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| - I hadn't been to Pisces in many years, before they expanded. The store is fantastic. They have everything you could possibly need for your pets...and some supplies for beer brewing. Yes beer brewing.
First the pet side of the brain. I needed a couple things for my puppy. First I wanted to price compare her food to Pet Planet. While they carry the food, its only the smaller bags so that's no good for me. The great thing about the dog food selection is that its massive. When you walk in the door, the whole side of the store immediately to your right is just food. They carry the better brands that contain food made from real things, but they also stick the crap dog food at the back if you're looking for that. There's also a bunch of coolers and freezers stocked with raw food diet products, meal supplements, bones, and more.
Opposite the dog food is the expansive selection of treats, chews, toys, balls, clothing, you name it. I needed some training treats. They didn't have the brand I was looking for, but they had such a great selection of treats that I was able to find a different treat that my pup loves just as much. She also got a little spoiled with some bully sticks and pig's ears.
By this point you're probably wondering what beer brewing has to do with a pet store. When you're home brewing you need a refrigerated chamber to keep your beer kegs cold. This is typically called a kegerator, where you modify a small refrigerator to suit your needs. The other option, when you need more room than a small refrigerator is to modify a deep freeze into a keezer. This is where a pet store comes in. You don't want your beer to freeze so you need a heat source inside the freezer that kicks in when it starts to get too cold. Terrarium heaters are perfect for this. One option is to buy a heat lamp. This is good because the light the lamps put out is infrared so it doesn't spoil your beer. Another option, the one I went with, is a terrarium floor heater. Its a wire that heats up which you run under the mat of the terrarium. This is a little harder to execute, but I'd rather not have to deal with broken glass in a deep freeze if I happened to drop the lamp when moving things around. There's a couple different lengths of wire for about $30-50 and all you have to do is plug them into the wall and they're ready to go.
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