Several years ago I was on the receiving end of a quality complaint too
I lady who wrote a letter to the aquariums head office because I’d refused (politely) to sell her a Diodon Holocanthus (Spiny marine porcupine/pufferfish) for her freshwater aquarium.

The same woman (a few months before) also wanted me to pop around to her house and check the tank was in working order, this I did and found that her tank was ‘at least’ 4 times over stocked, as a responsible aquarium retailer we tried to keep an eye on the regulars and remember what sort of fish they kept and advised them otherwise if they could face problems. What this woman was doing was visiting every shop in the area and buying fish off them all, so no one had a clue what was in her tank until I visited. I bagged up all the incompatible ones and paid her out of my own pocket for them. I also made sure I called all the local shops and warned them about her.
(Kip, Wed 8 Sep 2010, 16:29, 16 replies)

You fish fascist you.

(waxdart hello., Wed 8 Sep 2010, 17:18, closed)

fiscist.

( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Wed 8 Sep 2010, 17:52, closed)

Piscist?

(Falstaff's Spiritual Successor, Wed 8 Sep 2010, 17:59, closed)

Ichthyist

(Kip, Thu 9 Sep 2010, 10:48, closed)

When I was starting to keep fish as a wee young'un, a fairly unscrupulous fish shop sold me a fresh-water crayfish, claiming it was perfectly fine to keep in a community tank. First night, it caught both my angel fish via the handy dangly down bits, then climbed into the breeding trap and eviscerated a gravid guppy. Apparently, the fish shop had lied to me.
( Happy Phantom has been to Hastings, Brighton, and Eastbourne too, Wed 8 Sep 2010, 17:53, closed)

alright....
theres no need to carp on about it...



sorry
(Studentken is looking for motivation on, Wed 8 Sep 2010, 19:12, closed)

Stop badgering him
Oh, err, hang on...what's the fish equivalent of a badger?
(MrOli is ugly, but in the morning you will be sober, Wed 8 Sep 2010, 19:35, closed)

Stop with the fish puns
They're giving me a haddock
(Don't tell him Pike i'll probably just stay in, Thu 9 Sep 2010, 12:00, closed)

This just isn't
the right plaice to complain.
(Ethelred is watching cheese grow, Wed 8 Sep 2010, 19:31, closed)

Aye
With some fish shops you might as well plaice your sole in the trust of cod.
( jim_bob can herd cats., Wed 8 Sep 2010, 19:44, closed)

LOBSTER

(Falstaff's Spiritual Successor, Wed 8 Sep 2010, 19:51, closed)

You should have tried
whiting a letter of complaint, just for the halibut.
(posthumous mince is tiptoeing through the tulips, Thu 9 Sep 2010, 2:53, closed)

A lot of shops are just out there for the profit unfortunately
mainly the ones in garden centres (that are owned buy the GC, not the aquatic retailer) and Stapeley 'We don't give a shit what you buy of us as long as we make some money' water gardens.

And crayfish are a prime example of bad sellers, also if you see any in a shop with more than 1 per tank, walk straight out again, they haven't got a clue.

Same applies to Dyed/painted fish: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Painted_fish
(Kip, Thu 9 Sep 2010, 8:56, closed)

We bought 2 pufferfish for our aquarium once
They bloody ate every other fish!
(Rubber Fish is waiting, Wed 8 Sep 2010, 22:22, closed)

well they would.
I also bet it wasn't a marine or brackish water tank either? Puffers I.e. figure 8 etc, that are portrayed as 'freshwater' do not live for long in freshwater and eat everything they can get their mouths around in the meantime.
(Kip, Thu 9 Sep 2010, 8:59, closed)

Jammed in
like sardines?
(Richy_T hundreds if not thousands of dollars, Thu 9 Sep 2010, 5:55, closed)