Baby fish have to be the cutest things. ^^
I love seeing these itty bitty things grow bigger and bigger each day.
And thanks to our display tank.
I'm able to do so. ^^
You see, a while back, we decided to redo what kind of fish were in our Community display tank.
Since I'm not able to get my own bigger fish tank.
I've...kinda made this one my own.
Adding in fish I think will work.
Of course...I meant to stay in the boundaries.
As we decided that some Neon Tetras and a variety of Platys would be enough.
Only the Neons are all the same shade, and the Platys ended up just hiding in the plants like the entire time.
So I may have added a handful of guppies into the tank as well.
Because they're colorful, they swim out in the open.
And therefore our tank looks fuller. :)
In any case, the guppies are all males because we would have been overrun with babies in no time flat if we'd added in females. lol.
No,
But I did make it so there were female and male platys in the tank.
For fun. ^^
To see if they'd breed.
And they have!
We have a half dozen little baby platys swimming around in that tank now and its adorable!!
I definitely love pausing in my work day to look at them.
It's just...fun you know, to see a bunch of different fish of different sizes interacting with each other. ^^
-Sarnic Dirchi
Wednesday, September 9, 2015
Monday, September 7, 2015
MLAARE -Clean Again
I've seen a lot of different animals here at work.
Most of them I have a pretty good basic knowledge of.
And I do have to wonder....why people would ever want some of the pets as....pets.
For example. Turtles.
The Aquatic kind.
They're soo much work!
I mean, they're worse than a fish tank.
Because they can quickly get the water dirtier than a bunch of fish could.
Today, was an example of that.
To try and save our tank from looking disgusting.
We've begun feeding the aquatic turtles in little bowls.
And for the most part.
It helps.
It helps to keep the tank cleaner.
But that's not always the case, the turtles can sometimes move the bowl, spill the food into the water.
Which they did.
And the water ended up looking disgusting!
The filter was hardly working from how much food and such had entered the water.
Thankfully due to coming in a bit earlier than normal, we had time to take the twenty minutes or so to get all the water out and clean out the filter.
So now our turtles are once again in clean water!! Yay! Once again the filter works yay!
But I find it so tedious though...Aquatic Turtles.
Because you literally do need to change out that water at least once a week, if they make a mess of the food, then twice a week.
It's so much hassle.
So I applaud the people who actually make the effort to care for the turtles as pets.
Because I think they're nearly as messy as birds.
And if it can't stay clean for more than a day....why have it as a pet?
Thankfully, they're cute. So there's that saving grace. ;)
-Sarnic Dirchi
Most of them I have a pretty good basic knowledge of.
And I do have to wonder....why people would ever want some of the pets as....pets.
For example. Turtles.
The Aquatic kind.
They're soo much work!
I mean, they're worse than a fish tank.
Because they can quickly get the water dirtier than a bunch of fish could.
Today, was an example of that.
To try and save our tank from looking disgusting.
We've begun feeding the aquatic turtles in little bowls.
And for the most part.
It helps.
It helps to keep the tank cleaner.
But that's not always the case, the turtles can sometimes move the bowl, spill the food into the water.
Which they did.
And the water ended up looking disgusting!
The filter was hardly working from how much food and such had entered the water.
Thankfully due to coming in a bit earlier than normal, we had time to take the twenty minutes or so to get all the water out and clean out the filter.
So now our turtles are once again in clean water!! Yay! Once again the filter works yay!
But I find it so tedious though...Aquatic Turtles.
Because you literally do need to change out that water at least once a week, if they make a mess of the food, then twice a week.
It's so much hassle.
So I applaud the people who actually make the effort to care for the turtles as pets.
Because I think they're nearly as messy as birds.
And if it can't stay clean for more than a day....why have it as a pet?
Thankfully, they're cute. So there's that saving grace. ;)
-Sarnic Dirchi
Saturday, September 5, 2015
MLAARE -Loosing Fish
Sometimes I wonder if people come into the store and hex our fish.
Seriously I do.
