Post your Petco/Pet Store pics/videos

[ConcinusMan]

Walked on over to the Petco a few blocks away (East Vancouver, WA) today. They have a very clean and well maintained store and all the animals look good. I wanted to find out about that enclosure setup I was talking about in another thread. Turns out it's made by North American Pet Products (http://www.northamericanpet.com/products/commercial-fixtures/).


I don't see the same setup on their website that I see at my local petco, but still. Neat setups they got for reptiles. Now if I was only rich I'd buy a bunch of them.

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Some other pics from the store:

Another normal ball python for someone to get bored with and abandon:
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And of course, you can never have too many water dragons crammed into a small tank. :rolleyes:
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This one was labeled "tortoise"
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTB37DR0lnk

Many more pics and videos left to post but I'll stop there for now.

It would be cool if everyone would go to their petco's or other pet stores and show us what they got.

[d_virginiana]

Your petco looks amazing! Last time I went in mine, every single goldfish in the store was covered in the same fungal infection, there was a terrifyingly thin pac on the wrong substrate, and they had a full grown Jackson's chameleon crammed into a small 3.5 gallon tank with absolutely nothing to even grab onto to get off the ground. They don't even bother to put the bettas in filtered tanks with small dividers, they just leave them on the shelf in the half-filled shipping cups they come in. I think they hate to see me come in, because I tend to be a little vocal about my displeasure. lol They'd probably think I was documenting to try and report them if I went in there with a camera.

I like the "tortoise" :D Ours just likes to charge double price for 'fantasy' pacs that are actually cranwelli.

[Greg'sGarters]

My PetSmart is TERRIBLE!!! They are trying to charge $12 for 6 frozen pinkies! They are day old pinkies! I could get my own mice breeding colony for that type of money! They keep their bettas on the shelf in those cheap shipping containers and don't even to refill their water. It always kills me to look on the shelf and see 4/10 bettas dead! They keep all their reptiles in the same temperature. They try to keep a bearded dragon at the same temperature as an anole! Their water dishes are never full and their leopard gecko's tails look like an earthworm that died on the sidewalk due to overheating. I only buy from PetSmart if ABSOLUTELY necessary. Their customer service is terrible. I once waited on hold for 12 minutes to find out that they don't know if the product is in stock or not! Their feeder fish are left with nothing to eat except for the decaying, water-logged remains of dead feeder fish.

[ConcinusMan]

This is the same store that used to be across the parking lot from where it is now, (they simply moved) but that was more than 10 years ago. It was the same way. Emaciated listless lizards in filthy tanks, snakes dying and covered in mites, and every other imaginable horror. Ever since they moved, things changed. In fact, things changed in every store in the metro area. Too many complaints and it even went up to corporate level. They responded and got their **** together. They've slipped back a little now and then but for the most part, it's been like it is now.

PetSmart here doesn't even carry live animals. Just small stores with pet supplies/grooming services. Mostly caters to cats and dogs.

And this Petco does have a shelf full of bettas in a cup. Doesn't seem to bother the bettas any. I see the same ones still thriving after months in the containers. They just had a couple of them in big tanks. I even bought two of their bettas in a cup before. I ended up having them for about 8 more years in containers not much bigger than 1/2 gallon.:cool:

The aquarium section here is pretty amazing. But they don't tend to it themselves. An outside company comes in and does all the maintenance and care. No sick fish here. They did have one big tank with fancy goldfish in it that said "held for observation - not for sale at this time". I assume that probably means they are under quarantine or being treated for something but the fish looked fine.

Baby corns were a bit thin, but at least there was no crickets or obvious signs of mites in their tank.

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Red eared slider (I thought these were banned in WA but apparently not)
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[Greg'sGarters]

And it's not all the worker's fault here, the company just hires anybody they can find.

Owner: "Oh, hey, you used to work as a car mechanic? You start tomorrow!"


