Ok back from Roseville. Have to say it was a tireing trip. So after 3 hours of frying in the sun at Denios I dropped my wife and daughter off at the mall, and my dad and mother went in thier car and followed us, so he dropped off my mom and went store hoppping with me.
Aqualife....Nice clean store, good displays. Not much in the way of corals, but great livestock selection. Offered me a nicely colored blue carpet for a pretty good price...didn't want to risk transporting it with only a half empty ice chest to pack it in. Staff was friendly, afraid I didn't get any names, but good guys.
Coral Reef shop... Nice looking store too, display is broken up pretty well. had a bit of livestock and a good selection of corals. Most of the corals there I have up here to some degree, BUT the green and orange stripped yuma was beautiful! if any of them would have offered to lower the price of it for me I would have probablly walked out of there with it, but I think they were busy, so I didn't get to talk with anyone there. Nice shop though.
Your Reef...the owner? I assume, is a really nice guy, didn't crack me much of a deal price wise, but he doesn't know me from adam so wouldn't expect him too unless he was trying to move stuff fast, from talking to him it sounds like he has plenty of stuff moving fast enough to not worry about a thing.
Good guy, nice shop, nice display. Ended up dropping 90 something bucks there just on some cloves! Most of the SPS he had I have in my display tanks in the store, what I don't have he wasn't ready to sell, or was already sold, so he is obviously a hot spot.
Nobody had me Dendros. I had my hopes up that I would find some. Your Reef has some Duncans that I hear people raveing about for $50 a polyp...ok, so they are a little diffrent, but they have little to no color...so I passed. Hopefully I will find a contact with some soon.
Your Reef seems to be in the loop with some of the collector circut. I hope to obtain such a rank sometime. The owner of the store I work at has several collector pieces, since he bought the store stocked he doesn't know the names of a lot of the stuff, but I am finding them. and as I grow more and more proficent with my corals I will start getting pieces of all of them for my own tanks. Until then I will have to deal with softies and LPS.
If Your Reef reads this I gave you a business card for the store I work at, we would love a piece of that watermelon chalice sometime, might have to talk trade. I only have a couple thing I didn't notice in your store in ours, but I am sure the owner would work something out.
Thanks to the stores down there, you all are first rate stores in my opinion, hope you guys can make it up to look around our and BS a bit.
Brian
We wont even mention the fabulous micromussas he's holdin.
