'nother Betta question
- Thread starter Twinbot
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sometimes yes sometimes no.it all depends on the betta.try adding the platy then the betta so that the betta doesn't think he is the big fish in the tank.hey twinbot seen any good deals around town lately?also don't go to that new store on lamb and charelston.same price as evreywhere else and they have dogs&cats in the store ick that's awful.that and the filtration is too small on the tanks
Petland's been running some decent sales on both fish and tanks, underselling Petco (not really that hard, actually) as well as Petsmart (from whom I will never buy fish ... I counted 17 dead across eight different tanks in their Trop and Eastern store). FISH Tropical seems to give no B-S advice w/o trying to sell me, and their price on Bio-Spira is great (prices on most everything else, other than fish, are astronomically high). I just finished a 20 gal long tank (transferred the contents of a ten into it), and added 3 YoYo loaches and 3 Juli cories to the already existing stock of 3 albino cories, 3 green cories (from my once over-stocked 30), 3 dwarf frogs and five, very tiny serpae tetras. It looks fantastic, and the water is in great condition (I'm using a Penguin 170 w/ a bubble wall). Admitedly, I've become a major fan of Big Al's Online. Although I bought the tank at Petsmart (couldn't find a 20 long anywhere else), I purchased the substrate from FISH Tropical and all the other stuff, inluding the filter, air pump, tubing, light, hood and silk plants from Big Al's.
who did you talk to a fish tropicals,thats where i used to work and i'm not badmouthing andbody there but a couple of them aren't the best to listen to.no they don't try to sell on anything cause the prices are through the roof for equipment.the one thing FISH is great on is tanks you can ask for almost any size tank and they can get it for you,cheap stands too.i never can get to petland,especialy now that my car was in a wreck.i'll have to get thee somehow
There's an asian-looking guy who's pretty good about telling me details about the fish that aren't in books. And, there's a chick, slighty pudgy, who seems to know her stuff. I haven't talked to anyone else, although I've seen 'em (an older dude and some latin-looking guy). I don't like TropAquarium, even though they've got great prices on tanks, because they look like they're being run by a bunch of high school dropouts. I'd consider buying a tank from them, but that's about it ... then again, every time I've gone in they don't seem particularly interested unless I'm going to buy fish, which I haven't and probably won't. Petland's fish dpt. is well-kept, but their employees seem kind of out of it. There's a guy up a Petco on Rainbow and Spring Mountain who seems to be almost a professional fish keeper ... sharp on his stuff and really knows the dpt. well. Prices on Petco fish are hit and miss, as are the products.
yea the asian guy and the girl are the best to talk to.the girl has been there for many years and she really knows her stuff.the guy working the saltwater side is good to ask too.there are two hispanic guys one isn't too bad to ask and the other just don't ask.the one with the lispy voice is the good one.the old guy is the owner he's only good for medication questions cause he will try to sell you fish that most of us won't mix,he's way too liberal when it comes to stocking tanks.he usualy isn't in the shop though.thats kinda why i don't work there any more.he never knew what was going on and kept hassling me when i had been working all day.i don't put up with that crap.trop aquarium is a joke they sell painted fish and the owner brags that his wife is some great fish vet. i just can't see anyplace that has a fishvet selling painted fish considering the stress and general unethical concept of painted fish being that great of a store.i'm going to have to check out the petland you make it sound nice.p.s. don't say anything to any one at FISH i still like to shop there and i don't want them all pissed off at me.
