Visited Green Marine yesterday

[northbay-reefer]

Now that my tank is stabled and thriving, I am ready to add more sps so I decided to do some shopping. The first place was Green marine.

I was so looking forward to laid down some cash and bring home some cool coral frags yesterday . Drove for over an hour did some shopping with my wife at 99 ranch in Richmond before heading over there, got there and rush out of my car, go inside and start checking out the corals.

First tank, lots of brown corals, second tank more brown corals ... WT ... everything is browned out. I walked out of the store empty handed.

The owner was nice enough to mentioned to me that this was his gift, red bugs, flat worms from someone he would not name ... so he is in a bad and sad situation especially so close to the holiday.

I hope he will get through this.

 

[GreshamH]

Seriously? He's blaming others on this? Jim (Bookfish) was the one that made that store work and when he left, it all went to brown. NO one gave Shawn flatworms, red bugs, etc on purpose. That is is his fault for not properly QT'ing his corals.

 

[northbay-reefer]

Gresh ... yeah that was my take too, I know Jim for too long and I know how good the store was before he left. I like the concept of captive breeding so that was the reason I came back to support it. After talking to the new owner I walked away with questions.

It's just sad to see a great idea that really works and then .... now seeing it failed.

 

[GreshamH]

It didn't fail though. Jim's concept worked if you look at it on paper. What didn't work is the partnership, which is entirely understandable. The only way GM could/can work is with Jim behind the wheel.

 

[northbay-reefer]

Thats too bad the partnership didn't last. The current problem will take a while to fix though.

Just wondering since you have a lot more experience, if you have a place like GM and has a problem like this, how would you deal with the flat worms and red bugs while keeping the store open?

 

[Mel-E-Mel]

Damn that sucks.....I was planning on driving up to check out the shop after meeting with a club member on wed.

 

[GreshamH]

Thats too bad the partnership didn't last. The current problem will take a while to fix though.

Just wondering since you have a lot more experience, if you have a place like GM and has a problem like this, how would you deal with the flat worms and red bugs while keeping the store open?

First I would go to a much more aggressive dipping protocol. IIRC theirs is simply a Povidone dip. I would use Revive, turkey baster the corals while in the dip, use a QT system (they have room), routinely treat the systems for red bugs, keep wrasses in every coral holding tank and do daily inspections of "canary corals" to see if they have any "bugs".

 

[northbay-reefer]

Mel yeah it sux, I had to convinced my wife to go with me after she and her sis finished shopping so I was very disappointed leaving empty handed. There are a couple of excellence stores in the bay area so you still have choices.

Gresh, they do have a lot of space there and I like your plan of attack.