Do they somehow sneak in in the middle of the night (doubtful due to alarms) and hexed them? Or did they just sneak inside and somehow put poison into our waters?
So.
Last week we got in a shipment of goldfish. The feeder fish.
The ones that people use in carnivals, feed other animals, or keep in ponds.
We had a ton of Large ones. Enough that I had to put them in another tank to keep from overcrowding the other two that I had. The number ended up being around 600 this week.
We also had medium, that were much needed. Also totaling around 600 or so.
Then we had smalls, that we were low on and so were expecting a shipment of them next week.
This week, on Tuesday, we got in that shipment of fish.
But we also got in more medium fish. :S
Bringing our total fish number up to around 1,000.
()_() That's ALOT of fish. And regrettably I didn't divide those ones up further from two tanks into three.
As well as some more small fish. Bringing the total up to 600ish.
So a day later, when I went through to update the fish numbers to make sure that we had approximately the number that the computer system thought we had.
Again that was like 600, 1,000 and 600 fish.
So over 2,000 fish.
A lot.
It was great.
The dead fish weren't anything out of the usual. You usually have a few die.
So I left soon after my shift.
Thinking nothing was wrong.
Apparently something was wrong, as a coworker noticed that the goldfish were beginning to gasp at the surface for air. Usually meaning that a) one of the tanks water valves had blocked up an easy fix. or b) they were suffering from Ammonia burn. Where the gills had basically been burned from too much ammonia in the water.
Considering that we had so many fish...that's not uncommon. So it was decided to treat for ammonia. Just in case.
In any case....when I came in the next day...
I noticed that there were dead fish. :S
More than there had been yesterday.
It didn't look too bad.
But...it got worse when I was finally able to pull out the dead.
We have different size baggies to bag up the fish right?
Well we have one that is like 4 inches by 12 inches.
And I basically filled that bag full of fish. There was like an inch or two of free space.
But that bag was full. Full of dead goldfish.
I pulled at least 200 possibly up to 400 goldfish then.
So from 2000 down to 1600.
That's not good...
I did everything I could think of to help the fish. Cleaned the system, fed them, adjusted water flow, tested for chemical imbalances. See if the Ammonia was out of control, or the Nitrates or Nitrites...things that could kill the fish.
Nothing.
Everything was normal.
There was nothing out of the ordinary!
And yet,
Thrice more during my 8 hour shift, I pulled out more and more dead fish.
I lost like 200 Large.
I lost like 200 Small.
I lost like 600 Medium. :S
Yah, I'd lost basically half of our Medium fish within one shift. ONE shift.
And they were still dying off when I left!
And continued dying off.
For no visible reason!
Seriously.
Did someone poison our fish!
I came in today to find.
No Smalls. (we got in another shipment and sold those ones, but the 600 before that. Dead.)
A handful of Mediums. Like...20 of them.
And then like 200 Large ones.
So out of 2000 fish.
I had like 200 fish left.
And those ones weren't looking good either.
It won't surprise me if they die off in the next couple of days as well.
but HOW!
How can we go from 2000 fish to 200?!?!
It doesn't make sense.
Nothing was out of the ordinary!!
Why?
I'll probably never know.
*exhales.*
And that's annoying.
-Sarnic Dirchi
Seriously I do.
Do they somehow sneak in in the middle of the night (doubtful due to alarms) and hexed them? Or did they just sneak inside and somehow put poison into our waters?
So.
Last week we got in a shipment of goldfish. The feeder fish.
The ones that people use in carnivals, feed other animals, or keep in ponds.
We had a ton of Large ones. Enough that I had to put them in another tank to keep from overcrowding the other two that I had. The number ended up being around 600 this week.
We also had medium, that were much needed. Also totaling around 600 or so.
Then we had smalls, that we were low on and so were expecting a shipment of them next week.
This week, on Tuesday, we got in that shipment of fish.
But we also got in more medium fish. :S
Bringing our total fish number up to around 1,000.
