Aquarium Society Bus Trip!!

[OrandaLover1028]

Well we left at 8am this morning to head to Milwaukee, Wisconsin to hit up 3 diffrent Aquarium shops! We went to Hoffer's Tropical Life Shop And Aquatics unlimited and wow! I found a beautful Chocolate Oranda At Hoffers....maybe ill get lucky and he'll grow out as beautful as my last one. I also got two albino african claw toed frogs to keep my apple nails company. :) One last stop at "smileys pet shop" Ive had a great time but i really cant wait till the Louiville show! Im savin my money! ;) im sure prices vary....but can any body give me an idea of what kind of prices i might see at the show?

[Cincy Ranchu]

Cool idea for a club function:exact::yess::exact:

[BruceP]

Where the heck is Smileys????????
Glad you had a good time.

[OrandaLover1028]

Smiley’s Pets n' Things
5869 S. Packard Ave. Cudahy, WI 53110 (414) 481-5585Mon-Fri 10am-8pm, Sat 9am-6pm, Sun 9am-6pm

http://myspace.com/smileyspetsnthings

Hoffers was a really awesome place...but their prices were pretty high and at least when it came to their goldies a lot of them were damaged,espechially their telascopes n black mors :/ but ohh their koi were georgious (and priced just as such lol)! they even had the scale-less varity! awesome! Aquatics unlimited had some absolutly georgious Discus fish! WoW! Cant wait to get home n get thigs situated. And the best part of the whole trip? We managed to get a 10-20% discount at each store! :yess:

[bigbettadan]

Hoffers is a must see. Gene Lucas and I went there when we attended a betta show in Milwaukee. Very impressive. In fact there is a signed by Gene Betta drawing hanging in Hoffers.... Another great shop is Sailfin in Champaign, Ill.......


Dan

[OrandaLover1028]

my only complant about Hoffers is,they have this awesome set up with turtles and lil allagators and i understand the whole need for the chain of life...they feed them goldies (not my complainte) my problem is they had a very young group of kids celabrating a birthday and they gave each child a fish which the pretty much squezzed to hold on to then dropped and threw it down into the holding area (atleast a 8+ft drop to the water) where they hit with a loud smack. :( again i understand everything has to eat and the kids got a kick out of it but im sure there is a much better way of handeling the situation. :/ Oh but super cool ?? the HUGE 100+ lb Tourtiuse just walkin around the store checking things out! wow!

[BruceP]

Thanx...... we'll run down and check out Smiley's later today. Always looking for new places to find fish. We live about 10 minutes from Hoffers and about 15 from Aquatics. Neither has much in goldies tho.

[small_ranchu]

If I have a chance to visit Malwaukee, one of the place I want to visit is (you know who's) house. Their place is packed with goldfish and koi only. lol

[OrandaLover1028]

I know right fred! all i could think about was how close i was to Bruce but i couldnt leave the group lol Hoffers had the most to offer goldie wise,but alot of their tanks had lots of damaged or possiably sick fish. Heck the tank with the blue orandas even had a dead one just chillin...it had been there a while n when i mentioned it to them nothing was done and we were there for like 2hrs. :/ a lot of the others had damaged fins or eyes :/ poor guys.

[BruceP]

Never made it down to Smiley's today; got busy finishing the wrought iron fense around our front yard and taking out sod. I'm ready for bed (4pm).. LOL We've had fish spawning all weekend (unwanted). Sheeeeeesh! :confuse:

[OrandaLover1028]

WoW!! that sounds like a busy day bruce! :) We had our monthly meeting tonight, a guy there had some Fiberglass tubs from the Notre Dame Biology department. They are 100+ gallons and he was selling them for $3!!! :o i soooo grabbed one up! would have picked up more but everyone eles there was eager to grab some up too sooooo i was nice and shared lol but wow what a steal!!!:yess:

[Ranchu Rancher]

I live on the south side. Pets and Things is a good store for tropicals but not for goldfish. I do most of my buiness with Aquatics Unlimited. If you were just their you should have seen some of my Ranchus. I sell them my final culls, single anals and fused tails. Bruce not worth the trip unless of coarse your stoping by my house.:-*

Gregg