House of Fins — Attraction in Greenwich

Inspired by another reviewer to post a similar experience:

Healthy fish, beautiful store, great staff and well informed! I'm a freshwater guy so I was mildly disappointed with the quantity of freshwater tanks but upon further inspection, there was some very interesting livestock available.

What you absolutely must do is cross shop your non-livestock goods. I purchased a frozen food and didn't realize the list price was $21! I'm talking about a Hikari food. This is not some unique, hobbyist-made item. Hard to find, I'll admit but this is exorbitant. I found the same found at a different LFS for $7. There's no excuse for pricing like this. The livestock is expensive too but I didn't see a single dead fish and the live ones were all healthy. I purchased a couple and they've been great so far.

They're also an authorized vendor of UNS and they had a piece available that had been out of stock at all the online retailers for just a few bucks over retail (think shipping costs baked in). I didn't shop any other UNS pieces but this might also be an exception to the rule I mentioned.

Long story short, come visit and take a look. The store is beautiful and the fish are healthy. Great service but don't buy anything without a quick google search. At these prices, it becomes hard to support LFS's. 300% price increase is...

The store is clean and has very helpful employees that are patient with you. They have a good selection of marine and freshwater animals and plants that are visibly healthy and well fed. I live in NYC and I’ve went to a lot of fish stores there but personally I think that this store has the healthiest fish I’ve seen. The store also has a lot of good lights, pumps, etc that the other stores didn’t.

However, the reason my review is 2 stars is because of their prices. I completely understand the reasoning behind the high prices on their animals but I don’t get why the prices on dry and frozen goods are so high as well. For example, I was told a pack of rods food is $50 and a medium bottle of Seachem prime is $20 which is just insane to me because they literally cost half the price online. These things are easily obtainable online or at other fish/pet stores.

I would also avoid buying invertebrates here. They are also pretty pricey although not to the extent of what I said above. They are well kept but inverts don’t live a very long life and need to be replaced every now and then. There are cheaper and more practical alternatives.

I get the idea of supporting local businesses but when the prices on dry goods are double the price; that’s just simply not...

I had to come quite of my way to come see the store unfortunately I got there only a few minutes before they close where they appeared to lock up 10 min early. I called in advance to let them know I was coming. All the employees saw me knocking on the door and ignored me till the manager came over and said were closed. I then basically had to beg him to let me in and take a quick look around to see what they had while they counted the register and clean up etc. He agreed all the tanks looked really nice with a good selection to. But lord have mercy the prices were absolutely out of this world expensive like double or triple liveaquaria.com and absolutely fish (they are expensive to but not this expensive). I understand they need to make a profit but this is just extortion. It’s a shame because I had planned on spending close to a grand setting up my new salt water tank but in this place all I would get for that much is a couple of fish and corals. Unless your a dentist or something you’ll probably not be able to get much of...