19/11/2025
What a crazy and humbling week we’ve had. Shout out to my friends, family, and support crew who have been helping along the way. I’m so proud of my coworkers and friends, I’m definitely feeling the love this week.
First, let’s address the display tank everyone’s commenting on.. I have a friend who’s very serious about his saltwater reef tank and he had an unfortunate turn of events last wednesday. With little notice his corals started to die off and toxified his tank. In a matter of twelve hours he lost all his fish and countelss coral colonies that are irraplacable. This lead him to needing to borrow my aquarium to save what corals we could. I without question dropped everything and moved my stuff to temporary tanks to make room for our “billet” corals. Unfortunately the tragedy also spread to my system and we both lost a high number of occupants. It’s heartbreaking but we tried our best to keep losses to a minumim and gave it our all!!
This all happened the day I drove to Vancouver to grab a fish tank along with six boxes of saltwater fish and corals. So here i am in vancouver, helpless, and my tanks are crashing.. Let’s just say it was a long week for all of us lol. However, my team mates and some people in the community came to our aid. I was very quickly reminded how blessed I am to have the support system I do! Thank you to everyone who helped in that time of need.
At the same time as dealing with fish tank drama we are also helping the sick reptiles we’ve taken on. From daily hand feedings to medications theres a list of things to do for animal care every day. This includes everything from stuck shed on a gecko to servicing the aquarium at an elementary school (and like forty others lol). We have a number of customers who rely on us for help so were trying to accommodate customers needs while balancing the health and safety of animals in our care which can be a task on its own!! We have a back room full of stock we can barely walk past, new products to put out like Back2Raw, and empty shelves to fill at the front. We have freshwater fish we’re acclimating to saltwater for a customer, we delivered and setup a stunner Red Sea saltwater tank that I custom built and painted, and on top of that we’re fitting in some custom built rock work into the work week 👌🏻.
Things have settled down a bit this week and it’s starting to feel like a pet store again. We have plants, corals (temporarily at my home tank for safe keeping), lots of saltwater and freshwater fish back in stock. Our display tank is looking fresh and ready for improvemets, Abe says hi 👋🏻! We have water tests in, o2, coolers and heatpacks for those long drives, dog food on its way, reptile enclosures being built for customers and lots of small animals coming in!
For the whole team it’s been early mornings, late nights, missed breaks, critters coming home, stressful situations, emotional moments and everything else in between. However, this just shows me how blessed we truly are here. We have an entire network of people who care, understand, and help. So thank you to everyone in my life who’s been supportive. Thanks for turning a blind eye when we don’t have exactly what you’re after at that moment. Most of all, thanks for the continued support we receive from all of you ❤️. Through the good times and the challenging we truly enjoy what we do and feel lucky to be able to provide the services we do.
Make it a great day my friends and thanks for being you! 🐢 🐠 🐈⬛ 🐰
