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Petsmart $1.00 fish sale Nov. 5 -7

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#1 ·
Looks like Petsmart is having another $1 sale this weekend, Friday thru Sunday. As far as I can tell, however, the ad doesn't tell us which fish are included.

They currently have guppies, mollies and platies on sale for 2/$3.00 good until I think the end of Nov. So for $3, you can have a tank full of livebearers in a month.
 
#2 ·
BOO and YAY! boo-- more or likely will bring in ich on a fish or some illness. yay because fish well be cheap.. that would be awesome if they would put the cory on sale for $1.00 each and I would be dreaming if they put the german blue rams on sale for $1.00 they need to get different types of rams too. bolivians, and the golds.... but still bet they would get sick. they are bringing in new fish they are not use to having.
 
#5 ·
well my 20's are setup just need to get a heater and filter for the bottom 20, and get to work on the bottom 20. got lids for free thanks to fred(metrofish) metrofishofdallas.com I did have to replace the bulbs though. :( 7.97 a bulb for a 18 inch t8 bulb. BOO home depot. I might get some fish this weekend. do have a light question t8 15w bulbs over a 20g h gives enough light for anewbuis, java ferns, and crypts right?
 
#6 ·
@Joey. Yes, that will give you low light. You will be able to have your moss, java ferns, crypts, anubis. Don't go too crazy with the fish sales. Make sure you give your tanks enough time to cycle and keep dosing with Stability. Nothing is worse than finding floaters.

@Everyone: Back on subject now, does anyone know what fish will be on sale at Petsmart?
 
#11 ·
@Everyone: Back on subject now, does anyone know what fish will be on sale at Petsmart?
Most barbs, long fin danio, rasboras. They also had a pleco for sale but I don't know which type it was. It wasn't bristle nose, but that's all I can say.
 
#7 ·
you sure this chart says I won't even have low light? and that I would need 2 t8 bulbs just to have low light.



but back on subject...... I'm not getting fish I already have enough fish that I took out of one of the 55g. I thought danios where expensive. there not - 99 cents and 1.49 for long fins. I got 10 so they can help cycle each 20 gallon.

also I guess I need to put tinfoil in these lights to help put down more light in the tank, and does 5,000k still work for are plants?
 
#8 ·
Joey, that chart shows 2 T8 bulbs sitting on top of the tank, 12 inches from the substrate, is medium light.

Unless you plan to grow plants underneath the tank with it bare bottom, the light should be fine for those plants.

Also, charts like this are not etched in stone. They are a very limited study of a few lights generally.
 
#10 ·
Fishyjoe, you should probably start a new thread for questions that are unrelated to the OP.

I'm really hoping it's the $1 tetra sale again so I can get another 10 or so cardinals for my tank.
Yeah, that would be nice. I really want some more cherry barbs though, too.
 
#17 ·
You can't save the fish but you can save the fish keepers. I've stepped in few times and helped the other customers find the right products they need for their tanks and how to set them up with available Petsmart products. I don't think the employees are trained well enough to ask the right questions. Matter of fact, I'm not even sure they even train the employees on advance pets needs other than to push products.
 
#18 ·
Too bad that the El Paso Petsmart doesn't have Otos. I have bought them for $1 each from the North Arlington store with about a 75% survival rate. So I figure I get them for $1.33 each which is a good deal in my book.

I will go by tonight or tomorrow and report back if they have any.

Thanks,

Ric
 
#19 ·
the problem with petsmart is just about any one can get a job there. so do you have a fish tank, yes I have a 5 gallon with a gold fish in cool you are hired. then the employee has to guess what is right or wrong.. I remember I was at the allen petsmart and the manger didn't know anything about fish and I had to help him.. I think for petsmart to get better. corpate needs to train it's people more..

I've had to help a lot of people , petsmart is so big it will hire any one. one person gets fired 30 mins later some one else is hired taking the placed of the person who got fired. where as to some of the good LFS and mom pops shops might have a hirer price but no there stuff.
 
