fish stores around Temple Terrace?

[sinful]

I can't seem to find any besides the pet superstore on fowler and petsmart on fletcher, dont think either has saltwater. I bought some cichlids from the pet superstore...nothing great though

 

[Acolin]

see our club's web site for more

 

[Frodo the Goby]

PET MART on Busch near 50th street I really like the store most people on this board either like the store or really hate it. I would visit it and make your own opinion

 

[HotReeferSRT4]

Since the website doesn't show the exact locations of stores and it only shows that it is in Tampa I figured I would tell you a store in Temple Terrace. Pet Mart on Busch is right in Temple Terrace. They got saltwater and freshwater there.

 

[Don Lino]

Coral Reef aquariums, its down on waters and Armenia, not too far from Temple Terrace... check em out.

 

[Gimplar]

Honestly, i wouldn't really base the LFS that you go to, off of location. Cause if you get a crappy fish and it dies, you wasted all the money. So might as well go to a LFS that has good quality fish/dry goods/ and knowledge of the hobby. My favorite, which is just my opinion and nothing else, is Finz of Tampa which is on dale mabry (it's Creative Oceans on the official website) but they swtiched their name. Another really good LFS is FAOIS, Fish and other ichthy's stuff. Another pretty decent one is Aquarium Creations. I see that you live close to me and probably go to USF, if you want tyou can come over to my APT and ill show you my 125 reef and we can talk fish! lol

Nelson

 

[Frodo the Goby]

I was kind of proud us we were doing so well up until now

 

[poknsnok]

you dont have to buy a fish from somewhere and have it die to figure out a place is crappy. walk into the store, look at the livestock, take a whiff of the place and youll be able to tell what the place is all about.

 

[Frodo the Goby]

I can pretty much figure how the rest of this thread will go.
Pet Mart sucks Blah blah blah blah FAOIS is better blah blah blah it is like a broken record.
What else are we going to hear?:
Nick is a jerk cause he fired me for stealing. Every fish in there has ich. Every fish is bought from unscopolous sources. WOM is a rip-off cause it is free and take 2 minutes to fill out a apllication. Nick just wants to sell you a fish he does not care if it lives or dies. (Nick actually talked me out of buying something last night cause it may hurt my tank)
What is next? Pet Mart is the devil? Pet Mart funds Jihad?

As I said before go and form your own opinion

 

[sinful]

wasn't trying to get anything started about stores, I'm just new to the area and was limited to the two mentioned. Thanks for all the suggestions, I will try to get to a couple new ones today maybe.

And yea I'm a Senior at USF(kinda, just got out of military and my previous college put me in as a senior even though I probably have 2yrs left because Ive switched major's so much..haha). I'm affraid it would be a boring conversation though , I'm to new to the hobby..haha

 

[Holmie_D_Klown]

Welcome to the neighborhood!

What Frodo was alluding to is that every post tends to end up in an argument about what LFS is better. It's really annoying. You have to skim through all the whining to try to find some useful information. You'll see what I'm talking about.

What I would recommend to you is to not trust ANY LFS employee. Just post the question on reefcentral and get the right answer. I've been given so much wrong info at these LFS when I was a noob. There is only ONE store in tampa that I trust. I won't say which which because I don't want to start a btch storm.

 

[Frodo the Goby]

Holmie I love your handle

 

[Don Lino]

All he asked was for stores around Temple Terrace. Theres really only two...That I can think of. Sinful, see what you started?? Oh yeah and:
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[poknsnok]

TO FRODO

TO FRODO

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7906252#post7906252 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by poknsnok
you dont have to buy a fish from somewhere and have it die to figure out a place is crappy. walk into the store, look at the livestock, take a whiff of the place and youll be able to tell what the place is all about.

Did you think I was talking about any store in particular?? you can pm me if you want.