Go to a local rock yard (masonry, brick, soils, landscape and similar terms) and you can hand select exactly the rocks you want from a much larger selection. Often cheaper, too.
That ad is, like a lot of other Petco things, very bad.
Poor wording, poor description.
~ Is it sold by the quantity? Size? Weight?
~As asked in this thread, what color(s) are you getting?
~What are the sizes of the stones?
This Petco add is like buying 'a pig in a poke'.
If you go to a rock yard they are almost always sold by weight, and you can take whichever you want, selecting from a range of sizes and colors. You can see what you are buying, and know what you are getting before you pay for it.
Yes it would be great to have more detail and know exactly what you are getting. One of the worst things I have seen is when I tried to buy a heater and found that the picture, description and title showed a different wattage for the same heater.
50 watts, 100 watts, 200 watts. I did not know what to except.
Do you trust the Title, description or picture? Another time, they had an aquarium background with a planted tank picture and the background arrived it was a Marine Coral picture.
The picture on the website did not match the product I received.
One of the reasons I was lead to believe it was 2 color rocks( probably 2 bags worth is because the company that makes this has another 2 products on the website for these stacking stones:
1. Conceptual Creations Stack Stones ( cheaper option which I think is one color stone)
2. Conceptual Creations Gray & Tan Stack of Stones (more expensive option which indicate that you are receiving more since you are paying more and the title differs from the cheaper option by saying that you will be getting Gray & Tan) vs simple " stack stones"
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Both seem to be identical except one is " Tan and Gray stones" and the other one is just " stacking stones" being the more expensive one had both stones in the description with the word " and" which normally means both.
P.S. Thank you for the tip on the stones. That sound like what I should do in the future.