before they live a fraction of their expected lifespan… but they would “stay small”… but that doesn’t make it accurate or the right information to be giving folks.
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