Newbie Pet World Experience

[Ryan009]

First - I want to say that it was nice meeting everyone at the December WRS meeting. This was my first club event (signed up at the house!) and enjoyed talking to many of you (I'm sorry I couldn't stay longer - Sick wife at home with 2 kids = Husband in trouble if he stays at fish club meeting too long).

Getting to the subject -
I am very new at this and I don't have alot of experience with buying saltwater creatures at the LFS's (except from Dustin at Pet Stuff in West Bend who is awesome!), but I thought I'd share my experience at Pet World today.

I went in to look at their coral tanks and from what I could tell, they have a much larger selection than anyone else around. I asked if they had a WRS discount, which of course I found out they didnt (but the Fish Room manager said he would talk to the owner and see if they could start offering one).

I ended up selecting a Chili Coral. Now being new at this, I'm sure I made lots of mistakes, including not thorogughly researching Chili Coral before buying.

Anyway, I do not have a QT tank at this point but someone at the meeting suggested doing a freshwater dip before putting anything in my tank.

Boy am I glad I did! After about 20 minutes, I found 1 spider and about 6 flatworms that had fallen off.

Is this indicative of Pet World's stock?

 

[jeffgp]

no i have all ways gotten frrom them and in real good with the fish room . i allways get at least 25% off anything when im there . be never found anything like that it

 

[Ryan009]

I want to make sure I don't come across as negative about Pet World.

My experience was positive, got a decent price (I was proud of getting about a 15% discount - I've been humbled :lol: ), and the staff was very knowledgable and helpful.

I'm just looking for other experiences. This really wasn't a big problem to solve.

 

[MadTownMax]

ryan - no worries about the critters on there, if they were the common purple/pink bristle worms, that's OK - and I don't know what the spider-thing is, but it might be benign as well.

I did see a rather large number of the red flatworms at one of the pet worlds, but that is something you can spot pretty quickly if you put your nose up to the glass. If is is some of these, the eggs can still remain after the dip - if you find you have some more hatching out in your tank, you can always use "flatworm exit" to erradicate the rest :thumbsup:

 

[prugs]

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=998128
Good reading on using flat worm exit.

The best part about Reef Central is the search function. But it doesn't work well unless you are a premium member. Worth the money if you can afford it.

 

[MadTownMax]

you can always use google to search reefcentral too

 

[mistermikev]

1 tell me more of this pet stuff in west bend (there is a saltwater store I havent' been to?
2 did you visit petworld on 108th or 27th or prtwash?
chris at 108th always treats me nice. (he actually sold me some blue zoos out of the display!!!! - $5) 27th is a flatworm factory. I have never seen so many flat worms in one place. Got a nice gorgonian there for dirt cheap though.
never been to prtwash
if you are visiting 108th - aquatics unlim is 2blks away and has better looking stock - fyi higher prices.