Touring the Birth Place Of American Aquascaping & Nano Tanks: Aqua Forest Aquarium - San Francisco
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AFA is a great store. I have ordered many items from them, including tissue culture plants. Everything comes in good, no issues. Thank you for showcasing.
Thanks for the gorgeous video!!
Being an artist myself, the concept of aquascaping is totally amazing.
Having the vision to do thess designs does not come over night.
Show stopping!
I haven't been on TH-cam as much because I've been moving into my new place, but I'm so happy to see you're still doing OK, on the platform, I'm gonna go back and catch up with your videos for sure! 🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤
Yes! Thank you!
I hope you enjoyed your time with Ivan Mikolji, you are one "lucky fish".
Ivan and I were glued at the hip for 5 days haha. We are like long lost brothers.
Rainbow Dace is a whole different fish than the Rainbow Shiners which occur in the streams of the Cumberland River Basin. Those are the American fish, and they look longer than the Rainbow Dace which are shown here. An alternate name for the Rainbow Dace is Red Shiner, and when they hit the mating season, they turn a striking red on blue, with vertical components to the red stripe. Rainbow Shiners have more of a metallic sheen which catches the light like glints off of metal. During the breading season, they get a "rainbow" of colours arising from the mid-line stripe. Rainbow Shiners prefer a little bit of flow, whereas Rainbow Dace prefer water which is a bit more still. Think babbling brook vs slow moving Rio Grande, cooler water vs warmer water. If you get young fish, they won't be colourful at all, but I like that. That way you get to keep them longer, and in addition, you get to see the metamorphosis from ugly ducklings into beautiful swans.
Correct. I just played it back.... I said rainbow daces. I thought your comment was saying I accidentally called them rainbow shiners lol
I purchase much of my hardscape ans plants from them..they are amazing... they are all about REAL aquascaping
Totally agree!
Wow! The bucks I could drop there! Thanks for the field trip. Awesome place😁☮❤🐠🦐🪴
Thanks for watching
It's great to see a glimpse of the wonderful shops out there, thanks for the tour! I'm from interior AK and don't travel often, but I've decided that my next trip, I'll be bringing SOMETHING back for my tanks, having things shipped is just so expensive.
Very cool. I'm impressed you even manage one tank!
Aquascaping is a form of art. Absolutely beautiful! I wish I had a green thumb for this. I have natural tanks, but they are made for the fish.
I hear you. I like both type tanks, but aquascapes are too time consuming for me these days...it's that or 5 to 10 fish focused tanks ( still planted though)
Aw you were in my neighborhood 😍
Nice neighborhood:)
Awesome to see a tour of this place. I’ve always wondered what it was like since reading about it almost 20 years ago on thebarrreport and such. Glad you felt well enough to edit and post while down with the C.
Totally! Same with me
I love this store, always a must visit when I’m in the Bay.
I'm really not into the aqua scape side, but I can appreciate the effort. Thanks for sharing 😊
Glad to highlight it heh
Really dig mom and pop aquarium store tours like this man, sorry to hear that you had came down with Covid! Take care of yourself I’ve had it at least twice for sure, it drains you unlike anything I’ve ever had before afterwards or at least it did me. Would love to see you branch out and do more store tours like this! There are a couple of REALLY amazing ones hidden here to me locally 😁
Thanks for this one Alex! Been waiting for a aquascapes style store
More to come! I miss talking about scaping. I was getting nostalgic just yesterday, when reflecting on the year long apprenticeship doing iwagumi tanks, it's been about 8 years since I was really invested in the style and mindset
@@Fishtory yea awsome man can't wait! id love to hear and see more about your past with scaping.i always been wanting to do a iwagumi, ive done one before long time ago ,but with lake stones not true stone types for the style. i sorta start with a iwagami for my tanks then add layers over time as stuff fills out, i miss the simplicity and peacefullness of a iwagami, nothing beats it for the zen/clean look. I have 4 tanks now and i feel comfortable with the care and upkeep, so just slowing it down and maximizing the 4 to the limits which im pretty well capped out lol
@@Fishtory oh also i know you're probably well aware of the aquascape scene, but have you heard of fukada i like listening to some of his explanations and talks about depth and style,shading and so on but he does more diarama types with more scape then plants ONe last thing it would be cool if you did a video explaining different scaping styles like .dutch,iwagumi,forest,diarama
Wow Beautiful Aquariums ! Hope you are feeling better
Yes, thank you
Oh, hey, I've shopped here! It's really gorgeous an it really won over my dad on aquariums.
That's great
Thanks Alex!
Love to see one of my favorite LFS’s being featured on your channel. Did you have a chance to visit Ocean Aquarium? It’s all freshwater no-water-change tanks, despite the name. Truly a one of a kind location with an incredible owner!
I have been there, yes, but it's been toured and discussed quite a few times on youtube, so I figured I'd film 3 new videos... so 2 more are still on the way. Including a private fish room at Pam Chin's
That looks like an amazing store! Thanks for spotlighting it.
Super awesome store !
Super awesome video !
Beautiful shop. My favorite tanks are the shallower tanks with a bigger footprint like a lowboy. Emersed growth is easier to attain in those tanks.
Totally agree!
