Trpimp147

there are a few in local areas most of them i have to travel 30mins-90 mins to go to

COBettaCouple

we only had deathco in st.auggie, but now i have no idea how many are in denver. we might get more of an idea of how many good ones when the colorado aquarium society has their fish auction next week.

jdkstaub

Sadly there are no local pet stores that I have found close enough for comfort in my area.

Only have the giant mega stores near by.

COBettaCouple

yea, wouldn't it be great if we all had a local shop that treated the fish well and the customers too?

Allie

My boyfriend has decided to go back to school & take business. Our plans is to open our own fish store...just fish & food. SO hopefully in the next 5 years our plans will work out.

sirdarksol

There are six or more LFS's in the metro area (Twin Cities) that I live in, not to mention dozens of pet stores.

COBettaCouple

best of luck with that!

fishgirl

We have 1 chain pet store and walmart and one non-chain pet store.

Allie

Thanks

capekate

Lucky you Allie! Sounds like you would never run out of places to find new fish! I only have a local Petsmart and one other small pet shop to pick from. Not a big selection.. and am looking out side of my area to find a new place to shop for fish. Not having much success tho...

~ kate

Allie

We may have a lot of stores but the quality of fish in most of those stores are unfortunately isn't alway the best.
Which is why we're hopping to open our own tropical fish speciality store. We only have 1 in our city but it's on the other side of town & you have to pay the bridge toll to get across the bridge to get there. So if we open one on this side of town the people won't have to travel over the bridge to get good quality fish.

reef freak

3 stores, non chain, 2 of them pretty old, one just a few months old.

City isn't that big, and Florida law wont allow it to get as big as Miami. Even though it's not big, I think it is big. I want to live in a small town of 1,000 oir less lol.

One store is practicly a warehouse full of SW tanks and livestock (not that big, but it's more than most store in the area) and the other one is more Half/half witrh SW and FW.

The newer store is like, 90% SW 10% FW

MagpieTear

within a 30 minute drive I have 3 Pet supplies plus, two Petco's, three Petsmarts, one small independent shop (too tiny to really be worth much), and Elmer's Aquarium. So my answer is one and a half.

Sabi

I know of 13. About 8 of them stock fish.

marktheshark

I have at least 6-9 of these stores to pick from

Tio

i have a Big Als ,walmart,petcetra,and a pet store that also sells fish.they are all about 20 mins from my town(next town over)we dont even have a walmart in our town.so you know where i go

MasterShake2003

Well, in my neck of the woods, I have a small non-chain store that carries a decent selection, even a few Discus, but mostly common stuff(guppies, swords...) Although, recently I went in there jsut as he was getting his new stock in and got first pick out of a bunch of beautiful Hi-Fin Lyretail swords.

We also have a Walmart, which is a joke. I wish they didn't even sell fish they are so poorly taken care of. There a dead fish stuck to almost all the filters and floating in every tank. Then they get in fish like "Rope" fish or other weird things that don't belong in most tanks. It's bad news over there.

I usually have to drive about 30 mins to Lafayette, IN to go to either Petsmart(which also has a pretty poor selection) Meijer (which has a better selection, but always seems to put the wrong fish together in a tank, mixing aggresive and peaceful fish) or Aquarium World (which is another mom and pop type store)

Aquarium World has just about everything. They have about a 70-30 split in favor of freshwater. They also take trade-in fish, so many times large angels and oscars that have out grown peoples tanks wind up here. They also have a pleco there that is about 2 feet long (gross!). They have tons of plants too, though I have no luck with live plants. There staff is amazingly knowledgable in both FW and SW setup and maintenance. They also won't sell you a fish that doesn't belong in your tank or that you have no business messing with.

So, I guess I have it better than some people, but it's not the largest amount of stores.

MissMTS

I have countless petcos, petsmarts, and wallmarts in my area (which I try to never go to unless I really have to), and 3 good fish stores that I know of. The only problem is that the one with the best selection has the employees that know the least but I can't complain, cause I know a lot of people that have a hard time finding a fish store at all.