World Wide Aquarium & Pets

Cool pet store with way more than just aquarium/​fish stuff. Nice variety of fish (including piranhas both small and large!) at decent prices. I just wish they had more live aquarium plants available for sale… when I went there were slim pickins.

I previously rated this a 1-​star. I have been contacted by management and had a very encouraging and pleasant conversation. I will hopefully stop back soon to improve my feedback!
Below is my original review:
I hate to leave a bad review for a place like this… But I will. I will also contact them to see if there is anyway to work something out between both sides.
I run a very well established 120 gallon peacock/​hap show tank filled with lots of Male fish. I stopped on my first trip (3 – 4) months ago. I lost 1 of the 3 cichlids I purchased. With the amount of coughing” and spitting food behavior in addition to the listlessness it showed led my to believe it has some sort of internal parasite. The following week I lost 3 fish to the same issues. I treated with Clout and things got under control.
Looking back to my notes my water parameters ranged from:
Nitrate: 10 – 30
Nitrite: 0
Ammonia: 0
Ph: 7.8
Figured last week I’d give them another try as they do have a good selection of large cichlids…
I took home a male venustus. I spoke to a very knowledgeable women who asked me to show, new prospective cichlid customers my cichlid tank so they could get an idea of what they are shooting for. If this jogs memory’s that would be great. We spoke about arranging tanks in such ways to avoid aggression. It was a great experience. In any sense. The fish showed those same parasitic symptoms: coughing, spitting food, head shaking, scratching ext… He was dead within 24 hours. I had memories of my last incident coming to me. The next day I lost my prize, I mean it, Adult Male Ngara Flametail Peacock. The day following, I lost 2 bottom feeders. Like clock work the next day I lost my beautiful male 7″ red empress. All to those same symptoms. As I type, last night I lost 3 fish to those condition. Male Zebra Obliqueden. I loved this guy. Biggest personality in the tank. And my second prize, my 5″ male Pundamilia Nyererei Hap. As well as my strawberry peacock, one of my first fish I got years ago!
This morning I woke to another dead bottom feeder. Since yesterday I’ve been treating with clout again and it seems as overall the conditions are improving.
Over this time my tank has stayed stable:
Nitrate: 20
Nitrite: 0
Ammonia: 0
Ph: 7.8
I hope things get back under control.
Management, please check your stock! I work in the same field as you and I know how challenging it is to keep retail tanks perfect. The amount of turnover you guys have makes things difficult. That being said please check for anything showing such behavior…
The first time I thought it was a fluke, the second time something is up…
Feel free to contact me. Yes I will consider editing my review based on feedback received. Thanks.

Best pet store in the area! The workers are very nice and happy to assist with any questions. The fish in the tanks are healthy and well cared for– not something you will find at many chain pet stores!

I love this place. I have been coming here for years. They’re super friendly and stock the fancy cat food and kitty litter my cats like.
WoldWide is a shining example of a quality neighborhood shop in a world of faceless chains. Jeff really cares about his customers and it shows.

Most recently I’ve started to feel like I need a pet. I’ve always had a dog and I actually prefer them over other animals, but my condo won’t allow them, so I decided to settle for a Betta named «Pup». I went to World Wide after reading the reviews here, with the intentions of recreating the awesome experience I had with my first betta, Sushi. I bought Sushi from Wal-​Mart when they still provided real one-​stop shopping and I had low expectations considering. To my surprise, Sushi stuck around with me for 2.5 years. Imagine my mind-​numbing disappointment when the fish from this highly-​regarded pet store only survived for 2 days. I followed the same process with Pup as I did with Sushi, so I can only think that poor Pup was doomed before he left his first home. What a scam.

Very friendly little pet shop. The owner was extremely helpful with his advice about my betta fish, and I also got to pick his brain about real estate in the area, too.
And he gave me some free, high-​end cat food for my boy.
My cat likes the grass that you grow in a little plastic container, and I got a better deal on the stuff here than anywhere else.
I’m never going back to Pet Valu again.

Don’t waste your time at Petco! This place is great! The workers know their stuff and are very nice! I go all the time for all my pet needs– 2 dogs, fish, beardie and a few hermit crabs sends me here often! Prices are good and they send out coupons!

This shop has an excellent freshwater fish selection and a very well-​stocked selection of aquarium and fish supplies. Prices are very reasonable even when compared to online prices. I prefer to buy here because it’s not only an independently-​owned small business, but also has a very friendly and knowledgable staff. Shop with confidence!

This place a good mom and pops pet shop. Fish wise not a lot of selection. no salt water fish selection. But staffs friendly

Such a great store ! I love that you see the same faces of the owner and staff whenever you go in. They care about their store, their customers and the pets. They remember you when you come in and make sure they remember to order the food your pet eats so it’s there next time you come in. They have a great loyalty program for different brands of food (we buy Blue Buffalo) and will be getting our 10^th bag free ! Support a neighborhood business and go here !

Very friendly and helpful staff. Our dog has allergies and we were told to take chicken and grain out of his diet to see if it helps. Many dog foods labeled bison or beef, etc. also have chicken in them. The clerk looked through the ingredients list on many bags to find us one that our dog could eat. (P.S. it worked!) The prices aren’t that bad considering they sell the filet mignon of dog foods. The exterior of the building has gotten a face lift in the past year and looks much better.

I’ve went here for years and they know what they are talking about. Pulling out after onto ridge can be tough but it’s well worth it.

