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- Tropical Haven was conceived in the winter of 1976. In March of 1977 a business license was obtained and a lease was signed. The original site was located at 1711 Prescott Road was made available July 4th 1977. After months of preparations Tropical Haven opened its doors September 19th and put an open sign up on September 21, 1977. The original store was 17 feet wide by 70 feet long. That was soon out grown and another 15 feet in width was added. After a few years the craft store closed and that location was also taken over. Ted Pino and Mike Warda were the original partners. Ted had a background in tropical fish and pet supplies that dated to 1962. Mike was a farmer and a very skilled handyman. Together they worked and prefabricated the aquarium stands in Mike's barn. In 1984 Mike had a heart attack and died at the young age of 31. His wife Valerie took over his share and sold out in 1985. Two other locations were opened, one on Coffee Road and another in Turlock. In 1991 on March 15 Tropical Haven Prescott moved to its present location 1707 Prescott Road at the former location of Carpet Town. On March 8, 1992 a fire burned down that location and it reopened in December in that same year. The fire was devastating to the business and the other locations were eventually sold. The original plan was to sell quality product very reasonable, then raise prices to the competition, then sell the business for a good profit. After a few months customers would come in and say they were so thankful that a pet store opened that had reasonable prices and they would not be able to afford pets if it were not for Tropical Haven. Prices have remained low ever since. Tropical Haven's low prices are due to volume purchasing direct from manufacturers. Many items in the store are sold at or below regular wholesale prices. When the large pet chain stores came to Modesto nearly all the independent pet stores closed, but Tropical Haven increased in sales because of price awareness, quality products, and accurate information.
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ONE OF THE BEST SELECTION IN THE VALLEY !
VERY REASONABLE PRICE.
OWNER : TED IS A WALKING ENCYCLOPEDIA !!
THANK YOU.
I know this store is not in the best of shape.. But they do have great deals we bought saltwater fish and also a 55 gal tank stand and the fish and the stand is awesome got them both at a great price .. Thanks tropical haven
this is the worst place to buy fish and stuff for your tank. they have very very bad CUSTOMER'S SERVICE and they are very very RUDE. plus their tanks for the fish are very dirty and doesn't look clean. my advice is go somewhere else where there is better customer's service and cleaner fish.
this place does have a great amount of supplies. a good amount of fish to choice from. it is a little dirty compared to major stores such as petco or petsmart. but they do seam to be stocked on a lot of things. i was very bothered by the way one of the ladys talked to me. acted like she knew everthing and i knew nothin and if i said anything other then what she thinks is right then im wrong no matter what. also this young girl thought she knew so much how fish yet i know for a fact she was wrong. i asked her how many fish u can have in a tank. she stated 1 for ever 10 gallons. so in my 50g tank i could have 5 small gold fish. because of the nitrate lvls. when i asked if there was any way to lower the amount she said no that u can only have a few fish. i have about 10 fish in my tank atm and with many test my lvls are great. if you want to buy something here i highly recormennd you know what you want insteed of asking for there advice.
Saltwater tanks are dirty, but decent selection and prices for aquarium items not too bad. You need to know what your looking for before you buy because you want find any good advice here.
I buy my fish food at Tropical Haven and nowhere else. I have about 50 small fish that eat lots of food and I find that Tropical Haven has the cheapest prices for the same quality/brand food that other stores offer. I recommend stopping by.
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Phone: (209) 522-4706
Address: 1707 Prescott Rd, Modesto, CA 95350
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