Aqualand Pets Plus

Staff we're extremely knowledgeable and helpful in getting a good aquarium set up for my son. Several years ago, I didn't always have good experiences here, but they changed a lot of stuff and i am extremely happy with their quality of fish and materials. So far we've had our new fish for over a week a none are sick or dead, which is far better than what I can say for my experience with Petsmart and Petco.

Thanks for a great experience! We'll be back again for many more fish!

Staff is super knowledgeable and friendly. They go above and beyond to make sure your pet care needs are taken care of! I appreciate their local values and ethically-sourced products and pets. Highly recommend coming here for your pet care needs!!

Don't be discouraged over 3 stars. This is a good store, with knowledgeable people. I've been accustomed to some very nice private stores, that are the standard, for me.
The fish, need a lot of maintenance. The store its self could be a lot cleaner and improved by some general organizing of things like, feeders.
But those aren't things that necessarily benefit the animals. They help the store, make an impact on the customer.
I see reviews, talking about care of the animals. I don't think that's an issue. Yes, the snakes could use bigger housings, maybe they've been there for awhile and have outgrown them, idk. It could be many things causing this issue, maybe cut back on the population? Hard to say, without knowing more.
But I love the way they house their spiders for sale, in a housing. I've seen my share of close calls with people trying to catch a spider for a customer.
As a customer, you can expect better information, regarding exotic pets, than you would find in a chain store. You'll find a much better selection for better prices designing attractive enclosures. The fact that they will sell you used equipment makes them flexible on budgets.
A customer needs to understand that these animals aren't housed for life here. They're intended to be sold quickly. And moved into better housing. Life in a pet store is stressful for exotics, and they will show the effects of it for awhile. I tend to give new pets, alone time at first, for this reason.
The one biggest improvement I could recommend. Is that the store is unclean. And I never see the staff working on this... I tried to drop the hint once. A girl had been following us around (appearing to straighten up shelves) we had a backpack with us, I'm sure she was making sure we weren't stealing. But I took the opportunity to talk to my partner about the dust on the shelves. Lol.
Anyway, to the owner. If you'd ever like some help. I'm sure my partner and I wouldn't mind volunteering some time.
(A lot of work had gone into this place since placing this review, stars are raised for it).

The owner and staff are always amazing and knowledgeable. We have gone here for years to get everything we need. Highly recommend!

Still the Aqualand we love for 30 + years. We grabbed a half dozen Neon Tetra's and a Snail tonight. Better than Petsmart ;-) Also my go to place for my aquatic turtles

The place to go for reptiles, small critters, fish and feeding supplies

Very knowledgeable and helpful. We bought a locally hatched bearded dragon. My son was allowed to gently handle and select the one that was the most calm with him.

Everything you could possibly need, for any kind of pets you have. They do a great job!

I bought 2 parakeets a few months ago. He helped me get everything they needed and he is very friendly and helpful.

Very knowledgeable in some things, they also know quite a bit about the rest! Not dirt cheap prices, but I'd rather give that to a local shop than an online wholesaler

Extremely friendly and down to earth staff. The owner is amazing and made us feel like family! We love this place!

I visit weekly! Only place in town that has live pinkies for my Chinese water dragon, Frankie. Staff is knowledgeable, friendly, and always willing to help without being overbearing. A special shout to a certain female employee, sorry not sure on her name. She was extra helpful one Saturday afternoon and went our of her way to help! Thanks guys! We ❤ you and we're super grateful for the important job yall do in helping keeping our babies healthy and happy!

I love this shop. Very knowledgeable

It's great, but I couldn't get my granddaughters out of there when it was time to go.

This is the oldest and best pet shop in desmoines iowa it hasn't changed much since I was there when I was 5 years old but I do remember that they used to have giant angel fish at the time they where the biggest fish I had ever saw and I dont believe I have saw an angel fish that big since then ....but they have stuff that you wont find at a petco or petsmart ....

LOVE THIS PLACE! I also made this enclosure myself thanks for the ideas from aqua land

Very fun little place. We got several fish and a beautiful tiger lotus, the staff was very friendly and helpful. Prices were rather reasonable. Several days later now and our fish are still doing great and the lotus is even more gorgeous than we thought.

I went in there last week to buy a fuzzy for my python and they said that they don’t except purchases under five dollars on debit cards well I did not have any cash on me and so I believe it was the owner tells me just take it and pay me the next time. Very kind of him! They have a very wide variety of animals the animals seem very healthy the staff is great. To me if they’re that nice to their customers that says a lot about what kind of people they really are which means that tells me that they really care about their animals as well! They didn’t have to do that but again I didn’t have cash on me and my python needed his dinner they care and that says a lot!

Great experience and we came home with a new pet and everything we needed for her. Including information on what to feed her

I wanted a hamster. The young lady who helped us was full of information and ideas. A warranty on pets is very cool.