The best pet store in at least a 5 mile radius, hands down.
Worldwide has a very good aquarium section, and staff that seems quite knowledgeable when it comes to fish (and everything else pet related). The other pet supplies seem limited by space, but what they have is good quality and cheaper than you’ll see at the big stores, and what they don’t they will happily order if you tell them in advance.
Aside from the fish and pet homes/​food/​supplies, they also sell a good selection of reptiles, amphibians, and rodents, but not really a dealer in birds. They also occasionally have kittens, though that is more rare.
Very friendly staff that is always willing to help with questions, and even more eager to give your pooch treats when you bring them in. My mutt has more allergy restrictions than I do, so I am extremely happy that they carry a wide enough variety for his niche, and bonus points for having a deal that every 11^th bag is free (Natural Balance brand).
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I feel a bit like Elmyra (Tiny Toons reference) as I write this, but here is a list of pets I’ve gotten from them over the last two decades:
***Meat– a surly hamster who enjoyed kicking his soiled wood chips out of his cage and into my little brother’s bed (thus endearing himself to me for life), sinking pool balls while inside his hamster ball, and trying to take chunks out of my fingers whenever I came too close. Name changed to One-​eye Willie after his left eye fell out (it was as weird as it sounds, and helps explain his surliness)
***Atilla– a loving and personable Chilean Rose Hair tarantula, and the most long lived of my WW pets. She grew from a fifty cent piece sized arachnid to an adult hand sized mouse eater and died at the estimated ripe old age of 12
***King Louie– a speedy, vicious, and ornery Starburst Baboon tarantula. While likely my favorite spider to date, he hated me so much that, rather than live many years gorging on bugs and hairless mammal babies, he entombed himself in his warren and stayed there ’till death. I will miss his hissing and frequent attempts at biting me.
***Pinky & The Brain (1,2, and 3) — Pinktoe tarantulas that were fond of escaping, being arboreal and prone to jumping. Eventually stopped buying replacement Brains because, no matter how much I berated him, Pinky kept eating them (they can live communally).
***Jack Skellington– a rescued stripe knee tarantula that someone else purchased here, jack was a friendly fellow, as spiders go, and I’d like to think I made his last few years comfortable after a hectic upbringing in a frat house.
***Lord Chamberlain– a skittish male Chilean Rose hair, he laid the most thick and beautiful beds of webbing before eating them. I don’t know why, but he went on a hunger strike during his fourth year of life with me and never recovered.
***King, King II, & Pinchy– three Emperor scorpions that never stabbed a thing with their stingers, which was disappointing, but who were more than happy to eat pink baby mice alive. Kept their tank by my lil’ brothers bed so he could enjoy the squeals of terror and pain while he slept, so there was some enjoyment. Had trouble keeping them alive due to humidity issues, so after the Kings died I gave Pinchy away to a more experienced keeper.
***Rambo– a voracious eater, this Pacman frog took on anything that moved, even to his own peril. How it got in there I will never know, but he died while trying to eat a bat that was twice his size.
***Fire-​bellied toads– never named them because they all looked alike, but they were very cool and stupid pets; keep them fed and their home clean and they will sing all day long, but give them something too large to eat and they will choke to death rather than spit the food out.
***African clawed frogs (albino and regular) — these frogs were bastards. They would float there playing dead until a fish came by, then kill it and not eat it, and do the same until all your fish were dead. Once their murder lust was satisfied, they would escape and be found petrified the next day. A better name for them would be the Glutenous Murder-​Suicide frog.
***Beta fish– I had many over the years, but stopped buying them once my brother and I found out the «fighting» was over rated: We bought two, raised them for months, then set them at each other for a huge winner take all pot of $ 22; anticlimactic is an understatement, because earthworms are more violently.
***Fish– a lot of them, some grew to great sizes and lived years, but most died from other fish pecking them because we didn’t plan the environment right.
***Dragon– a Bearded Dragon, and the last pet I ever bought there, he simply ate, basked, and shit. Eventually I grew tired of cleaning up his crap, so I took him to Whissahickon valley in June and freed him. I’d like to think he lasted through the fall, which was warm that year, but if he stayed with me he’d have been starved to death in a week.

Very friendly staff! The people at the counter were extremely helpful and incredibly sweet to my son!

Great group that works there, bought fish and fish supplies from there several times. Fish were of good quality. I even bought my tank there, great price for a 125 Gallon tank and they even delivered it to help me out.

Quality local pet store with wide selection of higher quality cat and dog food, a little limited with some of the items for small mammals and not crazy that they sell kittens, but they always have what I come in for

World Wide Aquarium and Pets gets mega props for being the only place in the Philly area open on a particular Sunday in February with Betta fish to sell. Protip: look in the back for more lively bettas.
If I were more of an impulsive buyer/​more responsible, I probably would have immediately purchased the perky electric blue mini lobster. It’s so little and adorable that whomever ends up buying that little guy better call me immediately — I’ll be your insta-​friend.
The staff is knowledgeable — amending the instructions on the betta fish food lest you fatten your new pet so that he can’t swim any more. The store is filled with fish accessories… and I suppose there’s lots of other stuff for lots of other animals.

About six months ago we got a 55-​gallon aquarium kit and some fish to start it out a few weeks after getting the water conditioned. We have not had a single problem with the fish or supplies that we bought here. I also called today about a problem we are having the the syphon thing to clean the gunk out of the crushed coral and they had good advice. They have much better knowledge about fish than the big box stores (IE: PetSmart) and stand behind their products.