()_() That's ALOT of fish. And regrettably I didn't divide those ones up further from two tanks into three.
As well as some more small fish. Bringing the total up to 600ish.
So a day later, when I went through to update the fish numbers to make sure that we had approximately the number that the computer system thought we had.
Again that was like 600, 1,000 and 600 fish.
So over 2,000 fish.
A lot.
It was great.
The dead fish weren't anything out of the usual. You usually have a few die.
So I left soon after my shift.
Thinking nothing was wrong.
Apparently something was wrong, as a coworker noticed that the goldfish were beginning to gasp at the surface for air. Usually meaning that a) one of the tanks water valves had blocked up an easy fix. or b) they were suffering from Ammonia burn. Where the gills had basically been burned from too much ammonia in the water.
Considering that we had so many fish...that's not uncommon. So it was decided to treat for ammonia. Just in case.
In any case....when I came in the next day...
I noticed that there were dead fish. :S
More than there had been yesterday.
It didn't look too bad.
But...it got worse when I was finally able to pull out the dead.
We have different size baggies to bag up the fish right?
Well we have one that is like 4 inches by 12 inches.
And I basically filled that bag full of fish. There was like an inch or two of free space.
But that bag was full. Full of dead goldfish.
I pulled at least 200 possibly up to 400 goldfish then.
So from 2000 down to 1600.
That's not good...
I did everything I could think of to help the fish. Cleaned the system, fed them, adjusted water flow, tested for chemical imbalances. See if the Ammonia was out of control, or the Nitrates or Nitrites...things that could kill the fish.
Nothing.
Everything was normal.
There was nothing out of the ordinary!
And yet,
Thrice more during my 8 hour shift, I pulled out more and more dead fish.
I lost like 200 Large.
I lost like 200 Small.
I lost like 600 Medium. :S
Yah, I'd lost basically half of our Medium fish within one shift. ONE shift.
And they were still dying off when I left!
And continued dying off.
For no visible reason!
Seriously.
Did someone poison our fish!
I came in today to find.
No Smalls. (we got in another shipment and sold those ones, but the 600 before that. Dead.)
A handful of Mediums. Like...20 of them.
And then like 200 Large ones.
So out of 2000 fish.
I had like 200 fish left.
And those ones weren't looking good either.
It won't surprise me if they die off in the next couple of days as well.
but HOW!
How can we go from 2000 fish to 200?!?!
It doesn't make sense.
Nothing was out of the ordinary!!
Why?
I'll probably never know.
*exhales.*
And that's annoying.
-Sarnic Dirchi
Thursday, September 3, 2015
MLAARE -Missing Count
So, this week we ran into a very large problem.
In the fact that the number of crickets our inventory said that we had....
We didn't in fact have.
And the number was high.
Very high. Multiple thousands high.
Like...adding it all up, the numbers indicated that we had 'lost' two of our three shipments of crickets.
O.o
Things like that don't just happen.
(Though part of the problem is we hadn't updated the count in a couple of weeks...so the numbers halfway made sense in the end.)
Where are all our crickets going?
No idea.
No. idea.
How could we not have thousands of crickets?!
We can't have had that many get loose.
We can't have had that many extra be bagged for customers....
Were they all dying? It hardly seemed like so.
But in an attempt to figure out where all our crickets are going.
I had the 'fun' task this week,
Of counting the crickets that came in.
To make sure that we were getting in the numbers that the company said they were sending us.
Don't worry, I didn't have to count each cricket one by one.
O.o That would have taken a ton of time I didn't have, especially considering we got over a thousand crickets in per box. :S (or we should.)
It's a good thing that I did so.
Because in our second shipment of crickets for the week...
The company was really, really off on their numbers.
I mean missing a 100 or so is understandable.
They don't count crickets one by one either.
But we had over half of shipment missing!!
The numbers they 'sent' us were over exaggerated by 500-800 crickets!
No wonder our missing cricket number is so high!
We can't exactly sell insects that we don't have.....
Ugh.
