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Part II: Fish and How to Care for Them
A genuine interest in you and your aquariums.
Clean tanks and shops.
Don’t Bee dealers
Don’t Bee dealers own aquarium shops you want to avoid. They are really
quite easy to spot when you recognize the symptoms of their “I have no business
being in the tropical fish trade because I don’t really care about my job,
or I am just in it for the money” disease. Avoid these dealers at all costs!
You can recognize Don’t Bees by the following characteristics:
They’re willing to tell you to take a hike if you question the quality of
their service or livestock.
They let you stand around without offering to help you find what you are
looking for.
They spend a lot of time answering phone calls and leave you waiting for
service until they finish yacking.
They try to give you a snow job if you ask them a question they don’t
have an answer for.
They try to sell you a bunch of junk you don’t need because they believe
that you don’t know any better.
They sell fish they know are diseased just to get rid of them.
They use the same net to capture fish in all their tanks without sterilizing
it between uses.
They have dirty aquariums and a filthy shop.
They sell you fish that are not compatible just to make a few extra bucks
(which they obviously they don’t spend on the upkeep of the shop).
They refuse to go out of their way to order any special equipment or fish
for you.
They don’t keep regular store hours and show up whenever they happen
to feel like it.
They are extremely rough with the fish when bagging them up for
transport.
Wanna Bee dealers
A Wanna Bee dealer is the owner of a pet shop that appears overnight and disappears
within a few months because she didn’t have the proper finances to