LiveAquariaReviews of liveaquaria.com

Fish are guaranteed alive and their website states their shipping is top quality. Only half my fish arrived, in a cardboard box, a few newspapers, 1 hand warmer with a flimsy white paper plate. The water was yellow and fish dead or dying. Did not make it through the night. I placed a claim like I was told for the dead fish, and they issued a refund for the missing fish. Store credit can only be used at check out in the comment section and they state you will be charged full until the run the credit. After a few days (I ordered non living items) I sis not notice my credit issued. I contacted the company and they stated I did not have a credit. And since the items had already shipped, they could not stop the order. Convenient for them I know.

I ordered a total of 42 fish for a total of $183. Of the 42 ordered fish, 4 were never shipped, 4 were dead on arrival and and 24 more died within 7 days of receiving the order. The condition of the fish upon arrival was as follows. 4 were covered in white fungus, 2 had visible parasites and many of the others had frayed fins and were generally unhealthy. As of the writing of the review, only 10 remain alive. After calling Live Aquaria, and emailing them, sending pictures and following their 7 day arrive alive guarantee, I am left holding the bag at a temendous loss of money. All they do is credit your account with the cost per fish excluding the cost of shipping, and their 7 days is actually only 6 days as they count off one of the days on day zero. I do NOT recommend doing business with this company.

DON'T BUY FROM HERE - AND IF YOU DO, DON'T SAY I DIDNT WARN YOU!!!! I spent $75 dollars on 24 of some of the smallest cherry barbs I ever seen. Four of them were dead and the bag of water smelled like death. I quarantined the remaining fish and they are now almost all dead in 2 days. I got a $18.00 store credit despite all the fish dying. A store credit is pretty much worthless with a $9.99 box fee and $29.00 shipping. NEVER ORDERING FROM HERE AGAIN.

STAY AWAY FROM THIS COMPANY!!!! DO NOT BUY THE FISH THEY SELL!!!! Especially don't buy if they come from California as the rep, I believe her name is Shari, made it clear that those fish are no handled the same as they are in Wisconsin, very clearly implying that the California fish always have issue. If you are the same company, you need to make sure no matter where your facilities are that you follow the same protocol. And to knowingly tell people the fish there aren't treated with as high a standard as the ones in Wisconsin, and then to do nothing when all of those fish die. This is one messed up company. Will not ever buy from this company again. From the moment I received these fish I was having issues. From shipping issues due to their incompetence and now 3 dead fish with another on the way out, to all of my other fish now all sick and diseased . They extended warranty on one fish but ignored the issues I was mentioning going on with the other fish when trying to talk about them as well. Within 3 weeks of of getting them they are now all dead. My orange shoulder tang is now jerking and twitching about, the exact same thing my powder blue did a few days before dying. The fish they sent me came with blotches, which they said is possible HLLE(acted like that was not a big deal that I had to spend even more money to treat the fish) and the Powder blue they sent me was wayyyyyyy bigger than it was supposed to be and ended up being riddled with ich. Not great with communication, nor do they care when a fish dies, just a generic sorry for your loss text.I have a very established tank 3-5 years old and had no issues what so ever until these fish came in. Please save your self the pain of watching these fish suffer and die as well as your money. I see in responses they offer for you to give them your order number and they will respond with a solution. They're solution will just be possible prevention methods for future. Basically how to treat HLLE, possibility of swim bladder from going over mountains or possible aggression. No real solution that helps rectify the situation or whats happened.

DO NOT BUY FISH FROM HERE!I purchased 5 fish from here.experienced aquarist.fish were quarintined.2 fish died within 7 days.sent in the forms for the guarantee and NEVER got a response.Another 2 died soon after.only have 1 left after spending so much money on fish and the insane shipping cost.Also,website clearly states a size range.We purchased bigger fish because if not they would be eaten by the other fish and we received all tiny tiny baby fish forcing them to be quarintined for years had they not all died anyway.BUYER BEWARE!!

I called to find out the status of part of my order. Was told it was cancel because it was out of stock. Yet when i checked a few days ago it showed one of the fish still available. I told the customer rep that I would never buy from them again. She actually got sarcastic. I have bought fish from them for years. Definitely gone down hill.

Spent $150+ and all arrived DOA. Based on the smell alone I'd say that many were dead at shipping time. No communication, no compensation. Just nothing. They do not care about your dead fish, and keep all the money anyway. This is a scam. Buyer beware!!!

They will send you a frag plug with a pebble glued to it. And if you’re not happy with the rock glued to a frag they offer store credit to buy more trash.