Don't you hate it when you see one you fall in love with but can't bring it home?

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Yea, I was at the pet store buying a new filter yesterday and they had this big, adult Olive coloured axie. I wanted to bring him home so bad he was so beautiful. But I had to say no since I've only got a three foot tank and Alex has already munched on Chuckie and right now I have nowhere to set up another tank :(

I was so sad though since they are kept on gravel at the pet store and with lights and I'd hate to see this guy get stressed or impacted and I wanted him so bad :(

Anyone else have experiences where you absolutely fall in love with an axie and just can't take it home?
 
i do it with any animal at a store. i feel sorry for the animals at pets at home they have no idea about how to keep aquatic animals. they had softwater otos with hard water chilids. cold water fish with tropical fish. dwarf puffers with crabs in a tank where the puffers attacked the crabs and the crabs attacked back with dead fish and crabs everywhere.

i saw an axolotl and i was looking at him. i knew i had no space in my tanks. i usally see them with fish or frogs.
 
Yeah, whenever I see one.
I know I have no place to put one and that it would be mean to keep it in the tank I have.

I've seen a beautiful greyish melanoid in a heavily planted tank at one of ours.
And by heavily planted I mean the ones the keep plants in to sell! Even though they wee on gravel I still think that it was an okish way to keep them - at least they could hide, the light was low and the current was minimal.
 
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