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    Van Star Aquarium

    3.6 (9 reviews)

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    2 years ago

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    4 months ago

    Nice fish. Staff not so friendly but the rare fishes outweighs the service. We will be back to purchase some black arowanas

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    5 months ago

    Really good fish store. Have all the coolest fish in the world and really nice employees.

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    7 months ago

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    4 years ago

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    2 years ago

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    3 years ago

    Good prices and some rare tropical fishes, they specialize in rare pleco and arowana , and other monster fishes

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    4 years ago

    Owner/worker here is very rude and place is a disaster and smells like cigarette smoke!!! Overpriced as well-

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    3 years ago

    5 stars water was super clear okay customer service and fair prices! And those are the fish I bought from the store

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    Bob's Tropical Fish

    Bob's Tropical Fish

    4.6
    (214 reviews)

    Great aquarium store! Staff are knowledgeable and helpful, store has everything you need for…read moresetting up and/or maintaining a tank, and selection of fish and plants is plentiful and changes regularly. If there is something you want, they can order it for you: I wanted an albino bristlenose plecostomus, and they ordered it special and is arrived within a couple of weeks. Fish are slightly more expensive than the big-box stores, but of much better quality and in much better health. I've been coming here for about 3 years and am a completely satisfied customer. I recommend this store in the highest possible terms for anyone who owns or is interested in owning an aquarium!

    This is a review for the store owner's way of conducting business, nothing to do with the very nice…read morehelpful workers/teenagers. They were great and very patient as I walked around the store asking questions. 2 stars instead of 1 because at least after 30 days the fish are still alive, were not sick, etc. NEW FISH OWNERS BEWARE: Do NOT go here if you want any type of advice at all regarding fish. I came in for a single male betta, some aquatic plants, seachem stability and micropellets, and media / filter to get a 5G tank cycling started before actually buying the betta. He instead sold us 3 betta females encouraging us to start a sorority tank inside a 5G, that it didn't need cycling, and that I was going a bit far to buy so many things for "just one fish." Listen, I get you have to upsell and it was easy to tell I was new to the hobby. But I take things seriously, and once I got home and looked everything up -- I discovered the horrendous reality that the 3 female bettas were most likely going to attack each other and die within 7-10 days. Within 24 hours I had to separate them into tiny glass vases because they started chasing each-other relentlessly, bullying the smallest one, and it was extremely stressful. Maybe it's my fault for being talked into it because I had only done research regarding a single betta. This guy pretty much set me up for failure from the get go. Fast forward one month, I now have a 20G tank (recommended 5G per a single fish), it finally finished its FIRST full ammonia/nitrite/nitrate cycle, and I have a community tank of 8 harlequin rasboras, the 3 female bettas that I still have to monitor, a nitrite snail, and plenty of plants. Funny how if he really did give good advice, I would've come back tenfold for the good price and general cleanliness. But nope! I'm new to the hobby but have already experienced at least three stores other than Bob's that treated me better, had a better understanding of guidance about fish, etc. Extremely appalled by the type of guidance I got here. All about money this guy.

    Van Star Aquarium - localfishstores - Updated July 2026

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