froggiegal

I found a LFS that rocks! It is an old type of pet store of yesteryear. The sales associate, Matt, was REALLY helpful and knowledgeable. I'd posted earlier in the week about my remaining melanochromis auratus cichlid. This pet store is willing to take "Killer" in as trade for 2 / 3 other chiclids that are not aggressive allowing me to have more than one fish in a 45G tank.

Matt spent almost a half hour attempting to fix a Millennium filter that someone gave me. (Unsuccessful, need to get an impeller for the 2000 Millennium - I believe this filter was discontinued.)

He tested the water from two of my tanks and gave me his undivided attention. Needless to say, I am willing to give that store my business over a PetCo or PetSmart.

So, have anyone of you ever traded their fish in? My husband wanted to flush him and I started thinking of getting him several females in his species so that I could breed him...but...1)I don't want to wait till the females get as big as him and 2) I don't want anymore aggressive fellows like him. I feel badly but it would allow me to finally have more than 1 fish in that tank. Your thoughts?

Thanks, everyone.

Butters

YES!!! most certainly give all of your buisness to those guys!! keep people and stores like that in buisness! I have gave fish to my LPS that I didnt get from there, I just didnt want them anymore so I gave them away instead of flushing them.

froggiegal

Hi Butters,

I'm going to be their best customer as I'm stock 3 fish tanks!

Butters

Thats good, the better your buisness the better their buisness gets!

Lucy

Wish I could find a place like that. Good for you, I'm glad you did.
I don't blame you for trading killer, it would be a shame to only be able to keep 1 fish in a 45g.

Marc

An awful lot of people think my name is Matt. But it isn't!!!

Lucy

Huh?

heartsongsinger

I've got a pleco that I'm going to be doing that with, and possible my black knife if my fish start disappearing and I don't find bodies

Marc

I may not be able to get those Yellow Labs for you for a week or two. Tomorrow we get a small fish order in. I'll see if I can get them then.

froggiegal

Marc!

My apologies....I thought you said MATT.........thanks for looking up my post. Getting "Killer" prepared for his new home. Been talking to him!

Lucy - the fellow at the fish store I went to yesterday has been a member here for a while. When I mentioned Fishlore and how great it was, he mentioned it. I told him I'd post Killer's picture so he could see him first hand. BUT, I thought it was MATT and it's in fact Marc

Thanks, Marc for getting back. And a big thank you for everyone's input.

angelfish220

So Cool!!! You met and realized you were both fishlorians! Neat!

Lucy

I thought his post was kind of random!