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February 6, 2005
New store...
Took a few hours in the early afternoon to jet on down to Shark Aquarium in Hillside to snoop around. It's also on Route 22 and turned out to be a pretty nice place with a large selection of fish and a pretty impressive array of tanks of varying sizes. The fish area was divided into three rows, one for marine, one for freshwater, and the last seemed to be for more aggressive/uncommon freshwater species. Plants were delegated to just two tanks in the marine row towards the back and there was an ok selection.
The freshwater selection was pretty decent and it seems like they get a lot of new species in from Germany. There was a rather pretty male black sword that was the only one left in its tank but I couldn't justify getting it cause there's really no place to put him. But I didn't leave empty-handed. Picked up:
• 3 dwarf plecos ("dwarf peckolita" they had them listed as which I've never heard of before)
• 1 zebra oto
The zebra oto was for my mother's tank to replace the one that mysteriously disappeared a few months ago.
The dwarf plecos were for our tanks, 1 in each. These guys currently are really tiny but really colorful and shouldn't grow too large. Hopefully they'll do well.
We also transported 2 male orange-yellow tailed guppies from my mother's tank to our 12 gal and then 5 female and 1 male black-tailed guppies into our 3 gal tank. Eventually we'll take them in to AF for trade or something.
Posted by ronin at February 6, 2005 8:55 PM