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AQUATIC COLLECTION is in my opinion the best fish store I have been to.

JRocha

JRocha

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I loved Ocean treasures and it was my favorite place for a long time. Since it went under I have been going to aquatic central for my water needs. I finally decided to go AQUATIC COLLECTION IN HAYWARD last weekend and, holy crap batman, I was really impressed. just so the readers know I have been to just about every fish store from SF, dublin, emeryville, san jose, san mateo, milpitas, hayward, and as far as Sacramento and I've never seen so many healthy and beautiful corals in a single place. I don't mean to down play or knock any other store with this, but seriously I ended up buying over 600 dollars worth of corals in the three days I have been there, where at any other place I would have paid well over 2000 for the amount, size, color, and quality of the pieces I got. I mean full colonies of blastomussas, crazy colored favias, and chalices I have never even seen before for prices that would amaze anyone. they have a tank of frags of all kinds that are 45 dollars each, when you buy 5 you pay only 150. some of the chalices had over 5 eyes and almost every other store I have gone to would have charged over 100 per eye or frag. I can't believe I didn't know about this place. If you don't know about it or know about and haven't been like myself, you are only hurting yourself and your wallet. Please do yourself a favor and go there. I promise you won't be disappointed. They even sell full colonies of corals where most places wouldn't dare to. I even brought in a coral to identify and they new what it was out the gates. I left the piece in question at Ocean Treasures for over 6 months and I asked hella people and nobody had a clue. Joe and Carson really know there $h!t, they are very friendly, helpful, and extremely knowledgeable about the corals they have and don't have. All in all if you are interested in buying extremely healthy corals for the best prices in the bay and greater bay area then give AQUATIC COLLECTION IN HAYWARD a visit and let me know what you think. Thanks guys for the sick ass corals and thanks for finally identifying my coral that I have had for over 6 years that no one could identify.
 
Yes indeed. A must visit store. A good business with good people and very fair prices. Heck, you didn't even mention their great collection of fish! :O I have a great fleet of fairy wrasses from A.C. Good folks well that follow BAR closely and cater to our tastes. I'll give them a :beer: , they just do it right. :)
 
screebo said:
Yes indeed. A must visit store. A good business with good people and very fair prices. Heck, you didn't even mention their great collection of fish! :O I have a great fleet of fairy wrasses from A.C. Good folks well that follow BAR closely and cater to our tastes. I'll give them a :beer: , they just do it right. :)
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Second this. A very very nice collection of fish, my eye pop up when I visit first time and saw the variety of fishes, very cool & healthy, yes so many kinds of wrasse. I end up bought 5 diasper anthias. I would have buy more if my tank is no that small.

Neat store setup & nice guys as well. Good job & keep it up.
 
I've been real impressed by the amount of variety and nice chalices. My best chalice colony came from them and they're pricing is excellent, especially given the quality of corals. I agree it's a must-visit LFS- it's hard o leave w/o getting some nice tank additions.
 
JAR said:
How do you know they just didn't make up a name for your coral? :D
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remember the coral I had at OT for hella long? It was a brownish gold with orange eyes that encrusts over rocks. well Joe put it in their water and took a quick look and pulled out his corals of the world book and found it right away and it showed a perfect picture of it, but Joe said the color of my Jaime coral which is the name I gave it for the mean time was veryn different from the ones he has seen in the past. He said that that coral usually comes in all brown or green. they seemed pretty happy to get a colony off of me. I gave them a pretty decent size piece. it is definately frag worthy. It grows pretty fast and tolorates just about all the abuse you can give it.
 
JRocha said:
JAR said:
How do you know they just didn't make up a name for your coral? :D
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remember the coral I had at OT for hella long? It was a brownish gold with orange eyes that encrusts over rocks. well Joe put it in their water and took a quick look and pulled out his corals of the world book and found it right away and it showed a perfect picture of it, but Joe said the color of my Jaime coral which is the name I gave it for the mean time was veryn different from the ones he has seen in the past. He said that that coral usually comes in all brown or green. they seemed pretty happy to get a colony off of me. I gave them a pretty decent size piece. it is definately frag worthy. It grows pretty fast and tolorates just about all the abuse you can give it.
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Soooo what is it??
 
Mr. Ugly said:
JRocha said:
I can't believe I didn't know about this place.
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How can you NOT know about Aquatic Collection?!??

Karson and Joe go way back.

Congrats :D
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I always saw it on the sponsor portion, but I was pretty faithful to OT, aquarium concepts, and aquatic central. But one day I was on my fish store hopping round about with my girl and we were coming back from kings aquarium and aquarium showroom in SJ and said F it and navigated to it. damn I felt like such a jackass for spending my money on tiny frags and rediculous prices on my full colonies in the past. I found my new spot. Its hard to want to go anywhere else now. they got me hook line and sinker. I mean I live in Pacifica and I have been there 3 times in less than a week. it's actually not that far from my house considering I drive farther for work on a day to day basis.
 
hey gresh it is a Psammocora coral. in the book it says it is a uncommon coral. It came as a hitchhiker on a piece of fiji live rock I got from Underwater world in san bruno from joe. don't know if anybody remembers his store but he was the guy that taught me how to do saltwater tanks. anyway it started out about a half inch or so and 7 years later and 2 tank upgrades and several different lighting combos later it got pretty big and I have made over 6 large to medium size pieces that I have and now aquatic collection has.
 
Yes I remember Joe's place. There are a few psammi's running around in the club, even a couple branching ones :)
 
GreshamH said:
Yes I remember Joe's place. There are a few psammi's running around in the club, even a couple branching ones :)
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really? I would love to get my hands on the braching version. I really like the look of the coral. Its very different and nobody seemed to pay any attention to it when it was at OT because it wasn't a chalice, specialty coral or one of Ian's nice frags that he makes. too bad for them.
 
Joe was a cool cat. I used to got there on my lunch breaks when I worked at san mateo credit union. actually underwater world is where i got several rare things like this gem. I have yet to see it in the trade since then. I wish i could get a small one.
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I have a green branching one and I have a gold brancher waiting to be shipped to me
 
JRocha said:
Joe was a cool cat. I used to got there on my lunch breaks when I worked at san mateo credit union. actually underwater world is where i got several rare things like this gem. I have yet to see it in the trade since then. I wish i could get a small one.
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That's due to the permit ending. He got those from me when I worked at Cortez Marine. They should start coming back in soon. The Costa Rican, Honduras and Ecuadorian ones come in, but there color is not the same as the Cortez Giant Hawkfish.

FWIW we sold those to most BA LFS's and all over the US. They get large, very large, larger then most average hobbyists can handle.
 
FWIW AC can get you those giant hawkfish when they come in again. They know how, just request the fish :)
 
as for the hawkfish it was in my 240 gallon for a while. that beast was mean and no joke. I remember cortez marine. I did a side job for him at his house and gave him my mellers cameleon.
 
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