Rumors of Acrylic Tank Manufacturing Partnering with Petco Really Heating Up
Back in May, we uncovered a rumor that Acrylic Tank Manufacturing, the stars of the Animal Planet television show “Tanked”, and Petco would be teaming up. According to the gossip, ATM would go into some or all of the Petco locations and rebuild their entire saltwater aquarium systems. On top of that, ATM would be [...]
Rumor: Acrylic Tank Manufacturing Partnering With Petco for Aquarium Installation and Service
Time to crank up the rumor mills. We just got word from an unnamed Petco manager that the guys from Acrylic Tank Manufacturing are partnering up with chain pet retailer to build and install new saltwater livestock systems in all of their stores within the next year or so. Additionally, ATM will be training new [...]
Petco Gets Protested in Hawaii
A few days after Christmas, the anti-aquarium protestors were at it again. This time, their target was a Petco store located in Maui, Hawaii. The reason for the 30-person protest? For starters, the activists aren’t too happy with the selling of Hawaiian fish for the aquarium trade. This has been an underlying issue for most [...]
Picture of the Week, Fish with Buldging Eye at Petco
In the AquaNerd Picture of the Week, we typically like to focus on the rare and beautiful aquarium livestock. Unfortunately, we wanted to expose another travesty perpetrated by the wonderful folks at Petco in this latest installment. Pictured above is a freshwater fish with a very obvious eye problem. The eye is white, bulging out [...]
Please Stop Buying Aquarium Livestock from Petco
Petco, where the dead and dying fish go, has been under constant scrutiny from concerned aquarium hobbyists for years. The aquariums were always dirty and full of algae, fish would often look sick or injured (if not dead), and corals would look seriously stressed. Most true-to-the-hobby aquarium keepers would never step foot inside one of [...]
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