petshoponline live fish

Has anyone got fish from petshoponline. I have got other stuff and they have delivered the next day every time. Plus they say they will only deliver the fish the same day that it is sent out. But i don't know, any ideas :?

Personally I wouldn't buy a fish that I hadn't seen in person before hand.

As for buying fish off the company in question I don't have any experience with them so I cannot comment.

yea but they say they will take a picture of the fish they will send to you and from that (if the picture is good quality) you could easily tell the fish level of health

yea but they say they will take a picture of the fish they will send to you and from that (if the picture is good quality) you could easily tell the fish level of health

What if the pic is a year old.
I am not knocking any shop especially as I have never used it but I would not be too keen to mail order a fish but I will in the new year to see how it turns out. Then I can give a proper view as it contains experience. :roll:

I have never used them, but I did check out their stock list before and again tonight. They seem to have very limited live fish on offer except for discus. I assume they are connected to a retail outlet, anyone know which one? If you or someone here has experience of their retail operation (assuming they have one) you may get an idea of what you can expect of their service and quality online.

Personally I would prefer to see the fish I was buying in advance and the conditions they were housed in. I think I would only resort to ordering online for something rare or unusual I could not get elsewhere.

If you do use them, don't forget to post your experiences.

Daragh

They don't have a retail store and this come directly from their site

"We only sell fish we import. All our fish is supplied by legal fish farms, with health certificates and good quality guarantee. We always quarantine our fish for at least 2 weeks after importing. We never sell sick or suspicious looking fish. We will always return your money if there is any death on arrival or sick fish. We also guarantee you stress free delivery in shortest time- the same day only."

Their selection of discus and flower horns look really good but your right they don't have may other fish at the moment, that could be because everyone is not willing to give them a chance to prove if their fish are good quality or not anyway they are getting live plant in january so while i'm getting some of those i'll give their fish a try.
I'll keep you all posted

c mc if your good to your word its worth a go don't knock it till you try it is my motto

Just had a look at the fish on offer, especially the discus. For starters they don't give you the size of the fish. They are not particularly cheap. Their rams go for 9€ a pop which is highway robbery. Why would you buy fish online where you cannot see them when you don't even save money? I would never buy a discus online. I want to see them feeding and sh*tting before I buy them.
They sell Flowerhorns at excessive prices and males only. The flowerhorn market in South East Asia has collapsed entirely. Nobody wants these fish anymore and they are still asking for 350 notes per fish. I wouldn't buy flowerhorns or parrots anyway. Hybrids that should never have happened. But most of you will know my opinions about these already.

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i dont mean to hijack or diss... but i hope you get better service from them than I have. if you want more info let me know.
but from my experience i would say no

Just had a look at the fish on offer, especially the discus. For starters they don't give you the size of the fish. They are not particularly cheap. Their rams go for 9€ a pop which is highway robbery. Why would you buy fish online where you cannot see them when you don't even save money? I would never buy a discus online. I want to see them feeding and sh*tting before I buy them.
They sell Flowerhorns at excessive prices and males only. The flowerhorn market in South East Asia has collapsed entirely. Nobody wants these fish anymore and they are still asking for 350 notes per fish. I wouldn't buy flowerhorns or parrots anyway. Hybrids that should never have happened. But most of you will know my opinions about these already.

I agree 100%

When you buy a fish from a shop, one should never give it a quick once over, when buying a valuable fish, one should WATCH IT for 20 minutes and observe its swimming habits as well as seeing if it is search for food and scanning the substrate. Buying fish on line is absolutely crazy idea.

On the other hand buying plants could work if they are importing them and storing them in a fringe before dispatch, as opposed to getting a load of slimy half rotten plants from a fish shop.

Imagine going in to buy an Avensis car and being told you will have to take the Lada.

These are all great points and i will think about them but NO ONE that has given a point has told me how they were burned when ordering fish online. so everyone is just assuming that its a bad thing to do with no evidence at all of why it shouldn't be done.

