Have you guys heard our commercial on Froggy 107.7 or Happy 92.7 yet? I think it turned out pretty good! I wasn’t able to capture all of it, but here’s a good portion of it!
Have you guys heard our commercial on Froggy 107.7 or Happy 92.7 yet? I think it turned out pretty good! I wasn’t able to capture all of it, but here’s a good portion of it. We’ll be open until 7 today!
If you guys want to get rid of that pesky duckweed, consider getting some penguin tetras! I had no idea they ate it until some got into their tank yesterday, but I think I’m going to start experimenting with more species just out of curiosity.
If you guys want to get rid of that pesky duckweed, consider getting some penguin tetras! I had no idea they ate it until some got into their tank yesterday, but I think I’m going to start experimenting with more species just out of curiosity.
Mystery Styro winner has been drawn!
Our new friends at Vidcove Studios stopped in today and made us a cool, short, promotional video! They are a new up and coming multimedia company and I would really appreciate it if you guys would show them some support by liking and sharing their page!
Feeding time!
Our banjo catfish love Xtreme pellets!
Winners!
Congratulation Whitney Dietrich, Mary Dell, and Chad Whitmer on being the winners of the Keystone Clash full package registrations! Please send me a message with your shirt size and make sure to book a hotel room if you haven’t already! They go fast!
Officially Open!
Before we left for the day today, we made our opening for tomorrow official! No more “Opening Soon” because we’re here! Just in case anyone missed the previous post regarding our opening, please understand that this is a SOFT opening so majority of the tanks are empty and majority of the ones with fish are quarantining until at least next week and are receiving medications for ich, parasites, and bacterial infections over that period (hence why some of our tanks will be cloudy when you see them). Our dry goods selection is pretty decent considering we’ve only received three small shipments so far, but we still have a lot of space to fill out. We also didn’t receive any of the frozen food we ordered as all five types were apparently out of stock, so hopefully next time! Our new LEDs unfortunately didn’t work for some reason, so the store is darker than we’d like, but we have someone coming to take a look either tomorrow or Tuesday to see what the issue is. Other than that, I can’t wait to see everyone!
Goldfish & Koi!
Here is a quick video of the goldfish and koi that came in! The order of the video goes two tanks of single tail goldfish and then one tank each of fantail goldfish, standard fin koi, and butterfly koi. These aren’t your run of the mill feeder goldfish and chain store koi. These are bred and raised in Europe and I can assure you that the video doesn’t do any of these fish justice. I also wanted to touch on our quarantine process. I’ve been seeing a lot of people excited to come in for fish, but I just want everyone to be aware that ALL new arrivals that enter our store will go through a two week quarantine period, longer if needed. It doesn’t matter if the fish come from a farm in Asia, a river in South America, or a breeder down the street. You never know what the fish has come in contact with before getting to you, so it’s best to just assume they have everything and treat them accordingly. During this period, the fish are treated for ich, parasites, bacterial infections, and more. This is to ensure that you are receiving the healthiest fish possible. Shipping fish in general is stressful for them so it’s good to give them time to adjust to their new surroundings. Sometimes there’ll be fish dead in the bags, sometimes you’ll have a few die off in the tank over a couple day period afterwards. I’d much rather these fish die in our tanks during our quarantine period than for them to die in yours because we were too worried about selling them right away. While we go through the process of redoing our quarantine room, our fish will be quarantined on the sales floor. There’ll be “Arrival” dates and “Ready to sell” dates written on each tank so you’ll know when you can come in for them. If there’s no dates written on the tank, then they’re good to go! I understand that this will very much limit our livestock availability for our first week or two open, but having healthy fish means way more to me than getting tanks emptied as fast as pos
Hey guys! So we have been talking and have decided to officially open our doors on Monday, June 17th! Hours will be 10am-7pm and we will be closed next Sunday. I would have liked to open this week, but our last dry goods order doesn’t look like it will arrive until tomorrow or Thursday and our fish order got pushed back to tomorrow. We also haven’t received our card reader and still have a decent amount of work to do. Also, I was hoping someone might be able to identify these catfish we received. They were listed as One Line Pimelodella without a taxonomic name. I originally thought they were P. gracilis when I saw them in the bag, but now that they settled in, I’m not confident. I was also told these would get about 12” and, to the best of my knowledge, P. gracilis only gets about 7”. If needed, I’ll get a better video and pictures when I go in today.
The first 28 tanks are ready!
We officially have 28 store tanks up and running and 8 of them currently have fish in them from our first order! The video isn’t great as we aren’t able to run lights on the tanks yet so I used the flashlight on my phone instead. In order of the video, you’ll see mixed angels, double black angels, tiger barbs, wild silver hatchets, wild blue acaras, wild Bristlenose plecos, wild green cories, and wild one line pims.
Fish & Friends is an aquarium store owned by two long time aquarium hobbyists.
