Fishmans Aquarium store

From that link the fish on the right, Jack Dempsey.... I love those fish. Was on of my first.
I would have to have at least one side I could see through. One window for photos and such. hum..... If I could find a way to get a window in one of these and did a in wall set up. That would be sooo much more affordable. I think the one thing with the shark those is putting the sump a little far away if possible. Then the buzz of motors and spinning magnets and such doesn't bother them. There would be no HOB anything on a tank for a shark. Well accept I would be HOB constantly starring down at them.

It would make my year to see a wild 400 pound shark. One think I have never done is go "out" fishing. I've took the truck to the surf and took little boats around the bay and inlets, but never gone far out and fished for anything large. 400 pound shark would sink most of the boughts I've been out on with one pull of the rod.
 
Thank you everyone for your help and encouragement over the last couple of months. Everyone was nice and friendly. It appears as if my account is about to be suspended and I will not longer be able to communicate with you. My AIM screen name is VWBGordo and my e-mail addy is my user name @hotmail.com I hope some of you get this before they delete that as well.
 
ERRRR!! posted on the wrong post, lets try it here..

Speaking of LFS's,

I went on a quest for salt this weekend. I was down to my last 2 boxes, and used the LFS Finder website and found The Aquarium Center in Clementon , NJ with my favorite salt on sale for $20 a box. Its right down the road from a fishing buddy's place so i dropped by and we went to the store. its a nice store, with a pretty good SW section. just one long row of SW tanks but everything looked pretty healthy. nice variety of fish and corals. but i only had cash for salt. but speaking of lagoon tanks LD, they had an 8 x 12 or slightly larger 18 inch deep tank built similar to your indoor pond plan. wood frame and rubber liner just like a koi pond. in fact that's what was in it. some Koi. nice. easy to make and get thru the door, one board at a time.

the LFS Finder also showed 2 more nearby stores i have never visited . the Aquarium Discount Pet Center and of course In Living Color. I would like to warn you that the LFS Finder map is not correct. it showed ILC way out in the pine barens and discount pets on the south side of the rte 70 / rte 73 circle instead of the north. in fact In Living color and Aquarium discount pets are only half a mile apart.

So, after much driving and snipe hunting we found these two. Aqarium Discount pets is an older family pet shop, small SW section, but also a nice collection of fish and corals and inverts. all looked happy and healthy. They had a couple buckets of used fishing rods and reels for sale near the door when you come in. My kinda place!! so i had to ask, how much to rent one of them thar light spinning reel poles for an hour and which tank could I fish in??

and then , We finally found In living color. nice store, and display tanks. but unfortunately they have had a problem with their chillers recently, and had to drain 3 tank row systems because of the heat. so they were low on livestock. the good news is they should have new equipment installed in a week or so and then restock. I really like those vanishing horizon frag tanks they have there!!

I have to say, between these 3 LFS's i saw nothing but healthy fish and corals. only one floater as i recall, and no sign of ick.

If you ever take the time to drive over to any one of these stores, I would sugguest visiting all three to make the trip more worth while. of course they seem to have jersey prices reflecting the high cost of living around there. but healthy stuff. i just bought a few hundred pounds of salt at 20 bucks a bucket.. I be cool now for a while.

LET THE WATER CHANGES BEGIN!!!
 
It would make my year to see a wild 400 pound shark. [/B][/QUOTE]

No you don't! I've been stalked by a 12 foot tiger while collecting in Hawaii! :eek1:
 
Well,

the biggest fish i and my friends have ever personally caught and released, was a 200 pound dusky shark, 20 miles off NJ. and believe me, taking the hook out of its mouth was the biggest thrill of my life !!! My friends had it hooked on 300 lb steel leader, i had it by a tail rope noose I had slipped over its head. when i pulled its tail up to the gunnel to release the rope, it did a 180 U bend and dang near bit me!!. of course i just let go of the rope, it was tied to the cleat. and we tried again. next time we were able to cut the leader at the hook, the shark took the hook and i was able to spread the tail rope noose and release it. it swam away to spit the hook out later.

a happy ending for all.

I was on the marina dock the one day the NJ state mako record shark, an imense, nearly 900 pound female mako shark, a bit over 14 foot long was landed. It was impressive, but also sad, because that was a very productive female breeder. female mako's dont mature until they are at least 6-7 feet long and 300 pounds. I think we take too many sharks just for sport, and are endangering the species. thats why all my sharks have been released.

Mako's are majestic fish.. this one was observed to jump and sumersault out of the water like a flying fish or trout or salmon while fighting the hook and line.They are Extremely acrobatic!!

Better to catch and release, in my opinion. let them live to fight another day!

Just take a picture...
 
Totally agree. My father retired to live near Lewes and Rehoboth so he could fish.(one of several reasons) I can only think of a hand full of times we actually kept stuff. I just loved relaxing and seeing animals. I still have to say I am extremely jealous of what you have seen. Some of the guys at the lab were showing off scars.(they were surfers and marine biologist) I was jealous of the cool scars they had from different animals.
 
No scars here either. The only time i've been "injured" by a fish is one night while collecting squirrelfish for my senior project I found a scorpionfish I thought would look very cool in the tank I had set up in the bathroom. I grabbed my net and whoop got him. My partner was holding the bucket and I transfered the fish into there, in doing so I got poked with one of the venemous spines. Nothing majot at all but my lab partner was freaking out! She was like OMG are you going to die?! Do we need to get you to the hospital. I just sat there going...well we'll see what my body thinks of this venemous business...oh yeah finger is tingling there is a definitely a reaction going on...hehe aww its going numb sweet. :D She was flipping out hardcore. Then I laughed and said hey...i'm ok i'm going to be a marine biologist-trained professional!

Oh yeah there was a time I lipped a striped bass like a large mouth bass and he chomped down. Felt like I slammed my finger in a door.

Now another story all together is when my roomate got attacked by a viper moray while trying to capture some butterflyfish for his 75 gallon tank. http://www-personal.umich.edu/~lsander/kona05/aavipers.jpg

Ken is right about it being a shame those sharks are being taken. However I truely believe many anglers now-a-days think twice about keeping large apex predators like that. So I think there's hope! :D
 
Just to let you guys know, I don't usually buy from Newark Tropical but they had some huge colonies of Arco at really good prices. They came from a local guy that is tearing down his 300 gallon tank to upgrade to a 400 gallon. I picked up a peice the size of a medium mellon for $60.00. They were bron colonies with a green touch.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8060235#post8060235 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by chiclet
hey where is east coast aquatics?
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Prospect Park, PA

420 North (from I95)
R @ 2nd light (Chester Pk)
just about 1/2 block from the turn

- ted
 
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