Yo Camrons Aquatics

12/05/2024

Good morning everyone! Most of you know by now I am doing appointment only until further notice. We are by no means closing down… I was in a car accident that set me back even further schedule wise 😅. Taking some time to catch up on my in home service and commercial service visits I had missed. Thank you everyone for understanding.

Some other updates for the store since I haven’t posted in a while… we have all our saltwater systems running full force minus the 300 gallon. Freshwater is running full force with room for more, or possibly dart frogs if I gauge enough interest. We run all livestock through minimum of 28 day QT. Above is a photo of an exquisite dartfish I quarantined for some amazing customers! We are using nitrofuracin green, nitrofurazone/kanamycin synergistic blend, copper, formalin, and other medications in store to achieve sterile livestock & systems. Fish that go through our QT process are backed by a 14 day live guarantee (with water sample brought on day of purchase). I was having difficulty stocking tanks with walk in customers purchasing them in the QT process before I could put them in my showcase aquariums, so this time of appointment only will allow me to medicate some big batches of fish to stock up my display tanks with aquarium ready fish 😎.

I am very busy with in home and business services right now; so be sure to contact me if you need a new aquarium, help maintaining your current aquarium, moving your aquarium, and plenty of other services that we are fully insured for. Thank you all for your continued support, hope I’ll have more time for social media again but no promises 😝. I have a bunch of blog posts locked and loaded with tons of information packed aquarium talk. I’ll be posting those weekly very soon so stay tuned.

Contact me asap to get the fish of your dreams. If you live in CT/NY/MA this is the destination to get the HEALTHIEST fish in the area. It may take some time to quarantine, but in the end it’s worth it. You can ask any of my customers that have had their entire tanks wiped out by disease!!!

24/11/2023

15% off of all dry goods today (includes RODI water). We will have an official Black Friday in December/January when our remodeling is done. Our appearance is not only changing but so are our selling methods. Rather than waiting on fish to be purchased and having them get sick in store due to lack of preventative medicating, I will be QT’ing every single livestock we get (yes this includes corals & invertebrates). We were doing this before for most of our livestock, but because of my personal beliefs I am swapping to QT’ing EVERYTHING with medication!!

Our website update on 11/27 at 1 PM EST will have pre-order options for fish available on QT. Buyers will have the choice to get the fish cheaper before it completes its QT process allowing affordable pricing to everyone! Anything that goes through quarantine will have a PREMIUM price tag on it. Other shops shed doubt on pre-QT’ing fish because they don’t trust themselves to QT! Any fish that goes through our new program will be the HEALTHIEST option on the market, I’ll take the losses so you guys don’t have to. I want to guarantee my fish because I believe 100% in my knowledge and methods, but hobbyist water quality & disease prevention methods are big variables at play. To launch this program off, all QT’d fish bought by our Litchfield County Aquarium Club premium program will have 14 days of guarantee on any livestock that has gone through our QT process! We’ll be trying to offer a guarantee on at least freshwater livestock for everyone else, but still in the works. Come by and check out what we have 1-7 pm everyday. Sorry for any delays but I’ve been working very hard and finally will be playing semi pro soccer again!!!

Every fish in store will now go through the minimum:
21 days deworming
30 day external parasite/ich
10 days anti fungal & bacteria

11/11/2023

Chilli Endlers are looking great!

08/11/2023

Sorry to use a stock photo but I’ve been way too busy in the store to take any decent new pics!!! The store is looking better and better everyday as a new change is made.

I’m making room to expand our freshwater shrimp breeding & bring over some killies like this blackfin pearl killifish I’ll finally be bringing to the store tomorrow👀 all racks are now pretty much organized by what type of water the inhabitants live in. If you ever have any stocking questions, always be sure to ask!

04/11/2023

We have lots of fish going through our QT process before being offered up for sale. With this re-modeling I’ve also updated my quarantine methods we use on all fish. On top of that all freshwater & saltwater fish will be preventively treated for bacteria (gram negative & positive), fungal, and parasitic (external & internal). This means our prices of our fish will be going up, but if you feel confident in your own QT methods then always reach out and I can get you pretty much any fish you’d like. (Been dealing with tech difficulties and just got new phone & iPad so please resend any request if you have not heard back).

I’ve pretty much ditched the famous “trio medication” that many freshwater aquarist are used to. While this trio was treating many stress factors, they weren’t totally eliminating illnesses from fish that had been effected long term. For both freshwater & saltwater we are using new generic pharmaceutical grade powders that have been proven to be more effective in attempts of sterilizing our fish. Though this may be less convenient for us, I’d rather stick with what I know works! We are doing lots of research to see how we can make these meds available to all hobbyists, but if you need any guidance always reach out and I can provide a QT care package with most effective meds.

You can always send me a message on Facebook, instagram, email, or text. [email protected] 2032089224. Thanks everyone!

