I really lucked out finding a good
LFS. The first day I went in that store and was looking at fish "back in September" he came over and talked to me, asked me my plans, went and drew up some stuff on his board to give me how much I should flow through the
sump, etc, etc, before I dropped a penny there. I went back there once a week for a month just talking to him and looking at his fish in his "display" tank: full reef with
SPS corals, Tangs, Mandarin Dragonets, a bottom literally covered in brains, sponges, zoas, etc. It's amazing and most of my fish have come right out of that display tank (200gallons). When I got my cleaner shrimp, he was riding around on a
yellow tang, and I asked if I could buy him, waited til he jumped off the Tang, and got him bagged up.
Prices will say $39.99, we get over to the register, and he rings up stuff saying "we'll call this $35" and knock a few bucks off of almost everything I buy from the price. I think I've spent several hundred dollars there and will continue to just because of his expertise and service.
The gobies come in a variety of colors besides blue, it's just the most popular. He's checking to see what other varieties he can get because I'd like to get a yellow one as well. All of his freshwater tanks run on individual power filters, not one large system like most stores, so if there's an infection, he can just mark off that tank til it's cleared up but still sell other fish. He has 2 saltwater display tanks to a sump and everything saltwater he has lit with T5, no MH in that shop.
He also sells exotic pets, parrots, chinchillas, sugar gliders, etc, and he's just as knowledgeable about those things as he has been about the fish, but you can tell his fish are his pride. He has a lionfish in a large display tank by itself, and the whole bottom of the tank is covered in
aiptasia, and when I asked him about it, he said it made the lionfish look more menacing, lol, I'd have to agree. All black corner tank with black background/sides, and one lionfish swimming around his arch of
live rock above a floor of pink scary looking anemones.
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Whew, thanks for the explaining that. What a way to bathe. lol
