MacNA 2016将在美丽而阳光明媚的海边圣地亚哥加利福尼亚举行,这是十多年来首次将这一巨大的赛事带到西海岸,而这是有史以来第二次。我们去圣地亚哥自己看看当地的礁石水族馆社区的样子,尤其是当地鱼类商店如何达到礁石水族馆业余爱好者的期望。
您可以通过他们的鱼类商店的形状来告诉很多有关礁石水族馆的“场景”。因此,如果圣地亚哥的LFS表明圣地亚哥地区海洋水族馆的健康和充满活力next yearthis weekend.
在一个漫长的周末中,我们有机会参观了大圣地亚哥地区的五家不同的鱼类商店,我们去过的每一个都有很多事情要做。We know that there’s lots more great fish and coral aquarium businesses in the area, but when doing our background intelligence gathering on which LFS to visit, we narrowed it down to which businesses have a show reef aquarium on display to help illustrate their reef aquarium skills.
我们在圣地亚哥地区当地鱼类商店的爬网玩得很开心。这是我们对五个圣地亚哥LFS的迷你评论,他们向我们展示了圣地亚哥确实是明年北美大型海洋水族馆会议的肥沃场所。
Aquatic Warehouse对于顽固的业余爱好者来说,确实是LFS。这是我们在很长一段时间以来见过的最好的全面水族馆商店之一。水生仓库拥有从淡水到盐水,鱼类,珊瑚和植物的所有食物。
For the specialists we even spotted some live jellyfish for sale, and not just moon jellies mind you. They even had brackish water Utricularia plants for sale! Now that’s catering to the truly niche hobbyist. Better yet, Aquatic Warehouse had nearly all the best aquarium products you could hope for them to have in stock. The fully furnished plumbing section and assembly table was also truly impressive from a DIY aquarists point of view.
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Aqua SDis a name that is well known among coral collectors across the country. We knew that Aqua SD made and grew a lot of coral frags, but nothing could have prepared us for the frag factory we visited in San Diego.
Without exaggeration, Aqua SD probably had somewhere in the neighborhood of 5,000 frags, and probably around 300 colonies for sale at the time that we visited. There was the whole gamut of coral frags offered for sale, everything from chalice corals to acan lords,Darwin MicromussastoBalanophylliaand everything in between. We also spied a really neat live brine shrimp dispenser which is always a good sign that this reef store caters to people who are really into their reef tanks.
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恩西塔斯热带鱼就一个完全起步的海洋水族馆目的地而言,就在那里。LFS装满了坦克,在前柜台附近,有大约十二个展示水族馆,代表珊瑚礁,出售珊瑚,淡水鱼,盐水鱼和活植物。
The fish systems are truly unique with their angled glass on the top and bottom rows which gives onlookers a fresh look at fishes for sale. Just when we were satisfied that Encinitas Tropical Fish was ‘post-worthy’ to be included in this review of San Diego LFS, we turned the corner and found a整个房间到处都是珊瑚出售。
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Shipwreck Covedovetails most closely with what we would call ‘trendy reefing’ that includes rare marine fish, named coral strains and fancy-pants reef gear like you might only read about in Reef Builders. Two gem tangs in the display tanks of Shipwreck cove greeted us as we perused the large diversity of corals on offer.
如果您从大型签名珊瑚屋里喜欢收藏家和限量版珊瑚,那么沉船湾将完全用礁石木筏,杰森·福克斯(Jason Fox),世界范围的珊瑚等异国情调的模糊棍棒打球。我们也非常感谢这家较小的鱼类商店的随意氛围,这似乎是一个好地方,礁石水族馆的伙伴可以在星期六见面喝咖啡,并咀嚼有关他们的礁石坦克的咖啡。
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Aquatica定制水族馆is a different kind of LFS, definitely vying to appeal more to the upscale customer. The dark ‘fishroom’ is the perfect setting to display some truly beautiful livestock they have for sale.
The show tank at Aquatica is one of the best of any LFS in the area and the coral presentation is outstanding, we were tempted to buy a few corals while we visited. Better yet, imagine our surprise when we walked in and saw the same exact individual of the one of a kindOgilbyina Salvatidottyback我们写的是关于坐在他们的一个坦克中的漂亮的文章。