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    4.1 (106 reviews)
    Closed • 2:00 pm - 6:00 PM

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    Wesley S.

    What an amazing reef store Jeremy and his wife own. I was able to speak with Jeremy over the phone and he confirmed having a tube anemone (pink tentacle w/green mouth). As soon as I entered The Mystic Reef, I was greeted with a warm, "Hello." It felt nice being greeted and welcomed. If you are looking for leather corals, they have so many huge mother colony's to see how your frag will look like. I was able to purchase the tube anemone and 2 maxi/mini carpet anemone's. In one of their aquariums, there is a BEAUTIFUL Queen Angelfish. I might take her home one day. She's got the beautiful iridescent blue's that makes your mouth drop to the floor. The store has a wide selection of quarantined fish, amazing Tyree elegance corals and so many other corals to choose from. If you're lucky, you'll get to eat an amazing story of their pink Gonipora that almost died and through hard work and a little bit of luck, grew the tiny frag back to multiple mother colony's.

    Dirty water with sediment
    Contreras G.

    I don't recommend this place. I had purchased RO & salt water for my marine fish tank several times. But this last time it looks like he gave me used salt water. Other times the water is clean. This last time the water was brownish dirty looking. I noticed when I had poured most of the water was dirty brown. It had sediment at the bottom on the container. Last time I'm purchasing anything from that store. People if you go to purchase water. Make sure it's clean new water.

    The beautiful clowns I got!
    Giovanni V.

    This place is GREAT! I'm a complete beginner and I've been getting so much help from this place and I've been given so much knowledge and help! I've only met Adam and he's really been answering my millions of questions and giving me lots of recommendations and it's so helpful in a confusing hobby and I just love this place! Update: I just met Jeremy and this is hands down the place to go! Both of these guys are so awesome! I got taught so many things and I can tell these guys have a love for what they do and my tank is looking so good because of it!!! I love this place!!!!

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    Luis H.

    This place was so awesome! Well really it was Jeremy that made it such a great learning and fun experience for my son, sister, and I. We picked up 2 Plecos and they have adapted awesomely to our tank with goldfish. Thank you Jeremy for all the fun facts and showing the reef CLOSE UP . Super fun.

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    Rex H.

    Super cool selection of coral and fish, Jermey and Adam are awesome will be returning to buy more corals once I get the hang of everything!

    Great place customer service is wonderful..JEREMY has alot of knowledge about everything very nice ...I highly recommend this place

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    Good deals with coral and products! They also give very helpful information about saltwater and freshwater.

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    This is a great fish store to get all your live and dry good at. I will be going back for many years to come!!!!

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