Alfa Aquatic Arts

06/29/2025

It’s time for our annual summer break. We will be closed July 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th. Back to normal hours Sunday the 6th. We apologize for any inconvenience. As always we Thank You for your support over the past year. Have a sunny happy and more importantly safe holiday. 🙏🏻❤️🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

06/23/2025

Very important to keep an eye on your tank temp over the next few days. Unless you are running a discus tank the number you are trying to stay under is 82* . Salt water especially things start going very bad at 84* so 82* is your better take action number. Ways to cool your tank include if you have a glass canopy open it. Floating frozen water bottles works well but the best/ easiest method I’ve found over the years is just set up a fan blowing across the surface of the water that will normally drop temp on average by 5-6*. Stay cool out there friends 🐠🐡😎

06/23/2025

06/22/2025

We will be open normal hours today 10-4. Tomorrow and Wednesday we be running modified hours. 8am - noon both days. Keep an eye on those tank temperatures this week 😉🐟. It’s a good idea to fill up some water bottles and freeze them ahead of time in case of aquarium overheating issues.

06/20/2025

Monday and Tuesday atm are looking brutal heat wise. We’ve canceled livestock orders for the beginning of the week for the safety of the critters. We might be altering hours for those 2 days as well. Will likely be open from 8 am until noon. Will update y’all once the forecast is confirmed.

06/14/2025

We were pleasantly surprised to find a sealed case of my late mother’s book while doing some spring cleaning. Only 2 printings of this book were done so this is sadly the last of them. We have them for sale at the shop if you’re interested in a great identification guide/ conversation starting coffee table book. Also found a bunch of photos of the National Geographic snapping turtle study we were lucky enough to be a part of . They are displayed if you’d like to check them out.

06/10/2025

Pokey brought his girlfriend in to help with this morning’s fish order. 🐠🐟🐡🐶🦊❤️

06/03/2025

I’ve been wanting to redo the aquascape on the display for awhile now but there is always something else that needs attention. To my surprise I had a free morning so I was able to get it done. Plenty of caves, swim throughs and swimming room . Pretty happy with how it came out. Sorry about the glare of the glass.

06/01/2025

Today marks 1 year since Amy and I took over ownership of the shop and what a year it’s been. Lots of ups a few downs and so much learning. We hope you all like the continuing improvements we are making to the store ( we aren’t done yet) . We hope to continue serving the local aquarium community for many more years to come. Amy, Allie, Pokey and myself would just like to thank all of you our very valued customers, new and old for making this possible. It just doesn’t work without y’all. Enjoy summer in New England but don’t ignore those tanks too much. 😉🙏🏻❤️

05/20/2025

Tanks were pretty well stocked already but the Boss 🐶 said since there will be no orders next week because of the holiday we better do a filler order this week. Tanks are gonna be packed . 🙏🏻❤️🐟🐠🐡