Best Walmart find

[fisheater]

I know not alot of folks shop for fish-or will admit it-at Walmart.I dont really either but everytime i stop in i make it a habit to go over and look anyway and have found some great fish mixed in every once in a blue moon and always dirt cheap.Actuaaly a couple of my favorite fish i found there,not the fanciest fish but some of my first.I have a couple of Peacock eel i picked up there last year for 2.50,found a real nice Strawberry peacock mixed in the african tank for 5 bucks,Last summer i got 4 three inch clown loaches for 6 bucks a peice.With out a bash fest whats been a good find for you all there.
Again no bash fest there tanks there arent the greatest but we have all seen some poorly managed tanks at Lfs too.

 

[banjocat]

At Meijer(another department store) I found leopard danios. There were quite a few mixed in with the zebras. They had a really hard time catching them out of the zebra danio school. Danios were on sale for $1 a piece. I don't think they are exactly rare, because I found an online shop that sells the long tailed version for $1.99. I have never seen them in other shops though.

I check out Wal-mart's fish isle a lot, but don't really intend to buy from them. They do have what looks like four-lined pims mixed in with their pictus though. Wish I would have known about that before I went to all of the trouble to get a couple.

 

[rnocera]

I've never bought any from there, but I've seen several different types of plecos mixed in with their standard plecos. I'm not positive which type it was, but one time I saw one that resembled a gold nugget! It definitely had bright yellow spots, and a yellow fin. I wanted to buy it, but I didn't have a tank set up, and at the time I was still living with my dad who nixed the idea. That would've been a find and a half! Even now the LFS I work in sells gold nuggets for $30 each. That $2.50 ones at Wal-Mart would've been a steal and a half.

 

[woofy]

ive seen angelicus botias which are normally pricey at walmart for $4 or so. ive also seen a few different plecos. the only thing ive actually bought that was cool was a senegal polyp for $5

 

[dravesef]

in milwaukee at one of the wal marts there 5.00 green spotted puffers that were pretty nice sized, i didn't buy any but thought that was a pretty good deal

 

[ersico]

ive gotten 3 butterfly koi from mine for bout 5.88......they only sold them there for a month or soo but i still have one of them...and it is beautiful..............
every now and then my wife will score a solid black lionhead.............they are too cute..........

 

[Toodleypops]

my walmart never differs from its stock.... in 10 years ive never seen anything cooler than GSPs which i still think are sweet... actually my first afro cichs were from walmart... $2 each, ended up with a Purple Kenyi who became the dominant one and what looked like a red zebra/yellow lab mix that schooled with my danios and white clouds i ahd in the tank

 

[Vicious_Fish]

Years ago the Wal-Mart near me had a very knowledgeable fish department guy that use to order some pretty cool stuff. I actually bought my Florida/Spotted Gar from there for $17.99 about 8 years ago and I still have him today.

 

[comando489]

i actually got my first 55gal tank there. it was an open box special and it came with everything for like $80

 

[Guapote]

i actually got my first 55gal tank there. it was an open box special and it came with everything for like $80

I also got my first tank from Wal-Mart. After that.......nothing! The fish always have ich and they always seem to have TONS of Pacu and Oscars; fish they don't even sell a tank latge enough to house after a year or so.