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Originally Posted by shingo43
JL is still my fav. Best price(they do price match) and healthy staff. I think her name is Rene. Derek at JL are pretty good too.
their cleaner shrimp are only $15 no matter the size, I went to aquarium west and saw they are selling a jumbo cleaner shrimp for $40, huge price differences.
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aquariums west is situated in some of the highest priced commercial real estate in Canada and I think they cater more to the downtown crowd who don't care about bargains...
knowledgable staff though and always healthy livestock.
...though Ive only bought a couple of things there, as I do in fact like bargains.
I have never found that oceanic has good prices...average at best...unless you used to count when they ran the black market on bubble magus' but even that was relatively short lived.
I do think they get some of the most choice coral though and for that, who wouldn't ask a premium.
These guys are definitely the most hobbyist focused though and always seem to have something of interest in the works.
IME, the only two stores you really need are JL and OA, if they don't have it, they'll get it and if someone has it cheaper, they will match it.
Though I remember the good old days when I was still new to reefing and would run a 5 hour road trip out to aquatic addictions, then to rogers, then to OA, then to king eds and then to JL near homebase...lol
it was only on the very rare occasion the trips were ever worth it though, and really only then because aquatic addictions used to carry some really nice sps.