03/11/2023

Hello everyone! Thank you to everyone who’s came in the store and continued to support us as we go through this long re-modeling. This re-modeling is allowing me to not only sell all quarantined inventory, but I’ll also be able to bring back my original ways of selling which was breeding high quality fish!

These Australe Killifish need some care to have successful breeding so I brought them to the store where I can focus on harvesting their eggs and raising the fry. I’ll be bringing more exotic colorful nano fish to the store just like these guys.

Come stop by and see all the work we have done into re-doing our sales floor tanks. The store will look completely different when everything is finished being moved and we have our 2 big setups up and running! Thank you all for your support! We have big changes being made to our website & customer update system so stay tuned. We’re open 1-7 pm every day as of now but this may be changing when re-modeling is over. Looking to open early AM a couple days a week possibly as we’ve had quite a few people drop by to try and check out the shop in the mornings 😅

29/09/2023

Royal Farlowellas are awesome!

We are open 1-7 pm everyday, but we are still re-modeling so please excuse the appearance and mess! 😅

Good news is that our planted systems have been reset. We have 2 or 3 not planted right now because they were recently setup & have low nutrient levels, but we will do another vendor visit mid-late November to fill up the new systems that we have added. Pond projects are on a hold while we set up a different 300 gallon system in the store (3-4 weeks before I have time to even start working on it). We want to definitely get 1 or 2 of the 300 gallons setup ASAP so we can grow out some nice goldfish & koi for next pond season.

My FW QT systems were over complicated when I first setup the store. I tried to keep them planted & with substrate, but this is way too time consuming to keep going long term. FW QT will be bare bottom so we can easily disinfect and are not so limited to what medications we can use (plant safe). Freshwater QT has been completely re-done and saltwater as well for our fish systems. Up next is our coral QT systems which we are converting a 2 of our 40 breeder reef tanks into bare bottom QT for inverts corals & anemones and this will hopefully be done by end of this weekend.

19/09/2023

While we re-arrange & expand our saltwater systems to finish off the year, we will be making some changes in how we sell saltwater livestock & supplies.

Salt prices have gone up so the price of our topic marin pro reef pre-mixed saltwater will now be $18.49 per 5 gallons and the tropic marin classic sea salt pre-mixed saltwater will cost $14.99 per 5 gallons. We are testing out some other salt mixes to be offered, but right now I am only going to additionally add instant ocean reef crystals for $13.99 per 5 gallons & standard mix for $12.49 per 5 gallons. All pre-mixed saltwater goes through a micron filter to filter out any salt impurities, so nothing to worry about for any nasties you may experience yourself when mixing saltwater.

We are also offering pre-mixed medicated saltwater with copper power at 2.5 PPM for $16.29 per 5 gallons. This has helped a few customers in emergency situations where they needed to get the ammonia level down in a QT tank but didn’t have any water on hand.

We do have other salt mixes in testing such as aqua forest, but the parameters fluctuated during my storage testing so I’m running it back one more time to see if I can store it better. High KH mixes tend to evaporate nutrients a little quicker so they do not store well for more than a week or so usually. Ask any questions before using new mixes in your reef tank. If you want to try a new mix, do a smaller water change so your tank levels do not fluctuate too rapidly.

We are open 1-7 PM with lots of work being done. We hope to get this re-modeling done soon!

15/09/2023

One of my favorite tanks I’ve set up for someone! Small, simple, but beautiful with so much diverse life.

Thanks to everyone who has been patient with us while we do some re-modeling to the tank layout.

Litchfield County Aquarium Society has been put on the back burners while I slowly build it up a little bit more, we’ve had so much interest with 4 premium members already signed up which makes me think we are going to have to get a bigger spot possibly. We are building a new separate page/website for the group to access information. I will post a write up & presentation on this site about my monthly talks so everyone can look back at the information since these talks will be LOADED with important information.

We will still be open 1-7 everyday as we continue to re-do our layout.

Current layout should be re-modeled by end of the month before we start setting up our larger systems! We will be back to daily posts once we are finished with the layout re-modeling 🙏🏼

01/09/2023

We are back open 1-7 PM everyday! Lots of work being done in the store so please excuse us as we transition some of the tanks and expand a bit. We’ll be open Labor Day and do one more sale before our end of year sales. 10% off all livestock & supplies (pre-orders & water included cannot be stacked with other sales) starting today 9/1 till next Friday 9/8. Very busy at the store so please call ahead if you need a large amount of pre-made water

26/08/2023

We’ll be open 1:30-6PM today for the last day of our 10% off livestock sale! We’ll be reopening on Wednesday (unless I make a last second trip to a vendor). Stay tuned, we’ll be back soon!

25/08/2023

Sorry for my lack of posts. We are working hard on moving things around to expand the store once again. Things are taking much longer than expected but everything will be looking 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 really soon. We have some big changes coming to our tank layouts with the addition of our ponds

20/08/2023

Bush fish! We will be closing next Sunday the 27th and then reopen on Wednesday the 30th. From today until Saturday the 26th we will be offering 10% off all in store live stock for some back to school sales. This discount applies to any pre-order done this week, so be sure to see if we can get the inhabitant (fish, coral, invert, etc) you’re searching for.