Thankfully, if the error is caught early enough, we can send in for additional crickets.
Which I did so immediately.
I mean...the weekend is coming up....we need those crickets.
-Sarnic Dirchi
In the fact that the number of crickets our inventory said that we had....
We didn't in fact have.
And the number was high.
Very high. Multiple thousands high.
Like...adding it all up, the numbers indicated that we had 'lost' two of our three shipments of crickets.
O.o
Things like that don't just happen.
(Though part of the problem is we hadn't updated the count in a couple of weeks...so the numbers halfway made sense in the end.)
Where are all our crickets going?
No idea.
No. idea.
How could we not have thousands of crickets?!
We can't have had that many get loose.
We can't have had that many extra be bagged for customers....
Were they all dying? It hardly seemed like so.
But in an attempt to figure out where all our crickets are going.
I had the 'fun' task this week,
Of counting the crickets that came in.
To make sure that we were getting in the numbers that the company said they were sending us.
Don't worry, I didn't have to count each cricket one by one.
O.o That would have taken a ton of time I didn't have, especially considering we got over a thousand crickets in per box. :S (or we should.)
It's a good thing that I did so.
Because in our second shipment of crickets for the week...
The company was really, really off on their numbers.
I mean missing a 100 or so is understandable.
They don't count crickets one by one either.
But we had over half of shipment missing!!
The numbers they 'sent' us were over exaggerated by 500-800 crickets!
No wonder our missing cricket number is so high!
We can't exactly sell insects that we don't have.....
Ugh.
Thankfully, if the error is caught early enough, we can send in for additional crickets.
Which I did so immediately.
I mean...the weekend is coming up....we need those crickets.
-Sarnic Dirchi
Wednesday, September 2, 2015
MLAARE -Late Opening
Wow.
It's been a while since this has happened.
A really, long while.
I drove to work this morning,
like normal.
And came into the parking lot.
Like Normal.
But what wasn't normal...
Was the fact that there were people still sitting in the cars in the parking lot.
With what time I come in right now...
The stockers are always in the store already working before me.
To have them still outside waiting...
With no manager car in sight....
That did not Bode Well.
So I parked my car, got out and went to the nearest car and asked my coworker "What's up?"
"The manager hasn't shown up yet."
"Do you know which one is supposed to come in today?"
(I honestly don't pay attention...I knew when the manager over me specifically was coming in, but didn't know which one was supposed to be in now.)
"No...I called Masto and he said he wasn't scheduled to work today, and I texted Daldon but he didn't respond."
"Oh...what time were they supposed to be here."
"Thirty minutes ago."
:S
So I told my coworker that I would call Sirch -as he was the only other manager number we had. To see if he knew who was supposed to be in, or if he could contact Dot or Turk.
So I gave Sirch a call...
I felt really bad about waking him up so early in the morning..... But we really needed to get the store open and running....
He wasn't aware of who was supposed to come in, but said he'd call Turk who he'd overheard mention that he might come in early, and get back to us.
He got back to us...and said that Turk would be there in half an hour.
:S
Which was....bad because Grooming was supposed to open in half an hour, the Vet was supposed to open in half an hour....Customers would begin showing up to take their pets to both places in half an hour...
But at least it was better than like two hours later....when Turk was actually scheduled to come in.
So, while we waited, I spent the time getting in and out of my car to speak to each car that would show up to say that we had a bit of a miscommunication and that our manager wasn't here yet, but he'd be here soon.
Thankfully. He showed up when he said he would. So we were able to do a mass exodus into the store and start rushing like crazy to get everything done.
I'm glad that we managed to get a manager to come in....because it would have been rather awkward....to sit out there for a couple of hours without anyway to contact anyone.....
-Sarnic Dirchi
It's been a while since this has happened.
A really, long while.
I drove to work this morning,
like normal.
And came into the parking lot.
Like Normal.
But what wasn't normal...
Was the fact that there were people still sitting in the cars in the parking lot.
With what time I come in right now...
The stockers are always in the store already working before me.
To have them still outside waiting...
