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| Has anyone here ever bought fish online? What about more sensitive fish like Discus? What are your thoughts on this? Was the experience good? Is there a particular website that you recommend? I've thought about buying some fish online but I'm kind of scared too.... What about fish supplies? Let me know your thoughts..
125 Gallon Aquarium: 4 Discus, 6 Cardinal Tetras, 16 Red Eye Tetras, 2 Flame Tetras, 3 Cory Catfish
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| I haven't bought any fish online yet but have also been considering it. I like the Idea of getting my fish at a local store so I can observe them and make sure they are eating before I buy them. I buy most of my supplies online. I like Drs foster and Smith and I also use Amazon. I get my salt, food, filters, test kits, and all of my other supplies online unless It's something I need right away. While I like to support my local fish store I get every thing much cheaper online
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Hi Brandon,
I buy most of my fish on-line. The local stores, (PetSmart, Jack's, etc.), just don't carry what I'm interested in.
After having some less than stellar experiences with on-line retailers, I started buying on AquaBid.com. Most of the sellers there are either breeders or people really into the hobby so the quality of the fish is outstanding.
You do need to be around to receive your fish when buying on-line. They don't do too well sitting out in the weather waiting for you to get home from work. Options here are having them shipped to a neighbor that is at home to bring them in or perhaps a relative that is at home during the day. Where there's a will, there's a way.
Dennis
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| I haven't bought any fish but i have purchased live plants from Mikeswetpets (on ebay and aquabid) and i have been very satisfied with the quality.
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Buying fish supplies online is a breeze as long as you know what you're getting - which isn't usually a problem.
Buying fish online depends entirely on the company or person doing the selling, in my opinion. Reputable people will do their utmost to ship the fish in as healthy and stress-free a manner as possible, and will refund your money if their efforts have not given you a live fish at the end of transit. And honestly most, if not all, of the fish at any given store have gone through a shipping process at least once. Fish go through it a lot and most survive.
I don't buy fish online, but that's more because I don't have the room or finances to quarantine them away from my main tanks right now. And transport is one situation where I would definitely quarantine. I also really enjoy being able to observe the individual fish that I am buying - precisely because I prefer to choose visibly healthy fish and there's no guarantee you'll get that online. You're trusting the seller on that one.
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Baby - lionhead/ryukin cross
Westie - lionhead/ryukin cross
Speedy Rodriguez - oranda
Currently searching for a good new tankmate!
planted 29 gallon
3 red eye tetras
4 cherry barbs
2 cardinal tetras
4 albino cories
2 Bolivian rams
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| I have decent luck with liveaquaria.com
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Just curious, why not purchase from your local pet shop? A privately owned, mom and pop shop will go to extraordinary lengths to obtain what you want. There is one in my area who has ordered all sorts of unusual fish and plants for me. They even call when the shipment arrives. There is another benefit to using a locally owned shop and that is when you find yourself inundated with offspring from the original shipment as I was with American-Flag Fish! They were breeding like rabbits and a local pet shop will help you out. Anyway, my two cents. Good luck!
SGN
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| Hi Stephen, I thought the same thing! I went to our one and only privately owned local pet shop, and was very disappointed about how rude, and unwilling to help they were. I always love to support local business, but ended up finding more luck at your National chain 
125 Gallon Aquarium: 4 Discus, 6 Cardinal Tetras, 16 Red Eye Tetras, 2 Flame Tetras, 3 Cory Catfish
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Whoa, they won't be in business for long treating customers like that. Real shame. The store might be in the hands of the owner's children. We had that happen in my area where a really awesome pet shop was handed down to the kids when the parents retired and the kids just didn't have the burning desire to succeed. The shop went down fast and closed doors within a year.
In your situation mail order makes sense. Another option is an aquarium club. Good luck!
SGN
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Hello everyone. I know it’s been forever since my last post on here. I Have Discus also. I have bought online and locally. Like others, I do buy my supplies online now, yes much cheaper when I buy 50 dollars worth and get free shipping and save on overall cost. Regarding discus and fish online it’s been more a failure than success. Reason being many super high quality discus breeders use R/O and pristine water conditions to grow out there discus and even though that might work for keeping their stock thriving and high quality discus the problem being some or most people don't keep their aquariums in that condition and the discus might suffer or die if that’s not the water conditions they were grown out in. However when I found a local discus breeder with the same water conditions and breeds them in aged water with no special treatment. I have had a 100% success rate and still have them 2 1/2 years later. So my thoughts are, unless you match similar water conditions they have or that you R/O your own water and re-treat it, I would find someone locally and is always your best bet. Good Luck.
{MatthewLP}
Kansas City, Mo.
______________________________________________90 gal, 48x18x24 F/W. C-360 canister filter, 300 watt heater @ 82ºF. Coralife H/O Lighting: 2x 10,000K 54 watt T5 bulbs.
Fusion 600 Air Pump, 2x Hydro III Sponge Filters.
Fish: 2 Julii Cory's Cats, 24 cardinals, 3 bristlenose pleco, 6 German Blue Rams, 2 Large Angles
Discus: 1 Red Mellon, 1 Golden, 1 Cobalt Blue, 1 turquoise
Live Plants: 6 Amazon Swords, 4 Anubis Nana.
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