Seahorse at petco
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lostmyz
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I used to work for PetCo in Tucson, Az years and years ago when they used to catch the lion fish with cyanide! Man our systems were horrible... cyanide everywhere and i spent god knows how many hours afterwork cleaning and maintaining that ish... It was when i first started getting into SW and i wanted to know as much as possible. Sadly after 2 yrs of battling with the company attempting to get them to let me change somethings. I gave up. Out SW sales weren't high enough for them to allow me to do the right thing to the tank.
The PetCo up here in Glendale 59th ave and the 101.... is actually really nice for saltwater. They guy who takes care of it has a 180gal mixed reef. I was talking to him while i was contemplating buying a cleaner shrimp. He's revamped the entire system and has upgraded the lighting. he showed me who they order their fish and stuff through at that store. its the same company that i know some LFS in tucson use. He does a really good job on the tanks there and they are letting him expand into a few of their freshwater tanks because he's maintained it so well and his sales in SW are up. Still.... I would be hesitant about buying SW fish from petco but I mean if they are as big and healthy as the ones in the LFS and you QT them appropriately and they come from the same vendors.... why not.... Also the extremely knowledgable guy running my PetCo's aquatics department puts a little more faith in what goes on there.
The PetCo up here in Glendale 59th ave and the 101.... is actually really nice for saltwater. They guy who takes care of it has a 180gal mixed reef. I was talking to him while i was contemplating buying a cleaner shrimp. He's revamped the entire system and has upgraded the lighting. he showed me who they order their fish and stuff through at that store. its the same company that i know some LFS in tucson use. He does a really good job on the tanks there and they are letting him expand into a few of their freshwater tanks because he's maintained it so well and his sales in SW are up. Still.... I would be hesitant about buying SW fish from petco but I mean if they are as big and healthy as the ones in the LFS and you QT them appropriately and they come from the same vendors.... why not.... Also the extremely knowledgable guy running my PetCo's aquatics department puts a little more faith in what goes on there.
brian cummings
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not saying this is surely the case- but Kellogi don't have a good reputation. They tend to be primarily raised for the chinese medicine trade, and have problems with parasites and disease. They're raised in crowded pens in the sea- essentially floating mesh cages, they're not bred in a closed system. They're certainly the cheapest seahorse available, and word is you get what you pay for. The also grow to be the amongst the largest of the seahorses- they ultimately need larger aquariums than most other seahorses. They're also supposed to do better in a temperate water system- they are from tropical areas in Asia, but they're a deepwater species, and require lower temperatures and lighting. To Petco's credit, their website (from which you can also buy this species) does say they get larger and so recommends a larger tank size, and does recommend they be kept in a species only tank. I'm interested to eventually try them because I'd like to have huge seahorses. I currently keep H. Erectus, widely considered the easiest/hardiest to keep.
