Thoughts on where you buy stock / equipment?

Sleepy · 02-12-2011 12:44AM #1

Was out in Gulliver’s Retail Park this afternoon and dropped into Petmania to pick up some holiday blocks for our tanks as we'll be away for the next week. Was absolutely shocked to see their axolotyl tank: one floating dead and the other on his way out. Other half got so upset she ended up in tears (as an albino axolotyl tank is our next planned purchase and something she's wanted for years).

It put me completely off doing business with them. Such a complete disregard for livestock disgusted me...

fred funk }{ · 02-12-2011 09:00AM

Don't know where that place is Sleepy but I wouldn't be giving them any of my cash. I buy from Seahorse in Ballymount and Aquatic village in Brittas. Both shops top quality and give excellent advice.

paddy147 · 02-12-2011 05:59PM

We buy from 4 places only.

1-Seahorse Aquariams in Balymount
2-Fins,Furs,Feathers in Swords
3-MaxiZoo in Clearwater Finglas
4-Kinsealy Pet Store on the Malahide Road,Kinsealy

paddy147 · 02-12-2011 06:01PM

fred funk }{ wrote: »

Don't know where that place is Sleepy but I wouldn't be giving them any of my cash. I buy from Seahorse in Ballymount and Aquatic village in Brittas. Both shops top quality and give excellent advice.

Its up in Northwood beside Homebase,Cost Plus Sofas and the new McDonalds.

Their fish keeping abilites would not be what I would call good.:(

fred funk }{ · 02-12-2011 08:07PM

In my experience, most general pet shops are terrible at the fish. Wrongly labelled tanks and dead fish are the norm. Go to a dedicated fish shop and you wont be disappointed. Seahorse are particularly good and Aquatic Village a close second even though the owner can be a bit of a smart ass. Would highly recommend both.

dbrock · 02-12-2011 08:44PM

seahorse aquariums
fins fur feathers
fintastic aquatics
kinsealy
always wanted to head down to maiden head but havnt yet

fungun · 02-12-2011 10:41PM

for equipment when i have rung around for quotes, the maxizoo in finglas has been great value

haron · 02-12-2011 11:10PM

maiden head is amazing was there just last week serious amount of fish and a decent price for them. petmania is way to dear for fish and poor quailty i bought a betta from there it died and they only offer a 24 hour gaurantee on fish. seahorse is very good top quailty fish and a seven day gaurantee on fish reasonable prices to

kylith · 03-12-2011 04:59PM

I usually buy from Pet Palace or Seahorse. I'll be getting all my livestock from Seahorse in future. For the last while Pet Palace has been great for picking up plants on my way home, but there is the occasional dead fish in there which does put me off buying fish from there.

Cookie_Monster · 03-12-2011 11:58PM

Another big +1 for Seahorse
The shop on Patrick St in Dun Laoghaire
Petstop in Carrickmines for hardware but I wouldn't buy livestock there...

fred funk }{ · 07-12-2011 05:48PM

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

Another big +1 for Seahorse
The shop on Patrick St in Dun Laoghaire
Petstop in Carrickmines for hardware but I wouldn't buy livestock there...

Totally agree. I had a nasty experience with some fish I got off them. Definitely wouldn't buy anything fish from them again.

vibe666 · 13-12-2011 02:51AM

i was in seahorse for the first time today and aside from how awesome it was to finally get into the place to have a look around, one of the first things that struck me was the lack of dead fish anywhere, despite it having several orders of magnitude more fish than any other pet store i've been in, and that said it all for me tbh.

everywhere else seems to take dead livestock as a part of doing business, but the only dead fish i saw at all in seahorse was being nibbled on in tank of crayfish and i'm pretty sure it was meant to be there.

Thoughts on where you buy stock / equipment?

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