Fish Lovers 3.0 [new poll]

[Dappled Sapphire]

My Christmas themed tank




Still want to put a glass tree or something inside if I can find one

[scuttlefish]

Nice tank! I likehow you can still see the fish, so it isn't covered with snowflakes or something.

And for the Christmas tree inside idea, what is the fish nibbled on it?

[andy;]

I've found Petco's and PetSmarts to be rather hit-or-miss. I have been to some that are actually decent, and some that I'd never buy a fish from.

In other news, nearly every one of my fish has bitten me as of today. My little ocellaris clown attacked me during maintenance

Every Petsmart I've ever visited seems like a fish slaugterhouse. Most reviews I've read also give descriptions of lethargic fish that don't seem "all right" being sold, so I just stay clear of Petsmart. Luckily, we have a local petstore with good options.

[Blood Storm]

I've found Petco's and PetSmarts to be rather hit-or-miss. I have been to some that are actually decent, and some that I'd never buy a fish from.

In other news, nearly every one of my fish has bitten me as of today. My little ocellaris clown attacked me during maintenance

Every Petsmart I've ever visited seems like a fish slaugterhouse. Most reviews I've read also give descriptions of lethargic fish that don't seem "all right" being sold, so I just stay clear of Petsmart. Luckily, we have a local petstore with good options.

here its petco that you have to stay clear of. the petsmarts here are fantastic, the petcos, not so much.

number one is the staff. petsmart staff here are very easy to deal with and are willing to help you. and with fish they let you pick them out, as to avoid the ones you don't like(such as a drab guppy).

petcos here have weird staff that do not help you and just try and make you buy fish. I went in there and was looking through the bettas. I saw one that caught my eye, a black, blue, and yellow veiltail male. a staff member told me that the fish in question was sick and would die within a few hours(the fish had no visible issues, was active and clear eyed, over all the prime betta in pet store standards). instead she tried to get me to buy a similarly colored elephant ear halfmoon plakat thingymabob. this fish was pale, cloudy eyed, had a mild case of fungus, and looked really bad. pet store person assured me that this obviously very sickly fish was 100% healthy. I said that I was just looking, went to pet smart, and bought a black and red betta with blue dragon scale for the cost of the veiltail.

a few weeks later I went in to buy a few zebra danios(to make sure a fish tank I had cycled was ready for more expensive fish we always buy a group of cheap fish like zebra danios). this guy walked up, asked what kind of fish we wanted, when we told him he started netting them, we originally asked for long finned danios(which are of course a dollar more expensive, they were to be permanent residents so we wanted pretty fish at least). the guy gave us 4 short finned danios and a sickly long finned danio. the long finned one died within a few minutes of entering the new tank, though they others were happy.

though local pet stores or fish stores are the way to go, though our fish store here is too expensive to buy just regular everyday aquarium fish(im not paying $7 for a single guppy, sorry but its a bit expensive). our nearby pet store has cheap fish like tetras and guppies, some are like 5 for $1 or so, and feeder fish for the big carnivores are 25 for $1, and they are healthy fish with flaws like odd fins, weird spines, missing eyes, etc. they are ok fish, but they are not very high quality so they sell them as feeders.

[PeachFuzz]

Very nice tank, jellybaloo!

And for the Christmas tree inside idea, what is the fish nibbled on it?

I don't think goldfish can chew and break glass c;

[Wild.One]

Beautiful tank Jellybaloo, and gorgous fish as well!

[meredithida]

stear clear of our petsmart. evertime you buy a gold fish within a month or so it dies.
there is a really good local one with only one location in the world YEAH THE WORLD. but it has amazing fish ive had 0 issues with the fish. my parrotfish got ick only because it was moved to 2 different tanks in the same day and got stressed but its great and very healthy now living with my oscar. so that place is amazing. you get good staff and you can hold the other animals FREE. they are sooo cute 0.0

[fish out of water]

Username: Fish out of Water
How many fish tanks do you have: Three that i own, one in use.
Types of fish that you have: Only Goldfish at the moment, usually i have a few betas though.
Your fishs' names: Currently Wall-e and Bess-e. I have also had Goldie (old age), Ham (old age), Cheese (what we think was deppression, 2 days after his best bud ham), Speedy (Old age), and Pebbles (Lived to be the age of 10)
How long have you had fish:
Sense the day i was born, or at least thats my family.

Pebbles was from petsmart, and after the age of 8 outgrew his regular size tank and we had to transfer him into a new one because he tried to jump out of it one time. He died at the age of 10 and was almost 5 inches long.
Oh, and btw guys, i got Speedy at Petsmart and he lived 4 years. :)
Wall-e was a feeder fish from Wallmart (the name makes sense now x) and is almost 7.
Dont judge a fish by it's store.

[Hime]

I need to teach my mom how to do a water change as I got myself a broken collarbone, and it's already over due by few days since the delayed the surgery. So not looking forward to that... I might need to teach her to feed them as well, since I'm not sure if I can get light and lid off with just one arm. >_<

[Guest]

My Christmas themed tank

Still want to put a glass tree or something inside if I can find one

That is gorgeous I'm also looking for a glass Christmas tree for my tank (mine is planted though and has small fish).