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[vote]go with a list but impulse buy as well [/vote]
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[vote]go with a list but impulse buy as well [/vote]
impulse buying.. all the time... I'm so bad with that at fish stores... *but I think I could use that.. some how... some where!*

[vote]go with a list but impulse buy as well [/vote]
Just a couple days ago, racso and I went and the only thing on our list was our free fish since it was the beginning of the month. Neither one of us had room for much else, nor the money for much else. So we were browsing through all the tanks as we always do... and there they were: sparkling gouramis I'd been wanting a couple for a while now, but we'd never seen them. We ended up leaving with out free platys and 4 of the gouramis. And people wonder why fishkeeping is an addiction

*off topic*

That reminds me... we both got female platys so we wouldn't end up being overrun with them. The girl who was netting them had NO CLUE how to sex them, nor did she have any idea how to net them!! Doh! ] The manager of that store once told us that she hires people only if they pass a quiz she gives them that covers the basic essentials of fish keeping. YEAH RIGHT!!! ]:|

*back on topic*

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[vote]go with a list but impulse buy as well [/vote]
I just can't help it, i see a rare fish i have to have it. But oh well its still like a box of chocolates you never know which one your gonna get.

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eeep Drives the parentals crazy...I can't tell them what I'm going for anymore, b/c then when I change my mind too much I get yelled at.

-Formerly known as the Ferretfish

[vote]go with a list and stick to it [/vote]
I tend to fall under every choice, haha, but I don't buy a fish unless I know about it. So I don't impulse buy, unless they have a fish in I really like, know about, and is potentially on my 'stocking list.' If I run accross something 'new,' I would read up on it, make adjustments to my list, and go back.
But my stocking list changes at random, depending on what fish the LFS has or can get. But it is still a list, haha, it just has different options.

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i go every week to the various lfs's in my area with a list of food raisen piranhas n mbunas n eels takes alot of food so i go for that but i have a broad based knowledge of alot of fish commonly sold so i do bring home the odd fish as well or if i see an eel or piranha i pick them up dwarf puffers to there hard to get here

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i usually go with a "mental" list which evolves slowly when i get there

[vote]other[/vote]
I mainly go for crickets and blackworms and frozen food.

[vote]other[/vote]
I can't really get any fish right now..so I just go to look and fantasize.

[vote]go with a list but impulse buy as well [/vote]
I go with a few things in mind, but I end up wandering around and lookings in all of the tanks. You know the rest of the story.



Kim

Do you:
[option1]go with a list and stick to it [/option1]
[option2]go with a list but impulse buy as well [/option2]
[option3]go with no plan in mind except fish in general [/option3]
[option4]other[/option4]

[span class="edited"][Edited by Theresa_M 2004-09-05 06:59][/span]

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[vote]go with a list and stick to it [/vote]
I know I have to be careful with what fish I put into my tanks. I know what I want when I go there.

[vote]go with a list and stick to it [/vote]
That what i'm gonna do. And some printouts from this site as well of course

[vote]other[/vote]
Had to pick other.... My tanks are well stocked now, so my intentions when visiting my lfs are to buy food and/or supplies... However I can't seem to stop myself from "browsing" --- and only recently have gained the self-discipline from REALLY overstocking when seeing a "pretty" fish ... But should I spy a "spectacular" fish that is not common in my area, I don't know how long I would be able to refrain from purchasing!!!! Then again, a 10 gal tank really doesn't cost that much...... ]

To thine own self be true...

[vote]go with a list but impulse buy as well [/vote]
Doent's everyone

[vote]go with a list and stick to it [/vote]
Looking around is great, but I like to research what I'm putting in my tank. Often at the LFS they have fish that will not fit in my 55G. Though I have to admit my koi angels were an impulse buy

[vote]go with no plan in mind except fish in general? [/vote]
I just go.. the LFS closest to my house has nice fish, but alot of them are dead in their tanks.

I went there yestrday to buy clown loaches, but they were all brown, and had that skinny disease, there was about 3 dead, and one dieing.

There was a huge pile of food in front of them, and they wernt eating it.. and they seemed to like point twords the surface and like swim in the middle of the tank.

I think im just going to buy propducts there, like filters and fishtanks.

[vote]go with a list and stick to it? [/vote]
not hard to do at my lfs. Every fish I want I have to special order.

[vote]go with no plan in mind except fish in general? [/vote]
I just go to ave a look and if there something I like I will reserve it and find some info about them then go back after I found some onfo and either buy it or get me reserve back