Beware of New World Aquarium!

[ShaunW]

If you are going to purchase anything from the reef tanks at New World Aquarium on 38th street have a bottle of Flatworm exit ready.

Look what I found in/on a purchased coral:

FLATWORMS!!!

You definately will infect your tank if you don't treat the coral before putting it into your tank. I'm sure their responsible for infecting a large portion of NYC reefers out there.

 

[ctxmonitor]

what kind of coral was them on? That look really really scary... Good job informing everyone here..

 

[ShaunW]

They were on an SPS colony!

 

[jhale]

what possessed you to buy coral from that store?

they should include a bottle of FWE for the price of the coral.

or maybe they should try using some themselves, it would not be a bad idea.

 

[jhale]

how about a pic of the colony.

 

[ShaunW]

I was weak and miss terribly my tank at its former glory!

Sign your addicted:
You buy an SPS colony from New World Aquarium, totally disregarding common sense, and the observed identification of flatworms present in the tank before you purchase the colony! :banghead:

In my own defense, this SPS has the most extreme polyp extension I have ever seen in an SPS. If it is able to extend its polyps so in their tanks, I can only wonder at what it will look like with some TLC in mine!

As for the picture, you will have to wait and see, :smokin: .

 

[inkblue]

They are overpriced and the guys are abrupt and don't really care much... :headache:

 

[DEEPWATER]

Good job ,,saved yourself a big headache and lts of money ,,Thx for the warning ,,
but i think the warning should be ,,
dont buy at all ,if this is what they sell to the public ,,wha tif they sold this to a newbie then what ,,bye bye tank

 

[jhale]

In my own defense, this SPS has the most extreme polyp extension I have ever seen in an SPS.

if all you want is polyp extension I have a nice frogspawn for you

 

[ShaunW]

OUCH! Jonathan, your cutting me deep! :lol:

 

[nanoreefer22]

if all you want is polyp extension I have a nice frogspawn for you

LMAO!!!! Thanks for the early mornin laugh John

 

[marrone]

Alot of place have them, Sean in Brooklyn had some on a clam I bought, and Island Reef in LI had Green bubble algae on his corals. You need to be very careful because most places don't quartine or treat their corals when they get them also once some thing has enter their systems it hard to get rid of.

 

[jawwad2004]

They are overpriced and the guys are abrupt and don't really care much... :headache:

Everytime I go there, dudes act as if they're doing me a favor, it feels like ughhhh.

 

[inkblue]

hobbyist should be the owners. people who care where their livestock end up. there used to be an aquarium on 23rd st between 2-3rd aves and the owner was a really cool guy who would talk to you and tell you what you should or should not buy... :smokin:

 

[marrone]

Yeah that guy was Dave, very knoweglable and wouldn't sell you something if you didn't have the right setup or the fish wasn't good for your tank also would tell you about how to care for the fish. He left the industry a while ago and started working in the Tele-comm industry.