Don't Overcrowd It

 Had a couple of girls come into the store today looking to get some fish for their 'tank.'

In typical fashion the girls didn't know exactly how big it was and kinda gave an approximate size to what they had.

Which seemed to be around a 2 gallonish tank.

Which usually means getting a betta fish.

But the one girl wanted more fish than that. She wanted like 10 goldfish in that little tank because she wanted 'a ton of fish' in her tank.

It was a bit of a shock to her when I flat out told her if she put 10 goldfish in that small of a space at least 8 of them would probably die.

Apparently the concept of overcrowding hadn't really occurred to her.

Probably because the customers saw our tanks filled with a ton of fish in them...not realizing that all our tanks are considered to be one big tank as they're all connected to each other. 

So yah.

The customer ended up buying '5 goldfish' to split between two tanks and then an extra 2 goldfish for a friend.

*exhales*

I couldn't argue against it. But if she does try to put all 7 together in the tank I hope she quickly realizes that I was right in saying that doing that many together was a bad idea.

-Sarnic Dirchi