Yeah, t was a hard choice to make for me but I went with the smallest in the end! :)
From Dave lol bought it from him like a year ago and still loving it!
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From Dave lol bought it from him like a year ago and still loving it!
The man definitely knows what he's doing! Can't tell acro's apart to save himself haha but knows everything else and has some crazy awesome ideas floating around in his head! Lol
I'm with Sam, definitely the only store worth visiting if you want to have a really good chat to someone who knows there shit and just downright loves this hobby :)
My tank is riddled with cyano at the moment :'(
It's good to hear someone else gives a damn about the animals entrusted to their care. All too often I see profit raiders that could give 2 shits about anything but their bottom line. Here I see that WAY too often. 150km to the south there's a place that everyone raves about and I have no idea why. His tanks are rife with necrotic corals, there are dead fish in the systems and not just one or 2. The last time M and I were there I counted 17, 17 dead fish!!! And he only has 30 or so tanks plus his frag system. All they care about is turning stock over and that's not what this hobby is about. I remember the good old days when M and I would drive 150km north to a little town called Adamstown, Pa to buy stock and learn about the latest in reef keeping. I really miss those days.
I look at it this way and I think Dave does too, when you succeed, we succeed. I would rather sell you a few corals and fish and have them live then to have you keep replacing fish and corals because sooner or later you're going to get tired of it and leave the hobby. I did just that in the late 90s, fish were shit quality and there was no selection. It was 10 years before I got back into the hobby, I still had fish, 600,000 gallons of tilapia and catfish. Not exactly a reef tank, lol. Not much changed in the local scene, profit raiders still here and poor quality fish are still here which is why I decided to get back into importing but on a larger scale. When we open the retail side my fish will be top quality and I'll be able to sell them and know I did the right thing.
I look at it this way and I think Dave does too, when you succeed, we succeed. I would rather sell you a few corals and fish and have them live then to have you keep replacing fish and corals because sooner or later you're going to get tired of it and leave the hobby. I did just that in the late 90s, fish were shit quality and there was no selection. It was 10 years before I got back into the hobby, I still had fish, 600,000 gallons of tilapia and catfish. Not exactly a reef tank, lol. Not much changed in the local scene, profit raiders still here and poor quality fish are still here which is why I decided to get back into importing but on a larger scale. When we open the retail side my fish will be top quality and I'll be able to sell them and know I did the right thing.
Dislike! Still not using the halide?
Dave is one of the most, if not the most, passionate owners I've ever spoken too. He loves everything about the hobby and really does his best to make sure that every single person is looked after, especially once you become a regular! I don't ever spend any less than an hour there because I get talking with Dave and we just chat about everything hobby related and he goes through some of the crazy ideas in his head as I love hearing them lol
He really does look after his fish and coral better than anyone. Won't sell fish that aren't eating, if you're not capable of keeping them, if they look marginally unhealthy. He's always kept new fish that have come in that I want for a week just because he likes to see them settle and eat and also because I ask because he has the ability to get them eating better than I do. The one thing that really surprises me is the amount of effort and money that he puts in to make sure that he gets some really high quality and rare fish in! Like the Clarion the other month :)
If you were to only visit one store in Vic there is no way it couldn't be Dave's!! lol
Thanks mate :) Well they seem to be growing again so hopefully that means that there will be some of them start to appear a little more :)
He just sold another one, to me. I think you should ask for a commission :D
Thanks Shane :D the compliments mean a lot!
haha you have showed some serious restraint, I'm impressed :p I wish this was growing a lot faster because it's a piece that everyone should really have! Maybe I keep it and do a once a year release of 2cm frags and charges $$$$ for the Firetruck Frags :p haha I don't think I'm capable of that, I'll just keep handing it out to everyone over time :)
haha I'll tell him that I need a little something something on the side :p
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