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Thank you so kindly Bruce! Welcome! Hit up the community tab to see a whole 3 years of extra content now haha. Or the "podcast playlists" they'll be 202 extra episodes you can watch me talk...or just listen to lol. Thank you though, sincerely!
Well done, you guys are spoiled for choices out there lol. Hope you're feeling better soon my friend!
San Fran/ The Bay area ... they are extremely lucky... Chicago as well
@@Fishtory I meant the whole west coast in general 😂 your choices up in Washington & Oregon are not too shabby either
The tank you referenced the CO2 diffuser, had one, but the item you pointed to was actually an electronic steriliser - I remain unsure how effective they are, they supposedly kill algae spores. I have tested one, no firm conclusion on effectiveness. In harder water however, the membrane quickly becomes coated with calcium deposits which has to be frequently cleaned to restore the device to working order. Hope that helps for clarity. Get well soon.
Thank you. I did not catch that. I thought it was an atomizer for making fine aeration. Yeah I'm torn on the concept of electric microbe and planktonic control... like even if we say it 100% works... is that what we want?
Wow cool store 🤩
🎉Your content is awesome 🎉
it's as shrimple as that✨🦐✨
Thanks
I seen some anubias broad white yesterday what a cool plant you don’t see often also buce ketagang is amazing just got some and love the way it looks
Yeah it's wild all the new strains
Good lord the damage I would do in that place
🤣Hahah they do have a website. . . But I would be out a good $400 if I hadn't worked for several years at Aquarium Zen in Seattle (With AFA & ADA tissue cultures). Also, Dansfish.com has all the rare fish my heart desires.
@aragusea do you have any good shops with rimless tanks etc out near you? Because the UNS, Aquatop and ADA tanks are the most expensive to ship (Unless it's already in a store's pallet of orders and discounting the shipping price, but its still marked up way more out there).
@@Fishtoryoh yeah, all my glass tanks are Hydra Aquatics from Aquarium Knoxville, I get hot for those mitered corners.
@aragusea ahhh lovely. Right now is an incredible time to go to the nearby creeks and streams by your house. There are over 600 species native to Tennessee and Kentucky alone. If you can make it to the Cahaba river you can get some cahaba mycrantha water lilies,( world renowned for their beauty, and found only in that area) as well as orange throated carter's, rainbow shinners, red sided shinners, rainbow dace, stone rollers, and maybe even some little banded dwarf sunfish. Check out NANFA on Facebook or their website for more on those amazing cold tolerant native species. I bet you'd make a beautiful video and habitat for any number or those fish!
This so crazy this is actually where I bought all of my aquarium stuff when I started my freshwater adventure, all of my plants my CO2 system and my ADA Aquarium not to mention that twin star light lol that’s why I had to have the CO2 system,…
Very nice! Good choice haha
If you're not a beautiful plant, what does that make you? A noxious weed? I would have to disagree. You seem to be a beautiful plant to me, and you're definitely a beautiful plant inside if one bothers to look beyond the weathered leaves and lightning struck branch. Those are all things which add interest if one chooses to look at you in that light. Since I do, I'll continue to watch and support the beautiful plant called Alex, and Fishtory.
Awww shucks. Thanks
I wish I could visit this shop! It looks amazing! I have to say though, Alex, bit of a hard end to the video. Is there anyone here from the UK who has any Blue Tangerine Tiger Caridina shrimp, or the Blue Volt Shrimp?
Hah yeah hard end sorry. I didn't want to yammer on and add more time when only 10% of viewers make it to the end of 20 minute + videos....which by the way....thank you!
@Fishtory Ah, no worries mate 😊 It was great to see so many great plants and critters.
Any ideas of a cheap way to make a light screen? Something similar anyway. I like them a lot but way expensive....
I bought my Golden White Clouds there and they are doing great now for almost a year. It's a small store but very well kept in all ways.
I'm working on it. There's some cutting boards and opaque acrylic from the USA chain TAPP plastics that kind of work...but not quite... so I'll keep tinkering
Hey just found out about your channel from my local fish store, very curious about the natural aquarium process but having a hard time filtering through all the content so much lol. Do you have a step guide to setup a natural aquarium?
First of all, welcome! I would watch my "creating a balanced ecosystem and not just cycling your tank" video for an overview of the big scheme of things, and then watch my "lasagna Substrate, how to create one" the 40 minute verson and not jisy the 14 minute overview... from there, setting up filterless tanks and or deep substrate setup videos on my channel will probably also help. I hope this will get you going in the right direction ! But feel free to ask any questions also
@@Fishtory it does help for sure, I've watched other channels on here but the channel I've seen about it isn't as in depth which is one of the reasons I love your videos. I will 100% check them out. If you ever decide to create a step guide start to finish I would love the info dump xD. But either way thank you for all the help and info. Just setting up my first 20gal for my mom, then I'm moving to a 50gal for myself, wish me luck! 🤞
Do they ship?
Oh yeah
Surely you should be resting?!
I edited from bed
My Betta Fish Is Dead....RIP Blue 💙 it got white spot disease... I couldn't save him😭
Sorry to hear that. We do the best we can, and that's gotta be enough. Take care
@@Fishtory hmm