Local Manhattan Fish Stores

[Djbetterly]

So I spent a few hours today browsing a few of the talked about local fish stores. I noticed that a few of the places had a lot of aiptasia on their corals and in the tanks in general. Is this pretty common or are these the places you want to stay away from?

I had a few aiptasia on the last piece of coral I purchased and thankfully caught it right away and have had no problems since. But after that, I'm very careful about looking close at the pieces.

I'm just curious if this is something to be expected.

 

[Dre]

Even if you don't see them be cautious. They came from somewhere and even upscale lfs's have them as well...