With our pond projects coming up I am starting to plan on moving some tanks around so I can have 3 racks of strictly freshwater fish and then open up the possibility of having 2 larger saltwater ponds 🤔

15/08/2023

Moving fish, equipment, and some tanks in preparation for our pond setups. Have a lot in the works for the store which includes looking for a small warehouse to start selling more tanks & supplies online and possibly expand fish QT. Website is going to be heavily updated this week with new inventory and some appearance changes.

Litchfield County Aquarium Society is going to become a little more organized before I start doing the meetings, so unfortunately I’ll be pushing the meetings back to a TBD date. Good news is that this time will allow me to put in more effort meaning we will have a functioning website. Another big reason for pushing it back is the pond setups, as I’ll need to see the floor layout once these are established. I want to be able to display these information packed presentations I have prepared for our club and not half-ass it, so bare with me and we’ll soon have our in person meetings.

Lots of work being done but we are open everyday 1-7 PM. Plenty of healthy quarantined freshwater fish & pre-conditioned dewormed saltwater fish in stock and plenty more waiting in quarantine!

02/08/2023

We will be closed this weekend and only open 5-7 pm on Monday. Going to hand select a few fish after I go see some family this weekend. 15% off of freshwater & saltwater livestock, 10% off of RODI water, and 10% off of supplies until we close on Friday at 7 PM!

02/08/2023

Pics I took last night before the split that occurred this morning!

29/07/2023

Next project for expanding the store is stock ponds. I’m planning to add a minimum of 2 300 gallon ponds to the store, one being for turtles koi & goldfish and the other one for large saltwater fish. I’d like to get another one for freshwater stingrays but I won’t know how many I’ll be able to add till I get the first 2 in the store and measure everything out.

I will certainly be doing the koi pond so we can expand our African cichlid collection in the tanks that the goldfish/koi currently reside.

If I can only fit 2 300 gallons then I’m going to make the 2nd one saltwater for smaller sharks, rays, puffers, triggers, big angels, eels, etc.

Lots of planning coming up and there will be quite a few stock ponds coming to the store as we finish off the 2nd half of the year strong!

26/07/2023

Lettuce Nudibranch are AWESOME if you have the proper setup for them

26/07/2023

Got some awesome bamboo shrimp in!

24/07/2023

fish tank powered by YoCamron’s Aquatics!

20/07/2023

Super hot 🔥 had another split last night after I moved the black widow into clear view!

20/07/2023

Emerald Green Corydoras…. One of the OG’s!

20/07/2023

Vampire shrimp have been a big hit. We have more coming in Friday with some bamboo shrimp as well

13/07/2023

“Uh what are you doing”… more saltwater invertebrates arriving today! Send us any requests you have. We’re looking to bring in some new varieties of guppies, freshwater shrimp, and larger saltwater fish. All the fish and some of the inverts in todays shipment were special orders made by customers.

10/07/2023

Bar gobys! Today is our first Monday open with the new schedule in place, but we will only be open 4-7 pm today due to conflict in scheduling.

04/07/2023

Happy 4th everyone! We will be opening tomorrow with new hours! 1 PM - 7 PM every day of the week.

We will be closed Saturday august 5th, Sunday august 6th, and Wednesday August 9th.

August 9th we will be hand selecting a bunch of fish to offer on a big sale to our aquarium club members when our meetings take place.

Nano tanks are fully up and running at the checkout area and we stocked up with a bunch more nano tanks. Come check out our setups and get a new one or we sell our nano systems already setup for an easy startup in the hobby.

02/07/2023

Hey everyone sorry for the lack of content! I had gotten sick recently while we were closed and fell behind hard on tank maintenance 😅. Freshwater is almost all complete and saltwater will be hit later Monday and Tuesday while we are closed. I have also re-started one of my other passions of coaching ⚽️ so store hours will be changing very shortly.

Looking at being open 1-7 pm every day as these have been the busiest hours for us. Stay tuned for an official update about new store hours!

For litchfield county aquarium society: we will be voting for the best meeting day & time for our meetings. I’m thinking Sunday mornings or a weekend evening, we will have to push these meetings back to august. I’ll post the vote this week but I’m looking at the freshwater meeting to be the weekend of august 12th/13th and saltwater to be weekend of august 19th/20th (preferably the Sunday for me).

Not sure if early meetings will be able to be posted online early on but we will definitely be getting to that point as the club grows. We have lots of parking so I will post all the info this week for the updates about the club.

Thanks for being patient and I appreciate all of you who came out and purchased recently. Our celestial pearl danios, plecos, and euphyllia coral were really popular last month, so we’ll be looking to restock with a larger variety this upcoming month

23/06/2023

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09/06/2023

09/06/2023

More golden lazers getting ready to come out of QT next week!