Aquarium adventure columbus ohio

[ohio reefer]

All I can say is.. Stay away. The reason I'm posting this is because many Ohio reef keepers start at this store because it's the best known store here. The livestock quality is decent, I've seen some nice fish and coral, however they're mark up is insane. A mandarin is over 55$, a skunk cleaner shrimp 60$, 2 inch duresa clam 200$, yellow tang 130$. Their prices are outrageous. Something else they do to lure people in is by offering half off sales. The thing is they mark up the prices right before the sale. It is a shady business. The most recent experience I had is when I went to look at skimmers, they didn't have many choices and I saw a corallife 220 skimmer. Dr foster smith has it for 160 ish. They had it on sale for 310$! I couldn't believe it. Just wanted to offer a heads up

 

[bucksfan1976]

Yea its horrible. Its owned by Petland. What they do is when they have a % off sale they slowly raise the fish prices until even at 50% off they are selling above market value. Its complete bull

 

[stunreefer]

Have you considered that they may be sourcing their animals from high quality wholesalers whom use high quality collectors thus offering high quality animals?

Of course prices are of a huge concern to hobbyists, but we need to make sure that people aren't going down the street for a $40 yellow tang that's nearly on it's way out. There's no comparison to a hand caught, well handled fish compared to many collectors and wholesalers whom toss fish around and move them out as fast as possible to make a buck. These are the companies that will end our hobby, not if, but when... and it's truly up to us to purchase the higher quality fish which not only offers us an incredibly higher chance of survival, but will keep the 'good' collectors and wholesalers in business and will extend the life of our hobby.

Marking up prices before a sale to make "sale prices" match general market value is indeed shady, and this store should perhaps be avoided for that reason. However we cannot make purchases purely on price. I see wholesale lists everyday and there's no doubt that you'll see "Fish X" available from "Wholesaler 1" for $10, and the same "Fish X" is available from "Wholesaler 2" for $40. Know which one I'll order from? "Wholesaler 2" all day long... not because I want to pay more for a fish, but the collection, care and handling of fish is [generally] directly correlated to pricing. There are of course exceptions to places that just mark prices up for no particular reason, but they'll weed themselves out in due time.

Please note that I have never heard of the store you mentioned and have zero affiliation with them, or Columbus for that matter. I'm born and raised in Ann Arbor, I have no qualms with sticking them

 

[ohio reefer]

I'm actually moving to the Ann Arbor area so I'm happy to find some members. Could you possibly pm me some of the better stores in the area? Thanks, and I thought they may have a better collector but even if they have the best collector they have the worst conditions. I've seen fish with no eyes there. I've seen more dead fish than live fish in some tanks.

 

[ohio reefer]

I forgot to mention this isn't a small shop run by hobbyists. It's a large chain store.