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Rave, instead of complaining about it mate, use it to your advantage in these shops.
usually they have fish in that are way under priced if you know what they are buy the lot or tell your fishkeeping mates where to get them.
the only other thing to do is not go in the shop at all.

mick

There ya go Mick-
Best way to get these shops to pay attention is to milk them for their stupidity:
When you see a shop with cheap miss-labels forward to everyone you know. Buy up the stock. Soon enough they'll either learn or go under- either way, problem solved.

i've done it for years Andy, once they're bagged i tell them how much they should have cost me, just to rub salt in their wound.

mick

oh believe me m8 i do take advantage of the idiot shops as i like to call them lol. its when they are giving bad advice about fish and such that it annoys me. like selling a tiger loach as a community fish the keeper should know its not a community fish and will attack the other fish in a community tank.. as for bargains ive had plenty due to there lack of knowledge and i defo wont be complaining about that. infact just today i bought 2 striata for £1.99 each cuase the keeper didnt have a clue what they was. he told me they were stressed clowns lol and at the mo clowns round here are £8.99 at about 1inch lol so i had me a nice bargain

Rave

On the other hand it is nice to come to a shop where they DO know what they are doing. One of my favorite stores is a bit of a drive, but it is worth it. It is the FAFS (Far Away Fish Store) (as compared to LFS)
They know me there, and I was chatting with the assistant manager, about Loaches, and he says he put some in this one tank, and no label, he was going to set up a tank at home, but knowing me, he would sell them to me....

Vailantella masaii. (If that is how it is spelled). Long, thin guys with the orange dorsal stripe.
I have seen them a couple of times in my tank since I got them, but they sure hide a lot!

Like the P. Kuhlii loaches. I brought home from mt LFS today, (that I left behind on Sat), to add to the 6 I bought. It is a rare & fun occasion when we see them out & about!

This happens all the time in Sri Lanka. All loaches with stripes are Pakistani (yoyo) loaches here. I have bought, zebra, tiger, dwarf, histrionica, kubotai all branded and priced as Pakistani loaches. Works out cheaper for me. But finding loaches is hit or miss thing. The only loaches that they differentiate are clowns. So every time they get a shipment I have to go and check it out …..Just in case. I actually want to buy some yoyos now but the last few shipment of yoyo were not yoyos.

Really pays to know the species without having to run home and look them up!

Or download LOL species ID pages to your IPod.
:)
A

maybe the shops should download the guide lol

today i bought this red fin shark for £1.99


shame that the B.modestas in the tank above was £4.99 innit lol and such a shame the keeper didnt know the diff between a shark and a loach lol

Nice looking shark you have there

You should have switched round the signs for red fin shark and modestas and then you could have got a load for 1.99


Ashleigh

might have to do that next week lol it hink i was just in shock that they could mistake a modesta for a red fin shark lol

Nice looking Modesta.. Good price as well...

i couldnt wait till next week so i cleared there tank of modestas this morning and they still charged me as red fin sharks lol

just a shame they only had 3 left lol i had intentions of buying everything in the tank lol

Sweet...!!! Nice looking fish! Nice and fat.