gmann21193

wow! its only 11.51 miles from my house thats like 16 minutes... cool. Sadly i havent found a great one yet. I just go to the massively overpriced Tongs Tropical Fish near where i live.

agsansoo

gmann,
Have you been here ? I've been wanting to go there.

EYE CANDY AQUARIUMS
8056 LAMPSON AVENUE
GARDEN GROVE, CA 92841
(714) 895-4871

The LFS I usually go to is. It's small, but very clean. :
Orange Coast Tropical Fish & Supplies
6881 Western Ave
Buena Park, CA 90621
(714) 523-1003

COBettaCouple

we're just getting started.. hopefully we'll get to breed more of them in the future.

gmann21193

The Eye Candy aquariums one is about 5 min. from my house and the orange coast tropical fish and supplies one is about 20 min. from my house. ive never been to any of them though... think ill check it out soon...

armadillo

Oh man, you have those great fish places around the corner and you don't go? Think of poor old us stuck in Holland! I'd be lucky to get a cardinal neon here. Go on, then, splash out on my behalf. splashing, waaarf!

gmann21193

im gonna go to that eye candy aquariums place in a few minutes haha

agsansoo

So ... How was eye candy aquariums ?

gmann21193

its a tiny place.... primarily focused on saltwater reef tanks. It has a freshwater section... but the freshwater section is somewhat pathetic. The Saltwater section is pretty nice but a bit overpriced. The freshwater section is super overcrowded and super overpriced. The only fair price on a freshwater fish i saw was a Discus for $45. They basically have large expensive cichlids. One was at least 8 iches long and it was crammed into a tank no bigger than 10 gallons. They also had a "Red Texas" Cichlid for $400. Is that reasonable!!!!. They have some really nice reefs, but they need some more freshwater pratice. The lfs near my house is pretty big with a large selection. I feel that Eye Candy Aquariums wasnt that great.

anyways, my lfs is very overpriced but the employees are very helpful.


Tong's Tropical Fish
(714) 842-2733
8976 Warner Ave
Fountain Valley, CA 92708

this place not only has a lot of livestock.... but a HUGE selection of tanks and supplies as well.

Newtankdude

HAHAHAH!!!!! NO!!!!!!!!!!! lol...geeze, I didn't know freshwater could be so expensive...unless their a bunch of ripoffs!!

Newtankdude

My LFS is pretty small...but they got some good fish in there and an AWSOME display tank. I'll get pics later...
They have a Lionfish/ Stingray tank..I call it the "poison tank".... lol

sirdarksol

Cool store. Beautiful sharks. Doesn't look like there's much "decoration" in there for the sharks, though.

gmann21193

haha. Tong's has a ray tank. They all seem like they want out. They are always shooting up at the water and splashing everything haha. I'm not sure what kind the one i saw was... it was a plain light brown and was about 8 inches long including the tail. How big a tank do you think someone would need to house those cool things. I think it would be awesome to have some rays.

Newtankdude

I don't know but my LFS (Fish Central) knows how to compact them! lol, there were like, 5, along with 3 lion fish in a little I think 35ga tank! lol...they were like, longer than 5in and the lions were bigger than my head...I feel bad for the fish... but their usualy gone the next weekend, I guess people buy em fast! I think Rays need like, over 3,000ga if you want it to fully grow and not harm fish...you ever seen the size of manta rays!??!? Their huge!

sirdarksol

Depends on the type of ray. Manta rays, as you say, need a huge tank. (I'm not even sure that 3,000 gallon would be big enough. They end up having a 10'+ "wingspan".) However, certain stingrays are much smaller. There's a type of South American freshwater stingray that can be kept in a pretty small (shallow with big footprint) tank.

gmann21193

I dont think Stores would ever try and sell a Manta Ray lol!!!!!!!! " Oh by the way, your new ray can achieve a maximum disc width of 29.5 feet with an average width of about 22 feet. Oh yea one more thing.... It can weigh 3,000 pounds... but i'm sure you have a big enough tank for it. Now let's talk prices. Hmmm I'll sell it to you for only $580,000!! What a bargain! So... will you take it? Oh yea... you might want to buy $500,000 worth of food to last you a little bit " LOL!!

gmann21193

do you know any of the names of these small rays?

COBettaCouple

I think i'll wait on that manta ray tank.. maybe until after winning the powerball or something.

sirdarksol

Blue Stingray (marine) grows to 75cm

Bluespotted stingray (marine) grows to 67cm

Spotted Stingray (freshwater) is what they have at the Great Lakes Aquarium

These are only a few examples. There are dozens, if not hundreds of types of stingrays in the world, and they seem to either be several meters long or less than a meter.

agsansoo

gmann21193,
Thanks for the Eye Candy and Tong's Tropical Fish Store review ! It seem that all LFS or over priced LOL ! Did you know that Tong was had a big sale this past weekend ? 6/23-6/24. I missed it .

Newtankdude

I went fishing yesterday and saw a pretty big ray jump over our waves...it looked about 2' wide and it was all black with a ton of spots...you know what it is?

sirdarksol

A guess would be a spotted eagle ray, however, many rays are spotted, so I'm not positive.

Newtankdude

I thought it was an Eagle ray too.

sirdarksol

Did it have a pointed head, rather than the dual "antennae" of manta rays? If so, it was almost definitely an eagle ray.

Newtankdude

I think it did, I couldn't really tell because it was like, 100ft from us and it wasn't very big

gmann21193

I can only imagine the sale bein only 5% off hahahaha. Oh well. Did you go to Tong's? how did you find out about the sale?

gmann21193

are there any rays that can be housed in a 150 Gallon tank? LOL probably not huh.

Newtankdude

not sure.

sirdarksol

Any of the rays that I mentioned above could survive in a 150g, but it would have to be a shallow 150, and you'd have to put a few powerheads in. They get to be about 2 to 3 feet long, and I think that counts tail (which about doubles their length), so they end up being about 1-1.5 feet wide. They need room to maneuver on the bottom, so that means that the tank's narrowest side should be at least 3 feet. The display tank at the aquarium is a 4-5 feet diameter circle, and holds three rays throughout the day (I think they get moved to a different tank overnight, but I could be wrong).

agsansoo

5% that's funny ! Not worth the trip down there ... I heard about the sale through a fellow reefer. Hey There's a 4th of July sale at Strictly Fish also, usually 30% off everything ! I find out the detail this week.

gmann21193

when you get the details let me know...... there is one right by me. Have you heard good things about that place or ever been there? I've never been there before