Iowa City/Des Moines fish stores?

i too am making a road trip looking at fishstores saturday, goin the IC/north liberty, then cedar rapids to pick up a fish.

 

Coralville bay is opening a new store across from some baseball fields. I don't know if he is open yet. Petland on lower muscatine has some nice stuff too.

 

Try Pet's Playhouse in Cedar Rapids.....it's worth the trip.

 

Sea of Marvels in North Liberty-nice fish selection and nice owner
Petland on the eastside of Iowa City-good selections of fish/inverts and sometimes coral (pricey)
Petco in Coralville-they carry sw fish and supplies, but pricey. Right off of 80
Pet's Playhouse in Cedar Rapids
Bobo's fish store, they just moved, not sure of the location, in Cedar Rapids somewhere
Aquatic Environments in Davenport (?) AWESOME store, well worth the trip if you have the time.

Just look in the sponors section or the local pet/lfs directory up top

 

If you are roadtripping....

IMO there are really TWO stops that are REQUIRED

1. Sea of Marvels
2. Aquatic Environments

AE is a little further away, but super easy to find off I-80, and really, it is only like 45 minutes from IC.

After that I would go to all the other places mentioned.

 

You're really going to recommend Petco as a fish stop?!?! That place is horrible. The tanks are covered in algae and when I was in there yesterday to get some ammolock, I saw 2 of their fish covered in Ich (Foxface and a Niger Trigger). Coralville Bay is reopening?! That's pretty cool. I'll have to stop by and see how he's doing. I wonder how much he lost in the flood.

 

Not recommending, just listing a store that sells sw fish and supplies that is local.  Maybe they need some supply that isn't at another place who knows, and you are shopping there for some fish items, so they must have something worth buying, right?

 

Well he posted about wanting to buy livestock, so I figured you were recommending Petco for fish.

Hung (Sea of Marvels) said he has a fish shipment coming in Fri or Sat. So there will be a lot of new stuff there to look at!

 

In Des Moines there is Adams Aquatics at 857 42nd st. Its just north of I235. Its a nice store too. lots of coral.

 

there is also Iowa Pet foods on 22nd st in west desmoines, by Hooters they have some nice stuff, but been noticing dead fish quite often there. they have a nice big overflow top view tank and a shark tank too. i just like goin in there to look

 

I feel bad we didn't mention Bo Bo's in CR.

I have never been there though. I suck.

 

BoBo's is in the process of moving and until we hear from Gary saying that he's back open again, I wouldn't point anyone in that direction for fear that they would be wasting their time. 
 
--Aaron