Thatfishshop.com or thatfishplace.com

[dogspot]

Hi y'all,

I am looking for a few fish that I can't find for the life of me at any of the LFS. I am looking for a couple syno. Petricolas and Tropheus Duboisis amongst others. I have narrowed it down to thatfishshop.com and thatfishplace.com... Thatfishshop charges $49 in shipping but their petricolas are about $20 cheaper than anywhere I have seen, and Duboisis are about $10 cheaper... So I will recoup the shipping charges. Thatfishplace.com has free shipping for orders over $150, but that's probably more fish than I can handle. I was thinking of setting up a couple spare tanks and picking up a few more fish to get over that $150... So I had emailed Thatfishplace with questions. Their turnaround time on my email was about 7 days. That scares me, what if I have a problem with my order? If they take 7 days when I don't have a problem, how long will they take when I do have a problem?

Anybody have experience with either of these? Any input would be appreciated.

Thanks!

Dog

[fishfreek]

I am extremly supprised with the turn around on thatfishplace.com aka thatpetplace.com the largest retail store on the east coast for pet supplies. They are by no means a shotty orginization. An example is that they staff biologists.

[MT79]

Their store is about an hours drive from me. FWIW, I've found their prices on dry goods are excellent, but of 16 SW snails I bought only 3-4 survived past two weeks. I've never had a problem w/ inverts before or since then. They also had a tank full of rotting orange Linckia stars the one time I was there. Long story short, I've switched to a new LFS that has better livestock IMO, but I like "That Pet Place" for dry goods.

[MT79]

Originally Posted by MT79

Their store is about an hours drive from me.

By their store I mean "That Fish Place" aka "That Pet Place"
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[bzbee]

Here is the number to the retail store. 1-717-299-5691, and the fish room is #7. The managers are typically marine biologist types who are very knowledgeable. I was just there last weekend for their anniversary and the place was packed. I have never ordered from them online, but I wouldn't imagine their service would be much different from my good experiences at the B&M

[gheitman]

Although I've never ordered livestock from www.thatpetplace.com I have had good service when ordering supplies online. My orders ship immediately and arrive in good condition.

[foob]

This is the second time I ordered from thatfishplace.com for live fish. I knew I shouldn't have done it.

But I wanted to get some freshwater fish as a birthday gift for my roommate, and didn't know any other freshwater stores. So anyway I got 5 blue rams, holy crap they were full of ich. They arrived on tuesday, now 2 are dead, 2 are dying, and 1 is still relatively speaking healthy.

Man my first order didn't go too well long time ago, but this one is much worse. I will never order from them again.