Petland Discounts

The selection for the size of this store is really good. The employees here are super helpful and are pretty passionate about animals and giving good info.
My husband gets all of his aquarium goods here and they are very accommodating and always have good advice for him. The prices are of course slightly higher than amazon or the larger pet stores, but you pay for the convenience and personal attention.

I used to have some frogs, turtles, and fish as well as a guinea pig so to say I visited this Petland on a monthly basis is definitely an understatement. This particular location was pretty close to where I lived which made it super convenient, but definitely was not my favorite pet store. There were certain staff members who came off as very rude, and just did not seem interested in helping customers. Others were great. So it really varied based on who was working. The prices felt expensive. I bought some things in urgency when a filter broke or I got a crack in one of my tanks, and I was not happy with the prices I had paid for some items. This store is okay.

Criminals. Absolute criminals. I’ve never seen employees try so hard to unload their sickly animals on loyal customers. For someone that’s spent over $ 100 a week there for quite some time, I am absolutely appalled that this is how they treat customers.
Best part is in order to even pay for any of their awful inventory, you have to wait around 30 mins for one of the 2 extremely lazy employees finally realizes someone is waiting to pay.
They take advantage of the fact that there’s not many pet stores in the area and that is the biggest crime of all.

The greatest. Staff is so helpful and friendly. I have three felines so am in there all the time and they are never out of stock of their food. When they see me come in I don’t even have to ask they go downstairs automatically to get me a case. Can’t say enough good things about. This kind of service reminds me of the days of the old Bay Ridge.

The staff is pretty lazy in my opinion. I only like one dude who works there, I believe he is the manager because he’s very attentive and friendly. Everyone else hides in the back and ignores the fact a customer needs assistance. Sometimes theres no one even up front by the register when I just need one quick thing and then leave. I end up going on a wild goose chase just looking for an employee. –_​– thats all I can really say about the place.

I’ve been coming here a few years now. They have a good selection of nearly everything. Fish supplies, reptile supplies, cat and dog food. I have quite a few pets at home and I’m always running to pet stores. This one is the closest to me, and thankfully, one of the best petland discounts I have been to. The staff is really great for the most part– friendly and helpful, and the animals are well taken care of. Which is why I was shocked when I walked in recently to buy crickets for my baby green snake. There was one female employee (who’s helped me before numerous times) taking care of everything. While she got my crickets, I stopped to admire the betta fish (I have 13 myself). My eyes landed on one murky green bowl. On closer inspection, I made out one blue betta swimming around trying to avoid the rotting carcass of another fish. It had been dead for some time because it was already falling apart. When I went to pay for the crickets, I brought the bowl to the cashier and showed her. Her response was «I know. That’s why we’re trying to do everything else so we can get to it» or something along those lines. I must have looked horrified! She told me to leave it on the counter, then she changed her mind and put it above «so the customers don’t see it.» I must have looked funny because she gave me the dumbest, most patronizing smile and said «We were trying to test if they could survive living together.» I smiled and felt my brain explode. I walked out totally disgusted. I might be overexaggerating, but only a true f****n idiot would put male bettas together in a tiny bowl to «test them». I love the store, but there is no way I want to continue buying from a place where the employees (not all of them, of course, but still) treat an animal, no matter how small, so cruelly.

This store has a friendly staff with some good deals on certain items. I do wish they had a larger stock of fish, this is a lot to ask for however giving the small size of this store. A few fish did not look healthy and a couple were even floating dead which swayed me not to risk buying any fish here and contaminating my personal tanks. Also it seems that they have cut down on their stock of reptiles in this store since a year ago, not sure why. I did buy a 10 gallon tank here which only cost me about $ 10 if i remember correctly which is a fantastic price! Basic gist of this store would be to go for supplies not for fish.

My local source for crickets! This store is decently stocked and the animal tanks are always clean and seem well kept. They are open until 8pm which is great when you need to stop by after work.

Staff was SO nice!
Went in there tonight to pick up the last few necessities for our new aquarium, and was really pleasantly surprised at how helpful and friendly the gentleman was! He didn’t mind my myriad of ridiculous questions, and he took the time to answer each one fully. It was a very nice experience, and surprising because I was NOT in a good mood when I walked in! Thank you!

I love this store! It’s on the small side, but easy to navigate and find your products in! I recently switched my cats food over to a brand that a lot of stores aren’t carrying. Petland had it! I also really like that everyone here is extremely nice and helpful! They are very knowledgable about their products and animals in general. When I asked a worked their about how 2 different cat food brands compared to each other, she answered me right off the cuff and broke them both down for me. Love it! A lot of times at Petco or Petsmart they have to go ask someone and come back like 20 minutes later with some generic answer: sigh:
Not here: o)
On a side note about the bettas– I too noticed that the bettas are kept in much better conditions here! They are given more space and stocked better. The Petland on Rt440 in Jersey City stocks their bettas HORRIBLY! I’ve gone in and found them laying dead on the shelves before from having jumped out of their tiny containers! Or worse yet, their containers have not had their water replenished as it evaporated so the fish dry out and die. Just criminal! I’d go to the Petland over that one any day!!!

This place is great. Items are reasonably priced. Staff is very friendly and knowledgable. They know us by name. Very friendly and family orientated. Great work by Marge (manager), Brett, and one more staff person that I didn’t get the name of. I would go back in an instant. Thanks for caring about animals as much as my family does.

I’ve been here a few times in the last week or so. Trying to decide what fish to get and do some price research. The staff are polite and helpful and take pretty good care of the store. There’s only a small wall of fish so there aren’t a lot of choices but you get your basic beginners fish, etc. They also have some small mammals, a lot of birds and a few small reptiles.
I agree with Erin. B below that bettas cannot live in a bowl. This store does sell bettas in bowls though so I consider that mistreatment.
Their supplies are so pricey. fake plants for $ 10? I decided to buy the stuff I needed from
instead and saved some money. I may or may not buy fish from here. there were a couple of dead fish in some tanks. Not a promising sight. At least the staff are helpful.

I am in this place all the time. I have a lot of betta fish, and most pet stores treat them shockingly bad. The staff here actually treat the fish well and don’t overstock the bettas, which is a very big perk.
The plants/​décor/​heaters etc. are more expensive than Petco, but the tank prices are hard to beat. (Less than $ 20 for a full 10 gallon setup– they also sell 5 gallons and 2.5 gallons)
P.S.
If you’re getting a betta, PLEASE get that 2.5 or 5 gallon and NOT a bowl! Bettas do NOT prefer small bowls and are much healthier and happier in a real tank. They also need heaters. They have a reputation for dying easily, when in reality they can live for years. They’re usually killed by a lack of exercise, dirty water, and cold temperatures– they’re tropical fish.
Just sayin’.