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I've been know to shop down at the old Tropic Isle Aquarium in Framingham . My folks live in Natick now, we used to live in Newton and I shopped at the old Debbie's Petland back in the 1900's.Out of curiosity, is there an LFS you use in VT? My fiancee is from the Mad River Valley and her recently retired father fell in love with our tank and wants to start one up. But he's not at all computer savvy (won't be ordering online) and I'm not sure what the options are for someone in that area.
Love Brandon, by the way. We go out of the way for Red Clover pretty regularly.
Thanks! My tailspot and my clown are from Tropic Isle (new location). Actually, so is my CUC. But the corals are all from local reefers.I've been know to shop down at the old Tropic Isle Aquarium in Framingham . My folks live in Natick now, we used to live in Newton and I shopped at the old Debbie's Petland back in the 1900's.
For actual fish stores in VT it is pretty sparse, we have a couple of Petco's, one pet store in Burlington called the Pet Advantage which is meh for corals, but has fish and rock. There's another reef only store in Waterbury, Green Mountain Corals, but the hours are spotty and he's usually out doing tank maintenance. Reefbum is in VT, but looks like he is only online https://reefbum.com/.
I buy most of my corals online now, maybe snails at Petco if they have them.
I have 3 tiger conches in am amazed that the social aspects they follow. They cluster during the day and when watching at night they often follow in an almost conga line - and they wink if you stare at them long enoughI've never had much luck with conches. They tend to wander around for a while doing their thing, and then bury themselves in the sand for days (sometimes weeks). Then they'll surface, you'll see them moving around again for a while, and then it's back into the sand.
For the 5% of the time they're actually doing anything in the tank, they're great. For the rest of the time, it's just "oh, he's still there, somewhere"...
I prefer snails and hermits, though I did get one set of hermit-crabs (I went for the "assorted") from reef cleaners that had some crabs grow to ~2-3" and basically start eating the rest of the CUC. They exited stage-left (well down to the sump) pretty quickly once I realized what had happened. I'm careful to only get specific hermits I know won't grow that large these days... That's not to say RC did anything wrong - I've used them since and continue to do so, but it wasn't a great experience.