petsmarts prices are very exorbitant, i found that when buying anything other than fish food at your lfs if it is indeed a petsmart, to do all of your shoping online, the heaters i coul have had for $20 were $35 a peice, filters are alot more, so they probably went down being that nobody would buy them, exept people who have no prior experience buying aquarium equipment, so they go to a place like petsmart, believe me i know a person who got a royal jippiing there and wound up paying 500-600 for a complete setup 55 gallon tank, when they could've gotten a 125 or more for 400, but they didn't know that.