Don't order fish

On Tue, 5 Dec 2006 10:47:29 -0600, Köi-Lö wrote:


"Jolly Fisherman" wrote in message
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On Mon, 4 Dec 2006 22:37:39 -0600, Köi-Lö wrote:
I'm clueless as to what kind of area you live in but get the impression
you're not near any cities or large towns. You may have to plan a trip or
two to another city some distance away. A bigger city where there would
be
more turnover of their stock. And CALL the store to make sure the
shipment
came in before you dive or take a bus or train there.
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In these suburbs where I live ppl basically seem to either pay a
premium for a big custom tank or pond and get installation and
maintenance service or they buy a common fish and small bowel or tank
cluelessly for the kid, kill it, and then move on from the hobby.

Fortunately I'm in mostly a middle income area so we have all types of
ponders and tank owners here - from those with expensive sw setups to those
with small tanks with a few guppies. :-) We also have a fantastic
privately owned Aquarium store that sells nothing but fish and herps. It's
only 30 miles away. The place is huge and often has odd-ball fish you don't
see in the chain stores. I loved the place and try to get there every few
months.

Oh these pet super stores are in a solidly middle income area. But
that doesn't help. The stores are too close together and frankly I
don't think there is the local interest.

Frankly my neighbor looks down on my tanks because they aren't huge &
marine. (If only the FW hobby was as cheap as she assumes).

I've found a couple of good shops but clearly need to do some more
exploring...

One Saturday my husband and myself checked out a few new pet stores in a
nearby city. We weren't overly impressed and some of the places were a bear
to even find, but it was fun! :-)

Yeah I've done that. It was a bear that didn't yield much, but was
fun. Covered every store I could find that sold tanks and/or fish in
a 30 min radius. But I'm sure there's still more I could check out.
Probably will try again soon.

I'd bet $100 I know where you live Jolly, and i would have to agree
your petsmart sucks. A year ago they had a good selection but its went
downhill. The Petco there sucks too. I spent alot of time searching
Omaha while I lived there for a good place, and I found one, but they
went out of business a couple weeks after I found them You think
you have it bad? I live in the tri-cities and we have a few LFS around
here but I dont buy ANYTHING from them, with the exception of feeders
for my clown knife. Thinking about doing a planeted aquarium? Good
luck! You won't find flourite or any other good substartes in
Nebraska. Period. I use www.drsfostersmith.com and www.aquabid.com.
Foster and Smith is a great vendor and i have ordered many many times
form them without ever a problem. Aquabid on the other hand is kind of
hit and miss. I've gotten some of my favorite fish (bettas and angels)
from vendors on there but I've been burned a couple times. The only
problem is shipping costs, but it costs me about $20 to drive to and
from your crappy petsmart and another $10 if I wanna go to the crappy
ones in Omaha. Consider yourself lucky all you people who have only 30
miles to a petstore, I got at least 100 before i'm willing to buy
anything.