With no manager car in sight....
That did not Bode Well.
So I parked my car, got out and went to the nearest car and asked my coworker "What's up?"
"The manager hasn't shown up yet."
"Do you know which one is supposed to come in today?"
(I honestly don't pay attention...I knew when the manager over me specifically was coming in, but didn't know which one was supposed to be in now.)
"No...I called Masto and he said he wasn't scheduled to work today, and I texted Daldon but he didn't respond."
"Oh...what time were they supposed to be here."
"Thirty minutes ago."
:S
So I told my coworker that I would call Sirch -as he was the only other manager number we had. To see if he knew who was supposed to be in, or if he could contact Dot or Turk.
So I gave Sirch a call...
I felt really bad about waking him up so early in the morning..... But we really needed to get the store open and running....
He wasn't aware of who was supposed to come in, but said he'd call Turk who he'd overheard mention that he might come in early, and get back to us.
He got back to us...and said that Turk would be there in half an hour.
:S
Which was....bad because Grooming was supposed to open in half an hour, the Vet was supposed to open in half an hour....Customers would begin showing up to take their pets to both places in half an hour...
But at least it was better than like two hours later....when Turk was actually scheduled to come in.
So, while we waited, I spent the time getting in and out of my car to speak to each car that would show up to say that we had a bit of a miscommunication and that our manager wasn't here yet, but he'd be here soon.
Thankfully. He showed up when he said he would. So we were able to do a mass exodus into the store and start rushing like crazy to get everything done.
I'm glad that we managed to get a manager to come in....because it would have been rather awkward....to sit out there for a couple of hours without anyway to contact anyone.....
-Sarnic Dirchi
MRS - TV
You know what's irritating?
I expressed that I really wished I had cable TV.
So that I could watch a ton of shows. Especially shows of the current seasons, or shows that I like that aren't on Netflix.
And one of my new roommates stated that she is "Happy with what I have."
Which actually.
Is NOTHING!
The only thing she 'has' is MY Netflix.
The only thing she 'has' is MY TV. MY DVD Player. My Amazing Roommate's VCR player.
Everything she uses to watch TV.
Isn't HERS.
Of course she's happy.
She's NOT PAYING FOR IT!
Would she be so content with what she had if the Netflix went away? If the DVD player went away? If the TV moved into my room?
Most definitely not.
No. She's liking being able to take advantage of the other roommate's kindness.
Watching shows on my Netflix.
>.<
Definitely not happy about that statement.
Seriously. With how much Netflix they watch,, I do think the cable could possibly be worth it to get.... *sighs*
-Sarnic Dirchi
I expressed that I really wished I had cable TV.
So that I could watch a ton of shows. Especially shows of the current seasons, or shows that I like that aren't on Netflix.
And one of my new roommates stated that she is "Happy with what I have."
Which actually.
Is NOTHING!
The only thing she 'has' is MY Netflix.
The only thing she 'has' is MY TV. MY DVD Player. My Amazing Roommate's VCR player.
Everything she uses to watch TV.
Isn't HERS.
Of course she's happy.
She's NOT PAYING FOR IT!
Would she be so content with what she had if the Netflix went away? If the DVD player went away? If the TV moved into my room?
Most definitely not.
No. She's liking being able to take advantage of the other roommate's kindness.
Watching shows on my Netflix.
>.<
Definitely not happy about that statement.
Seriously. With how much Netflix they watch,, I do think the cable could possibly be worth it to get.... *sighs*
-Sarnic Dirchi
Tuesday, September 1, 2015
MLAARE -Unknown Brand
Sometimes I wonder at people.
Who look like they've been wandering around the store for a while.
And finally come up to you and ask:
"Do you carry Dog Food?" -or "Where's the Dog Food?"
I had a customer ask me such a question today.
So I politely pointed it out to them. Telling them that our Dog Food was the last five isles on the right.
O.o "What?"
The dog food is on the last five isles on the right.
From the way he spoke, it sounded like he had only believed that we would have on type of dog food here.
