Miami Florida

Hey Guys, I will be in Miami for two days for work next week and was wondering if anyone knows any great places down there to get frags? Hope to pick up something cool!

I hear there are a lot of fish stores there but not sure how the prices are down there etc. If anyone has personally bought or know a few folks down there that would be great!

chockchips said:

Hey Guys, I will be in Miami for two days for work next week and was wondering if anyone knows any great places down there to get frags? Hope to pick up something cool!

I hear there are a lot of fish stores there but not sure how the prices are down there etc. If anyone has personally bought or know a few folks down there that would be great!

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TSA lets your bring frags/livestock across state lines?

Tampa fl ,way out of your route but just in case ( coral corral)

MatthewScars said:

TSA lets your bring frags/livestock across state lines?

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Yes of course they do. What they don't do is let you bring bags of water into the cabin. There are ways around this though--well insulated and packed checked luggage or dry shipping ( wet paper towel in a bag ).

Oh yeah i'm not going to take it on board. i'm going to bring my tiny foam cooler and i have heat packs if needed so i'll just check them in i'm probably not going to do fish, but corals.

I believe in a recent issue of Coral magazine (maybe 2 or 3 issues ago) there was an article about a livestock collector getting a few fish and or corals home on a plane. Wish i could give you the issue number! I believed he called the tsa director of the airport ahead of time. He had a few ways listed with how to deal with the issue. Ultimately he did board the flight and has been able to do so ever since.

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prattreef said:

Yes of course they do. What they don't do is let you bring bags of water into the cabin. There are ways around this though--well insulated and packed checked luggage or dry shipping ( wet paper towel in a bag ).

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Youre just asking for a full body rub down from the TSA now!

why is it that people ship coral across from different states but you can't checkin a small box that doesn't make sense to me.... there are no agriculture inspections like in hawaii....

I'm from Miami - here are a few good places.

http://www.reefsmartaquariums.com/
This is a pretty new store but the people are really cool

the best ones are on bird road.
http://www.exoticaquariums.com/sub04.html

This one is really good. but there is one next door that is all coral that just opened up.

good luck. and i am pretty sure tsa will let it through. The guy at the first place told me he had no problem.

i had a guy there he is wholesaler i can call him and hell let you in . just pm

Yeah that one is good. But there is one that just opened up a couple doors down. Its easy to spot. i forgot the name but is an all blue building and when i went in there over thanksgiving there was a lot of good corals.

google this Bird Rd and SW 74 ave, Miami, FL

and go to the street view. its to the left of the Verizon building

let me know if you see it.

yup i see it, cool they are on my list. going to check them out the day i leave!

nice let me know what you get!

Check out hose of fins
14321 s dixie hway
ask for victor the ower.. Tell them kenny from ny sent you.

I'm just curious... are the corals that much better in FL as opposed to what you can get in NY? Does FL have a secret ingredient they put in the coral to make people want to ship/fly it back from where ever they came from?
I'm sure there isn't an expiration date on corals... so what gives?

skene said:

I'm just curious... are the corals that much better in FL as opposed to what you can get in NY? Does FL have a secret ingredient they put in the coral to make people want to ship/fly it back from where ever they came from?
I'm sure there isn't an expiration date on corals... so what gives?

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Miami trip to find out! You in?

(more interested in the local females than coral)

The last thing I wanna do is go coral shopping in Miami... ROFL!!!
BTW... wanna take a trip to MD?

Some stores have coral native to miami which are a little harder to get in ny

Skene, as my original posts states i'm not going all the way to miami just to buy coral. instead i have to go down there for 2 days for work, so i figure why not check out some places if i got the time although i haven't found that many great places in NY. i find that getting things from other reefers from here you can find better stuff or just buy online.