Allie

Tom

There are about 20-30 different petstores in the entire city and I visit about 10-15 of them on a regular basis.
Tom

COBettaCouple

Well we had 1 in St. Augustine, but i'm sure we have more than 10 here in the Denver area.

Dino

2 stores that are not chains .
One an hours drive north, the other an hours drive south.

See why I want to open a store?

COBettaCouple

yea.. even here though, you've got more fish than most fish stores.. and certainly healthier ones.

Allie

Ya know we were thinking on doing the same thing someday... a lot of people ask us about fish and tanks stuff. We have lots of pet store but only one Fish store. There was a guy who had his own store but it was more like a hobby out of control he just closed the beginning of the month. He kept every species of cichlid & sold a lot. What he said was: The money he made from the fish, paid to keep the store in power, keeping the tanks up and feeding the fish...there wasn't much money left over.

Callum The Cat

dozens of petshops here but fish shops 3

Peace Out Callum!

Kevin

i have one LFS that is pretty pricey, one LPS that is my fav. but not as good a selection, 2 petsmarts...but one sucks, and a deathco

there was another lps that was amazing...but it closed about a year ago

Neville

we have 6 lfs in our city.......

timg

I have three stores in my local area, i you call 25 miles local!

Allie

We do have a lot of access to fish around here but...the quality of the fish is terrible. Tho my betta seem great...they were in better shape than my last 3.
We always ask where they got the fish from how long they have been in the store...not that we have to anymore. We are there at least 3 times a week lately.
I prefer to buy fish from people on for sale sites or fish societies...we joined ours last year & made a lot of connections. We aren't paying members anymore...we don't even bother with the society. We have made many fish friend who buy trade fish, plants, tanks etc...We only paid $300 for our 120g with stand, canopy and delivery. That was a great deal.

mingher

In my area there are the big named stores and then there are some hole in the wall places.

Gwenz

I have 6. 2 Pets at Home's (1 quite close the other about 15 miles away) a lfs within a garden/DIY/furniture store which is really good atm (just changed owners) a lfs that is within the grounds of a college but is really good and they all care for the fish, another one that i found today, but i will never go there again because all the animals were in such poor conditions and an lfs i really love but can't go to that often becaus eit's quite far to get to. Its called Pughes (sp?) and its really good. they have this massive saltwater tank in the middle and its amazing + they have loads of fish for sale and they all know their stuff about cycling etc. + they just had a massive extension and now its huge in there!

Gwenz

darkwolf29a

We have 3 chain stores: 2 Petco and 1 Petsmart

We have 3 fish stores. Well, 2 really. 1 will order anything, but stocks nothing.

and then we have Wally World, err WalMart. LOL On my side of town, WalMart rocks for fish. They carry everything at reasonable prices and their fish are well cared for. I hear tell that is rare, in terms of WalMart anyways.

I hit the big stores for most things, and the smaller ones for particular stuff.

purple_phoenix

There are 3 in the town -

A pets at home which I only ever visit to buy food from, as other shops don't sell it. The way they treat fish (and customers) is unreal.

Pet Planet where I buy my fish from, although they're not much better than Pets at home. They don't tend to employ people if they have any amount of knowledge about fish though, so the only guide there is as to which fish / how many you should have are the 'warning stickers'. These are pretty useless though, as even some people working there don't know what they mean.

And a small fish shop on the edge of the town centre, where I've been going since I was about 8 years old (previous hamsters, etc.) However, the guy keeps needing to downgrade the shop, as it's too expensive to keep a big one up and running. He can no longer sell fish and the only animals he ever gets are a few hamsters here and there, and he'll buy some in if you ask. I still go in for a chat / advice every now and then, and buy a couple of things.
If that guy could have one of the two bigger stores, the fish would be so well looked after and there would be so many more happy customers. (And I'd have a weekend job!)

armadillo

There are 6 to 9 in a 40km radius (if you count petstores with a decent fish section). There are 3 or 4 in a 15km radius.

We're quite lucky, I suppose. If only most of them were not desperately rude, uncaring and ignorant.

armadillo

There are 6 to 9 in a 40km radius (if you count petstores with a decent fish section). There are 3 or 4 in a 15km radius.

We're quite lucky, I suppose. If only most of them were not desperately rude, uncaring and ignorant.

Beth191987

Sadly we only have 1 in our area and we have only had it about 5-7 years. I wish we had more.

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