Aquarium Adventure store... WOW.

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wackydan

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http://www.aquariumadventure.com/

I'm in Cleveland on business... In my hotel bored... Looked up Petland's website, and saw they had these Aquarium Adventure stores and one was just down the road from the hotel. Only about 4 or 5 nationwide.

So I go check it out.

All fish... no birds, no dogs/cats, no reptiles... just fish... a crap load of fish.

Lots of tanks in stock too - and I mean a lot, all very well organized. More driftwood for sale than I've seen any one place at one time -though pricey. Great selection of rock too. Lots of bulkhead fittings ans such plumbing.

The tank area is huge!! Good selection of fish, some I've never seen before, and there are several large tanks where they have some very large trade ins on display. I'd say they had 7 1/2 to 8 1/2 + rows devoted to fresh water and only 1/2 of one row devoted to Salt. One row is two sides back to back by the way. Each row was probably 25 feet in length.

Anyway... I'm in Columbus next week, and won't be flying, so I'll be hitting up their store their and maybe driving away with something....

Highly recommend those that have one near them check it out.
 
Looks like a cool place, but if you go into the Fun Stuff section there is an acticle about the proper way to keep a goldfish in a bowl. It proposes a 2" of fish per gallon rule, telling people they can put a 2" goldfish in a 1 gallon bowl and it will be fine! Expand on that logic a little and you wind up with the assumption that its fine to keep a fish in a standard 10 gallon that you'd have to put in diagonally so it would fit! It says nothing about filtration or anything like that. It does reccommend 2/3 water changes (only once a week!), but that's about it. It sounds more like a betta care sheet than anything. And we wonder why people still insist on doing irresponsible things with fish...
 
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The Columbus store is great too, the employees are very knowledgable as well, they would never tell you to put a goldfish in a bowl, I don't know why they have that on their website.
 
The Dublin store--outside of columbus, is cool. BUT they have a wider variety of sick fish than any other fish store I've ever been in--cloudy eye, fungus, ich, HITH, velvet, fin rot, parasites, swimbladder. They also sell painted fish. Also they are the most expensive fish store in the whole area.

On the plus side, they have an excellent selection of plants, and fun fish to look at--and extensively quarentine. The staff is very knowledgable--and if you talk to Jeremy he can hook you up with some of the fish he breeds. Which are angels and cichlids.
 
Not to pick on you sarcare, but the Aquarium Adventure here has a Columbus address. Don't know if it's actually in the Dublin city limits or what but we don't want to confuse our out of town visitors ;)
 
I know it is technically in Dublin--it just puts Columbus on its address so that people will come from all over Columbus. Suburbs do that all the time.
 
wish I had one up here!
 
Wowwwwww

this place is massive totally massive. all are fish shops like this in america? like in newcastle australia where i live (which is the biggest city other then a captial city in australia so its not a small place) theres like only two or three fish only shops and there still small like im talking 2/3 small rooms max, theres no fish breeeding clubs(expect a national koi club) in my area, some pet stores have some fish tanks like 3 or 4 40 gallon tanks usually only cold water fish and the staff know nothing other then the fish goes in the bowl(no matter which fish, which is a big problem) i just thought i would share how lucky you americans are with fish keeping stores like no matter no how much you say the LFS are bad hey at least you have a LFS ok thats it for me oh and WHY CANT I HAVE ONE OF THOSE WHERE I LIVE :sad:
 
karna68 said:
The Columbus store is great too, the employees are very knowledgable as well, they would never tell you to put a goldfish in a bowl, I don't know why they have that on their website.
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These are franchise locations... so the corp site is bound to have some bad info.
 
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