After having been to and spoken at virtually every reef show that has occurred in North America over the past 30 years I may be a bit jaded in terms of what I expect at a…
Showing Some Love For Local Fishstores On Small Business Saturday
Sandwiched between Black Friday and Cyber Monday is a relatively new commercial holiday called Small Business Saturday. For the last several years we’ve made an appointment with our Local Fish Stores on this Saturday after Thanksgiving. This year we documented our…
The Decline of the Local Fish Store (And Some Possible Ways to Save them)
The mom and pop grocery store, the local hardware store, the corner Five-and-Dime are all stores that have for the most part vanished from our lives due to big box stores replacing them. Unfortunately the same thing is happening more…
This video is mandatory watching for anyone who deals with LFS
Let’s face it, there’s been a huge shift in the dynamics of the marine aquarium hobby and industry over the last ten years. For the most part the aquarist as a consumer has gotten increasingly closer to the source of…
5 Reasons to Understock Your Marine Aquarium
多年来，我保留了海洋水族馆，我家中的客人偶尔指出，我的水箱中的标本数量相对较少。您可以说这是我的鱼类职业的标志……
Thieves rob local fish store with everything caught on tape (again)
即使在这种爱好中，偷窃也是一个不幸的现实，多年来，我们几乎失去了当地鱼类商店被公然抢劫的次数。奇怪的是，几乎所有的事件都清楚地抓住了强盗。
Ocean Blue Aquarium’s 90 gallon reef is a display worthy of a high end LFS
海洋蓝色水族馆是一个金融中间人hstore with a seriously cool display reef aquarium. To many the main displays in your local fishstores were one of the first live reef aquarium’s they encountered when they first got started out in the…
Love thy local fish store, Vargas in Omaha and a big sale at Greenwich Aquaria
Lots of great things happening in the retail aquarium space this weekend. The aquarium hobby could use some more editorial reflection on the state of affairs in our awesome hobby and to this end PFK’s Nathan Hill has written a…
Local Fish Store migrating 1,300 miles
To most of you, the twin cites of Duluth, Minn., and Superior, Wis., are on the outskirts of civilization. Not surprising given our location, being less than three hours from the coldest spot in the US (International Falls, Minn.) and…
Japanese aquarium stores suffer heavy damage from the earthquake
周五袭击日本的巨大8.9地震对人类的生命和财产造成了严重破坏，不幸的是，我们许多日本同志的水族馆和商店都无法幸免。尤其是日本东北部的水族馆商店…
