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11-05-2008, 10:15 AM
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Aquatic shops in North-East...
I'll be bringing my fish tank up from Leamington Spa to where I'm now living in Stockton in the next couple of weeks and was wondering if you guys could recommend some good Aquatic shops around the Stockton On Tees area.
The fish tank will be setup as a standard community tank so I'll be looking at Black Mollys, Red-Tailed Black Sharks, Sword Tails, Clown Loaches, Pleco etc... I've also seen Congo Frogs before and would like one of these in the tank..  The only place I've been to so far is on Mill Lane in Billingham - its a pretty small shop and to be honest when I was there didn't have a lot of variety... Any suggestions appreciated :thumbs:
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11-05-2008, 10:45 AM
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yes mate highly recommend pet mania, quality corals and fish, also check out the reptile room part of petmania a couple of doors away, but basically we aint got many lfs in the north east
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11-05-2008, 10:49 AM
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 I've not been into the petmania part a couple of doors down yet but will have a look today...The aquatics shop next door to the reptile shop I thought was ok, just a little small and lacking variety... If need be I don't mind driving further a field - say within half-hours drive of Stockton for a good aquatics shop...
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11-05-2008, 11:32 AM
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update when you get back, i am also popping down petmania for a browse and maybe a purchase or two lol, the guys name is chris very helpful indeed
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11-05-2008, 12:22 PM
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Ok - just got back...
Again wasn't impressed with Billingham Aquatics... very cramped and dark in the shop and the fish tanks dull and not the cleanest I've seen by a long way... A lot of the tanks had numerous fish in but very few labelled so you couldn't see what they were... On the flip side I was very impressed with PetMania - a very spacious area towards the back of the shop - all fish tanks well lit and clean... plenty of variety of fish and quite a few available as deals - ie. buy five and get one free... I think I'll definately be getting my fish from PM out of the two... Didn't see Congo Frogs in either though and only Billingham Aquatics had x1 Red Tailed Black Shark which was tiny... PM had the albino ones but I'm not so keen on those... I guess its just a case of popping across once a week as I guess they get different fish in all the time... If anyone else has recommendations around the area then feel free to suggest - with the nicer weather it'd be nice to have a drive out 
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11-05-2008, 12:35 PM
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you could try mostly marines in peterlee but last time i went in there it was pathetic i think it had one dead blood shrimp and a disfigured clown but did have a really brightly coloured mantis shrimp in there if you want to put that in your tank.
 ....was there a torch coral in pet mania by any chance been waiting on getting one from them
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11-05-2008, 01:15 PM
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 Not sure on the coral as I was only looking at the tropical setups as opposed to the marine setup... Although I did sneak a look at some of the marine fish and was very impressed...
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