Aqualand Pets Plus

3.8
987 reviews

About

Pet Store
Aqualand Pets Plus provides tropical fish, reptiles, birds, and small animals to the Des Moines, IA area.

Location

Aqualand Pets Plus
3600 6th Ave, Des Moines, IA
50313, United States

Hours

Reviews

3.8
987 reviews
5 stars
503
4 stars
177
3 stars
91
2 stars
40
1 star
176
  • KB
    Kira Brown-Lett
    3 days ago
    1.0
    It’s been 15 years since Ive visited this store. I used to go in 80’s and 90’s as a kid. It was never a fancy store but yesterday it was beyond gross!! I was disturbed seeing the animals. I have never seen bunnies and ferrets look so horrible. They laid in a pile on top of each other, on their backs, their bellies sunken in and they just laid there with their eyes opened. They looked dead, didn’t move even when talking to them, they just stared frozen. Probably 20 Snakes piled up in tiny little plastic travel containers stacked on top of each other. A shelf with probably 20 betta fish in containers-half were belly up. A gold fish tank with half of them dead at the bottom. And the smell, was like death. Ceiling and floors were falling apart. It looked like no one has touched anything to update in there in 40 years. Horrible experience, still upset the next day. They should be ashamed to be open.
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    Josh E.
    Oct 15, 2025
    4.0
    Feels like this place has been around forever!
  • CE
    Charlette Eastwood
    Sep 24, 2025
    1.0
    please do not fund this small shop. the animals are treated so so bad and have ridiculously small enclosures. rabbits, reptiles, mice, you name it, they have it, BUT obvious signs of neglect and most likely disease. i bought some guppies from here (4 females, 1 male) while they were very pretty they all died in 2 days. every single species there is being neglected. the fish have ich, reptiles have roommates (FULL GROWN reptiles) and small enclosures, rodents kept together in large amounts, in VERY small cages, the snakes are kept in pull out drawers that are like 2 inches tall and the drawers are like 6x6 inches, the birds break my heart the most as the cages are disgusting and very small. so we see a pattern here? small cages, diseased, and gross cages.
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    Alexandria Lease
    Sep 17, 2025
    5.0
    My husband and I bought our beautiful bearded dragon from here, highly recommend, I truly feel like they care about there animals and there customers.
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    Leah Squires
    Sep 14, 2025
    1.0
    It's just too sad to even go into this store. Animals crammed into small cages with no room to turn around, overcrowding, no enrichment, algae so thick in tanks you can't see them (saw what looked like a dead turtle covered in it last time I went), and malnutrition. I do not understand how this place passes inspection. It's disheartening to see and feels more like a live animal market you see in other countries than a pets store.