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Thanks folks, I guess I'm sorta spoiled in respects to the fish I have access to.

Thanks again for the pleco i.d. I pointed the fish out to a manager, now I get to dictate the price and I'm supposed to look the fish up. About time they trust me with something

The humpheads here are going for $20 per.

Yep, those garnets are awesome. Again, some of my favorite tetras. They're slow sellers, but that's because our fw customers have no taste whatsoever.

I was stupid and forgot to take a pic of the big 'ol flagtail. I'll bring the camera in next weekend, I promise. You'll see it and Flapjack (a large ray) when I post the pics.

Sad to say, but I think I'm going to look for a new job. Though I love the fish selection here and I generally dig the prices, I'm fed up with the staff. I like my co-workers, but they don't seem to work very hard. The managers are worse; though I'm too naive to notice everything, they do seem to be very inflexible with hours (bad news for me) and also seem to be taking advantage of me. I'm looking into another pet store; this one is closer to my house, so that would shorten my commute from forty minutes to twenty. I'm going for a more flexible schedule, perhaps higher wages (I'm making $.60 above minimum wage now), nicer management, and I'll probably have more clout there. They kind of know me, which is a plus. Hopefully I won't be bottom scum if I can move to this other store.



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Nice clown, too bad he's not showing off his fins.

Mandarins.



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Ooh, nice Prochilodus and Otorongo... I haven't seen Prochilodus that large in a fish store before...

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I love that honey gourmis

And the L200

Last edited by alex at 13-Jun-2005 21:09


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Last set-

Our highly-active Cochu's blues:





Newly-arrived Corydoras eques:


New C. elegans happily eating:


Honey gourami of some color type:


The big bad Characin:


Flapjack, the large Otorongo stingray:


A lovely saddleback clown:


Mandarin gobies:



A *lovely* little anemone. Anybody want some?


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They look a lot like Head and Tail Light Tetras, and are in the same genus.



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so thats what my sister has, a garnet, hers is very flashy always has great color, i will see if i can get a pic of it and if it isnt a garnet, is there a fish that closly resembles it?
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Wow! Nice catfish More catfish pics please
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LPS. The place I work at is fish-centered, half the store is fish stuff. The other store is tiny, and is still probably 1/2 to 1/3 fish. If I worked there, I'd be working the registers, reptiles, small animals, and fish all at once. That's the major problem I have with it.

My area has a terrible selection of pet stores, I have to drive forty minutes (current commute) to find a city with decent ones. The closest three are the one I'm looking at and two chains. I don't want to work either chain store, especially since I had a terrible experience at one.

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"that's because our fw customers have no taste whatsoever"

I'll say. I've never even seen one away from my compter monitor before, but if I ever do, they'll be gone faster than you can say "what the hell is his problem?"

Also, you weren't too far off on your original assumption; sultans and triactus belong to the same genus.

Humpheads are 15 per here, ten with the employee discount.

Are you working at an LFS or an LPS (Local Pet Store, but you probably knew that already)? I work at a herp based center, where fish are secondary (we only have one SW tank that houses only archers and one old scat). This is not to say that we don't have a huge freaking selection of freshwater fish, but the boss isn't exactly the brightest bulb in the book when it comes to icthyoids, hence why after hiring me and another guy (he does a lot of tang, malawi, and CA, so we complement each other pretty well), fish sales dramatically improved. If the next store doesn't work out for you, you should try maybe a herp or a small furry mammal focused store, so the employees won't look down on you and you'll be in demand. Good luck with everything.

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I took my camera to work yesterday to nab some photos of certain fish. I decided not to limit myself, and also took some pictures of some of my favorites. Not all of them cooperated, but I got some pretty good photos of the ones that did. Enjoy!

Corydoras davidsandsi:


A L200 (green phantom) pleco with tankmates:


A mature L264 sultan pleco in its cave:


Corydoras melini:


Some C. robinae:





C. sodalis:



A C. metae:
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nice pics! I'm especialy drawn to the C. sodalis.



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good shot sirbooks, btw did u get any pics of the flag fin fish?
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Really? We get humps rather cheap around here.

P.S.: Holy MOLY, those are the most striking garnet tetras I've ever seen.
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Sweet. I have yet to see Humphead Glassfish in person, but if I did I probably would avoid buying a school. Price, you know... I haven't even gotten Congos or Glass Catfish before.

LoL, that Royal is so cute. It's tiny!

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Catfish also happen to be five times easier to photograph, Liana. You can see proof of this through the next batch of pics.

Oh, my bad. It got mixed in with our sultans, then. I figured that since that was the largest pleco, it just had changed colors a bit. I'm still sorta mainstream on plecs.:%)

More pics...

Garnet tetras (Hemigrammus pulcher). Some of my favorite tetras:






Royal plec pics:






Humphead glassfish- these punks wouldn't stop swimming:


More C. metae:




C. polystictus:


Whachamacallit whiptail:


Panda cory:


C. robinae:


Gold rams:


C. schwartzi:


Festivum:
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And I thought I was going crazy when I thought that the fish in the pot was a Three Beacon Plec when he was telling me it was a Sultan... Glad to know I'm not that bad with my plecs.:%)

L200 looks sweet, and those C. robinae actually look pretty damn cool.

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That's not a L-264, pal--that's a three beacon . L 91, I think.
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*Cough*Maybe if we got in some sw fish that I like, such as pink skunk clowns or certain hawkfish*cough*

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Haha...

Sirbooks...the resident FP catfish freak.

Aside from Natalie that is.

You two would make a good couple.

We had one of those neat green plecos at work...scary thing. He was huge. I remember having to get him for a customer...lets just say I wasn't too dry after that catch.

Lets see some REAL pictures...*cough* SALTWATER

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