Seascapes Fish and Pets

I had a $ 100.00 dollar credit and those bast**ds went out of business with no warning– thanks for ripping me off shi*scapes.

This is my favorite place on Castro. I often like to visit after dinner, checking out beautiful fish and turtles. I’m really bummed the store has closed down.

Such a neat little aquarium shop on Castro Street, in business for 30 years but they’re closing now. Everything is heavily discounted, I got a 29 gallon tank with light and filter for $ 40. Everything must go, there’s some neat fancy fish still, if you’re into the hobby I’m sure you’ll find something. Seems like they want to be closing shop ASAP, likely not open past July 2015.

Visited the store last Sunday. Sadly, there is a «Going Out of Business» sign on the door.

I hate to only give 3 stars, but this place while having a better selection of rare African Cichlids, seems to have the least hardy fish I have ever bought.
I’d say at least 80% of the freshwater community fish I ever bought here didn’t make it more than a couple months.
I will say I was able to get a mated pair of labidocromis Joanjohnsonae, which are starting their second spawn and are very healthy, but then again it is hard to screw up with cichlids.
Overall this place is descent, staff is knowledgeable, but they are always way too busy and you often have to wait awhile for your fish. Pricing on Africa Cichlids is probably the best around.
Last point was that they take orders for specific fish, but I spent a month having to bug them for updates, only to be disappointed week after week. I finally cancelled my order.

Bad customer service, I call to get control for may lights and put my in hold for 30 minutes.

everything looks dirty… i don’t know if i would buy a fish here…

Healthy Saltwater fish but not too many available unfortunately. Always very busy with parents that think it is some sort of free attraction to take the kids to, they never buy anything and must annoy the shop folks, or not, I dunno, but they annoy me. One side is saltwater, one side is freshwater, and they have little area of other stuff. Very little coral if that is your thing but last time I went they did seem to be making an attempt of having zoas in stock. No real «deals» to be had here, but it is convenient to my home so they get the premium pricing from my wallet as a result.
It a local fish store, nothing more. If making major tank purchases go all the way 6h avenue or out to Dublin for the big places that have way better deals on equipment. They are horrible to fish though, so try and use them sparingly, or well, save a lot of money, and feel the shame of your fish when they look at you at home wondering about all there friends they left behind in the cryptic nasty shops.
Back to Seascape, its good enough for most emergency stuff and for the occasional fish. It is very small and expensive. The good and the bad.

It was fun having dinner at Cascal and then walking downtown mountain view, the one giant fresh water fish is sadly in a small fish tank, too small for his size. Pretty cool place for salt water and fresh water fish and reptiles.

Great store. Staff is extremely knowledgable and friendly. Beig your kids here as well, if they treat the animals with respect there won’t be any issues.

This is the place to go for quality fish at reasonable prices!
They’ve also got some hamsters and reptiles in the back of the store, but the real deal is with the fishies!
The reason my family came into this store was due to the HUGE fish in the tank in the front! Definitely brings attention to the store (props to them)! The selection is huge and at cheap to fair prices!
Better than any Petco or Petsmart, they really take good care of their pets and know a lot of information on them!

I’m updating my review because they really cleaned this place up. It’s not so overwhelming and packed anymore. It’s also pretty dust free now. The tanks look well cared for and it was a pleasure to browse. Definitely has been cleaned up since my 2012 review.

I am just visiting but I have been touring the local fish stores. It seems a bit pricey compared to Oregon LFS and especially
, but they did seem to have a fair assortment of livestock. Including a NFS gigantic gourami named Trinity that was the size of a child’s torso. And a NFS octopus… And A FREAKING BARRACUDA! I kid you not. They dropped some feeder fish in the tank for me and it went about like you would imagine: They each disappeared leaving only glittering clouds of scales behind. You can have your very own BARRACUDA for only $ 50.
I didn’t see a lot of tanks for sale but about any sort of gear, medicine or food a fishkeeper might need was available. I was hoping to see some discus fish but I don’t think they had any.
Oh, yeah, I think they had some herps in the back but that’s not my thing atm.

This is never an intended destination — we’re usually dining on castro street and on the way back, our little toddler just wanders in and we end up staying there for an hour.
I appreciate that the owners don’t give any of the casual strollers a hard time. We’ve never bought anything there but we’ve recommended them to a bunch of our friends looking to adopt fish and hamsters. Good karma I guess.
The staff is genuinely knowledgeable and took the time to answer a few of my daughters inquiries about the baby hamsters.
Highly recommend stopping by with your little ones! It’s fun.

