I will say this place is a little over rated but it is pretty cool. I have a deep love for aquatic animals and have been searching for a place that can cater to what I use to be able to frequent from my home town in CA, Trop Aquarium comes close to the types of stores back in the Bay Area but I'm not impressed with there pricing and service.
They have a good selection of fish from Salt Water to fresh (as far as Vegas Stores goes) and there store layout although could be better is unique in its own way. I would like to see it have more room in between isle ways as it becomes hard to get a good look around when there are more than 4 people in the same area. But I'm not going to mark them down on this as for the size of the place it works just fine!
What I'm really not impressed by is there pricing. I have a lot of experience in buying aquatic animals and for the past 10 years I have seen high and low and well regular priced fish. Trop- Aquarium is on the extreme high side. After walking around there store and checking everything out from the top tanks to the bottom tanks I could not believe my eyes on how much they are charging for fish. Some of them are double if not triple what Petco charge (not that I'm a fan of Petco fish) but that's pretty ridiculous if you ask me!
So aside there over priced fish and decor I was thinking maybe they charge extra because they hire the best employees. HAHAHA yeah I was wrong. I was there for over 20 min before I was even greeted or even acknowledged that I was in there store. Let me clarify that there were about 6 people there that were shopping and about 4 employees. Give or take and 3 of them hung out behind the counter and the other was helping someone. I couldn't tell if the other 6 people in the store were just hanging out or working or shopping. Anyway the service sucked they don't know how to look up from there Iphone and say hi how can I help you or stop there discussion about each of there plans for the weekend. Maybe I just came in at the wrong time!!!!
Trop-Aquarium has so far had the best selection in Vegas and even at that it could be so much better. I will stay with 3 stars since this is so far the best Vegas has had to offer for aquatic hobbyist.