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OK, I'll reach out to them and see if I can get pricing on a couple different fish and see what they say. I suppose I should ask Reef Escape the same. Thanks for the tip.

I just looked at their stock list and looks like they have a decent selection, though nothing I'm currently interested in. Do you know if they switch up their stock variety pretty frequently? I'd be looking in the next 30-45 days or so, but if it's the same, I don't think I'd go with TSM.

I actually stopped by there after swapping skimmers with you last month. . I did end up buying a chromis and yellow watchman goby from him as I've bought many fish from him previously with pretty good results. His selection isn't the best, but I do agree that those fish are pretty healthy as they don't have a very rapid turnover and he told me he generally sticks to the same general species in his store as they tend to have the highest success rates.

I was just in Frederick and I'm 90% sure I saw that Rick's had a tank full of live brine shrimp. You might want to call them first though.

Good to know. However, I sincerely doubt anywhere (other than Reef Escape) quarantines at all. Maybe they hold fish for a few more days to prevent borderline DOA sales, so perhaps Fintastic is guilty of that. Do you personally feel better getting fish from an online retailer like Live Aquaria or BRS? I just like seeing them so I don't get something WAY bigger than I thought (has happened to me before, lol) or with some scarring or torn fins, etc.

So to report back, as I did my tour yesterday of BRK, Supreme Reefs and Reef Escape. The fish selection of all three was for lack of a better word, underwhelming. I'm not sure how many here used to go to Aquarium One in Rockville, but I was hoping to see a fish selection like that. I did just see a FB post about Fintastic in Frederick (which I had forgotten all about), has anyone been there recently? I know it at least was owned/operated by the old GM of Aquarium One.

Cool, that's what I was hoping to hear. If they can fix mine for like $25-$30 I'll probably get it done just to have it, but otherwise I think you're right, as I can by a brand new fire tablet for like $60-$75.

Hey all, just curious how many people use Alexa for their Apex controllers? Basically, is it a complete replacement of using a display hooked up with the additional benefit of voice? I currently have my display RMA to Neptune and if they try to tell me it's going to be $100 to fix, I'd rather just buy a cheap Amazon Fire Tablet and mount it on wall near tank provided I can just hit buttons for feed/maintenance without reaching into my pockets with wet hands etc. Any downfalls I'm not thinking of?

Wow, as in JUST opened, like 2 days ago, lol.

Looks like I'll be planning a quick drive by of a couple VA spots soon. I was going to contact monkiboy, but I also noticed that his last posts from a while back seem to lean towards no longer being in business. Supreme Reefs, Reefescape and BRK are close enough to hit up in one day so I guess a little recon mission is imminent. And where in MD are you? I'm up in Sykesville so nothing particularly close other than CTE Aquatics (Timonium), Aquatic Creations (Ijamsville) and House of Tropicals (Glen Burnie)

Define "more expensive"? Like a 25% upcharge or double/triple price? Ultimately I'm not super sensitive on price as this is a Waterbox 45.2 so I don't see myself adding more than 6-7 small fish.

As title says, who locally is the best for fish (variety/health/reputation) in the DC and Baltimore metro areas? It seems most/all the shops that were around 10+ years ago are no more.

I just tried to do this on Fusion (which sucks BTW) and logging into the Apex directly. I'm unable to delete from Fusion, but did it through the Apex site. Fusion shows I have three spaces. the EB8, Display and EMPTY when I have the display plugged in, with the display showing as "disconnected" and unable to do anything from Fusion. If I click on the EMPTY module, it says there is a module issue and to select delete from the menu and save, but that doesn't do anything even though it says it was a success. EMPTY is still an option and the display still shows as "disconnected" and I can't make any selections. If I go back to the Apex site, I can delete the display and then Fusion only says the EB8 and the EMPTY module is showing. The Apex site does not show this EMPTY module, only the EB8 so I'm not sure where to go from here.

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Not sure if this helps your situation, but I ran across this today while trying to change me "name" and someone is asking about clearing data.