When you visit a hyperstore or a large chain store, you will probably find an aquarium section there with various products and pet fish offered, sometimes with big price-discounts! You may probably think this is the right place to buy pet fish or fish supplies. But before you decide to buy anything from there, you should consider some facts as follows :

Products and Price offered

Chain Store usually provides fish supplies that are available at discounted prices without considering the supplies' quality. Fish supplies from reputable brand are hard to find there, since chain store emphasizes more on price. Some big chains even order fish supplies from some manufacturers and put their own brand on it. Remember that the first rule of choosing fish supplies is: Buy products from trusted and reputable brands, it will save you from headaches later.

Cheap fish supplies from China usually imitate products from major brand with very low prices. Products like that don't consider good quality control, parts durability and safety. Since fish supplies are not intended for human, the products usually use unsafe plastic materials - not food-grade materials. Remember that your pet fish need good water quality to live happily.

Lower quality products will require you to purchase parts replacement more frequently than it should or even replace the whole products. Finally you spend more than you should + an additional headache.

In Local Tropical fish store, you can find fish supplies from trusted and reputable brands. Of course the prices are higher than unknown brands. But remember that not all products from a chain store are cheap. A chain store usually offers several discounted products to attract buyers, while prices of undiscounted products can be higher than local Tropical fish store ! They make people believe that all of their prices are cheap - knowing that people tend to buy from one place. You will be surprised that the same products are available in local tropical fish stores with lower prices.

For pet fish, of course a local tropical fish store has more healthy and quality pet fish, since they have time and experience to do the proper care.

Products Knowledge

Local tropical fish stores usually provide knowledgeable salespersons compared with chain stores' staffs. The staff usually doesn't stay long in one position, rotates to other section /department or other store and replaced with a new guy sometimes without any experience in selling fish supplies.

Local tropical fish store provides better service, since they pay attention to you as an individual customer.

Produtcs Trends

A local tropical fish store can adapt quickly to local community needs. A chain store sells products in a nationwide manner, based on their statistic of most selling-well products.

I hope this information can help you to decide where you want to buy your fish supplies.