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Crawl - Baltimore Fishstores / Ron Nielson's Fish Room August, 2003
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NJAS / JSAS societies did their second Fish Crawl - Baltimore Run in August,
2003. We visited few stores in Baltimore area and did some fish and plant
shopping. This was my first time visiting Baltimore stores and I was quite
impressed especially with availability in Aquarium Center. Excellent plant
section with availability of plants like Heteranthera dubia, Glossostigma
elatinoides, Didiplis diandra, Rotala macranda and many others, which
are not frequently or at all, available in local stores. Great selection
in shrimp: Caridina japonica (aka. Amano shrimp), Bumblebee shrimp,
Neocaridina denticulata (aka. Red Cherry shrimp). The best selection
of Rainbow fish I have ever seen.
Second part of Fish Crawl was dedicated to Ron Nielson's fish room. Ron
and his wife were very friendly individuals and despite their recent unfortunate
events (fire in fish room) they welcomed entire group with open hands and
smile on their faces. Ron is in the process of building hi-tech hatchery/fish
room but there was still a lot to finish. Ron's fish stock was full of many
varieties of Apistogramma sp. (ex. Inca), SA/CA cichlids and africans.
Ron also sells New Life Spectrum fish food which I personally found to be
one of the best on the market. |
