The Puffer Forum

Pufferpunk wrote:Snail breeding article in the Feeding section of our Library.

If adding bacteria helped your puffer, then your parameters had to be off. What were the exact test results? What "bacteria" did you add?

I got it tested at petsmart, everything was 0 and the ph was like in between 7-8. the stuff I put in was called zyme. it was a shelf life but being where I am it was the best I could get and they recomended it over the tetra safe start stuff or whatever its called

can you send me a link to that page, I cant find it. thanks

I know it's hard to do, because they have polo shirts on and seem so sure, but you can't listen to the advice of petsmart employees. I worked at one years ago, and their training is biased, and mostly wrong. Please get tetra safe start, it will work as long as your pH is 7.0 or above.
Your nitrate should show some reading, but since I know they use test strips, they can't read nitrate below 20 ppm.

LOL, they won't let me work at Petsmart because I have tattoos but they'll let some HS kid with no experience give advice, with no tatts!

I work at petsmart in 1999 in Oregon, but last year, Petsmart cost me my job with Blue Buffalo. They called corporate and said my hair style, which they called a mohawk, was not acceptable. It was military cut, I ride a little scooter and always wear a helmet, so I couldn't have a mohawk if I wanted to. But because I live in the south now, girls apparently can't have a guy's hair
cut.
I used to have a mohawk, so it's not like I wouldn't know that it wouldn't be an acceptable haircut. Anyway, it was a standard military cut, buzzed all the way around back and sides , about 3" inches long on top. That's a surlaW mohawk if it is one.

sevenyearnight wrote:I work at petsmart in 1999 in Oregon, but last year, Petsmart cost me my job with Blue Buffalo. They called corporate and said my hair style, which they called a mohawk, was not acceptable. It was military cut, I ride a little scooter and always wear a helmet, so I couldn't have a mohawk of I wanted to. But because I live in the south now, girls apparently can't have a guy's hair cut.

I don't get it... sorry very off topic. If a company gives you a bad review as opposed to a "no comment" isn't that grounds for a civil suit?

It would be, if I were employed by Petsmart. But I was employed by Blue Buffalo, and I'm a guest in the Petsmart. They can have no reason at all to tell them I'm not welcome, it's part of their contract. Blue Buffalo didn't terminate my employment, but Petsmart was 2/3rds of my work load, I resigned because I would have only been working for 4 hours in another city at Petco. Petsmart made it a point to say I was also not welcome in any stores in the district.
My guess is that they flat out didn't like me because I'm not from the south by a long shot, and I'm just a very different sort of person.