@ylreefer - When I take my wife, I drop her off at the places with puppies and kittens then go do my thing.Hi crusso,
Yep it's very very expensive here to rent a space as you say, I guess we are in a way lucky that we have %95 of all aquariums in 1 Street of about 2 blocks. It makes shopping easy, only thing is there isn't much variation between shops. For dry goods the range is not so great, they stock lots of local made goods and very few shops stock us or European made goods. Live stock wise we do have a few good reeef shops in the block and if your willing to shop around tyou may fins a nice few prices of coral.
So the basic rule is give yourself 2 hrs min and go to every shop in the street. Leaving the wife at home of course lol.