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I find a store that carries DP's...well at least I thought so. It was a petsmart and they had a sign for dwarf puffers...for 2.49 a piece...the tank was filled w/ other misc. fish. No DP's of course. So I talk to the dept. leader guy...and sometimes I wish people couldnt talk because it just reverals how stupid they really are. I ask him when they are due for a shipment, he replies, "I am not ordering them anymore, they are a brackish water fish and dont do well in our tanks". To which I respond with, "no imagine they wouldn't do well in a 10 gallon tank w/ 20 or more tankmates". I walk away disgusted and forget to tell him that they are NOT brackish water fish...Well in short I was wondering if Icould call him back and ask him to special order me that fish, does anyone know if this is possible?
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Do you really want him to?

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They would likely only be able to get a whole batch in. Far more than you'd likely be willing to take yourself, meaning there would be a bunch left over to fend for themselves in their poor care.

Taking a road trip to another town that has them or having them shipped to you from a better store is probably a better idea.
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Post by saynever »

ironically petsmart is the only local pet store near me that has dp's in stock(from which i plan on buying from) and they keep them in fresh water here. They have about 8 in a 20 gallon. Not the greatest, but hey some of them look reasonably healthy, I've been stopping in weekly to check up on them and see if i can i.d. them.
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Phaedrus wrote:They would likely only be able to get a whole batch in. Far more than you'd likely be willing to take yourself, meaning there would be a bunch left over to fend for themselves in their poor care.

Taking a road trip to another town that has them or having them shipped to you from a better store is probably a better idea.
I think this is what I am going to end up doing, there is a pet shop about 50 miles out of town that I am going to check in a few weeks.
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Post by poolguyjason »

Petsmart will generally not special order. I was hired into their fish department as a co-op student and since then there are species we haven't been ordering, as well I had (I don't work there anymore) made sure that a lot of the fish got more seperation in their tanks. Larger fish were spread out over multiple tanks instead of cramped into one, and I made sure orders weren't sent out to order new loads of fish until our stock was almost depleted, effectively reducing the amount of fish in any given tank to about 2/3rds to half of what they were usually being stocked at. It has probably reverted back to its evil ways by now, however.
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