mlinden84

I live about 15 minutes from 2 fairly good sized cities (for iowa that is). So I get a large selection of fish stores. One city has walmart, petland, and 3 small "mom and pop" fish stores, the other city has walmart, petco, petsmart, 1 HUGE fish store, with probably 200 55 gallon tanks of fish (its amazing!), and probably 6 more small fish stores.
I usually go to petland (very knowledgeable staff) or the huge fishstore.

Lucy

There is no 0 option, so I didn't vote. lol

angelfish220

Yeah I'm like lucy. There is a petco about 60 miles from us, takes about 45 min to get there, the closest GOOD fish store about 4-5 hours. which sucks when you cant drive cause nobody wants to take you there. if in a big problem I can go to walmart, about 30mins away.

Trio123

One Petco and one Petsmart that I know of. The Petsmart has a woman manager of the fish department that really know what she's talking about but they dont sell saltwater. Petco does but they have told people everything from "wait 6 weeks after you put cured live rock and live sand in before you add anything" to "there is no cure for marine velvet you just have let it ride out".

There are three independent shops that have a alot of knowledge, especially if you talk to the managers (although they really break the rules to a fault sometimes, you know how old dogs get stuck in thier ways ). And all of those independent shops are well known for thier lack of friendly family customer service... you know cranky old dogs can be

Zimbabwe

Living in Southern California= Family owned tropical fish store in practically every shopping center.

kra-z-fishmumm

We have 1 lfs about 15 miles to the east; 1 lfs 11 miles due south. Both are pricey and one just went through a management change. Neither know a lot in comparison to the info. I get here. Next would be Petco and Petsmart about an hours drive. None of them have great choices in fish, live plants, or other needed items.

Narcicius

I beleive I have about 8 or 9 in my area, but only visit 5 of them, might want to go to the other ones just to see what they're like.

Bede

We have one locally owned store but we won't shop there anymore 'cause the owner is such a jerk. 2 chain stores, Pet Supply Plus and Petco and Wal-Mart still has fish but I will not buy anything out of that department.

We get food and supplies from PS+ but drive 30-50 minutes when we want to buy more fish.

fishrule101

My stores are walmart which I don't think I'll ever buy anything cuase there no SW stuff and a tractor supply. I only buy stuff for my guniea pig Hrbee. But for my fish I go to store in another city.

Red1313

Umm... multipule walmarts, Petsmart, Pet-land (another coming soon), petcetera, two non-chain stores only one of which I've been to.

J J Indy

I have at least 6 with in 30 min. of the house 4 are chain stores 1 is a local chain of 4 stores but really only 2 just fish stores that I know of 1 has a great variety but not many tanks the other has alot of varieties and many tanks. I think they do really well because they will do set up and maintanence on all sizes and types of tanks in businesses and if you have the money in your home.

belamyboo

We have a LOT for a small area, within 30mins we have 1 chain store (yech!) and 7 pet stores and 3 fish specialist stores . Most are O.K. the LFS stores have staff that know alot stock a lot but for a community on the tip of the great barrier reef we only have 1 store that stocks salt water fish!?!. The chain store need to have its permit revoked but thats another story, the pet stores staff need serious education ( "whats cycling?" yes, I was asked this!) and one guy I called the RSPCA on. But as usual this is my first stop for all info. Long live fishlore.com!

owain

There use to be a lot more a few years back, but there's still quite a few dotted around the city.

Butters

I have about 2 that are even close to me. one is in town and the other is like a 20 minute drive away. And they are both small!

Wilhelm Joshua Tan

The pet shops NEAREST TO ME ARE THE Kalayaan Petshop and Pet Shelter. Now I go to Cartimar and the pet shop in Pasig because they are cheaper.

CHoffman

We have no pet or fish stores in our town. the closest is 1 hour away and it's a Wal-Mart.