Crazy urge at the LFS

[Europhyllia]

Does anybody else get the urge to start maintenance when they get to fish stores?

It varies from store to store of course but I can't look at a tank without the urge to clean it.

Most importantly of course: removal of carcasses. I wish I could just swing by twice a week and remove all the dead stuff. It's so unappealing. I am sure it's just part of the business but it really bothers me - especially when they stay in there long enough to see the carcass again a couple of weeks later.
Obviously I can't ask: hey, do you mind if I reach in there and fling that dead mandarin in the trash? That would be weird!

Or algae. Massive amounts of algae just trigger that pruning reflex in me.

On rare occasion I feel compelled to bring a shop vac and just focus on the shop floor.

My house isn't that tidy and I don't get that way at other kinds of stores but I see fish tanks and I just want to roll up my sleeves...

[StevenSeas]

feel like that everytime i go to petco... only "LFS" (if you could call them that) for 70-100+ miles. and dont get me on the stench of the place

[Regric25]

I tell them there is a dead fish in the tank.

[ErikH]

I saw a big hippo once at TT and I asked that they move it to a different tank because it was getting beat to heck by another tang. Suprisingly, they moved it right away. That made my day.

[Third Coast Tropical]

I don't think that makes me want to clean or do maintenance, it just makes me shop elsewhere.

[RayAllen]

I don't think that makes me want to clean or do maintenance, it just makes me shop elsewhere.

+1

Yearssss ago when I worked at Petsmart our emphasis was on clean tanks. We had to do it everyday, im not sure why Small Shops do not do the same. I guarantee a place with clean tanks and attention to detail we get more customers even if prices are a little more.