Pictures of LFS in Southern California

[Cymaster007]

I had a chance to stop by the Aquatica shop while down in San Diego and was pleasantly surprised. The shop is super-clean, the coral is all really healthy and there was a large variety of coral- the sps selection was very good! Prices ranged from 10$ up to 300$ depending on size and type. Dave the owner was really nice and walked me through the equipment they are using and the types of coral they are stocking-
IShop is lit by LED's and I took these pics w/ the camera on my phone.


They make their own water w/ a 1400gpd RO/DI system, all setups are simple, bio pellets, skimmer and UV so the tanks were super clean- I didnt see any pests or bad algae. They also quarantine all of their fish before allowing them to be sold

[Cymaster007]

[Cymaster007]

SPS Coral Store- it deff has the high-end SPS without a high-end price tag-
From here I have picked up:
WWC Somewhere over the rainbow milli
Vivids Rainbow Acro
Indigo Amigo
Orange Austrailian Acro-

The 500g display tank has beeaauuutiful colonies that Aaron grew out over the past few years.

[Cymaster007]

[Cymaster007]

[mohammadali]

beautiful LPS and nice colors and nice pics
thanks for sharing

[lastlight]

lol looks like reef raft has more frags than all of our LFS country-wide COMBINED!

WOW my wallet is happy to be Canadian!

[sphelps]

I seem to recall some pictures showing pretty decent stores in Ontario. I'd also be curious what Bayside Corals in Saskatoon looks like since the latest renos.

The problem with us is the market isn't quite the same, we Canadians don't tend to be willing to spend quite as much as the Americans do and it costs significantly more to get things up here plus general overhead is more, restate I would guess being close to double then comes the higher cost of heating, humidity management, water and so forth. The end result is skinny profits meaning bare bones type of setups.

[ensquire]

I would be broke and homeless if there were stores like that here LOL