Poll: How often do you visit your LFS?

dbl · Jan 5, 2018

Had a member ask for a poll on how often members visit their Local Fish Store (LFS). We did one a few months ago on distance to your LFS and the majority vote was 1-10 miles. So let's see how often people are making that trip.

cracker · Jan 5, 2018

My LFS is about 10 minutes away. It's very convenient and the guy has a good selection of stuff & OK livestock .

Lovemyreef2015 · Jan 5, 2018

We usually visit our LFS's once a week or every two weeks. Not that we need something every week. We just like to go to see what new livestock they have sometimes.

nautical_nathaniel · Jan 5, 2018

Weekly as long as they get new critters in weekly

happyhourhero · Jan 5, 2018

Weekly but my enthusiasm is waning.

Crabs McJones · Jan 5, 2018

Unfortunately never. I drive out of my way to go to other fish stores or visit matt at Boom Corals because my local one is horrible. I cannot to this day fathom how she's able to stay in business. The place is filthy, her fish look horrible, and the corals are always closed up and upset looking, and I never see anybody in there when I drive past. Super nice lady, and don't get me wrong, I want her business to make it, but it doesn't appear that she takes care of anything.

happyhourhero · Jan 5, 2018

How often do I check DD and EBay and WWC?

Daily. lol

Jason mack · Jan 5, 2018

Mine is like 50meters from my house , so Im in and out all the time ... but thats also because i want a job there

Brew12 · Jan 5, 2018

My LFS isn't local enough or I would go more often. Its only around 20 miles away and is a really nice store. The problem is the traffic. At the most convenient time for me to go, after work, it would take me over an hour to get home with the rush hour traffic. That makes Saturdays the only practical option. They get shippments in on Tuesday/Wednesday and by Saturday anything I would have been interested in is gone. I typically only go when I need to stock up on LRS or PE Mysis.

DracoKat · Jan 5, 2018

I have 3 within 10 minutes from my job, two one down the road.

I go at lunch time to give me something to do or to destress a bit. I go maybe biweekly or alternate one store a week. I don't always go to look for something to buy, but one never know.

Myk · Jan 5, 2018

Daily, I own the place!

Robink · Jan 5, 2018

When I was in Florida my lfs was a couple blocks away so I was there at the least weekly. Since I've moved to Tennessee I've been a few times but his prices are high so I do most of my shopping and browsing online. I do miss the Florida fish stores.

sfin52 · Jan 5, 2018

I love my lfs and I go weekly and sometimes more often. I do some specialized work for them. They treat us like family. It’s great.

harley3 · Jan 5, 2018

It was almost weekly until they closed a few months back due to the other business they shared space with needing to expand very quickly. It sucks there is no store front now but I am still in touch with the guys and they can get me whatever I need.

PEP12 · Jan 5, 2018

I go weekly to pick up live feeder shrimp as my jaw fish and marine beta loves it, got to keep them happy, also like to see what if any new coral arrivals, and a general chat to the staff to keep up with anything new coming, I get looked after there and it is only a 10min drive and will continue to do so.

Neo Jeo · Jan 5, 2018

happyhourhero said:
How often do I check DD and EBay and WWC?

Daily. lol

What is DD and WWC? What do you look for on eBay? I’m getting back into the hobby

Brew12 · Jan 5, 2018

Neo Jeo said:
What is DD and WWC? What do you look for on eBay? I’m getting back into the hobby

DD is Divers Den from Live Aquaria. It is their true in-house stock. If you order from the regular Live Aquaria site it comes from a wholesaler in California.

WWC is World Wide Corals. They run Ebay auctions and are one of my preferred coral providers.