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The Ocean Floor
2 reviews for The Ocean Floor
Ocean floor is east of the I-17 and Thomas on the south side of the street. Right next to Chevron. Walking in there is a huge selection of tanks. Ranging from about 10 gallon kits to hundreds of gallon tanks costing about the same to buy a house. I've been around to a lot of the bigger shops and Ocean Floor has the best selection. Their salt water selection is varied, although relatively small. They offer eels, fish, crabs. I also saw a single seahorse at the time of this writing. They also offer salt water flora. They have an excellent show tank for their corals. Definitely makes me want to start a saltwater tank.
Great selection of foods, lighting, decorations, gravel, rocks, driftwood.
Fresh water selection is awesome. Big goldfish tank, fun to watch. No matter if you have a 300 gallon or a 10 gallon tank, they'll have fish for you.
The negative is that they haven't expanded on freshwater planted tanks. They offer no substrate for planted tanks. The prices for accessories seem on par, though I was sold a larger power filter than I needed. I've been reading reviews about the price of the fish being too high, but I haven't bought fish from them yet. The price for the plants were reasonable, under $5.
Other than that, it's a great place. Great friendly staff. I've had someone open a box for me just to show me what it looks like and how it functions. Even if you just 'like' fish and don't even have a tank, or maybe you have a tank sitting in the garage, this place is definitely worth a visit. You won't be disappointed.
I am going to be cautiously positive about The Ocean Floor. It is right across the street from Pizza a Metro, so Hubby and I stopped in for a short while before they closed last night. Hubby is the Aqua-Man, so he had read in his tank-geek chat rooms that The Ocean Floor was a disaster of a place, with bad livestock, and that they were even getting out of the reef (salt water) side of the pet fish business. We did not see evidence that any of this was true. The tank they have as soon as you walk in is shockingly huge- it's like a wall of water, containing three fish that looked like they could eat a chihuahua as an amuse bouche.
Although it was not the most pristine place, it was freaking huge- by far the biggest aquarium store in the valley (and I have been to most of 'em- sigh... damn the newlywed supportiveness). The salt water side was smaller than the fresh, but almost all the fish looked good and the corals were OK- no worse than some other stores that are far better rated by the tank-geeks. We bought 2 blue-green chromis fish, so we'll see how they do. The young man who helped us was very nice, and seemed quite knowledgeable. They usually have reef stew and are also set up to run chem tests and seem to have a very large and comprehensive selection of chemical additives for the DIY-capable like Hubby. If the new fish make it, we'll be back.
