Where to buy

fernalfer · Feb 16, 2016

Does anyone have any personal favorites or know of anyone that sells great reef fish for our tanks in Connecticut. Is the any LFS that actually quarantines your fish and treats them before selling?

tdyrkacz · Feb 17, 2016

define quarantine

YoCamron · Feb 17, 2016

fernalfer said:
Does anyone have any personal favorites or know of anyone that sells great reef fish for our tanks in Connecticut. Is the any LFS that actually quarantines your fish and treats them before selling?

Connecticut sucks for fish shops... i am always in NY for my fish and corals

SteelerMike · Feb 17, 2016

I don't know that I agree with that. We have quite a few good stores, many of them who are sponsors of the club and offer discounts to our members. I am not sure what their quarantine procedures are though. For most lfs quarantining is not a profitable venture

captc07 · Feb 17, 2016

YoCamron said:
Connecticut sucks for fish shops... i am always in NY for my fish and corals

I couldn't disagree more! CT has some great LFS. Exotic Fish and Coral, Headie Coral, Blakes Aquaden, MaxReef, The Coral Reef, House of Fins, Greenwich Aquaria are all great shops. As far as treating fish, I can't speak for the others, but last time I checked Bob at Exotic treated his fish with copper.

Brewman1987 · Feb 17, 2016

Between shoreline pets and Max reef I have been very happy and my fish are healthy.

clueless · Feb 17, 2016

captc07 said:
I couldn't disagree more! CT has some great LFS. Exotic Fish and Coral, Headie Coral, Blakes Aquaden, MaxReef, The Coral Reef, House of Fins, Greenwich Aquaria are all great shops. As far as treating fish, I can't speak for the others, but last time I checked Bob at Exotic treated his fish with copper.

don't forget Saybrook ,Shoreline Pet

TUSI · Feb 17, 2016

captc07 said:
I couldn't disagree more! CT has some great LFS. Exotic Fish and Coral, Headie Coral, Blakes Aquaden, MaxReef, The Coral Reef, House of Fins, Greenwich Aquaria are all great shops. As far as treating fish, I can't speak for the others, but last time I checked Bob at Exotic treated his fish with copper.

Agreed 100% Jason at Greenwich is a good guy and he won't sell you a fish if he thinks it's not healthy

Kingklown · Feb 17, 2016

I've purchased from wet pets in Tolland. I asked the owner to quarantine a blonde Naso tang I was going to purchase from him. He said he would put it in one of his copper tank for 30 days for me so I wouldn't have to set up my own qt tank.

fernalfer · Feb 17, 2016

Thanks for the suggestion guys

captc07 · Feb 18, 2016

clueless said:
don't forget Saybrook ,Shoreline Pet

I haven't had the pleasure of visiting Shoreline yet, but I have heard great things. I will be there this weekend for sure.

BfishLpond78 · Feb 18, 2016

YoCamron said:
Connecticut sucks for fish shops... i am always in NY for my fish and corals

Lol that's funny...power of the internet

tdyrkacz · Feb 19, 2016

Kingklown said:
I've purchased from wet pets in Tolland. I asked the owner to quarantine a blonde Naso tang I was going to purchase from him. He said he would put it in one of his copper tank for 30 days for me so I wouldn't have to set up my own qt tank.

Did he do this in a tank which is isolated from the rest of his system?

Blakes Aqua den runs copper in their system, but it is a system so not the same as a quarantine. Having a store do the quarantine would be ideal, but it would be very costly for them to house a single or a couple of fish in a tank which is separate from the rest of the system. I would be willing to pay extra for this service however.... I quarantine my fish but it is a PITA

captc07 · Feb 19, 2016

Wet Pets is a very unique store in which all of their tanks are stand alone. If you haven't been before I definitely recommend checking them out.

Kingklown · Feb 19, 2016

Yes he has independent tanks. I dont think he's charging me extra money. But I do buy a lot from him so it's probably more out of keeping his customers happy. I did tear down my old 55 gallon tank that had ick and bought 125 gallon tank from him. While setting up new tank. He did hold and treat my 5 chromis, lane mower blenny and sail fin in a copper tank