Alfa Aquatic Arts

06/30/2024

Squeezed another 4 tanks into the freshy room this morning. More to come 😉🙏🏻😎

06/28/2024

Plants are restocked 🙏🏻❤️

06/25/2024

This guy always showing off those colors ❤️

06/24/2024

100 new plants coming in Thursday. 🙏🏻🤘🏻😎

06/22/2024

It’s breakfast time

06/20/2024

If you haven’t been in yet this year a lot of changes have been taking place. A lot of people have been asking if ownership has changed. It has but no worries all my wife Amy and myself have ever wanted to do was own a LFS. We will be expanding the salt and freshwater selection as much as possible. This may take some time but by fall we should be at full steam. Allie is staying with us so it’s basically business as usual. A little bit about myself ( Ernie Krulikowski) I’ve been in this wonderful hobby since I won a goldfish at the Hamburg fair at the age of 5. So not to date myself but almost 50 years. I got into SW in the late 80’s and have been a salt guy since. But I’ve always kept FW as well usually discus or big predators. I helped set up Shoreline Aquarium , worked at Colchester Pet for 4 years followed by helping to build up the mighty OSA , last 2 years managing the mothership in Coventry. I came to the former Purrfect to help out in August of last year and things have just fallen into place. I hope this transition goes smoothly for everyone. I’m also a big reptile guy so if y’all need info on that hopefully I can help. All the LFS out there need your support people we can’t do this without you. We look forward to serving you in the near future. 🙏🏻❤️😎

06/18/2024

06/18/2024

It’s new fish day 🙏🏻❤️😎

06/17/2024

We got in a bunch of African cichlids this evening and a big Fw order is coming in first thing tomorrow. Will post a video once everyone is settled in. 🙏🏻🤘🏻😎

06/11/2024

We went from one tank in this corner to 5 within 24 hours. What a difference a day makes . 😉🙏🏻❤️

06/10/2024

So we made it a turtle tank for Sammy and Taras. But what a difference a week makes .

06/10/2024

Step 4 is tank placement hopefully you measured correctly and everything fits as you pictured it. Only other part of placement is making sure you have an accessible power outlet. Now comes the best part the aquascaping. See you with an update soon. 🙏🏻❤️

06/09/2024

6 new tanks up and cycling this morning. 🙏🏻❤️

06/04/2024

This is what we got sidetracked with. Giving the ready to go tanks for tots their own spot instead of being all over the place. Jen and her family from the old Colchester Pet brought us a bunch of tanks for the store so had to figure out how to fit them in. When all is said and done we are going to have a very large amount of glass box’s full of water and cool critters for you in the very near future. Livestock orders will be resuming very soon. We thank you all for your support we can’t do any of this without you. 🙏🏻❤️😎

06/04/2024

Step 3 for us today was getting the tank on dolly’s and painting the stand. We got sidetracked so only 3/4’s done. You may notice we also started painting the trim of the tank. White trim is somewhat of a new thing . Most trim will be black or dark/ light wood grain because those used to be the only stand colors available. It doesn’t really flow with a white stand so we painted it.

06/03/2024

Ok step 2 is simple but takes awhile. Most of you will be doing this to the back of your tanks. In our case this tank will be visible from both front and back so for us we are painting the sides. You can do any color you would like , we do black because it hides your equipment better . If you’ve never painted glass before it can take 3-5 coats to cover it. First pick is coat one , second pick is coat 3 probably going to take 4 coats to cover this one. You can use any latex paint for this task. See y’all tomorrow for step 3 .

06/02/2024

Ok so the tank and location have been chosen what’s next? This will apply to us and possibly yourself. We need to paint our stand and have exposed rusty hardware. So start by removing the hardware we are not sure if we will be sanding and repainting or replacing it yet. So to be safe place it in a sealed bag and set it aside if you don’t it will disappear lol . The hardware issue on this stand is it’s rusty and we are painting the stand white. With most paints the rust will bleed through. See you tomorrow with step 2.

06/02/2024

We’ve desided we need a new display tank in the front window. So we will be documenting the transformation of this old school 90 gallon into fresh looking modern display over the next few weeks. Hope you enjoy the journey and maybe get some ideas for a project of your own.

06/01/2024

New weekend hours for the summer season. 10-5 Saturday 10-4 Sunday. New hours start today Saturday June 1st.

05/28/2024

TFT’s update. We have 3 10 gallon tanks that are ready for new homes available. 2/20 gallons a 15 and a 5 are being leak tested and will be available soon.

05/25/2024

Holiday hours 12-4 Sunday , Closed Monday . Have a happy and safe Memorial Day 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

05/22/2024

Tomorrow morning’s project. Try to wrangle these two monsters out of the 328 gallon and transfer them to a clients 750 gallon. I see a very wet morning on the horizon lol . 🙏🏻🤞🏻❤️

05/21/2024

Todays game was how many tanks can we fit in this room???

05/18/2024

The beginning of slow season is also the start of project season. Started roughing in a new Nem system and live rock tank this morning.

05/14/2024

Harvesting a few Nems from the garden this morning.

05/11/2024

Frag tanks are loaded up.

05/10/2024

So Trig is a very interactive fish and was getting bored. So I scraped the paint off the back of his tank and opened the window blinds. He’s been chasing cars all day lol

05/08/2024

So do y’all remember when Tanks for Tots had an aquarium go to a wonderful young man in the great state of Maine? Here’s a cool story. For the past week or so I’ve been admiring a totom being carved from a tree buy chainsaw near my house. Today Allie informed me that the family we donated the tank to came in to say TY and would try to come back to see me before they left tomorrow. She told me the fathers name which my neighbor had just happened to tell me earlier was the artist I had been admiring carving the tree. Long story short we went over to the house . The owner graciously welcomed us we ended up hanging out with her and Josh’s family admiring what he had created. Then we all came to my house so they could see the tanks. What a small world this can be. So thankful for this program. 🙏🏻❤️

05/07/2024

New frags are getting settled in.

05/07/2024

Pokey is ready to get up early to receive another coral shipment. New corals hitting the frag tanks in the morning.