I have the coolest
LFS ... this is funny.
While I was building the 70 foot run down to the sump the dude at Lowes that knew all about plumbing told me that there was a Reef Only LFS about 4 miles from my house.
A month ago I went over to check it out.
The weird thing is that it is in a residential neighborhood in what used to be the corner store ... you know sandwitches, pizza, beer etc?
The weirder thing is that IT STILL IS a corner store ... minus the sandwitches and pizza. The beer, soda, chips, canned spam, cigarettes, lottery tickets etc are all still there.
It turnes out that the zoning is grandfathered for a food type store but not a reef place. So as long as it still sells groceries, I guess the reef supplies are just "pet supplies" and the fish are ... ummmm ... snacks?
The owner is great ... knows a lot ... he is a reefer first and a corner store owner second I think. I send him an email on monday asking for anything, he has it brought in on wednesday's truck and I go pick it up on friday afternoon.
Yesterday, I went to pick up my fire shrimp, some pods and a few test kits ... when I drove up he had a biig yellow sign out by the road for a special on 12 packs of budweiser ... I must have laughed for 2 minutes.
The I knoticed the store front ... left side = neon fish, signage and advertising. Right side = neon beer, soda, and energy drinks advertising.
That has to be a first.
I snapped a phone pix ... the store front is a riot ... I missed a bunch of the neon fish on the left side.
Vince aka VINNIE 