This is a local pet store that I’ve seen for many years. Living in Mountain View for a good 8 years I always pass by this place but never had a reason to go in. Jump into the time machine and fast forward to 2014 where I got to finally experience this place.
I recommend for any new fish owner, to make sure your tank is cycled before venturing out here.
With my newly cycled tank ready for new fish, my wife and I headed out to acquire some new fish. Instead of going to the normal big boy chains like petsmart, petco, walmart, etc we headed out to Seacapes Fish and Pets. Seascapes seems more focused on fish and we thought this would be a better place to go to. Not to mention we like supporting local mom and pop business’s.
I’ll be honest and say that before entering, I thought this would be a really quiet almost no one inside kind of place. But I was completely wrong! There were families in there, young kids pointing at all the interesting looking fish, a couple of young teens, an elderly couple, it was actually pretty cool and lively. So we strolled around pointing out fish that we were interested in. Right as we were going to look for someone to help us, a friendly young lady pretty much teleported right next to us. It was almost as if she telepathically knew we needed help and came to assist us. I believe her name was Amelia. Fish senses… they’re real.
One thing I notice with any employee who talks to me is how much do they enjoy their job. They either will have that «I’m asking if you need help only because I have to» bullshit type of attitude or have that genuine sincere «care for their customer and store» kind of attitude. Amelia definitely had that sincere feeling. The minute we started asking questions about fish, her eyes instantly lit up as if she just won the lottery and was eager to show us all the different fish that could live peacefully in my tank. She also showed me all the new fish they got in and also some hybrid picta that they just got.
Anyways, she helped us pick out two hybrid picta and a black molly. Packaged them all up nice and neat, all while having a smile on her face. The nice lady behind the counter rang us up, Amelia waved us goodbye and we were on our way home.
The only suggestion I would recommend to this place is making the pricing of the fish much more clear. All the pricing for each fish is written in marker on the tank. Although I understand this makes it easy to wipe off and adjust as I’m sure they rotate their fish around. It didn’t seem «clear» enough. Coming from an artistic and graphic design background I notice little things like that and assume that would make picking out fish much easier and clearer for customers.
Overall great little place, very welcoming and nice employees. Definitely will come back to pick up more fish for my tank. Extra kudos to Amelia for helping us out!

First time I went here, I just needed to buy some chemical treatment for my goldfish with ich and saw that this was a fish place. Figured I’d go here since I was walking by anyway, instead of waiting to go to PetSmart later. After I picked up a bottle, I asked one of the young women working here about how to go about properly treating my fish. She was SUPER helpful and SUPER informative and just overall sounded knowledgeable.
I also called later just for clarification on a few points, and, again, they were really helpful and answered all of my questions.
This place is sort of out of my way from home, but I’d definitely go back and purchase more from them just to get help if I need it.

Probably the most knowledgeable fish and reptile person I know.
They practice the most ethical fish, reptile and other pet care and ownership I know
It’s small and a little cluttered but the animals are healthy
They know about care and not the stupid pamphlet kind you see at some stores with
real books about care.
They do special orders
Chloe has saved many of my friends animals and fish that were sick
I endorse this store and encourage anyone in the Bay area to give it a look see.

Totally cool shop, full of amphibians, reptiles, oh and some fish.
I love that HUGE 10-​year gourami in the front (and center) of the entrance! And then they have teeny little fish, including beta fish. They have a great collection of turtles, tortoises, iguanas, and they also have a few little critters – mice and hamsters!
Service = meh… they were busy chit chatting with someone. Oh well.
Overall, I’d come back here to take another gander!
I have no idea re pricing. sorry!

OK, after lots of reading, and my desperate need for ANOTHER creature to stare at, we head on over to Seascapes, to pick up our new baby crested gecko! Ever since I held that velvety creature back in August, I haven’t stopped thinking about getting one!
Now, I know what you are thinking, *Didn’t you say in your last review you were going to buy him for your 5 and 3 year old niece and nephew?* YEAH, but the next sentence I said *I almost went home with a crested gecko for myself!* So that was my priority … myself. You see, I don’t need to worry about sending my kids to college, since I do not have any. Now I’m just hoping this lizard can send me to an old home when the time arrises. Time for him to get a job and get cracking, huh?
Sabrina wasn’t in that day, but a very nice guy helped us out with our new family member. There were 3 babies in a tank, and the darkest one looked very interesting and we wanted to see him. The instant the guy placed his hand in the terrarium the little gecko bit him. Uh, well… um… what about that cute yellow one over there? Keep in mind that crested geckos are very docile, and RARELY bite, so that kinda shocked us. We wanted one that… um… didn’t bite. It was even a surprise to the Seascapes-​dude, he never encountered one that nipped. He gently coached the yellow one onto his hand.
I was in love … with our new baby! We took him home to a vacant terrarium that has been waiting for a poison dart frog for a year, it originally was going to be a quarantine tank, but now my current poison dart frog was growing fast and couldn’t have a froglet as a roommate. But no new frog for me ~ so I was obsessed on getting a new pet.
I couldn’t have picked a better one. The peeps at Seascapes have been so helpful from Franklin the Turtle (yes, the stolen one) and now our new crested gecko.
Now my only challenge is to come up with a name … any suggestions?! Thank you again to the Seascapes peeps for all of your help!

After a filling lunch with the boys at Ryowa we decided to walk off some calories and passed by this little place.
The luring eyes of the signature fish upfront beckoned us to come in. Yes, it is large. It is slow. It is UGLY, but we LOVED IT! From reptiles to tropical fish, to even insects this place was more than just a pet store. Every type of fish food available or décor was here, everything was in plain sight which could be good or bad depending on the shopper. I was incredible fearful as I reached the back of the shop seeing two customers holding up snakes– my gawd … as shivers run through my spine. The fish are quite beautiful, healthy looking and tanks clean! The only downside is the organization in the place, things seemed to be a bit randomly placed which caused a bit of chaos in my semi-​ocd heart.
I love how the workers here, didn’t push us to buy and allowed us to be entertained by their shop. I didn’t purchase anything this visit, but I have a feeling that if I were to purchase a new pet it’d be from here … and it won’t be a reptile or insect I assure you.
P. S. The fish up front is quite smart. No pointing or teasing the sign says, but this fish knows what’s up. He gave me sass when I was trying to capture his glamour shot, meaning him pushing his face into the glass and wiggling like a Magikarp on land. Karp, karp, karp.