FishOrBust
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Title says it all, where I live in missouri there isnt very many pet stores that have many fish unless I go to St.louis City 70 miles away(I live in a small town, yes, I would be considered a hillbilly by some, 
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Granted thats not that far and i go up there all the time, I just don't buy fish there, because of the drive back, I am afarid somethign would happen to them.
So I found out there was a petco, about 50 miles away, so I decided to go up there and check it out.
They did have alot of stuff, fish wise, only 4 tanks of saltwater though, but only 1 had 2 fish in it, lol it was a yellow discus looking fish, and the other was a black fish, with like a dark blue looking stripe where his eyes are running up/down, and it had a funny looking short double spiked tail, anyway...
they had 8 tankes of goldfish. a normal varity of popular kinds, bubbleeye, commons, blackmores, ect.
And alot of tropical tanks, and alot of them was bare, espevcially the chiclid tanks, one had one tiger oscar in it and that was all, but it had tages for like 5 differnt types of fish in it, bet I know what happened to them, lol
I asked the guy in there if they had any plant substrate like eco and he had no idea what i was talking about, he said they don't stock "plant dirt", lol and then he picked up a bag of dirt from the reptile supplies and said "this is the closrest thing we would care close to dirt"?
I asked if they had any blue rams, and he said he no, i asked if they had any small dwarf plecos, and he pointed me to a tank full of common plecos and said these would stay small depending on the tank i had(that pissed me off!!)
but i kept my mouth shut, as there was alot of little kids in there.
What I really went in there for was to see if what bettas they had, they had about 20 altogeter, like 5 females, 5 crowntail, and the rest was regular vailtails, they all looked like they could are less if they lived ot died, only one of them a yellow crowntail even moved much whenever i moved the cups, the rest of them, didnt care, I put a bunch together to see if i could get this real small black crowntail to flare, so i could see the finnage, but he wouldn't, infact I moved almost all of them facing each other and not a damn one would flare at the others
I asked when they got their shipment in of bettas and he said on tuesdays, I asked if they ever get any other kind in like halfmoons and he looked puzzled for a few seconds and said no this is what we get in and he said he had worked there for almost 2 years.
On the plus side they did have alot of frozen food, i would go there to get that atleast, since they had a pretty good selection and in different amounts.
I was not too impressed, to say the least
I asked if he knew of anyplace around that sold good bettas and he said "Wal-Mart"
I said i ment ones that would be worthy to breed, and he said "Oh, you mean real ones"
I said yes, he said there was a place called Topical World Pets that should have what im looking for, so I guess thats where I will have to try next and risk traveling a ways with a fish if I buy one to get it home, as there is only 2 places around me that has even a poor choice of fish.
I HOPE THEY ARE NOT ALL LIKE THIS ONE!!!
Ther is a petsmart also, I might try there
.Granted thats not that far and i go up there all the time, I just don't buy fish there, because of the drive back, I am afarid somethign would happen to them.
So I found out there was a petco, about 50 miles away, so I decided to go up there and check it out.
They did have alot of stuff, fish wise, only 4 tanks of saltwater though, but only 1 had 2 fish in it, lol it was a yellow discus looking fish, and the other was a black fish, with like a dark blue looking stripe where his eyes are running up/down, and it had a funny looking short double spiked tail, anyway...
they had 8 tankes of goldfish. a normal varity of popular kinds, bubbleeye, commons, blackmores, ect.
And alot of tropical tanks, and alot of them was bare, espevcially the chiclid tanks, one had one tiger oscar in it and that was all, but it had tages for like 5 differnt types of fish in it, bet I know what happened to them, lol
I asked the guy in there if they had any plant substrate like eco and he had no idea what i was talking about, he said they don't stock "plant dirt", lol and then he picked up a bag of dirt from the reptile supplies and said "this is the closrest thing we would care close to dirt"?
I asked if they had any blue rams, and he said he no, i asked if they had any small dwarf plecos, and he pointed me to a tank full of common plecos and said these would stay small depending on the tank i had(that pissed me off!!)
but i kept my mouth shut, as there was alot of little kids in there.What I really went in there for was to see if what bettas they had, they had about 20 altogeter, like 5 females, 5 crowntail, and the rest was regular vailtails, they all looked like they could are less if they lived ot died, only one of them a yellow crowntail even moved much whenever i moved the cups, the rest of them, didnt care, I put a bunch together to see if i could get this real small black crowntail to flare, so i could see the finnage, but he wouldn't, infact I moved almost all of them facing each other and not a damn one would flare at the others
I asked when they got their shipment in of bettas and he said on tuesdays, I asked if they ever get any other kind in like halfmoons and he looked puzzled for a few seconds and said no this is what we get in and he said he had worked there for almost 2 years.
On the plus side they did have alot of frozen food, i would go there to get that atleast, since they had a pretty good selection and in different amounts.
I was not too impressed, to say the least
I asked if he knew of anyplace around that sold good bettas and he said "Wal-Mart"
I said i ment ones that would be worthy to breed, and he said "Oh, you mean real ones"
I said yes, he said there was a place called Topical World Pets that should have what im looking for, so I guess thats where I will have to try next and risk traveling a ways with a fish if I buy one to get it home, as there is only 2 places around me that has even a poor choice of fish.
I HOPE THEY ARE NOT ALL LIKE THIS ONE!!!
Ther is a petsmart also, I might try there
