best place for fish

[snarfe]

hi all! i live and kokomo, and i'm willing to drive oh say 1 1/2 hrs. i'm wondering whats the best place to get fish and inverts?
thanks in advance!

[DensityMan]

Best Selection - Uncle Bills Southside
Quality/Health - Abyss systems (they have funny hours and are not easy to find the first time)
People/Knowledge - PetWarehouse (Southside of Indy - close to UB South)

[Fourseahorsemen]

Rob aka Coralsandbar.com gets tank raised ORA fish in each month at real good prices. If you are looking for something specific PA may be able to order it for you.

[justgettinstarted]

aquarium world in lafayette has a pretty good selection

i was just there on tuesday, what are you looking for i can tell you if they have it or not (i go in weekly and am kinda obsessive!)

does uncle bills have a lot of SW stuff? they have a fathers day sale on tanks right now $1 per gallon for tanks up to 75g

[DensityMan]

Southside UB's probably has the largest selection and greatest number of fish in the Greater Indy area. The East and West sides are much more limited in their selections.

I'm very tempted to buy a few tanks I don't need, just because of that sale... LOL

[matt the fiddler]

is that pricing on acrylic tanks as well? i shoudl get a 75 bowfront at that price for my dad... to give back to me. :-)

[justgettinstarted]

i think its glass only

[matt the fiddler]

darn


still- do they have glass bowfronts sitting near 75?

[DensityMan]

only 'standard' sizes are covered in the sale

[sand man dan]

snarfe,
if you really want a real good selection and healthy fish go to abyss they have the best selection and veriety of fish and they are well taken care of and they arent priced real bad. probably alot better than critter corner i wouldnt buy anything form that place they dont take carer of anything and every pet store except premium and petco are over priced.

[not ecooper]

UB's South has taken really good care of me. Steve's awesome, but only works there on Sat's now. Since Chevy took off, who's gonna take charge of my custom orders? Someone (no names mentioned) who I keep talking to really doesn't give a rat's a**. They really DO have some good quality fish, nice selection, and quite a few corals. Their new tank is really nice with several SPS frags.

I dunno about "people" for PetWarehouse. I've yet to have an intelligent conversation with anyone there. AND THAT BIRD! I'm told it doesn't like children, so everytime a kid comes in its a maddening, deafening cacaphony of squaks. I just can't deal with it.

THEY DO CARRY ESV BIONIC there, though. So thats a plus in emergencies (although I've never really LOOKED, but I'm sure its as expensive as all get out.)

I bought a pair of Onyx percs from Abyss, clean as a whistle. Can't think of owners name, but super nice guy even though some of the kids that work there wouldn't give me the time of day until I came in and dropped over $150 on a pair of clownfish. (Actually a good price for what I got.) They even held them for me to be sure they were healthy. NICE GUY, the owner.

Hope this helps.


Oh yeah....but Premium? They're my GUYS! I can't possibly list all the good experiences, but they are so kind to me. I have six docs in Indy, so I'm there all the time.....but docs don't do Fridays or Saturdays at that level (ENT's, neurologists, epilepsy specialists, ect.) so I'm almost NEVER there when they are open. But if I call, they let me in to get what I need so I can hurry and get out of their way. And always so NICE, too. I now make a habit of "Premium Runs" when someone is first starting out a tank in my circle of friends, or even just someone I know. Their live rocks is the BEST!

[DensityMan]

Damn!

How did I forget Premium in my listing?

They knock the ball out of the park for Live Rock and supplies, though they aren't the best in selection of fish... /shrug

Ultimately this is why I still check out as many places as I can (with a few I wouldn't recommend to anyone). There are quite a few places in Indy to shop, and they all have different specialties.

[sand man dan]

and we all know there is nothing in freaking Noblesville

[DensityMan]

save for freakin' Noblesvillinians...

[matt the fiddler]

so why is it that no pet store in town sells southdown? and the guys i talked to at the reef have never heard of it?

[sand man dan]

because they want to sell the 20.00 to 25.00 dollar live sand or the 1.99 lb stuff

[DensityMan]

*cough*

[matt the fiddler]

well, there are reef stores in town that don't even sell live sand.. and wouldn't even give me seed form their system for a reasonable price.. hmmmmm

[justgettinstarted]

its because a 40lb sack or Carib Sea argonite costs between 20 and 25 bucks a pop and a 50lb bag of southdown costs like $6...

So you tell people that they are the same thing.... which one are they going to buy? Profit margin is not nearly as much on a $6 item as on a $25 item...

there is some spaztic person here on RC who sells southdown by the lb... and price includes shipping... i forget what the price was... like 50c or 75c a lb, maybe it was a buck i dont remember... sounded pretty dumb to me! LOL

[sand man dan]

you got it and truth be known they are probably bagged by the same company just different bags.

[overflowin]

i'll just get my sand from shawn...

[matt the fiddler]

how much is he charging now a days? i might need some

[sand man dan]

shoot maybe i should dig some out of my 125 and sell it , 100 or so lbs would hurt it.

[overflowin]

a buck a pound for VERY live sand...its awesome stuff. and he always hooks it up pretty fat. i got everything he had last time, around 100lbs (to split with a friend) and he charged us $60...and that was the first day i met him.

[matt the fiddler]

danny- saw this form chicago's cmas tour of inland- and thought of you. but this guy has you beat...