Atlantic Tropical Aquarium

First time in this store and felt warm welcomed by the owner, Leo. He answered patiently all our questions about taking care of tropical fish since it was our first time. He has excellent suggestions and I could feel his sincerity. He also has great customer service.
The store have great selections of fishes too and not too expensive. We bought a lot of fishes and accessories so he gave us discount.
I would definitely visit this store again.:)

new management/​owner, Leo, is a really nice guy that will attentively help your fresh and saltwater needs. If he doesn’t have it in stock, he will gladly special order for you. Shop is looking much better now than with the previous owners. They have nice rimless tanks here and they are cheapest I’ve seen so far. If you are a member of SCAPE club he gives a discount too!

New ownership by a church pastor/​fish hobbyist. This guy isn’t just about selling you stuff, he knows and loves fish.
Has some of the most BEAUTIFUL elephant ear bettas that I picked up for $ 7 each. These things go for $ 20 at Petco and aren’t half as pretty as the stock they have here.
He has mosquito eaters for cheap for outdoor ponds, as well as a good selection of Koi and such. Good selection here for good prices.
Very happy with recent purchases here and I will come back regularly.

Leo is very knowledgeable and pretty realistic about setting expectations.
I’ve finally purchase my very first salt water tank, no reef yet but picked up a Dwarf Lion from him along with the Aqua Japan setup. I’m very pleased with the extent of service I’ve received.
They went and took the time to make sure it’s the color and size I wanted (Dwarf Lion) and helped me prep the tank before pick up. (2 – 3 week) process and well worth the wait.
I’m very happy with my tank and dwarf lion (it’s been about a month since my tank has been set up at the office since I picked up from this place. so excited that even after Leo warned me about putting a Goby in my size tank with my Lion is a risk. So I did and my Lion Fish ate it, pretty hilarious but it was a learning experience.
Double check your information and take your time with your set up, give them look and they’ll help accommodate what you’re looking for.
I’ll be back for my reef tank (hopefully sooner than later!)

This store under new management. The owner is really nice very helpful and he gave me a good deal, he has a lot of kind of fish.

«2014 UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT». The new owner Leo is awesome. Very friendly and willing to go above and beyond to help you out. Huge improvement from previous owner.

This place was great, I needed about 25 betta fish for a birthday party I’m less than a week and Leo hooked me up the next day, amazing! I call most places, but I was told that it was too short notice.

Finally new management the place looks way better fish aren’t dying or left untreated. Very kind and considerate owners please check out the store for yourself.

I don’t have the time to write reviews, but this kind of crap I’ll make time for. Here it is…
Husband and wife owners of this store are not friendly. The wife is a bitch (sorry for the language, but there’s no other word to describe her). Right before stepping into the store with my 2 grown nephews and my 2yo son (in my arms), the wife greeted us with her angry mug face and said, «don’t touch anything!» Wth? Lol She’s not a happy person lol So I tried taking a picture of their sign outside the store. She came out and said, «don’t take pictures. Ask me first!» LOL. I said that the reason why I was taking a picture was to send to my husband so he knows where to go to buy a fish for our son. It’s easier to send the pic!!! So then I asked the lady if she was selling her fish. She said, «yes!» So I replied to her, «Goodluck with that. Change the dirty water in your fish tanks and at the same time change your attitude!» Smiled and walked away before I turn into a fire-​breathing dragon in front of my son and nephews. Haha.
UN-​EF-​ING-​BELIEVABLE!!!
ZERO STARS ALL AROUND!!! Poor fish are swimming in mud!!!

The previous owner Jerry was an amazingly helpful guy and I have nothing but good things to say about him, He sold the store at least 5 – 6 years ago. I recently got back into the fish hobby and stopped into this store…
Now first off I have to speak about the owner and his wife. They are the most lazy store owners I have ever met. They just sat there the entire time, when I would ask a question about something they would ignore me or just answer in the shortest possible answer ever.
Second they treat the fish so poorly, I don’t know who in the world would even consider buying a fish from this place. 80% of the tanks have no lights, the glass on the tanks looks like it hasn’t been wiped off in years, I doubt they even do any tank maintenance.
Third product selection is the worst of any fish store i have ever been to. I could go to a swapmeet petstore that doesn’t even specialize in fish and find a wider variety of items that haven’t been sitting on their dusty shelves since they bought the store years back.

nice people nice fish they gave me a very good deal on snails.

