I went to The Aquarium and Apex today. Thought I would give a follow up for anyone finding this thread. At both stores the staff was friendly and helpful but I wasn't into the loud music and incense burning smell at Apex. Apex had a good selection of fish, didn't see any sick/dying fish. They had some stuff I didn't see very often in SD, Dragon Wrasses, groupers and Batfish so that was cool. But next to no coral and very limited dry good selection but do carry some basic meds and what not. The Aquarium was a bit more my speed. It's a smaller store so not a huge selection but what they had looked healthy. I got some premixed SW and got home to find it at 1.020 so that was a bit disappointing. They probably just need to calibrate their refractometer. But I've got to aerate and heat the water anyways so not a huge deal to adjust it. Both stores had a bit more aptasia that I'm comfortable with. Some bryopsis and bubble algae was observed but nothing of epic proportions. All in all I'm very happy to have a couple stores with different strengths so close by.