Fort Collins:
Denizens of the Deep: (by best buy) under new ownership. old owner was an ass but thye were pretty good and i have no idea of the new owners. they were pretty barren last weekend ("oddest" fish left was a pima shovelnose), but said they were getting stock in at the end of this week. bought my first silver aro from there.
D&G Pets: (by sam's club, fish's liquor mart) not too many odd fish, but they seem alright.
Loveland:
Town & Country: (S. Lincoln south of 1st St.) not the cleanest store, sometimes have some decent fish, good place for driftwood
Pets Plus: relocated to a bigger store, havent been there yet
Denver:
not sure where the best place to go is yet. does anyone know of any good ones? I'm specifically looking for arowana and odder cats
Petsmart: all of them are OK. most of them, the rarest fish they have are BGK and senegal bichirs
Petco: only been to longmont and foco store...both pretty much sucked - no odd fish
i know colorado doesn't have much all i know of is
mikeskillerfish dever CO okay selection a little pricey but the best selection of monster fish i can find
and
aqua imports in boulder colorado they have some nice fish no real rare ones but at least some selection they have fire eels and aros no polypterus to my disapointment they got some good supplies and a fair amount of coral not many if any saltwater fish can't remember if they have any but a decent store few cichlids P.S there red terrors are mayan/uro cichlids but they still have some good fish
but i can't for the life of me find any polpterus/bichirs anybody now where to get them ? i think i'll just have to order off the net
Animal House Exotic Pets
646 SW 4th Street
Corvallis, Oregon
The best store. Same location/same owner for 30 years. Dale supplies OSU with all their aquaria/fish/reptiles. DOZENS of rare MonsterFish at any given time.
Here are some monsters they had in last time I went in. The ones in red are the ones they pretty much always have:
Polypterus Delhezi Polypterus Senegalus Elephantnose Tire Track Eel Clown Loach Royal Clown Knifefish Clown Knifefish Asian Needlenose Black Ghost Knifefish Silver Arowana Jardini Arowana Wallago Attu Black Arowana Florida Gar Flowerhorn Peacock Bass Channel Catfish Sabretooth Tetra (Armatus) Bullhead Catfish Farlowella Catfish Colombian Shark Catfish Pangasius Catfish Tiger Shovelnose Catfish Lima Shovelnose Red Belly Piranha Motoro Stingray Fei Feng Big Koi
They also have numerous large and colorful cichlids, and tons of plecos. Their is also a saltwater section. They have numerous display tanks, like a shark tank(which they are getting rid of), a huge planted tank full of Denisonii barbs and Ghost Shrimps, a little sea horse display tank, and an amazingly huge open tank which forms a circle around two tanks full of Blood Parrots and RBPs, and it is full of koi, fei fengs, stingrays, pangassius, and other fish. Then, they have a large pond by the entrance, which is fillew with 2-3 ft long channel cats, koi, and pangassius.