Silliest T advice you've ever heard at a pet store

[jme]

ohh man that just reminded me when i bought my H. Lividum from one of the LP's here i realy need to stop going into these damn pet stores, the guy whent to grab it with his hand hahaha the look on his face after it jumped at him was priceless, he asked after arent these ones docile i wanted to say yes just reach in and grab him so bad

 

[gumby]

good job not going with your gut on that one I know it was hard ;P

 

[jme]

its realy hard sometimes to keep cool or not lose it on the dumb managers that work at these places, most of the time its not the younge staff they really dont know any better but there reptile specialist and managers should no better it realy pisses me off , there should be a law introduced and a majority of these places should be smacked in the face with animal abuse charges, fines and there buisnesses striped from them

 

[christian77]

I was in my lps yesterday buying crickets and was checking out an A.avic they had. and we started talking about T's and I mentioned that I had 3 A.avics already. she then asked what color they were because the black ones were males and the brown ones were females :? . I just said good to know and took my crickets.

 

[jrmrbcax]

Stopped by a pet store last night and saw this carp.

LOOK AT THIS AVIC!

 

[ReMoVeR]

OH MY GOD :O cmon... get them some Tarantulas Keeper Guide Book plz :\ that just shock me as hell!

//Tiago

 

[Autumnvicky]

At least their giving them water instead of sponges

 

[Moltar]

Ugh, sand. Those poor little arachnoid souls...

 

[WelshTan]

The sand is bad. . .one thing thats good tho is at least theyre not squashed into tiny little boxes half the size of their legspan which i see happening in the 3 lps near me.

 

[KoffinKat138]

i was in this one pet store and they had a Avic,
and this one guy wanted me to buy 2 blocks of eco earth,
cause he said they love to burrow.

 

[mariemaria]

Stopped by a pet store last night and saw this carp.

LOOK AT THIS AVIC!

ooo, i bet they're all aggresive by now. Great, so whoever buys one is going to get a nasty bite...

 

[Aurelia]

ooo, i bet they're all aggresive by now. Great, so whoever buys one is going to get a nasty bite...

Why would they be aggressive? My G. rosea was kept on sand for years by her previous owner and she was never aggressive. :?

 

[ashisnothereman]

australian pet stores are no different. they keep the Ts on stupid substrates like sand, spagh moss or bark chips. they will have a small fake aquarium hide for it and they look half dead. ive been given a care sheet that tells you to keep them like this from a pet store!

they tell me that i should buy Ts from them and not from online suppliers that know what theyre doing because they say its illegal to post Ts.... no it isnt... worst sales pitch ever!

most if not all pet stores are in it for the money and most people working at pet stores couldnt really give a crap about tarantulas or scorpions... i know this is off topic but they keep australian desert scorps communally and they rip each other to shreads.

also almost every T sold in australia by pet stores is sold as selenocosima crassipes when 8 times out of 10 it is not.

do not buy Ts from pet stores. do not support them. unless you know for sure they are legit and know what they are doing.

cheers ash.

 

[ZergFront]

Oh God...

The ones in the sand saddened me. It would've been hard not to buy them all - and I've never even owned tarantulas to know what sub. they should be on. Least there are no sponges on cotton..

I bet those were some fat scorpions. 0.0

 

[Memento]

From two separate chain-type pet store outlets, both cases of mistaken identity...

"It's a rare large type of rose hair. Super docile, very handleable, and they make great beginner spiders." It was a 10" T. blondi.

Not T-specific, but at the second one they had a scorpion marked as "Desert Hairy", and a worker insisted that while venomous, a sting wouldn't be much worse than a hornet. This would have been true, had it actually been a species of desert hairy, but it was a LQ. When I pointed this out, the guy admitted that they were only guessing at what it was, since their dealer supplied it marked only as "gold scorpion". Thankfully, it got removed from the sales floor.

 

[endoflove]

not that its not fun to rip on pet stores and stuff (most of them diserve it) but you guys have such a problom with it then why dont you get a part time job at one?

just grabing the tarantulas they have and splitting to never go back there again dosent solve much of a problom... talking to interested employees and asking if they want to learn a thing or two is probrably a better route

well i work at a pet store where i live. im luckey im such a good sales man or i would have gootten fired a long time ago. the Tarantulas r not kept right, Heat bulbs and heat mats for an arboral tanj for a rosie, i tell teh boss he says ok ok what ever, I turn the stuff off. then waks away. they put fish that kill each other i move them to diffrent tanks, i get yelled at.... i am a great employe that goes around my bosses back to keep the kritters happy, once a week..... its sad but true i tell my customers .... this is an example of how to not keep your tarantuals!

 

[endoflove]

For me, the worst was when I saw an adult A. avic trapped in a KK that was so small its ceramic water dish took up nearly HALF OF ALL THE SPACE! Worse yet, there was no substrate and the dish had one of those cursed sponges in it!

Breaks my heart to see and hear things like this.

I even tried to get a job at Petco simply because of this. Considering I was a voulonteer (spelling?) at the local zoo at the time I figured they'd at least give some consideration after I submitted the needed papers. Alas, I never heard from them again.

ps i know this .... pet chains do not care for knolage infact if u know some thing besides the basics u wont get a job. they waht people to come in and buy and leve. if u point out whats wrong and do something diffrently they will loose momey and the fing managers will look stupid <not that they dont> They want tennage girls that can ring up the regester and say have a nice day. they want to go home and for get all this.... from the manager at pet co taht says angle fish are not cichlids and want $199 for a hlaf dead male >labled it as female< vailed chameleon that hand verry obvious calcium diffency....point is pet sores make there money on doog and cat food and could'nt care less about fish, reptile, or any invets...........>ps when i order from the petstore i work at the fing T never leaves the delli cup bought only onc H. Liv. > boss pokes it. the T lunges at him!!!

 

[endoflove]

OK I know this is about tarantulas, but here's one about pedes. i went into a petstore which had a giant centipede which was labeled as a giant millipede. I was informed that they were entirely perfect to be handled.

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[Dave]

(I cant resist ...) Man, that store is way off! That's not even a fish!

Stopped by a pet store last night and saw this carp.

 

[Sky`Scorcher]

That is so wrong but the KK's are cool. I like it black but I still can't find any. I want my enclosures uniformed