Went to Virginia Beach Thursday & Friday

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Hey all -

First off - if this in violation of any rules, please close.

Since my work is based out of Virginia Beach, I’m required to go there at least once a month - more if necessary. While I was down there, I like to hit the LFS and see what’s going on. I went to Animal Jungle and Fish Safari and I decided to take some pics of the things down there and post them up here.

All of these pics are from Fish Safari, it was late when I got to Animal Jungle and they were dealing with a shipment coming in, so pics were pretty much pointless.

This is a 65 gallon display on an endcap.

Some of their “bargain bin” stuff.

These are from their LPS tank.

These are from the (mostly) SPS tanks.

Random leathers, LPS, soft corals.

Nice rose from their propagation tank.

Ponies.

From another display.

The owner (Leroy) mentioned he hadn’t seen me for a while, I mentioned I moved here and was going to be coming back at least once a month. I told him that I wanted to take some pics and post them up here and he was cool about it. He gets a lot of nice stuff in all the time and IMO, I would rank his store #1 in Virginia Beach, and probably #2 in the entire area down there.

I picked up a clone of the rose bubble that I posted a pic of, a dozed hermits, a dozen turbos, orange lined clove polyps, purple and green center micromussa’s, and 2 different types of macro algae for $135.

Since I’ll be going down there, I want to let everyone know that if there’s anyone here looking for something in particular that’s just hard to get here, I can ask Leroy if he has it, how much and I can pick it up and you guys can pay me back.

Not trying to step on any sponsor toes here, so like I said, if this is out of line, please close.

Thanks

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Thanks for the post Sneeyatch. We always like to see and know what other LFS has to offer, especially the out of town ones.

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Looks like a pretty nice store and a big selection

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Im headed to VA Beach in March. Now I’ve got something to do while the wife runs her marathon. PBJ!

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Cool.

When you go to VB, there are some ither good shops in the area too.

Fish Safari and Atlantic Sea Farms are in Virginia Beach. Reef Chief (easily the BEST) LFS in the area is in Suffolk and Reef Dynamics is in Hampton.

If you go anywhere, try to hit Reef Chief anf Fish Safari. The ithers are good but can’t compete with RC or FS.

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Hey guys - I’m going back to Virginia Beach next week. I’m going to be picking up a nice Nuclear Green paly colony and some neon green candies from a good friend breaking his tank down / moving. While I’m there, I plan on hitting Fish Safari on the day I come back.

If anyone’s looking for anything in particular and if they have it, I can pick it up for you guys. Just let me know and we can work out the details.

As of right now, the plan is I’ll be back on the evening of the 14th.

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Went to these stores last year. Was totally impressed by Animal jungle the cleanest fish store I have ever been to and I have been to many not a dead fish in their hundreds of tanks. Not much for coral selection but good prices on marine and freshwater fish and inverts.

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Online store?

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No online stores, they’re brick and mortar.

AJ has some new folks in their SW department and things are a lot better now than what they have been in the past. At least that’s what I’ve been told. AJ is one of those stores that either knows what they have or doesn’t, meaning they can have some nice corals in there and you’re going to pay for them, but I would say their bread and butter type stuff is usually pretty cheap as long as you know what you’re looking for.

I would not buy SW fish from them, lots and lots of diseases float around in their fish only tanks. Their FW fish are great, they really know what’s up in that department.

I’m willing to pick up for anyone if there’s an interest. If someone’s looking for “X” coral or invert and if they have it, I can easily snap a pick and text it to you with a price. If you want it, I can get it and you can pay me back.

example - Joe Blow is looking for a meteor shower cyphastrea. If they have some, I’ll text you picks with the price. Joe wants it, he says yes, I buy it, bring it home and Joe picks it up ASAP.

I have a couple of ideas in my head about getting reimbursed, but I’d just rather work out the details with the folks who are interested via pm. If there’s enough interest, I can keep doing this about every month or 2.