Midway Tropical Fish & Pets

This place is wonderful. They carry a full range of quality products for cats, dogs, fish, birds and reptiles. There are many fish and plants to choose from for fresh and salt water setups. They also have an aviary stocked with feathered friends. The occasional bunny or guinea pig are available too. They also have your outdoor pond fish and plants. Totally worth the trip if you are not in the neighborhood.

One of the best old time fish stores in the area. Yes — it is smelly — years of water bubbling. They always have a decent select of tropical fish and when you ask for help you get a professional.
They have everything you need for the tank from food to medicine and they will explain to you how to uses it. Their tanks are clean and their fish are healthy looking.
If you want clean and a steril place — this is not it. If you want someone who cares about fish and their care — I have never been let down and I have been raising fish for 50 years including breeding many varities.

I want to give this guys five stars because they had a hard to find gasket that I would not be able to find elsewhere. They have been around forever and I wish they can remain open for businesses but they have to catch up to the times. This place has a great location but this business lacks ump ! This store looks really tired it could use new blood and more spunk.

I’ve been coming back to Midway Pets for over 30 years. They had a huge selection of supplies and pets of all kinds. One of the best selection around town. They seem to get better every year. They even have a huge outdoor area full of ponds with varieties of koi, goldfish and outdoor water plants. The services is friendly with knowledgeable staffs that’s been working there for many years. It’s always a treat to stop in and look around and I always end up finding something I had to buy. So addicting! LOL

The customer service is good every time I come and the selection is great. My only problem is the inside always seem dirty.
There are many fish that look diseased but most fish stores have this problem. I can’t comment on midway’s non-​fish products since I’m only interested in fish.
Also never 100% trust staff for advice or fish ID. That is a big rule among aquarium hobbyist. If their staff tells you bad advice or mis-​ID your fish, then it’s your fault. Your job is to do research yourself. This will make you better at fish/​aquarium keeping.

I was extremely unhappy with the customer service at Sierra Pets and I found this place by chance. They are absolutely the best place to get exotic fish and aquarium accessories. They also sell small pets and birds and have a couple rooms dedicated to fresh and saltwater fish and every wall and counter has products jam packed full.
Everyone there is extremely helpful and even though it is located in the rough part of town, it is worth the drive. The only downside is that I wish they posted their hours of operation and days open in the Internet. We have been coming every weekend for the past two months and are very happy with the fish, prices and employees. Thanks for being so awesome!

Today was my first time visiting this store with no prior knowledge other than, «Their fish selection is good,» from a friend. And she was right! They have a lot of very neat fish in a wide variety of tanks. Beginner fish, advanced fish, $ 150 fish, less than a dollar fish. All seemed active and the tanks looked clean.
But that’s where the good times ended, honestly.
The store itself is insanely cramped. It’s a labyrinthine walk-​in closet stuffed with dusty products. There didn’t seem to be any organization to the place. Animals in cheap cages were tucked in any convenient place and some products were wedged in hard-​to-​reach corners.
An enormous goldfish pond outside was not aerated or filtered. The water was murky and still as glass. A submerged garden hose on the far end appeared as lifeless as the goldfish. That wasn’t heartening to see.
Another red flag was a guinea pig sitting on the checkout counter. No supervision, no containment, literally just a cavy on a counter. All it would take was a tall dog with a prey drive to snatch that poor critter up. As I thought this, the guinea pig began chewing on randomly-​placed koi food samples wrapped in plastic. The employee ringing me up didn’t seem concerned about the pig’s safety.
A cat perched on a tank up front was visibly distressed by my dogs. My dogs are fine with cats, but what if another comes in that has a stronger prey drive? You can account for the temperament of your store animals, but you can’t account for the visiting ones, and that variable is too risky.
tl;dr: Nice fish, nice tanks, go here to get fish. Don’t go here for anything else. I sure won’t, because I don’t like shopping at a place that makes me feel like I need to wash my hands afterwards.
If you’re looking for dog and cat products at a similar price range, go to a Mud Bay.

I got my African Ciclids here. The staff helped me. The fish are beautiful and adjusted well based on the recommendations I received. I will be back to this business for sure.

This is the BEST fish store for African Cichlids… And any other freshwater fish, small saltwater selection. Tanks are clean, store is packed with stuff but it makes it feel like a mom and pop pet store. Come visit the store, dont let it scare you away.
You can see by my other reviews I am into fish keeping. I have been to every store that sells fish in the area! And this is a good one!

Was sure I had reviewed this place before… it’s been around for 20+ years (probably a lot longer) 20 years ago it was gross — for some reason hubby seems to like it… The place usually stinks and is dark and dank… they do have a good selection of fish — prices are all over the place from great to «are you kidding me».

