List of LFS's - need input

[Greg Hiller]

It's about that time again to do the poll of members regarding their favorite local stores. The poll will be a bit simplified compared to last time as few people were even willing to complete it! The poll will likely be performed at the upcoming BRS meeting.

I'm also reducing the distance away from Boston that we are considering. Any shop over a 2 hour drive from Boston as determined by a Mapquest search has been excluded. The last time we had very few responses for shops that far away anyhow.

I'll post a potential list of questions later, for the moment, here is the list of shops within a 2 hour drive of Boston. I'm sure I've missed a few, some may be out of business...please help me make the list more complete.

Thanks in advance.

All Things Fishy, Marlborough, MA
Aqua Addicts, Salem, NH
Aqua Dreams, Agawam, MA
Beacon Aquarium, Worcester, MA
Boston Tropical Fish and Reptile, Cambridge, MA
Cape Maid Farms, Hyannis, MA
Coral Reef Aquarium, Seekonk, MA
Creature, Creature, Creature LOCATION?
Curious Creatures, Beverly, MA
Exotic Marine Fish Wholesalers, Everett, MA
Fintastic Fish, Plainville, MA
Fishy Business, Chatham, MA
Gill's, LOCATION? MA
House of Fins, Greenwich Bay, RI
Little Shop of Pets, Portsmouth, NH
Lovely Pets, Quincy, MA
Pet Club, Dedham, MA
PJ's Pet Centre, Saugus, MA
Port City Reef, Portland, ME
Reefdom.com, Revere, MA
Sea Creatures - Providence, RI
Sea Creatures - Revere, MA
SeaWorld Pet Center, Salem, NH
Skiptons Pet Shop, Dorchester, MA
Tropic Isle, Framingham, MA
Uncle Ned's Fish Factory, Millis, MA

 

[TheUltimateNoob]

wow. that's a lot of stores. i didn't even realize that there were that many.

 

[nunofs]

Gill's, LOCATION? MA

Gill's closed last year, April or May, I believe.

Nuno

 

[Triggerfish]

Animal Instincts, Fall River, MA
Patnaudes Aquarium & Pet, New Bedford,MA
Petco, Avon, MA (i try to get all my fish from this particular shop)

 

[Kevin McG]

New England Tropical Pet - Chelsford,MA
Northeast Pet - Pelham,NH
Masson's Aquarium - Lowell,MA

 

[~Flighty~]

Pets Plus - Londonderry, NH
They are a new store (about 1 year) and they are just putting watter in their new saltwater section. Should be a whole wall of SW fish, corals, and LR. It sounded like they are looking for someone knowlegable to help in the sw section.

 

[Yaktop]

Animal Instincts, Fall River, MA
Patnaudes Aquarium & Pet, New Bedford,MA
Petco, Avon, MA (i try to get all my fish from this particular shop)

forget Patnaudes - they should call the human society for the way they treat salt species.

 

[Armando]

human society wouldn't do any good for them. more like Humane Society?

 

[crzy4reefs]

Creature, Creature, Creature LOCATION?
woonsocket RI or somthing like that, don't like that store at all jmo.

 

[crzy4reefs]

fintastic fish i'll get location later, they are nice people and have good livestock
rumford pets prov.ri i think- some things can be pricey, but i love their livestock and liverock selection.

 

[Greg Hiller]

Revised list:

All Things Fishy, Marlborough, MA
Animal Instincts, Fall River, MA
Aqua Addicts, Salem, NH
Aqua Dreams, Agawam, MA
Beacon Aquarium, Worcester, MA
Boston Tropical Fish and Reptile, Cambridge, MA
Cape Maid Farms, Hyannis, MA
Coral Reef Aquarium, Seekonk, MA
Creature, Creature, Creature LOCATION?
Curious Creatures, Beverly, MA
Exotic Marine Fish Wholesalers, Everett, MA
Fintastic Fish, Plainville, MA
Fishy Business, Chatham, MA
House of Fins, Greenwich Bay, RI
Little Shop of Pets, Portsmouth, NH
Lovely Pets, Quincy, MA
Masson's Aquarium - Lowell,MA
New England Tropical Pet - Chelsford,MA
Northeast Pet - Pelham,NH
Patnaudes Aquarium & Pet, New Bedford,MA
Pet Club, Dedham, MA
Petco, Avon, MA
Pets Plus - Londonderry, NH
PJ's Pet Centre, Saugus, MA
Port City Reef, Portland, ME
Reefdom.com, Revere, MA
Rumford Pets, Providence, RI
Sea Creatures - Providence, RI
Sea Creatures - Revere, MA
SeaWorld Pet Center, Salem, NH
Skiptons Pet Shop, Dorchester, MA
Tropic Isle, Framingham, MA
Uncle Ned's Fish Factory, Millis, MA

 

[Nikkoli110]

Rumford Pet Center- East Providence, RI
The Fish Bowl - West Warwick, RI

 

[Troubleman]

Denise's Fairhaven, MA Has good selection and knowledgeable help.

Please take Patnaude's off the list, It's a disgrace what they do to saltwater animals. At any given time you can find dead or damaged fish/corals in most of their tanks.

Sorry I hate to badmouth, but it is a shame.

 

[skipp]

Curious Creatures has moved to 70 Loring Ave Salem,Ma

 

[dr.steve]

The Fish Nook, acton, ma
Small salt section, soft corals, Qt fish for two weeks before sale but limited selection usually reef safe fish only, inverts-various starfish,crabs,snails,featherdusters,squirts,oysters, etc.

 

[ReeferMedic]

I really like to support the lfs that deserve it. Which, for 99% that I have visited, that is the case. I have to say though, Exotic Marine Fish Wholesalers has given me some aweful advise in the past. They had a Jack for sale and I asked if it would be good in a 100 gallon tank to see what I would get for an answer. One of the owners said it would never out grow the tank and would be "fine". This fish is in the Tuna Family gets to be 3' long!!!!! I don't even know if you're monster tank would have enough room for the swimming habbits of this fish! That's just one example of the many. That is where I got my advise as a brand newbie and I'm still paying for it, ie; the crushed coral for a sand bed and the canister filter that are both the root of my Nitrate problem. This club has really opened my eyes to the right way to do this "hobby". They will seriously sell anything to anyone.........

 

[Yaktop]

Denise's Fairhaven, MA Has good selection and knowledgeable help.

Please take Patnaude's off the list, It's a disgrace what they do to saltwater animals. At any given time you can find dead or damaged fish/corals in most of their tanks.

Sorry I hate to badmouth, but it is a shame.

I agree with Patnaudes.
Denise's is officially in Mattapoisett.

SW Reef in Taunton.

 

[Yaktop]

human society wouldn't do any good for them. more like Humane Society?

always there for me man

 

[newfish]

reefdom and sea creatures are in the same building in revere

 

[amixam98]

Pet Club moved somewhere. I think it's canton.