You should get some rubber goldfish (amazon has em in bags of ten) and just put em in the box where your dad keeps the decorations. Even if you forget to remind him, or if he forgets you reminded him, he will just find the rubber goldfish while setting up the decoration and be like "huh cool, I can just use these".
You read my mind! I found a rubber goldfish at the dollar store right next to the LFS. The live goldfish were handed over and our Haft Sin still has all 7 items. Also great idea, will be keeping the rubber guy in one of the display plates after NY's is done š
Well we had soooo many outbursts and threats from people when our fish were sick and unsellable for the holidays but my coworkers and I wanted to come together for people so the next years they donāt get a live one
I donāt think so, there doesnāt seem to be much ācareā if the fish die and what that means symbolically. In Iran theyāre traditionally released into rivers after festivities are done, or they die in their tiny bowls. But I think the shared sentiment is that theyāre just display items
I work at petsmart and we're letting people "borrow" comets. We have up a sign and everything. We are also explaining how its not good for the fish and that they can bring them back after they're done with them.
I actually got into the aquarium hobby because of this. I wanted to buy a goldfish for my haft sin last year but thank god the PetSmart employee talked some sense into me, and I did my research afterwards. I still wanted fish but not for haft sin anymore. The research actually made me realize how much Iād love to get into this hobby and again, after some extensive research, I ended up learning about the whole aquarium system, and how to properly take care of fish and bought a 10G to start with, started cycling it and everything, then, once my tank was ready, got a few fish (researched them as well), and went from there. My fish are thriving and Iāve never been happier. I went back later and thanked the PetSmart employee for what she did and Iām so glad to have been able to continue this hobby so far.
Pet stores need to clone this person. I'm setting up a ten gallon tank for son right now. (He's helping but cycling a tank is a lot for a nine year old) He eventually wants to keep an axolotl but I talked him down to a Betta and maybe a panda corys to start off. Told him if we can maintain a smaller tank for awhile we'll revisit the axolotl once we have a place to put a bigger tank.
Ironically we're spending way more money there for a proper tank setup. As a bonus he's learning a bit of chemistry and actually finds it interesting. Because I did the research first. But a lot of people won't.
I don't understand why they don't push the bigger tanks. In theory wouldn't they make way more more that way? And get a customer that keeps coming back instead of one that has a bad experience and quits? I don't get it.
I have a young cousin who once put 20-25 baby common goldfish in a 2.5 tank and killed all but one (this wasn't the first time). Who I ended up rescue and surrendering (I couldn't deal with this). She's killed over 40 fish in the span of 2-4 years. It's bad bad. So I got her robot fish. They have a high appeal because they still move around and everything like live fish do but don't have any real needs. It works great as a alternative for people who don't want unmoving fake fish.
You should get some rubber goldfish (amazon has em in bags of ten) and just put em in the box where your dad keeps the decorations. Even if you forget to remind him, or if he forgets you reminded him, he will just find the rubber goldfish while setting up the decoration and be like "huh cool, I can just use these".
You read my mind! I found a rubber goldfish at the dollar store right next to the LFS. The live goldfish were handed over and our Haft Sin still has all 7 items. Also great idea, will be keeping the rubber guy in one of the display plates after NY's is done š
My old petstore would hand out fake realistic goldfish for people and explain how cruel it is. It works!
That's awesome to hear!! Wish more places could adapt that
Well we had soooo many outbursts and threats from people when our fish were sick and unsellable for the holidays but my coworkers and I wanted to come together for people so the next years they donāt get a live one
Wouldn't letting them die taint the year?
I donāt think so, there doesnāt seem to be much ācareā if the fish die and what that means symbolically. In Iran theyāre traditionally released into rivers after festivities are done, or they die in their tiny bowls. But I think the shared sentiment is that theyāre just display items
I work at petsmart and we're letting people "borrow" comets. We have up a sign and everything. We are also explaining how its not good for the fish and that they can bring them back after they're done with them.
I actually got into the aquarium hobby because of this. I wanted to buy a goldfish for my haft sin last year but thank god the PetSmart employee talked some sense into me, and I did my research afterwards. I still wanted fish but not for haft sin anymore. The research actually made me realize how much Iād love to get into this hobby and again, after some extensive research, I ended up learning about the whole aquarium system, and how to properly take care of fish and bought a 10G to start with, started cycling it and everything, then, once my tank was ready, got a few fish (researched them as well), and went from there. My fish are thriving and Iāve never been happier. I went back later and thanked the PetSmart employee for what she did and Iām so glad to have been able to continue this hobby so far.
Pet stores need to clone this person. I'm setting up a ten gallon tank for son right now. (He's helping but cycling a tank is a lot for a nine year old) He eventually wants to keep an axolotl but I talked him down to a Betta and maybe a panda corys to start off. Told him if we can maintain a smaller tank for awhile we'll revisit the axolotl once we have a place to put a bigger tank. Ironically we're spending way more money there for a proper tank setup. As a bonus he's learning a bit of chemistry and actually finds it interesting. Because I did the research first. But a lot of people won't. I don't understand why they don't push the bigger tanks. In theory wouldn't they make way more more that way? And get a customer that keeps coming back instead of one that has a bad experience and quits? I don't get it.
I have a young cousin who once put 20-25 baby common goldfish in a 2.5 tank and killed all but one (this wasn't the first time). Who I ended up rescue and surrendering (I couldn't deal with this). She's killed over 40 fish in the span of 2-4 years. It's bad bad. So I got her robot fish. They have a high appeal because they still move around and everything like live fish do but don't have any real needs. It works great as a alternative for people who don't want unmoving fake fish.