Sadly, that pet store is not what it used to be. The owner got greedy and then the economy crashed... so between those 2 things, it is now one of the worst stores around. The educated staff has all since quit (can't pay back student loans on minimum wage) and now it is staffed with a handful of teenagers who don't know one end of a fish from another. The tanks that we once took such good care of are now neglected and full of sick/dying/dead fish. Even me and my husband avoid going in there now days just because we can't handle seeing the condition things are in.
Dawn
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--- On Tue, 3/22/11, Larry Blanchard <labl@comcast.net> wrote:
From: Larry Blanchard <labl@comcast.net>
Subject: Re: [tropical fish club] Re: How we got into this
To: tropicalfishclub@yahoogroups.com
Date: Tuesday, March 22, 2011, 6:22 PM
On 03/22/2011 01:09 PM, milwaukee_mermaid wrote:
> When I reached my early 20's I took a job at a pet store. That began a career I had never imagined. He paid me to get educated, offered me a place for the experience and research. As I studied my way through every species available to the retail market the boss would order as many of those species as possible, providing me with live research materials/specimens. It took the first year working there to read my way through the entire library of fish books, and then I moved on to live plants, and from there to saltwater. Seminars, formal schooling, etc. were all mandatory for this job. My bosses were all well educated (formally), all of them having degrees in things like aquatic biology, ecology, botany, etc.
Where is this pet store? I may have to move :-).
Larry B
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