Petsmart
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my petsmart closest to me have well educated fish staff members. but i never really buy fish from there, unless its like a gold fish for my cousin lol
i prefer to go to my lfs
i prefer to go to my lfs
cool. i was born in winnipeg, manitoba, canada~ocean;3504658; said:
. i might be moving to toronto for school in the next two years. I fit wasn't for MY local Petsmart, I wouldn't have my Poly Sen. In fact you could almost say that they're responsible for my now completeBichir addiction!
There's nothing wrong with Petsmart fish. Same fish that Petco and other LFS sell. Their variety is a little slim, for us MFK'ers in my opinion. But their mostly devoted to the beginner getting a guppy or a platy or wanting a new cichlid that isn't hard to maintain. Of course this is a little bias...I work there, but I try and tell it how it is.
Some fish get ich and come in dead like any other LFS, we try and quarintine what we can when we see it. I love Petsmart and for a beginner the prices are relatively low and at least some can help with the basic fish questions. I could answer a fish question but if someone asks me what's the main ingredient in Royal Canin Germ Shepherd I have no clue. Same can go the opposite though, so relax if some employees are a little off. Also I'm a lead stocker and deal nothing with the fish besides unloading it off of the truck.
Some fish get ich and come in dead like any other LFS, we try and quarintine what we can when we see it. I love Petsmart and for a beginner the prices are relatively low and at least some can help with the basic fish questions. I could answer a fish question but if someone asks me what's the main ingredient in Royal Canin Germ Shepherd I have no clue. Same can go the opposite though, so relax if some employees are a little off. Also I'm a lead stocker and deal nothing with the fish besides unloading it off of the truck.
Well I guess I'll be the hater on this thread... 
I've had horrible results with them and Petco. No offense to the member who works there. I wish they would require all their employee's to become a member before caring for the fish, it would probably save allot of fish and educate people properly. I refuse to buy from any more big box retailers.
I live 10 minutes from the Wet Spot and Cayes in Portland so that's pretty much the only two places I buy from.
I've had horrible results with them and Petco. No offense to the member who works there. I wish they would require all their employee's to become a member before caring for the fish, it would probably save allot of fish and educate people properly. I refuse to buy from any more big box retailers. I live 10 minutes from the Wet Spot and Cayes in Portland so that's pretty much the only two places I buy from.
JK47;3504844; said:Well I guess I'll be the hater on this thread...
I live 10 minutes from the Wet Spot and Cayes in Portland so that's pretty much the only two places I buy from.
I think almost any LFS besides the big corporation stores are way better than Petsmart. But I don't think it's terrible, but it sucks when people have bad experiences at Petsmart, we lose our repeat customers this way.
I voted no only b/c the petsmart locations close to me are NOT good locations to get fish or even most supplies from. however, when i lived in other parts of the country and the petsmart near me employed one of my friends that actually cared about fish, it was a cool place to visit. I really think it has a lot to do with who runs the department/store/ and so on up the ladder that affects that store and its make up. I will not say however that every petsmart sucks