Its the not cleanest fish store I’ve been to… they might need a lil upgrade but they had a decent selection… I bought 1 fish and some snails from here. so far so good… the owners has some broken English kinda hard to understand .but a honest man he was showed me which fish would last long and easy to take care since I’m a first timer saltwater tank owner… nice people :)

We visit a lot of fish stores in our area in search of interesting fish, but after coming here I’ll be calling animal control. On the left side they have some nice clean-​ish tanks with assortment of tropical fish but what awaits you on the right side is not for weak stomachs. You can smell decomposition in the air. Unlit tanks are full of large fish, crammed so tight and in water so dirty that you can only see shadows of bodies, with some big dead ones floating on the top. We’ve seen an eel like fish, almost 3 feet tall crammed into a dark and dirty15 gallon tank with a lid and big rock on top of it to keep it from turning. Why keep such large fishes, without filtration, in filthy water? If you can sell them, donate them to a school or euthanize them, to keep them in these condition is animal cruelty. It is evident that these animals have been in horrible living conditions for quite some time.
This is not about the customer service, or selection, this is gross lack of caring about your inventory. I am writing this on Labor Day weekend 2011 and will call Animal control tomorrow as soon as they open.

Maybe this review is unfair but it was a nice stroll through this fish store after eating dim sum next door. Check out my pictures. They had some crazy mutated brain fish. Not the best place to buy fish per the other Unilocal reviews but great for looking at cool fish if you don’t have the time to go to an aqurium. hehe

EDIT: You know what, this store isn’t all that good. I come to this store for one reason, one fish — the super red severums. This store always gets nice ones for some reason. But their other freshwater fish aren’t all that good.
The worst thing about the store is that most of the tanks have dirty water. Even when I see a fish I want, I think twice about buying it because the fish might have some disease. I always think: These guys should just do a water change or get better filters. But everytime I go there, the water’s dirty.
The owner is nice enough, but the selection of freshwater isn’t good and the store should be a lot cleaner.

Tropical Trouble With No Help In Sight… SOS
I had a very bad experience with them. The store named «Atlantic Tropical» was represented by two people that identified themselves as Eric and Henry. I had initially won an eBay item and printed an invoice out per their request. I drove for 45 min to their shop to pick up the items that I won since they would not deliver. Once I arrived, Eric and Henry did not want to honor the invoice that I printed out through their eBay listing page. They wanted me to pay additional fees that were not reflected on the invoice. In addition, they did not have one of the items in stock even after I had called to verify stock on hand the day of my visit as well as the day before. I was told to pay extra if I wanted a similar item rather than accommodating me for not having the item that I had originally bid on. They were trying to pass off another item that looked nothing liked the original item that I had bid on.
In full, the whole transaction was a bait and switch scam. I was basically told to take it or leave it. They were not willing to make good on their agreement per the terms on the Ebay listing. I filed a dispute through eBay which resulted in a bad rating for them and a loss of their ebay listing fee.
BUYER BEWARE!!!
I never purchased the fish or the clam. They would not honor the eBay transaction without me forking over more money for a different item than the listing, rather than accommodating me for them being so disorganized. I wasted my time and gas traveling to their store. Their responses to my negative rating was that I didn’t want to pay Ca. sales tax. The problem was much more than that.
I come from a business background. In my experience, if I were to run my business transactions and treat my customers the way that I was treated, I would not be in business very long.

Never again! I drove nearly an hour to get to this place because they posted an ad on craigslist about how they are wholesale open to the public. I got so excited that I drove my ass down there AND brought a friend and when we got there, they were pulling numbers out of their asses. All of the pricing on their website is false! They mislead you on their inventory price list online and when you get there everything is more expensive than at any Joe Shmoe place! I told them that I drove an hour to get there and they acted as if they didn’t give a shit, not that it really mattered, but they are very deceiving! Zero stars if I could!!!

I 2^nd Maple’s writeup… Definitely skip this place. Went in there once, probably won’t be going again. The place looked decent, but the service was very unwelcoming. Selection was so-​so.

I don’t recommend buying from this store! From my experiences with them, they don’t seem very trustworthy.
My recent visit was about 2 weeks ago. They got some massive tanks there! They have this huge one that has a couple of baby black fin sharks and huge lion fish. On the bottom there’s two 3 – 5 feet nurse sharks. Although the sharks look impressive, they can’t turn around in the tank. The guy said that they fed them shrimp.
I remember a couple months ago, they had some baby sulcata tortoises, and they (well SOMEONE) spray painted the shell, and when I asked them about it, they said that they were ‘special’ tortoises. I’ve seen them carry some lizards and a cornsnake, which probably died.
They occasianly sell baby red eart turtles for about 5 dollars each. Use to have tank full of baby soft shells. They use to have a huge tank in the back full of quarter size baby turtles. softshells, map turtles, you name it…
Once I noticed on a bottom tank, they had these HUGE fishes crammed into a small tank. It was a pitiful sight, they had redtail catfishes and several arowanas crammed in there, and some of the arowanas looked literally ‘bent’!
They offer some crickets too. It’s a weird store. I wouldn’t be suprised if they got their stuff illegally or something…