Wild caught verse aquacultured fish
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BAYMAC
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Biota as a whole is awesome, the employees are outstanding!
@MichaelB if you made the trip to AC spend another 10 minutes on the road and go to @under_water_ninja place instead.
BAYMAC
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Granted I left at 3:30
MichaelB
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I've been there a few times and I totally agree kenny would be the best semi local source, just didn't have the time to make the trip to Oakland yesterday.
The most expensive fish is a dead fish. Wait What ???? Oh……
MichaelB
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I've never ordered any coral, fish, or anything alive online of any kind except recenty cuc through the bar group order. One day I probably will. I guess beyond dry goods, I've been a bit nervous to.
BAYMAC
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That was the motto I was taught when I first started working at a LFS years ago. It followed me through every job in the industry!
newfly
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When you’re brave enough to order online, I recommend shipping it to the nearest UPS/fedex center and pickup from there. The last miles always screwed me over .
In buying fish from AC, HTA, & Biota -I have had better success with Biota but of course their supply of fish is..limited of course.
With AC I have done fairly well until last year where suddenly I had bought two fish and it ended up wiping out all my fish except for my wrasse -that just died last week after 2 years. I realized that with a wild fish that is full grown you have not a clue to the age of the fish. But I do look at how long the fish have been at AC -I won’t get a fish that have been there less than 2 weeks.
At least with biota -you know they are young.
Unfortunately with HTA I have not had much success except for the dwarf angel for some odd reason-
I have had really poor luck with the sand sifters from all vendors -they have rarely lived past 6 months and as short as a week so I have given up on them and got a fighting conch and another snail that seems to be doing a good job of sifting the sand and hopefully they will live for awhile.
I find it all a gamble unfortunately which is maddeningly sometimes..
With AC I have done fairly well until last year where suddenly I had bought two fish and it ended up wiping out all my fish except for my wrasse -that just died last week after 2 years. I realized that with a wild fish that is full grown you have not a clue to the age of the fish. But I do look at how long the fish have been at AC -I won’t get a fish that have been there less than 2 weeks.
At least with biota -you know they are young.
Unfortunately with HTA I have not had much success except for the dwarf angel for some odd reason-
I have had really poor luck with the sand sifters from all vendors -they have rarely lived past 6 months and as short as a week so I have given up on them and got a fighting conch and another snail that seems to be doing a good job of sifting the sand and hopefully they will live for awhile.
I find it all a gamble unfortunately which is maddeningly sometimes..