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As a region, Denver and the surrounding central-area of Colorado is gifted with more than its fair share of high quality aquarium stores. Freshwater fish, saltwater fish, corals and reef tanks are all very well represented across the front range of the Colorado Rockies.
With Denver hosting MACNA 2014 and being the home of the annual ReefStock aquarium conference, yearly reef aquarium visitors already know that Denver is killing it on the aquarium front. And indeed it is to distribute flyers for the upcoming ReefStock 2016 conference that we performed our annual two-day LFS crawl and saw lots of everything that makes aquarium-keeping fun and exciting.
We saw super rare fish at Stone Aquatics, sprawling coral selections at Aquatic Art, some great nano tanks at Elite Reef, and much, much more and the highlights are documented in our active Instagram feed. No matter your aquarium preference, fish stores in the Denver-area are full of great aquariums and displays, and if you’re coming to Denver for ReefStock you’ll definitely want to take some time to visit a few of them.
This hammer coral is over 20 years old and grew to this size over a decade ago. It's taken lots of careful fragging over that time to manage age its size into this 250 gallon show tank. #HammerCoral #coral #coralreef #Euphyllia #euphylliaancora #reefbuilders
A photo posted by reefbuilders (@reefbuilders) on Jan 31, 2016 at 4:53pm PST
The neon hogfish is a #deepwater #Hawaii #endemic #coralreeffish #bodianus #hogfish #saltwaterfish #wrasse
A photo posted by reefbuilders (@reefbuilders) on Jan 31, 2016 at 10:52am PST
One of the #HolyGrail #Angelfish, the masked #personatus angel from #Hawaii is on display at Stone Aquatics in Englewood CO. #rarefish #genicanthus #reeffish #reeftank #reefbuilders
A photo posted by reefbuilders (@reefbuilders) on Jan 31, 2016 at 9:46am PST
This is the biggest #WaltDisneyAcro I've seen in real life so far. I've seen tons of little bugger #frags of WD #Acropora but Aquatic Art has the golden touch when it comes to growing out rare #coral. #spscoral #allmymoneygoestocoral #reeftanks #reefbuilders
A photo posted by reefbuilders (@reefbuilders) on Jan 31, 2016 at 8:09am PST
This #multicolor chalice coral is quite the showstopper in the center of the 600 gallon reef display at Aquatic Art. #nofilter #multicolor #chalicecoral #echinophyllia #allmymoneygoestocoral #reeftanks #reefbuilders #coral
A photo posted by reefbuilders (@reefbuilders) on Jan 30, 2016 at 9:46pm PST
Check out this large mature colony of #SpaceInvader #Pectinia in the show #reeftank of Aquatic Art in Highlands Ranch CO. #allmymoneygoestocoral #reefbuilders #lpscoral #stonycoral
A photo posted by reefbuilders (@reefbuilders) on Jan 30, 2016 at 11:58am PST
I spotted this gnarly encrusting #Montipora at Animal Attraction all the way over in Greeley CO. #SPS #stonycoral #ReefBuilders #ReefStock
A photo posted by reefbuilders (@reefbuilders) on Jan 29, 2016 at 8:01pm PST
Spied this big honkin #Acanthastrea #bowerbanki @aqua_medic_usa_inc – been so long since we've seen such a large 'Banki it was almost nostalgic to see this one. #reeftank #allmymoneygoestocoral #lps
A photo posted by reefbuilders (@reefbuilders) on Jan 29, 2016 at 3:32pm PST
This #TriColor valida #Acropora is lapping up the bright light at the top of the Aqua Imports show tank. #spscoral #stonycoral #reeftank #ReefStock
A photo posted by reefbuilders (@reefbuilders) on Jan 29, 2016 at 2:20pm PST
These wild caught freshwater Leopoldi #angelfish are no sissies, and dang do they look great together in their super sized #FluvalEdge aquarium. #Pterophyllum #cichlid #freshwaterfish
A video posted by reefbuilders (@reefbuilders) on Jan 29, 2016 at 2:16pm PST
Here's a gorgeous #Montipora setosa we spied @ Aqua Imports in Boulder. #spscoral #allmymoneygoestocoral #reeftank #ReefBuilders
A photo posted by reefbuilders (@reefbuilders) on Jan 29, 2016 at 1:59pm PST
liquid Kingdom in Broomfield is filled with tons of great fish, lots of #DesignerClownfish and we even saw this tiny marbled cat #SharkEgg. It's so cute and small it looks like a #Tadpole
A video posted by reefbuilders (@reefbuilders) on Jan 29, 2016 at 11:57am PST
https://www.instagram.com/p/BBIkqWXCKFN/?taken-by=reefbuilders
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