Pictures of LFS in Southern California

[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.

[reefermadness]

Ya our stores in toronto are not as fancy and less frag oriented...altough you can get some nice corals at a few stores.

[kien]

Originally Posted by reefermadness

Ya our stores in toronto are not as fancy and less frag oriented...altough you can get some nice corals at a few stores.

And if you consider the fact that Toronto is the centre of our universe, well, imagine what the market is like for the rest of Canada

I believe that there was one store in Calgary that was going to become the "Reef Raft" of Calgary and specialize in high end, "Limited Edition", "Designer" / Hard-to-find corals but that doesn't appear to be coming to fruition, sadly.

I think Red Coral with its new space was on its way to becoming something rather significant in the trade but, well, we all know what happened there