Oh, dear poor customer. We have like thirty different brands of food.
So I asked him, what brand he was looking for.
"I don't know, my wife told me she bought it here."
.....Well, since I have no idea who your wife is, and I can't telepathically connect to her to ask her...I have no idea what you're looking for.
He then went on to add "It had a picture of a dachshund on it, that's what my wife told me."
Okaaay..... that narrows it down to like....7 brands of dog food....
"Just show me where it is."
So I showed him a couple of different bags that had pictures of dachshunds. Or at least, pointed them out to him, he wasn't really doing well with the 'following me' concept. He wouldn't come down any of the isles.
'Give me the smallest bag." Was all he would say.
So I grabbed the smallest bag, and brought it back to him.
"Do you represent this brand?" He demanded.
O.o Uh....no. I just work here, We just carry it.
-I'm pretty sure he was asking to see if I went to that brand in particular because I was affiliated with it. So I'd get credit for selling it to a customer, or something like that.
No, I only grabbed that brand of dog food because I knew it had a picture of a dachshund on it. Because that was the only information you gave me on what it had.
"Is this the correct brand of food?"
I have no idea dude. Its your dog, its your bag of food, how can you live with a dog and not know what brand of food you have?!
Honestly.
If you're sending someone to grab things for you from the store.
You should be super specific.
"Get me 30 crickets." Is great and all...but we have large or small crickets.
"Get me a filter." Great...which one? We have twelve different brands and 3 different sizes in each brand.
"I need some fish." What kind of fish do you already have? "I don't know, they needed more fish." ....okay...well some fish would eat other fish...so you kinda need to know that.
"Go get some dog food."
What brand? What age? What flavor??
Honestly. It helps to be super specific because it makes everyone's lives easier in the long run.
-Sarnic Dirchi
Who look like they've been wandering around the store for a while.
And finally come up to you and ask:
"Do you carry Dog Food?" -or "Where's the Dog Food?"
I had a customer ask me such a question today.
So I politely pointed it out to them. Telling them that our Dog Food was the last five isles on the right.
O.o "What?"
The dog food is on the last five isles on the right.
From the way he spoke, it sounded like he had only believed that we would have on type of dog food here.
Oh, dear poor customer. We have like thirty different brands of food.
So I asked him, what brand he was looking for.
"I don't know, my wife told me she bought it here."
.....Well, since I have no idea who your wife is, and I can't telepathically connect to her to ask her...I have no idea what you're looking for.
He then went on to add "It had a picture of a dachshund on it, that's what my wife told me."
Okaaay..... that narrows it down to like....7 brands of dog food....
"Just show me where it is."
So I showed him a couple of different bags that had pictures of dachshunds. Or at least, pointed them out to him, he wasn't really doing well with the 'following me' concept. He wouldn't come down any of the isles.
'Give me the smallest bag." Was all he would say.
So I grabbed the smallest bag, and brought it back to him.
"Do you represent this brand?" He demanded.
O.o Uh....no. I just work here, We just carry it.
-I'm pretty sure he was asking to see if I went to that brand in particular because I was affiliated with it. So I'd get credit for selling it to a customer, or something like that.
No, I only grabbed that brand of dog food because I knew it had a picture of a dachshund on it. Because that was the only information you gave me on what it had.
"Is this the correct brand of food?"
I have no idea dude. Its your dog, its your bag of food, how can you live with a dog and not know what brand of food you have?!
Honestly.
If you're sending someone to grab things for you from the store.
You should be super specific.
"Get me 30 crickets." Is great and all...but we have large or small crickets.
"Get me a filter." Great...which one? We have twelve different brands and 3 different sizes in each brand.
"I need some fish." What kind of fish do you already have? "I don't know, they needed more fish." ....okay...well some fish would eat other fish...so you kinda need to know that.
"Go get some dog food."
What brand? What age? What flavor??
Honestly. It helps to be super specific because it makes everyone's lives easier in the long run.
-Sarnic Dirchi
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