Fish shopping today, yesterday too but today I bought. I got a orange/white lionhead I named Walden, a black/orange comet-Zipper, and an orange comet who remains nameless. The comets are in quarentine because they are feeder fish. The lionhead just came in from Apet so he was healthy enough to go in the main tank.
Yesterday's fish shopping was just depressing. The new stock just came in and was kinda crappy and the people getting fish just drive me nuts. One lady comes to walmart to buy a new goldfish for he son's one gallon spongebob tank, the last fish died in two days. The guy at the local walmart is partially knowledged about fish though and though he can't convince her not to get another goldfish he managed to get her to listen about water quality and care. Then another guy comes to pick up 50 feeder fry. He's got a 55 gallon tank with 30 feeders already. He wants 80 goldfish in a 55 gallon tank! And he doesn't feed them to anything.
Today was slightly better. I went back to walmart because I thought about their new lionheads all night. Some lady and her two kids were there buying 1 gallon corner tanks and planning to put 5 goldfish each. Walmart guy convinces them down to one. Darn kid picked the london shubunkin I wanted. Poor fish. So I got my lionhead and went to petsmart. Here I got two feeders because they wouldn't sell me the nicer commons in by the plants. I'd have paid a few times the feeder price for the ones they have by the plants, but the guy didn't want to fish them out of the plants. Why do they stick them in there then? Another worker there refused to sell a goldfish to a guy with a 2.5 gallon tank. He said the guy could get a guppy or a betta, no goldfish. Made me smile.