

I have always had good service you just need to realize there are only a few workers helping a store full of people and they will get to you. If your having some trouble with your tank, find Patrick for advice and all will be well. Prices are a little bit more than the chains BUT the fish at Neptunes will be of much better quality. The family and I have been going to this store for years, staff has always been very very helpful and knowledgeable. Great store for anyone with a fishtank who wants better than corporate store goldfish Very good about recommending (or not) what species go with what or over crowding. While it's sometimes busy and you have to wait for help they are always very friendly and knowledgeable about their fish. I was having a problem with one of my tanks and he has helped me all the way through to make my tank healthy again! I recommend shopping here for all your freshwater and saltwater needs.

Their tanks are clean and well stocked with healthy fish. We have gotten most of our fish from here. Thanks, we'll be back!Įvery time we come here we talk to Justin he is friendly and knowledgeable and helpful. A great aquarium store with lots of beautiful, healthy fish. Rogers gave them an orientation.Thanks to Sharon at Neptune's for hooking us up with a new Finnex LED light to replace our old Coralife broken light on our old planted aquarium, and for the beautiful Rainbow fish and ghost shrimp.

After climbing an aluminum ladder past humming pumps to a catwalk above the tank, they changed into swimsuits (no tails yet), after which Ms. The two prospective mermaids soon discovered that such a performance is tougher than it looks. Wearing a low-cut crimson outfit with an elegant tail, she languorously dove and looped among the dog-faced puffers and faux coral, occasionally blowing a playful kiss to the mesmerized boys at the bar. Rogers then vanished and reappeared, transformed, inside the tank. Rogers has been thinking about a mermaid's career arc, and allowed that her 13 months of experience at the Coral Room had "inspired me to pursue this career to an even higher level." Her goal is to perform in the Cirque du Soleil water show in Las Vegas. The applicants were introduced to Heather Rogers, the resident mermaid who had been tapped to school them in bar-tank fundamentals. Only a few would make it to the final callbacks. At the final first-round audition, held at midnight the other evening with the bar full of paying gawkers, two aspirants arrived to take the plunge, bringing the number of candidates to 17. The club, which employs six mermaids and one merman, wants to hire a new staffer and one or two freelancers to fill in at holiday parties. On the Internet, we get unsolicited photos of girls in lingerie, saying, 'I think I'd make a good mermaid."' One woman called from Ohio, desperate to make the 10-hour commute for an occasional gig swimming among the 50 tropical fish for three minutes every half hour. "We've got a list in the last year of 150 people we haven't called back. "It's pretty cutthroat," said Chris Ventura, a co-owner of the Coral Room, a Chelsea nightclub that has been holding underwater auditions to choose an otherworldly sea creature to work the swim shift inside the club's 10,000-gallon aquarium. But this being New York, competition for mermaid staff positions is fierce, and thereby, you should pardon the expression, hangs a tail. Mermaids are supposed to have it easy, especially in the off-season.
