Gittler's Aquarium & Aviary

This place was always worth our one hour trip for the great selection of tropical fish but today’s visit was completely disgusting and disturbing! First thing that got our attention was the extremely overwhelming urine/ammonia odor. Soon after entering the store I began to notice how badly maintained everything was… I noticed two lizards that seemed to be dead. The store was in my opinion on the verge of needing to be inspected/ investigated to ensure public health. We didn’t stay long due the the foul odor and I had no reason to believe we could take home any healthy animal. I’m sorry to write such a horrifying review but it needed to be said!

Went in for the first time tonight to get some stuff for my new fish tank. Both gentleman that helped me were kind, the older gentleman was even sweet enough to help me find everything on my list since I had no idea where anything was and even took the stuff to the counter for me while the other gentleman helped me look at plants. Will be back, great selection as well

The prices may be the only good thing about this buisness. As I myself own birds, I watched a gentleman LIGHT A CIGAR inside the building. For birds in particular (which they have many of!!!!) this can and will kill the birds eventually. As for all the other wildlife in this store I can only image what the secondhand smoke is doing to these animals. The store is dirty, cages are dirty and living conditions are generally poor for the animals. The only reason I would even consider adopting an animal from this place would solely to just get the animal out of such a deplorable environment. It’s absolutely heinous.

Unfortunately this place is dirty nasty concerning. Most of the animals look sickly and we have no idea how long they have been there. It’s stinks like one giant cat litter box. None of the animals were clean. Dead fish in tanks with live fish. LIME SCALE and RUST on tanks! Inside of a lot of tanks so dirty you can’t see the fish. Also other dead animals left with other animals. Why? I feel so awful for all the animals there.

This place is absolutely VILE. As soon as you walk through the doors you’re hit with a nauseating smell. Visibly dirty and run down, and most of the staff ignored me. The fish are okay, but the reptiles were in horrible condition, clearly sick and nearly emaciated. A lady who worked there saw me looking at the poor bearded dragons and rudely told me that “pictured aren’t allowed…” I wonder why. There was one in there that was either dead or hanging on by a string. They were keeping king snakes in bins in the ball python tanks! All around horrible. You couldn’t bribe me to spend money at that place. Those poor animals, I felt awful leaving them all behind.