hmmm, I was told to avoid Pittsburgh lfs. I visited the "one" they have in erie reef cove or salt cove or something, regardless, it was terrible. They had 1 or 2 fish in each tank, almost all clowns. They did have a wide variety of coral, mostly softies but they were outrageously over priced. Also one of the 2 workers kept going back and forth testing the fresh water tanks literally the entire time i was there trying his best to avoid helping me and another customer that was in there. The other worker was on phone the entire time. Then there was another shop in Erie that had a very small selection but seemed to be well taken care of but not much in quality.
It was a long day. My fiances interview. I found a guys prepaid cell phone with no minutes on it in a parking lot and spent an hour trying to get it to him, the drive near pitts from erie to mike and tinas house (who were very nice people) who know a guy on RC. Unscheduled by nice stop off in the southern tier at a guys house from craigslist. Then back to buffalo. I wasnt thinking straight when tina and I put the tang and the chromis in the bags. They were big bags and there was more than enough water but I didnt even think about the garbage that was kicked up into the water. Long day and the drive just scrambled my brain. There were several other chromis, blennies, a lot of snails and a shrimp that did make it from that tank also which kinda had me thinking. But its late. I tried to snap a couple pics but my brain is mush and they turned out crappy. I do have a list of all the stuff i got that made it though:
A bunch of large astrea snails
5 inch corcea clam with nice color
5 inch blue dotted/green/golden derasa
5 inch green and golden squamosa
big blood shrimp
5" round ultra green encrusting hydnophora
60-70 polyp bright pink zoo rock
900+ polyps green dragon eye/eagle eye zoo rock
350+ polyps dragon eye/random zoo rock
400+ polyp green and pink/orange skirt/and fire and ice with pink eye zoo rock
8 head green frogspawn
3 xxl chromis
a pink spotted blenny
I think thats it I might be missing something tho.
I going to do my best to cram it all my tanks.