These are all great points and i will think about them but NO ONE that has given a point has told me how they were burned when ordering fish online. so everyone is just assuming that its a bad thing to do with no evidence at all of why it shouldn't be done.

O.K let me approach it from a different angle, I live in Spain, and with my work I do not have much time to buy food in a supermarket, the equivalent of Harods is "el corte de ingles", we buy it all on line. Ihave notice they always seem to send us the UHT milk with the expiry date close to last date, even though when one bothers to go into the shop you can buy the same milk with a 2 month expiry date.

I assume you are promoting buying fish on the Internet, and you feel that half the post against it, and that they do not have much merit? I used to be in the fish business in Tampa Florida, mainly fish tropical farms and wholesale freshwater and saltwater, and I am telling you its not a good idea. On the other hand I want you to make a living from it but I may I suggest a few ideas which may work better.

Retail angle>The disadvantage of fish shops is although they will let you point out the fish you want, they insist on the owner netting the fish, in the states there is warehouse type places with security camera/ CC where you can go in a net you own fish and ring them in bags placed in trays, and at check out the owner blows inn o2, or if badly packed, i.e a spiky catfish, they will triple bag it and tie the corners to ensure survival.
Your fish house may not be very glamours but is still O.K if it was sett up on the outskirts of Dublin.

Wholesale angle>Another angle to explore is "trans shipping" this is when you take wholesale orders from a dozen shops, then place a big order and import them, where client A gets all his fish in box A, and you meet all your clients at Dublin Airport, by passing "Glen Crxp"
The advantage of this is the shops get their fish at half price and more quality, this systems is the main way the wholesalers work now a days in Los Angles, this way is some time modified where the importer brings the boxes back and re bag all the fish then blows the bag up with o2, and delivers them the next day, at a higher cost than meeting the clients at the airport.

yea i don't work for petshoponline, i'm a customer thinking about buying fish online not selling fish online but thanks for your idea if i do ever get into the fish business i might use it.

You should have enough choice in the Dublin shops. Why order online if you can go into a shop and have a look at them. And from what I have seen petshopline's range of fish is nothing to write home about and should easily be matched by any decent retailer. Is there any fish you were looking at in particular?

Finally someone that thinks that this isn't such a bad idea.
I'm going to order one fish at least this month just to see how good they are and I'll keep everyone updated on the subject.
Thanks darragh for your 2 cents much appreciated to see I'm not the only person that thinks that this is a good idea. I used to work in wackers in Donaghmede for nearly two years so I know myself the time from packing the fish to the time they were put in the tank was longer than that same day it was usually 24 hours. Are you all shocked :shock: this is the norm for any Fish shop that gets fish from the north. they pack the fish the day before in the evening and send them out at about 5 in the morning we usually got the delivery at 2 and let them float for about an hour. As you can see the time in the bag is coming very close to 24 hours.

Not that unusual for fish to be on the road for that long. Just think of all the fish coming from South America or South East Asia. The transit time does not worry me. If you buy from your local dealer you can see the fish for yourself. It's cheaper, you are eliminating most of the transport issues and if something goes wrong you can go back to your local dealer. I didn'
t find any address on their website which is incidentially also illegal by EU law

Go to company info on the bottom left and their address is there. You should also read the guarantee that they give on the live fish section of the site i think they have it covered because if i didn't think so i wouldn't have brought it up in the first place. All i'm looking for is feedback from another customers but since most people are not willing to take a chance (even a small one) I'll have to try myself. :roll:

Darrah,
if some one is living in the back of beyond and the LTF is a petrol station with a small pets section, one has nothing to loss going down this route, if you live in within 1.5 hours of Dublin, then that a diferent story.

Hi Sean, not sure, which "Daragh" you are replying to, however I agree with what you say, my point was

"I think I would only resort to ordering online for something rare or unusual I could not get elsewhere."

If you can't get to a LFS that supplies what you need, then of course online is an option.



Daragh