Live Aquaria sold

Richard ML · Jul 19, 2020

Very interesting. I've heard their quality of corals hasn't been the greatest. Hopefully the new owners will look into improving that.

Melanie Fish · Jul 19, 2020

Hopefully this will be a good change for liveaquaria.

Richyreefer · Jul 19, 2020

I have felt the Divers Den has really gone down hill the last year or so. On multiple occasions i ordered something only to receive an email saying it was dead. This used to be my "go to" place for fish and some corals. I hope the new owners restore the quality levels once found here.

Thunderrap · Jul 19, 2020

I am not so sure why people think LA is bad, I ordered a Yellow Tang and a lawnmower Blenny that are thriving in my tank. I will be ordering from them again soon for sure!

NashobaTek · Jul 19, 2020

Thunderrap said:
I am not so sure why people think LA is bad, I ordered a Yellow Tang and a lawnmower Blenny that are thriving in my tank. I will be ordering from them again soon for sure!

My only issue is they were part of Petco and they ship UPS who I refuse to use. To many issues with packages not being delivered on time and that's before covid

evoIX_njreefer · Jul 19, 2020

Petco had terrible practices so this would be a good thing. I am sure they lost tons of money in the saltwater section from things being run in MANY of their stores.

CoralBaskin · Jul 19, 2020

Ha. I’ve heard too many horrible stories about LA to order from them.

jrill · Jul 19, 2020

Our Petco is good

CK00020 · Jul 19, 2020

WiscoFishNut said:
Being a Wisconsin resident I'm really happy the HQ will remain in Rhinelander! I'm not sure if they allow it, but I think it would be really cool to take a tour of the facility(assuming they breed fish there). A 2.5 hour drive for picking up livestock would be pretty sweet if they have a retail desk

That’s what I am talking about, I would love to just be able to pick up livestock again

ErehwoN · Jul 19, 2020

As a Noob who just got started with this hobby a few months ago, I've placed 5-6 orders and have had good experiences. I did have one DOA fish and they promptly gave me store credit.

Jim

jkcoon · Jul 20, 2020

In my opinion, this is great news. DFS and LA both seemed encumbered after the Petco acquisition - Petco ruined a great business; I'd love to see things return to how they were pre-acquisition.

albano · Jul 20, 2020

I have a slightly different idea about the decline of LA/DD over the past few years.... maybe some people wanted it to do poorly so that they could purchase it from Petco at a much lower price!

Now they can return it to the way it was in the past, and hopefully even better!

Bob Escher · Jul 20, 2020

CK00020 said:
It would be great if they opened up the retail shop again, it was always packed before petco

Indeed being I’m going through Rhinelander on Thursday it would be nice to stop and pick some fish up

jdstank · Jul 20, 2020

Richard ML said:
Very interesting. I've heard their quality of corals hasn't been the greatest. Hopefully the new owners will look into improving that.

I’ve had the exact opposite experience lately. Several SPS that were obviously months old, not fresh cuts at all and tremendous growth. One had the entire frag plug encrusted as well. Nowhere near the typical sub 1” frags a lot of places sell with many of those being very fresh cuts. A recent BOPBN I got could easily be fragged 6-7 times and meet the standard for what most people feel is an acceptable frag.

Bepis · Jul 21, 2020

Hopefully they are in good hands, the petco near me had a terrible marine section, haven't and will not buy from them ever

ps2cho · Jul 21, 2020

Well Dr Fosters & Smith got ruined by Petco...all the equipment they used to sell is gone. Now its just garbage. Can't even buy Radions there. There's nothing but Petco trash you find in the stores.

Panky · Jul 21, 2020

So who ultimately ended up buying Live Aquaria?

Panky · Jul 21, 2020

ps2cho said:
Well Dr Fosters & Smith got ruined by Petco...all the equipment they used to sell is gone. Now its just garbage. Can't even buy Radions there. There's nothing but Petco trash you find in the stores.

Who doesn’t sell Radions? Petco? Live Aquaria does, and they have other high end equipment as well