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 Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 7:38 am
Hi there everyone!
My name is Prophyt
Otherwise known as The Crimson Ninja here on Gaia and the Wal-Mart Ninja* at work.
I currently am working in the Pets Department of a Wal-mart Supercenter (one that still has live fish)
And if ya got any questions, I'll do my best to answer them.
* I devised a patch to go on the back of my vest, so it read "How May I Kill You?" instead of "How May I Help You?", and also designed a Naruto-style ninja headband with a smiley face in the middle where the tribe symbol would normally be located
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Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 5:13 pm
Welcome Prop!
Tell me do you wear that entourage to your work?
Oh and just to stay on topic, what's your favorite fish?
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Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 6:23 pm
Nah.
I altered it after we started wearing regular uniforms back in June
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my favorite fish (which we sell, of course, since I don't usually go into other pet stores) are the regular black mollies
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Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 3:50 am
Nice, I'm not to big on live breeders, though I do find Dalmation Mollies and Sailfin Mollies quite appealing.
If I ever get my my hands on them, I think I'd love to try endlers, somehow I find them prettier then the guppys. Though I am a fan of wild guppies.
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Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 7:44 am
OOOOH livebearers. o.o
Welcome to the guild, How are you?
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Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 10:24 am
Yeah
The only livebearing fish that we still sell at Wal-Mart are the Black and Marble (Dalmation) Mollies, assorted breeds of Platies, and Fancy Gupppies
Although, we no longer sell the female guppies
I'm okay
How are you?
And thanks
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Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2007 12:58 pm
I love sword tails. They make me happy, even if they are all evil, lol. (Mine have been anyway, territorial little buggers )
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Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2007 2:40 pm
They are? I all ways pegged them as sweet tempered community fish. sweatdrop
Never kept them so I don't really know.
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Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 5:45 am
Mollies can be territorial in large numbers...
like the numbers we keep in our aquariums...
they like to nibble
o.o
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Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 6:59 am
Heh, I know about mollies, even in small numbers it happens I guess.
I used to have dalmations, and one female got very nippy after she had young.
It got so bad we had to bring her back to the store.
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Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 8:26 pm
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Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 8:33 pm
one other thing about live-bearers
they like to eat their young
^^;
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Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 11:12 pm
Hiya!
Oh you work with fish, that's interesting. (:
Walmart has such a terrible rep for keeping their fish healthy though. I guess it can differ from store to store. How is yours on keeping them in good shape?
The Walmart near me used to have the most disgusting display of tanks I have ever seen in my entire life. One time the sight was so horrific, I actually couldn't help myself from rescuing a particularly dead-looking and parasite ridden goldfish. He was a little ranchu that was just floating around in the tank, a massive anchor worm attached to his rump, and God knows what else.
The woman working in that department thought I was completely mad, and asked me several times if I was sure I wanted that one, and tried to tell me that he didn't look like he would survive the next 5 minutes, much less the rest of the night.
Oh yes. I was definitely sure. Definitely sure I was insane, at least.
Anyway--the little guy survived and I still have him over a year later. Course now that I bragged on his miraculous recovery the little buggar is going to die just to spite me. b*****d. xd
But yeah, I hope your Walmart is much better than mine was! Thankfully they don't carry live fish anymore.
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Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 8:26 pm
Our old department manager didn't really care about the fish all that much...
But he was just looking forward to retirement anyway.
We got a new DM back in July and he orders a whole lot more fish to keep the tanks full and we clean regularly and actually have gravel in some of the tanks.
We don't really have the time to clean out the dead fish all the time, but we do it at least twice daily and we treat all our tanks for the most common fish ailments...
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Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2007 4:54 pm
Glad to hear your tanks are quite well maintained biggrin
It's sad when a person neglects his job, regardless of what it is, just because he/she knows he's going to leave it soon.
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