Knowledgable staff who care more about the health of fish than the money.
No glo-fish, no dyed fish, no mutant hybrids, just normal fish & healthy hybrids.
A very big salty section, a pretty good brackish section, a very big plant section, and a teh sup3r ginormous FW section :grinyes:
A section labeled "Giant fish", including common plecos, pacus, etc.
No fish that get too big for an aquarium, such as black tip reef sharks, nurse sharks, etc.
Very low quantities in the "Giant fish" section, 3 pacus, 4 arros, etc.
Meticulous cleaning of the store and tanks.
Healthy fish, inverts, plants, molluscs, cepholopods, amphibians, corals, etc that have no deformities.
All sales tanks are 20g+, and all but the ones containing plant eaters are well planted.
Staff that are helpful and always there to help.
All different types of fish foods, from bulk high quality flakes to a copepod population to help people feed their picky SW fish.
A "local breeders" section, where they have top quality locally bred fish for sale and demonstration and ways of contacting the breeders.
A wide range of diversity in animals, with bargain prices on top of the notch corals & plants, with most of the fish known in the hobby availible and all others availible to be special ordered.
Cheap aquariums, from 3gallons to a 2000gallon for sale, with kits coming with well known brands such as aquaclear and penguin.
Store-bred fish, in more than guppies & convicts.
Giant 1000g display tanks, 2 for every section. Big brackish fish, little brackish fish, agressive salties, small salties & inverts, a planted tank with dwarf crays and another with snails & brigs, and a FW tank with hordes of schoolers and another with tank busters.
Bulk sand & gravel, in every size, shape & colour imaginable.
All kinds of lights, for low prices (compared to other places).
A fish-veterinarian on hand for questions and minor surgery.
A local supply that was famous for their good stock & extremely low disease rates, with the pet store picking up fish straight from the dealer.
Room for up to 3 aquarium clubs to meet, discuss things, exchange frags, plants & fish and sell to each other for mutual benefit. Several adoption tnaks for fish to give away that no one has claimed yet.
A very, very large parking lot, with the farthest away parking space still within reasonable distance. You always are with 3 main doors
No fishy cycling, and no goldfish bowls.
No tanks under 3g, and no tanks suggested for fish other than bettas under 5g.
They sell picky eaters like baby sharks, moorish idols, and dragonets only after you see them eat.
They feed their fish top quality foods, including beef heart.
Proper housing signs that mention agressiveness, correct full size, food, and schooling requirements (if any). On the bottom each card clearly reads "Talk to a staff member for further questions".
Staff that are careful when netting fish, and who tell you about any potential dangers.
Many books, from breeding to basic care, that were all checked by the staff for any innacuracies.
QT tanks that tell you what kind of fish they are and when they will be availible to buy.
Staff that will set aside certain excessories and fish in hidden tanks in the back.
And of course, all staff & fish clubs reccomend AC!!
Well, thats all I can think of for now(AKA I'm tired of writing
. You can tell I am very demanding about LFS's :silly:
