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grimmjohn
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Hi everyone,
I just visited Nashville for the first time and decided to visit some of your fish stores.
Emerald Bay got good reviews here so I paid them a visit, and immediately walked out. I've seen better freshwater fish selection at a wal-Mart and the saltwater fish were nonexistent. I saw a couple dead or dying yellow tangs and some damsels that looked like they were from some PetCo customer's tank tear-down. They maybe had two corals, a mushroom and a tiny little frag of a carnation/chili/dendro coral (I couldn't really tell since it was so shriveled up. The 20g long sale tanks with penguin filters on the back really set the tone too.
The reptile side was not any better either. They sold retics, which means they cater to the same kind of people that chain pitbulls up in their front yard. Seems about right.
In short: Ouch.
I just visited Nashville for the first time and decided to visit some of your fish stores.
Emerald Bay got good reviews here so I paid them a visit, and immediately walked out. I've seen better freshwater fish selection at a wal-Mart and the saltwater fish were nonexistent. I saw a couple dead or dying yellow tangs and some damsels that looked like they were from some PetCo customer's tank tear-down. They maybe had two corals, a mushroom and a tiny little frag of a carnation/chili/dendro coral (I couldn't really tell since it was so shriveled up. The 20g long sale tanks with penguin filters on the back really set the tone too.
The reptile side was not any better either. They sold retics, which means they cater to the same kind of people that chain pitbulls up in their front yard. Seems about right.
In short: Ouch.
grimmjohn
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Aquatic Critter:
Great Store. I could nit-pick here and there, but one of the better stores I have been too in the Southern US. I would have liked to seen more Acros, more live rock, a better selection of African cichlids, and less oscars, but Nashvillians should be proud. I saw a favia, a chalice, a hammer, a wellso, some duncans, and some blastos that any west coast reef store would want in their show tank. Though I also saw a rock beauty, which they should have known better than to order. Having seen and sold dozens of mustard tangs, they had one of the nicest specimens I had ever seen, though it would have liked a longer tank. The geophagus selection was the best I had ever seen, bar none. The two gentlemen running the store are very nice and took the time to show me around, even after I said I worked at a reef store and was from way out of town. The prices that I noticed were very reasonable, and I know exactly what the wholesale prices are. $39 for black ocellaris is a great price that stood out to me. They had some Deep Sea Aquatics tanks and the Marineland Deep Dimension styles that are the new hotness. It also looked like they held fish in their tanks for customers which is a great customer service feature. Given that we came on a Monday I would expect them to have even better stuff on Tues or Thurs when most places get in their goodies. After inquiring about their wholesellers I learned that they used some of the same ones that we use, which are the best in the business, which also means they should be able to get just about anything in the world for you and have it in good health, at least when it arrives.
In short: From what I have gathered from looking for fish stores to visit in Nashville this is the place I would shop at.
The reptile side was equally impressive, no retics, no anacondas, and they said they only recently started selling burmese again to carefully screaned customers only. They also had some beautiful paludariums and about as good of an iguana and monitor enclosures as one could wish for. They also had L. willamsi, the electric blue day geckos, I was going to half heartedly ask if they had any when I looked at the cage in front of my face and their they were! Amazingly beautiful and difficult to get creatures. The selection of tarantulas was also impressive, though not my cup of tea. I would have liked to see a green tree or emerald tree, but those are often raised and bought/sold through hobbist contacts, and that lack was made up for becuase they had a pine snake and a gopher snake, two awesome, but often overlooked, native species. The staff was nice and I even overheard a salesman offer to sex a young CB ball python for a customer, try getting more than a guess at PetCo, if they even know how to guess. They let me hold a pine snake, even with no prospect of a sale. I was told the exact temperment of the snake before he opened the cage and he just took the top off and left the rest up to me. While tending to a more novice costomer I watched him pick up a baby ball, make sure it chill, explain to them about handling, and then carefully give it to them.
This showed good consideration of their particular customers and I was really impressed with the store.
My wife was not pleased when a fellow customer commented on her "pretty feet," but herpers are, well, different. I would still recommend this store to young solo females long before sending them to a reptile expo lol.
Great Store. I could nit-pick here and there, but one of the better stores I have been too in the Southern US. I would have liked to seen more Acros, more live rock, a better selection of African cichlids, and less oscars, but Nashvillians should be proud. I saw a favia, a chalice, a hammer, a wellso, some duncans, and some blastos that any west coast reef store would want in their show tank. Though I also saw a rock beauty, which they should have known better than to order. Having seen and sold dozens of mustard tangs, they had one of the nicest specimens I had ever seen, though it would have liked a longer tank. The geophagus selection was the best I had ever seen, bar none. The two gentlemen running the store are very nice and took the time to show me around, even after I said I worked at a reef store and was from way out of town. The prices that I noticed were very reasonable, and I know exactly what the wholesale prices are. $39 for black ocellaris is a great price that stood out to me. They had some Deep Sea Aquatics tanks and the Marineland Deep Dimension styles that are the new hotness. It also looked like they held fish in their tanks for customers which is a great customer service feature. Given that we came on a Monday I would expect them to have even better stuff on Tues or Thurs when most places get in their goodies. After inquiring about their wholesellers I learned that they used some of the same ones that we use, which are the best in the business, which also means they should be able to get just about anything in the world for you and have it in good health, at least when it arrives.
In short: From what I have gathered from looking for fish stores to visit in Nashville this is the place I would shop at.
The reptile side was equally impressive, no retics, no anacondas, and they said they only recently started selling burmese again to carefully screaned customers only. They also had some beautiful paludariums and about as good of an iguana and monitor enclosures as one could wish for. They also had L. willamsi, the electric blue day geckos, I was going to half heartedly ask if they had any when I looked at the cage in front of my face and their they were! Amazingly beautiful and difficult to get creatures. The selection of tarantulas was also impressive, though not my cup of tea. I would have liked to see a green tree or emerald tree, but those are often raised and bought/sold through hobbist contacts, and that lack was made up for becuase they had a pine snake and a gopher snake, two awesome, but often overlooked, native species. The staff was nice and I even overheard a salesman offer to sex a young CB ball python for a customer, try getting more than a guess at PetCo, if they even know how to guess. They let me hold a pine snake, even with no prospect of a sale. I was told the exact temperment of the snake before he opened the cage and he just took the top off and left the rest up to me. While tending to a more novice costomer I watched him pick up a baby ball, make sure it chill, explain to them about handling, and then carefully give it to them.
This showed good consideration of their particular customers and I was really impressed with the store.
My wife was not pleased when a fellow customer commented on her "pretty feet," but herpers are, well, different. I would still recommend this store to young solo females long before sending them to a reptile expo lol.
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AdrianBryce
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Reef Cleanup Crews
Reef Cleanup Crews
Check out reefcleaners.org. Lots of stuff at great prices.
Reef Cleanup Crews
Check out reefcleaners.org. Lots of stuff at great prices.
AdrianBryce
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fins and fur
fins and fur
It might be fair to let those who don't know, that you are the owner of said LFS.
No need for disguises.
Just sayin.
fins and fur
It might be fair to let those who don't know, that you are the owner of said LFS.
No need for disguises.
Just sayin.
ZachB
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Yea, that would be fair, wouldn't it?
ZachB
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Seeing as you own the business, and gave yourself a plug in the "where to buy" forum, that's pretty biased if you ask me.
AdrianBryce
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I'm wondering how you could separate yourself from the business?
Brandon
Yeah, are you serious. You try to keep yourself a little separate from your LIVELIHOOD???? I don't think so. I don't think you are going to come on here and say another LFS has a great deal on whatever anytime soon. Come to think of it I don't think I have ever seen a LFS come on here and plug themselves either. correct me if i am wrong. Buy a some freaking ad space. And this doesn't even go into issues I have had with your establishment. It is just not cool.
Also, I notice all 18 of your posts in some way lead in some way to a "buy things from my store" theme.
just sayin.
AdrianBryce
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definition of hobby
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1. an activity or interest pursued for pleasure or relaxation and not as a main occupation
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definition of hobby
hob⋅by
1 /ˈhɒbi/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [hob-ee]
–noun, plural -bies.
1. an activity or interest pursued for pleasure or relaxation and not as a main occupation
pro⋅fes⋅sion⋅al
–adjective
undertaken or engaged in as a means of livelihood or for gain
ZachB
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Wow . ..burn!!!!:fun5:
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