Online fish stores?

[ivanjay205]

So as crazy as this sounds since I live on Long Island there are no good options for fish stores for tropical by me. I have either petsmart or petco and that is it. I find my petco to be better but a recent swordtail evidently sick wiped out half my tank. I don't have the ability to have a quarantine tank.

Do people have more success with online fish stores? Any ones you use? I get very nervous and I feel for the fish as shipping can't be healthy, I would think.

It is a guppy tank, nothing crazy

Any ideas?

 

[86 ssinit]

Where are you on the island? There are many good places.

 

[TWiG87]

It may be worth a drive into North Jersey as well. There are a couple nice stores up that way

 

[Amazoniantanklvr]

TRiN's tropical fish, imperal tropicals, liveaquaria, wetdpot aquatics, aquabid, ebay, apistodave (if you want apistogramma), aquatic arts and the ifish store.

 

[Dewclaw83]

I love honestly. And I get all my snails from elite inverts (they’re literally amazing). Just ordered from for the first time... not sure how I feel about them yet tbh. I also ordered from Aquatic Arts once... but they like never have things in stock. I also get my wild bettas from Franks bettas

 

[Madchild57]

Liveaquaria worked very well for me. Got a high quality, pretty hardy GBR

 

[Amazoniantanklvr]

You ordered from aag?? Didnt you read the reviews? They have luke 1.3 stars!!

 

[Littlebudda]

If your worried about how a fish feels being transported and is it healthy, you are aware they don’t swim to the front door of the shop. Unless someone within a few houses of you is giving you fish they have to be transported

 

[Gone]

Do people have more success with online fish stores? Any ones you use? I get very nervous and I feel for the fish as shipping can't be healthy, I would think.

Almost all tropical fish are yanked out of their native environment, dumped into massively overcrowded holding tanks, put into overcrowded plastic bags and shipped overseas, exposed to diseases they've never been exposed to, shipped from the supplier to the retailer, overcrowded bags again, dumped into the retailer's tanks, then when you walk into the store and pick a fish out, they're put into a bag, you take them home, and put them into your artificial environment, and if they're still alive, you hope they survive for a while.

Getting tropical fish to your tank is almost all shipping.

I breed IFGA guppies and the only way I know to get them is to have them shipped to me. Over the years I've bought several trios, usually well over $100 when you include shipping. I've never had a problem either with shipping in, or shipping out. They can last many days or even weeks if shipping gets delayed for some reason.

 

[KingJamal2]

You ordered from aag?? Didnt you read the reviews? They have luke 1.3 stars!!

That place is bad

 

[Dewclaw83]

You ordered from aag?? Didnt you read the reviews? They have luke 1.3 stars!!

The fish and plants arrived alive and well ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I didn't say I recommended them. They just had what I needed and it was cheaper so

 

[ivanjay205]

Where are you on the island? There are many good places.

Commack area. I looked for a bunch and everything is saltwater I found

It may be worth a drive into North Jersey as well. There are a couple nice stores up that way

NJ oh boy not that committed lol. From here that can easily be 1 1/2 hrs plus each way for guppies

 

[Guy25]

eBay. You can find some good deals at good prices there, just gotta spend some time researching a few decent sellers.

 

[ivanjay205]

If your worried about how a fish feels being transported and is it healthy, you are aware they don’t swim to the front door of the shop. Unless someone within a few houses of you is giving you fish they have to be transported

Lol yea I get that. I guess fair point and it doesn't feel so bad cause I don't see it. Thanks for putting me at ease. I'm just picturing a box with a fish sitting outside my front door with my amazon boxes that get thrown around

 

[Littlebudda]

It’s amazing the packaging I honestly think that your fish look more stressed when they come from the shop to your house than they do from the supplier online

 

[86 ssinit]

Ok come to the south shore and check out Caribbean blue aquatics in bay shore. Off sunrise hwy. than head west to Lindenhurst on sunrise go to wellwood ave mk left go to Hoffman make right go about 3 blocks on left is south shore tropical. Both of these places have reliable fish and plants. There is another place in between called pets wearhouse buy they just moved and are still building there fishroom. They should be done by the end of the month. Also you can google all 3 of these places. Enjoy.

 

[Gone]

Lol yea I get that. I guess fair point and it doesn't feel so bad cause I don't see it. Thanks for putting me at ease. I'm just picturing a box with a fish sitting outside my front door with my amazon boxes that get thrown around

Before I retired I always used my work as the shipping address so I knew someone would be there to accept the delivery.

 

[andy305mia]

I had a bad experience. Never again. I'd avoid it if you can. Living in South Florida I should of never went the online route to begin with. A lot of places nearby just wanted to give it a try.