Stupid Guest Tricks

Ok. For those of you who don't know I work at Wal-Mart after being fired by Der Mouse. I have recently been promoted to the position of Department Manager in Pets.

So here it is. Wednsday night I was getting ready for inventory I walk by the fish tank and notice some floaters (not so unusual), but I noticed alot of floaters. I looked in tank after tank and many were dead or dying right before my eyes! Earlier in the day I left a note for my only Associate (her name rhymes with tether) to feed the fish. Well she took some inititive and changed the filter and cleaned the tanks. BUT she decided to add salt. THe most you should add is a tablespoon per small display tank. She added a POUND to each tank! You could see the waves of salt floating from the bottom of the tank. We did what we could to save them but even after changing most of the water I had lost about 2/3 by the next morning. I cleaned the tanks again, and this morning walked into another 2/3 of the survivors dead. God I am only a Dept. Manager for a week and the fish are dead! So for now on i'm calling her Killer. I have a mass murderer working for me.

Dude, thats really screwed up. I used to have like, 3 fish tanks and a koi pond, so I know quite a bit about fish related stuff.....From my experience and readings....

Most of the salted fish are going to die no matter what, they've been shocked and osmosis (freshwater fish in saltwater makes them shrivel and die if I remember correctly...) is going to screw them all up and kill them. Hope to god you get a re-stock and never let her near the tanks again.

Poor fish, I actually bought quite a few fish from Wal-Mart expecting them to die, and they outlasted my other fish. Those fish are sturdy, but people like Killer...well, they don't help. :shock:

Wow.... Poor lil fishies. ;_; *moment of silence*

For those who care the new stock of fish came in and survived the weekend. Thank god for direct deliveries.

Cujo, you need to find a copy of Henry Rollins' excellent CD "Talking From the Box", and listen to the part about when he and Ian MacKaye used to work in a pet store. The goldfish story alone is worth it, but the tale of "Bun-Bun the Rabbit" takes the cake, icing AND the candles.

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don't let Killer know this, but if you add small amounts of salt over time, some fresh water fish can be acclaimated to salt over time, i've een it done to mollies, and the think guppies, you know the sturdier types, but um, pounds of salt, that's a little on the the "too much at once" side. You might try Shock Coating, it's this stuff we used to keep on hand when i was a kid, and would do things like, grab fish, or pour things in there that shouldn't be in there (the tank that is) and that shock stuff always went in right after i got scolded, and the fish never died, but of course i lack a pound of salt, and the one did die one time, when my sister thought it's be a good idea to catch and angel fish and search our my dad to show it to him... poor little guy..