we dont all suck, but some of us have reefers that are passionate about the hobby... i personally have gotten in trouble for trying to make our system better with better protein skimmers and lighting. we are a corporation, so are restricted on what we can do. I know some lfs around here that do way worse than us, we aren't focused on making money in that department, thats not payin our rent. That said we have had atleast 3 customers in the past month come in sayin they got a 5.5 gallon aquarium from a lfs that had a clownfish, condy and a bubble bar for air... a different lfs sold a guy i sold a biocube to and i told him to cycle the tank, a week later he comes in showin me pics of his tank, mixed coral tank that he spent over 1k on corals... in a 29 biocube that was running pc's. same lfs sold a lady some t5s and she came in looking for another fixture like it, went to her trunk and the box said on it for freshwater planted tanks, 6500k bulbs, so ur lfs can be worse than petco, they make their money from sellin to newbs... we make our money from dog food, our business doesn't depend on how much saltwater we sell. some stores have more passionate people in the dept, so dont base us on some bad stores or employees that dont know much