Heading to Victoria - What stores are worth a visit

[JohnM99]

I have had good success with purchases at Hillside. I don't like the attitudes at Safari - he brings in all sorts of things that have no business in captivity all the time (18" Remora, etc) and doesn't care at all about cyanide collecting.

Creatures is a dreadful place. Bought 80 feeder fish there, and all died before they could be fed. Their reef stuff is awful. Don't count on anything surviving the ride home.

Hillside also sells some things they shouldn't (you will find dyed corals there sometimes) but Cora is very nice and helpful, and most of the corals are good.

Victoria isn't a great place for reef shops, though. Even if you find something healthy, it will be expen$ive.

Vancouver is much better.

For equipment, forget Victoria. Mostly low end stuff, vastly overpriced. Go online.