![]() She bought some from there to diversify her colonys genetics, and I took a few in her tank a week later and put the fish in two quarantine tanks I had a few other fish living in temporarily. My friend bought a few guppies from their store, and from the pictures she sent, all of their animals, and I mean ALL of them, were kept in awful conditions. Theyll get the idea.ĭo not buy animals from here. $39 for glass tank cover you can buy for $21 elsewhere? Tell them. $24 for a bottle of a supplement you can get for $15 elsewhere? Tell them and buy it elsewhere. One stop shopping never is a good idea anyhow. As a result the market will force them to lower prices. It is yours for paying a stores high prices. So know the value of something before to plop down cash for it. A ~30 gal tank there was -twice- the going market price. Very knowledgeable staff (but always verify what a local fish store tells you for your own sake), and they ARE willing to special order items for you and supposedly at competitive price. Prices on livestock arent too bad, and they purport all fish are quarantined for 2 weeks before sale which I like. Some freshwater and marine fish selection. From the perspective of an aquarium owner, they stock a decent supply of supplements. ![]() They have a little bit of everything at a higher price than most other local pet stores. Although this only covers an experience with birds, I expect this total mistreatment of customers and animals occurs in all species they deal with, and I would highly recommend looking anywhere but the Fish Nook for animals, supplies and information. In short, everything they told us was wrong and misleading. Further questioning revealed that he was far older than what they had indicated to us, and that he wasnt hand fed because: "that makes birds bite everyone but the person that fed them while they were a baby" - which is blatantly wrong if you do your research. Upon calling them we were informed that he wasnt locally bred (he was actually born somewhere in Florida), was sold to a bird wholesaler (with no concrete information on his age) and then later bought by the Fish Nook. We completely forgot to follow up on it, but remembered a couple of months later. We said we were curious about his exact hatch date but were practically out the door by the time we remembered to ask, and they told us if we called them back they could look it up in their records for us. However, we had completely fallen in love with the bird himself, and so we decided we would just ignore their recommendations and purchase everything elsewhere. Every piece of information they gave us about birds was false (recommended cages that were too small, toys that were made for the wrong types of birds, and an all-seed diet that was listed as incredibly unhealthy by every book we read). ![]() We bought a bird from the Fish Nook only after them assuring us multiple times that he was a hand-fed, local-bred bird that was only a few months old (what all the books tell you too look for). ![]()
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