Saturday, April 25, 2015

MLAARE -Dead Fish Fishout

I had a customer come into the store this morning,
Why?
To try and return some fish.
More specifically some Feeder Goldfish.

Which...we can't return.
There is a no return policy on the Feeder Goldfish because well....they're meant to be used as food for animals.

These particular customers had bought like 300 of them.
For a special event.
And they'd gotten them the night before.
And left them all overnight in a single 5 gallon bucket.

....Yah....unsurprisingly.
They weren't getting enough oxygen.
The water levels were getting toxic from ammonia build up.
And...so some died overnight.

Around 50 or so of them.

So because some of them had died.
They were wanting to get some new ones.

*shakes head*
But before I caught some additional fish for them,
They wanted me to do one thing first.

Fish out all the dead fish for them.

O.o Seriously? You can't do that yourself?
Grab a net.
Scoop them out.
Easy enough.

*shakes head*

But in any case, I took like 10 or so minutes to fish out all the dead among the living fish mostly to try and make the experience as good a one as possible since things hadn't gone totally to plan for them the night before.

I also went the extra mile and took out a lot of the water from the bucket and put in fresh water so the fish would have less ammonia in their water.

Then got their gold fish, bagging them up for them.

*sighs*
Hopefully not too many more died on them.
But as a feeder goldfish....
they really can appear healthy one moment and be dead the next. There is no guarantee for them to do well, especially when they're put in less than ideal conditions....

=Sarnic Dirchi

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