Cichlids Are Special
723 Grandview Road
York, PA 17403
Customer Service through email: cichlidsarespecial@comcast.net
Or Phone: (717) 843-7650. Please be sure to indicate you are calling about Live Cichlid Fish.
Mailing address:
P.O. Box 3727
York, PA 17402
York, PA 17403
Customer Service through email: cichlidsarespecial@comcast.net
Or Phone: (717) 843-7650. Please be sure to indicate you are calling about Live Cichlid Fish.
Mailing address:
P.O. Box 3727
York, PA 17402
Mission Statement:
Our Mission is to provide quality African Cichlid Fish, New World Cichlids, and a few other types of Aquarium fish to the hobbyist at a fair price. Our goal is to provide excellent customer service. Our livestock will include, but not be limited to, varieties rarely carried by chain pet stores, in order to provide our customers with the opportunity to maximize the color, and enjoyment received, from their aquariums. It is our intent to carry as large a variety of community type African Cichlid Fish as possible. When possible we will offer some harder to keep types of these fish to keep through our special order program.
Please note: address is private and not open for customers to pick up fish directly.
Our Township does not allow customers to visit our physical location.
Instead we offer local pick up at a local bank parking lot.
Additional photos of fish not show on this web site are available by email request.
Our location is secure. It is alarmed and guarded by dogs and sitters when we are away to protect from theft and to insure our fish are well cared for.
I prefer a written list of the fish that you want to order, by email, so that we can check our inventory to make certain the fish you want are still in stock. This policy helps to reduce the risk of error, when setting up your order. However, I am willing to help you the best I can by phone as well. Call 717-843-7650 for additional assistance if needed.
Solicitors, please note my time is valuable and is reserved for helping customers. Please do not call my telephone number repeatedly. Our Phone is on the State and Federal No-Call Lists. Offenders will be reported to the proper authorities.
Solicitors, please note my time is valuable and is reserved for helping customers. Please do not call my telephone number repeatedly. Our Phone is on the State and Federal No-Call Lists. Offenders will be reported to the proper authorities.
About US
My wife and I been African Cichlid hobbyists for over ten years with a 75 Gallon Community Tank. Large pet store chains have slowly replaced the local pet stores in our area. These chain stores tend to carry a very limited amount of fish livestock, especially in the African Cichlid Line. Our favorite local pet store, and main source for quality African Cichlid fish, closed in October of 2007, as a result of this trend. We purchased tanks, and part of this store's aquarium system, as they were closing, in order to start our own on-line African Cichlid Store, and to provide an alternative to the chain stores for the African Cichlid hobbyist. Since that time, we have added additional tanks, so we can carry more of this wonderful fish. Our tanks now number over 150 and are in various sizes.
Why we believe cichlids are special:
First of all, they are fresh water fish which means they do not need the extra care that salt water fish require. Second, despite being a freshwater fish, African Cichlids offer colors equivalent to some salt water fish. Third, cichlids are smart. They often recognize their owners, and will race to the front of the tank to great them. Community tank cichlids develop a social totem pole. As a result, their interactions between each other are constantly changing, making them exciting to watch. Finally, cichlids come in many different shapes, sizes, and colors. This gives their owners endless possibles of choices for creating community tanks.
Thank You:
Special Thanks to Toni Rizzuto, former owner of Tony's Tropical Fish in North York. His advice has been very helpful in our endeavor to become a quality African Cichlid Fish Dealer. His store closing was a great lost for York Aquarium keepers like ourselves.
Special Thanks also to Brad at York Pet, on Paulnie Drive, York, PA. He also provides advice to us, and his used incoming fish shipping boxes for us to recycle, so we can lower our customer's handling costs. We recommend you consider York Pet for your fish tank supplies, and fish food, as well as other general pet needs in the York, PA area.
Special Thanks as well to Darryl Sawyers, former owner of Cichlids Are US, in Litz, PA, for his advice and friendship.
Special Thanks to Lonnie Langione, Former ACLC VP, and former Pet Store Owner (Delco Plaza) for all his help, friendship and advice.
Thank you to my friends at the Lancaster Aquarium Club and the Capital Cichlid Association
And especially thank you to my loyal customers
Also we would like to thank Postal Connections for their assistance with our shipping needs. Postal Connections is located in the South York Plaza Shopping Center. We do our Fed Ex shipments through their location. They will allow us to meet customer's for a local pick up if necessary. This service is only available during their business hours of M-F 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. and Saturday 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Additional special thanks to Metro Bank at their South Queen location. They allow us to use their parking lot to meet customers for local fish pick ups.
And especially we thank our quality Fish Farm Suppliers and our Customers. Without you there would be no Cichlids Are Special.
If you have purchased Cichlid fish from Toni, Lonnie, or Darryl, in the past, you know the top quality fish they carried. It is our Goal to provide fish of this type Quality, just like Toni, Lonnie, and Darryl.
Why we believe cichlids are special:
First of all, they are fresh water fish which means they do not need the extra care that salt water fish require. Second, despite being a freshwater fish, African Cichlids offer colors equivalent to some salt water fish. Third, cichlids are smart. They often recognize their owners, and will race to the front of the tank to great them. Community tank cichlids develop a social totem pole. As a result, their interactions between each other are constantly changing, making them exciting to watch. Finally, cichlids come in many different shapes, sizes, and colors. This gives their owners endless possibles of choices for creating community tanks.
Thank You:
Special Thanks to Toni Rizzuto, former owner of Tony's Tropical Fish in North York. His advice has been very helpful in our endeavor to become a quality African Cichlid Fish Dealer. His store closing was a great lost for York Aquarium keepers like ourselves.
Special Thanks also to Brad at York Pet, on Paulnie Drive, York, PA. He also provides advice to us, and his used incoming fish shipping boxes for us to recycle, so we can lower our customer's handling costs. We recommend you consider York Pet for your fish tank supplies, and fish food, as well as other general pet needs in the York, PA area.
Special Thanks as well to Darryl Sawyers, former owner of Cichlids Are US, in Litz, PA, for his advice and friendship.
Special Thanks to Lonnie Langione, Former ACLC VP, and former Pet Store Owner (Delco Plaza) for all his help, friendship and advice.
Thank you to my friends at the Lancaster Aquarium Club and the Capital Cichlid Association
And especially thank you to my loyal customers
Also we would like to thank Postal Connections for their assistance with our shipping needs. Postal Connections is located in the South York Plaza Shopping Center. We do our Fed Ex shipments through their location. They will allow us to meet customer's for a local pick up if necessary. This service is only available during their business hours of M-F 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. and Saturday 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Additional special thanks to Metro Bank at their South Queen location. They allow us to use their parking lot to meet customers for local fish pick ups.
And especially we thank our quality Fish Farm Suppliers and our Customers. Without you there would be no Cichlids Are Special.
If you have purchased Cichlid fish from Toni, Lonnie, or Darryl, in the past, you know the top quality fish they carried. It is our Goal to provide fish of this type Quality, just like Toni, Lonnie, and Darryl.