#20 ·
the problem with petsmart is just about any one can get a job there. so do you have a fish tank, yes I have a 5 gallon with a gold fish in cool you are hired. then the employee has to guess what is right or wrong.. I remember I was at the allen petsmart and the manger didn't know anything about fish and I had to help him.. I think for petsmart to get better. corpate needs to train it's people more..

I've had to help a lot of people , petsmart is so big it will hire any one. one person gets fired 30 mins later some one else is hired taking the placed of the person who got fired. where as to some of the good LFS and mom pops shops might have a hirer price but no there stuff.
The problem isn't on the employee level. It's a corporation, and I wouldn't ever expect a corporation to be able to manage a pet store with any sort of integrity over a long period of time. There's just isn't the oversight in place to police them into having integrity, like say the DOT or OSHA oversight of the transportation industry. I've heard numerous horror stories of people working at Petsmart who were knowledgeable but they still had to follow policy, even when it wasn't in the best interest of the animals.
 
#21 ·
Despite my better judgement, I went by the Petsmart on Greenville Ave. in Dallas this afternoon. The fish looked pretty clean, with no visbile casualties. There were 7 or 8 otocinclus, and they were plump! So I bought 5. I may regret it, and I certainly felt dirty afterward.

They were $1.98 each.
 
#22 ·
Just be sure to give them some vegetable matter right away to be sure they're well fed. Either romaine lettuce, zucchini or a brussel sprout. Sprouts are the best IMO. Last longer, less messy.

The plumpness could be bloating due to bad diet. The veggie matter will help with that if that is the case.
 
#26 ·
This may shock people, but I regularly harvest algae from my ponds to feed to my shrimp and an oto from a previous purchase. I've also tried blanched spinach and other dark greens, but they like the algae better. I can put a piece the size of playing card in the tank, and it will be complete gone by the next morning.
 
#23 ·
ottos will eat anything, mine at the beef heart I was giving the angels. I feel like going to petsmart just to see what they have on sale.
 
#25 ·
well good think they wheren't to expensive. they where a dollar at petco got them almost 2 months ago.. need to set up my 55g. whos tirming there tank.
 
#29 · (Edited)
Yeah, I know that problem. My 29 gallon is an absolute jungle right now. I think there's almost 20 species crammed in. Don't know what to do with it. Think I'll just tell people it's a grow out tank.

The 55 is full again too as I just planted the left side with a bunch of Rotala rotundafolia and Limnophila aromatica.
 
#31 ·
Petsmart Oto Report:

The largest of the five was dead this morning. The others seem to be doing well, eating pond algae and blanched spinach, swimming and schooling in the filter outflow.

I drip acclimate all my fish, usually taking 2 to 3 hours. In this case I took the extra precaution of netting the otos out of the Petsmart swill, and rinsing them with my tank water before putting them in the tank.

When I first brought these fish home I suspected that they were a different species from the single oto I already had. The Petsmarters were much lighter in color. But now that they have been in my tank a few days, they are much darker and more similar to the first fish. Maybe it has something to do with the bright yellow clown puke gravel and the red plastic plant in the tank they were kept in at the fish gulag.

Martin, how are yours doing?
 
#32 ·
Most fish you pick up from a pet store will have different coloring in the store versus how they will look several days after being in a tank with cleaner water, lots of coverage and less foot traffic.

I'm down to one otto, who is very active, but then so were the others. I know they get plenty to eat, but they still seem to die without notice. So I'm going to stop keeping them. There are simply better alternatives that seem more suited to captivity: shrimps, snails, plecos, SAEs.
 
#34 ·
Petsmart otos: another one bites the substrate. All total I have purchased 8 otos, 3 from Boutique Pets before they announced their closing, and 5 from Petsmart. I have 4 survivors.

This bring to mind an issue on which I should start a new thread--is it ethical to buy wild-caught fish? Especially species that are harvested with paralytic agents in an unsustainable fashion, like otos? Do any LFS distinguish between wild caught and captive bred fish? Can they even tell you which is which if you ask?
 
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