This store features more variety of fish than any other store I have been to in the area. It’s a little cramped, but it’s not an issue. I have bought 3 fish from them and they are still alive and healthy. It’s at least worth peek if you’re trying to find new variety for your aquarium.

They have really started cleaning the place up they are specialists in fish and provide all the correct care for there other animals. The service I revived tonight was awesome the new people working there were friendly and helpful and they have prices on fish and supplies that can’t be beat from any of the other big name brand pet stores.

This place is OK I’ve spent over 100 $ there in the past couple weeks and they have some employees that are nice and some not so nice I wish they would treat existing customers better but hey I will probably only come back if I have to the so close to me so it’s hard not to come here. …

I mostly have gone here for aquarium supplies, but sometimes buy dog food there; the prices are reasonable. The owners seem very knowledgeable about fish and equipment, unlike chain pet stores. The times I’ve been there the fish seemed healthy — I saw way more dead or wasting away/​listless fishes at Sierra Fish & Pet in Renton compared to Midway. I don’t think I saw any dead fish when I was there last week. There is a huge variety of fish species and they are well identified. Some of the aquarium supplies are cheaper than elsewhere.
Now, the atmosphere might be really ugly to some people. I don’t mind the jumble, it reminds me of old fashioned stores and after all this place has been here about 40 years I think. But if this scares you, you won’t like: narrow aisles, stuff hanging overhead and on every inch of wall space, a warren of backrooms with used and broken equipment (some for sale as-​is, some in fine condition). Plus there’s a tropical feeling heat and humidity in the store. I will go back because of the selection of fish, plants and supplies and because I feel like the staff love to have technical discussions about aquariums and ponds.
I can’t speak for their other pets as I haven’t really paid attention to those.

Bought my kitten here while purchasing we noticed some fleas on it the guy told us we were wrong that they had advantix on them. Well that’s funny when we got the poor baby home he was just covered in fleas. Thank god we saved him, hopefully his brothers and sisters all went to loving homes too!

I bought dolomite from these guys, they told me it wasn’t the dolomite with lime.
Well that’s a lie -.-
It killed all of my plants, and turned a cheap dolomite purchase into a fairly expensive one!

Overall: 4
Cost: 4
Quality of fish: 3.5
Variety: 4
Service: 4
I went there during the SAAS (Seattle Area Aquarium Swap) and I bought some Purple Cabomba from there, along with a canister filter part, that I couldn’t find anywhere. Service was okay for me, and I was generally left at peace while browsing their fish. Definitely a larger collection of fish compared to other stores I’ve been to.

This place deserves NO STARS.
THIS PLACE IS DISGUSTING, AND THEY DO NOT GIVE A SHIT ABOUT THEIR ANIMALS!
I went there after going to the school nearby and I did not even go into the store, when I saw the rabbits OUTSIDE of the store in SAD CONDITIONS.
Let’s see, what did I see? 4 cages stacked up on top of each other, each had pad lock on it. Each cage had a WIRE BOTTOM to it (Those of you who have HOUSE rabbits know that wire bottom cages is NOT a good thing to have), a freaking water bottle, a small carrot, and PELLETS.
NO HAY? ARE YOU SERIOUS?
On the bottom cage, was a bunch of mini rexes not even old enough to be away from their mommy! I wanted to scream!
On the top of the cage, was a black rabbit. I saw it had a huge dewlap (double chin). Dewlaps are normal — but this rabbit ghad a HUGE dewlap, and when it began to clean its face, its NAILS were SEVERELY OVERGROWN! THe poor rabbit could not even properly clean its face!
I left.
Whoever supports this shop should think twice about it.

I’m glad to have this place nearby, but I would travel to come here because of their great selection of interesting fish. There are several ppl there who know their fish & they will go look up the info if they don’t have the answer, nice helpful attitude. They do a good job of keeping them all healthy, I’ve seen some can-​be-​fragile species in there doing great week after week (the ones I can’t snag for my own), and the ones I get here are always healthy & sassy in my tank.

If you like and are accustomed to customer service representatives that are warm, fuzzy and happy, similar to what you would find at PetsMart, why then you will NOT like spending your money here at Midway.
I shop at Midway occasionally only because it is near my home and convenient to make a quick dash in and to buy a fish or two. I almost always have a bitter taste in my mouth when I am leaving the store. I almost never feel welcomed in the store, it takes a long time for me to be acknowledged by any of the workers. The one exception is the young teenager there who is learning the store and seems earnst enough. The other workers, the adults always appear to be «too busy» and never make eye-​contact.
The prices for aquarium fish are reasonable.