This is the exact post he sent me these are his recommendations.
"Reefshac is the one I keep going back to - very much an sps / lps kinda of a place that has some fish but that’s not focus, softies are an after thought.
Premier aquatics is ok - a bit of everything, I’m guessing much of their business is servicing tanks - prices and variety better at reef Shac. Fish better here
Nemo’s aquarium is large, good variety and larger pieces too. Prices not bad either. Fish and coral in equal measure. Have clams too.
Southern aquatics - once a reef store and now they seem to have left over tanks with some left over frags. Shame it’s the closest to me.
The fish store - I can never go back. It’s like a Hong Kong wet
market only not clean. That said I bet the fish are hardy to survive that place. Again I think this place services tanks and this is maybe their storage yard.
Pure reef - by far the most polished. Smaller more curated collection, large and small frags and the best display tanks, almost unreal. Have a lot of equipment - a lot. And they really know their stuff.
Reefshac is where I’m at in the hobby at the moment - they have a pretty decent wysiwyg site as well."
Looks like there's 6 to check out. So thats a great place to start. Being its a 2hr drive I wouldn't just go for one store. I would make a day of it. A fun day at the fish shops.
