I just thought I would throw my two cents in... I will not shop at Petco anymore. First I bought a half-moon betta there (yellow with bright blue eyes, he looked very unhappy but perked up when I pulled him down from the highest shelf in the store, so I *had* to buy him) and within two days he had died. Turns out he was ill when I bought him and was never right. This was just after the death of my long time betta buddy Freud, and I have not had a male betta since.

The day I took Frank (the betta named after Ol' Blue Eyes himself), I wandered through the fish section because I had a $13 refund for Frank. I almost literally threw up. It was about noon. Obviously, no one working there had ever LOOKED in their fish tanks, as the guppy tank was horrible. There were literally 50+ dead guppies floating there, sticking to the filter. The few survivors were near death. I will remember that sight for the rest of my life.

I just don't buy from them anymore. Unfortunately, I have yet to find a good LFS here in Orlando near UCF, so I have been buying supplies from PetSmart and traveling an hour to my old LFS on the coast for stock. :(