Skeptical about a LFS store ...

TheEngineer · Sep 12, 2015

You'll probably lose a lot of coralline doing that.

Virtualbasil · Sep 12, 2015

TheEngineer · Sep 12, 2015

Coralline dies off pretty easily IME. It needs lots of light too.

Virtualbasil · Sep 12, 2015

I hooked up one of my primes temporarily to the trash can. so now it has: A heater,pump,light.

Breadman03 · Sep 12, 2015

retiredsailor said:
I am up by Hazleton and it's not much better here. I've found one decent place in southern Wilkes Barre called Fin-Sanity but they have odd hours. Though they are open 2-8 today and I'm planning ongoing in a little bit. There is one in northern Scranton but it's a bit of a drive for me and there prices seemed pretty high, but they did have a good selection. Those are the only two I've found in a 90 minute radius that are worth going back to.

I have a place for you! Something Fishy in Northampton. It's pushing the 90 minute envelope for you, but it will be worth it!

Virtualbasil · Sep 12, 2015

Breadman03 said:
I have a place for you! Something Fishy in Northampton. It's pushing the 90 minute envelope for you, but it will be worth it!

I will check them out tomorrow if they are open

retiredsailor · Sep 12, 2015

Looks good @Breadman03. I'll have to check it out the next time I'm up for a drive. Thanks for the tip.

PSchreck · Sep 12, 2015

Virtualbasil said:
So I went to that fish place and for $9 a pound I bought some really great quality Live rock with the real coraline algae that I want on it. Now I'm going to order about 40 lbs of Pukani dry rock from BRS. I plan on letting the live rock cure in a Brute container and when the dry rock gets here I will aquascape it and drill and pin the dry rock how I want it and throw it in the brute trash can for a few weeks to cure with the live rock. Sound good?

We were just there at about 1630 today.

Virtualbasil · Sep 12, 2015

I was there at 1500 lol

cajshp · Sep 13, 2015

Virtualbasil said:
I recently moved to King of Prussia PA. I went to check out a LFS and what I saw made me worried. The live rock he has for sale is just sitting in a tub with a powerhead! no light, no filtration, not even a heater? I looked at every live rock in the store and saw no purple coraline algae at all. I went to the back to check his frag tank out and everything was covered in brown hair algae, is this bad? The display tanks were totally barren of anything for the fish to hide in so they were at the corner back of the aquarium just hovering (yellow tangs, powder tangs, clowns everything) He also said all he uses for filtration is a filter sock and a refugium with deep sand bed. Is this guy ok to buy from?

run away dont walk

sevens · Sep 21, 2015

There is a lfs in Frazer Pa. The owner op I think is one of the best. Beautiful corals and honest advice. Advice you may sometimes not want to hear. No dry goods to speak of just some fish and corals. Worth the trip!!!! ASR in Frazer