[Juntau]

Waterbury Aquarium
580 Lakewood Road
Waterbury, CT 06704

They have sturgeons 3-3.5". No oddball preds but usually have some in stock.

[Dracofish]

We've bought a few fish from them but they never really have anything out of the ordinary and when they do it's always half dead by the time we get there. The people that work there seem to care but I think most of the problem is the facility. The building is literally falling apart. But I guess that's what you get considering where the place is located. They had a young Scleropages leichardti there a while back for $250. I have no idea why they even bothered ordering it. Due to the location they get mainly low income customers that are only interested in Oscars for their 10 gallon tanks. They even have Retics and Humerosas every once in a while. When we go in (which isn't very often anymore because we don't buy fish anymore) we always look for the occasional oddball to "save."

Every time we go in now we try to talk the owner into carrying reptiles.

[Nick]

is there a number to call? how much are the rectics? thanks

[Nick]

i just called and talked for 5 mins about rays with one of the younger guys and was told fish are selected from a local wholesaler and they suppossedly get the rays in rather sickly and they only take the good ones

he said 4-7in with prices 40-70 dollars which is not bad at all


he was also quite helpful with other question

seemed knowledgable and refferred to his boss as an ass for ordering fish from said wholesaler and so on and so on

phone number- 1203-757-3832

if the rays are healthy and in stock when i call up tuesday i will deffinately stop by

[Nick]

stopping by today to check out a ray he grabbed for me (i assume hes the owner? names greg?) for 33.99 i cant go wrong for practically any type, unless its the sick/dead type lol

stopping at petstar and then waterbury aq with cash to burn

[Dracofish]

Good luck with that...

No way I'd buy a Ray that was just dumped at a store which was just dumped at a distributor...

I'd ask if they can hold it for you.

[Nick]

he told me 4 day quarantee and i applyed there as well today

he was clsoed but let us in anyways


i watched the pair he grabbed for me for a good hour and even fed um at least 1 huge tablespoon of bloodworms, both are pigs eating from my fingers and all


small guy at 3.5-4 but i saw his tiny claspers, nothing on the female but shes almost smaller

the female has an orangeish hugh to her, great looking fish, i came in jsut as he was about to dump them in and helped him do the drip acclimation, i couldnt believe he dumped them both ina 20 long though, those maple syrup vats would make exellent ponds, thinking about grabbing one of his extra in the back

im going back tomorrow afternoon to see if they make it and are still doing good

the female came in fat but the male looks a little ammeciated, i could just abrely see his pelvic bones but no dent in the forehead, i was suprised in there condition

[Nick]

im having him hold the two hystrix for a week


i got a free ray (he was sick at the time but after a good drip acclimation and lots of bloodworms during acclimationg hes uber fat)

i thought he was a rectic- nope
small spoted motoro by the looks of it - not bad for FREE , hes still alive after 2 and a half days and eating well searching around the tank constantly for food

[Dracofish]

Went there today...nothing in the store to speak of except a half dead Retic and Paroon Shark. Also didn't recognize anyone in there...

[Dracofish]

Well, they pissed off the wrong people. We purchased the Paroon Shark and it died in the bag before we dumped it, hadn't even begun to acclimate it...the bag was just floating. The chick at the store put enough Stress Coat to treat about a 300gal tank into the bag it was put in...wonder if that had anything to do with it. Needless to say, we froze the fish and Rich went to get our money back today. He didn't bother to bring a water sample because it died in their water, not ours. He's now late for work coming home to collect a water sample that they demanded. The owner knows who we are and that we've spent a lot of money in that store. They'll be lucky if they see our business again, especially not if they don't give us our money back on the fish that their own employees killed.

Gee, I think if we can keep the fish we have happy, you'd think we'd be able to handle that...