And the pictures are BEAUTIFUL. In NJ we cannot own wild colored corn snakes. We can own albinos just no wild-colorations (Normal, Miami Phase, Okatee). We can't sell turtles in NJ but if we go out of state to get one or catch one in/out of state, we can own them.

[ConcinusMan]

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The problem with these damn sliders is that people release them in the local ponds where native turtles live. I guess they figure if there's other turtles there... but they're doing a lot of harm. They outcompete the natives and just take over. One good turtle pond here has threatened and declining western pond turtles (and painted turtles) so thankfully that's being carefully monitored by wildlife officials. They go out every year and trap/remove/destroy the sliders. Doesn't get rid of them but it keeps them from overtaking the natives.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akVfw-KHEJ8

[ConcinusMan]

I want this. From the same company that made petco's setup. I'll take 3 please! :D

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[ProXimuS]

That would be awesome. I could only imagine how much that would have to cost...Or maybe I don't want to imagine....:rolleyes:

[ConcinusMan]

Still looking for prices. Strange they make it so difficult to find out but I found this page while I was at it: North American Products | Custom Acrylic, Metal, Wood, Plastic, Glass Manufacturing (http://www.northamericanproducts.com/index2.php#!/3/Reptile/13)

[ConcinusMan]

I'm sure the setups are super expensive. They make the stuff for retail establishments. And they're not herp enclosure specialists. They make all kinds of displays and products for retail stores.

They sure are cool though.

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NOwhere do they list prices. They want you to call them.:rolleyes: That high, huh?

[ProXimuS]

They have some really cool stuff on that site. Some the aquariums are amazing:eek:

[d_virginiana]

If I ever win the lottery I'm going to immediately blow it on enclosures like those.

We have the same problem with red-eared sliders here. It's not legal to buy or sell ANY turtle or tortoise anywhere in NC. It started when two teenagers got sick with salmonella after swimming in a pool with their pet turtle and they were afraid of the public safety risk. I imagine if I got a straw and snorted water from my turtle's dish I'd probably get salmonella too.
They expanded it to prevent people possessing more than 4 native turtles live or dead as a lifetime limit, but the case that started the initial law is just ridiculous!

Our petsmart might have an outside company taking care of their fishtanks too (petco is the horrendous one). The lady that works them seems to know about all the requirements for all the fish. I even saw her refuse a sale to someone wanting to buy a fish for a tank that was too small for it.

[ConcinusMan]

If I ever win the lottery I'm going to immediately blow it on enclosures like those.

Yeah, no kidding. But that would only be because I would own a reptile shop full of them.;)

[snake man]

I would also be very happy if i owned one of these.

[ConcinusMan]

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[ConcinusMan]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlwir9EiDZg

[Eddie]

Did I see box turtles in those Petco cages?

[ConcinusMan]

No but they do have them sometimes.

[Steveo]

Maybe if they didn't buy the deluxe caging they wouldn't have to charge $79 for a royal. That's what I see around here.

[ConcinusMan]

Geez, that's ridiculous. To be honest, I didn't look at a single price of any of their herps. Not interested.

[Steveo]

I like to see what they have but it's always the same overpriced stuff... one royal, one corn morph (listed just as corn snake), a couple geckos, one chinese water dragon, one tarantula, maybe a couple scorpions. Sometimes a box turtle or baby iguana.

I only go in there when I need to stock up on silversides or cat litter.

[ConcinusMan]

I like to see what they have but it's always the same overpriced stuff... one royal, one corn morph (listed just as corn snake), a couple geckos, one chinese water dragon, one tarantula, maybe a couple scorpions. Sometimes a box turtle or baby iguana.

I only go in there when I need to stock up on silversides or cat litter.

Yes, always the usual crap here too but every now and then they get something different in. maybe a brooks king or CA king morph, sometimes ribbon snakes. So I try to go in once in a while and check it out. The only thing I ever buy are frozen silversides or if they got a huge price reduction on reptile items, I'll get a piece of mopani wood or a dish. One time I bought up ALL the reptisun florescent tubes they had. They were on clearance for $3 each!

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