Blue Ridge Aquatics

Blue Ridge Aquatics Nature aquarium store in downtown Waynesboro, VA 🇺🇸 Quarantined freshwater and marine fish + natural aquascaping supplies.

Live aquatic plants, corals, driftwood, oh my!

Gift cards available! 💚 Tag someone that needs a hint!! 🤔 🎁🌲
12/18/2025

Gift cards available! 💚 Tag someone that needs a hint!! 🤔 🎁🌲

12/15/2025

A beautiful tank is all in the details 🤌

Let’s talk shrimp! 🦐Thinking about getting your first neocaridina shrimp? They are SO MUCH FUN but a little different th...
12/13/2025

Let’s talk shrimp! 🦐

Thinking about getting your first neocaridina shrimp? They are SO MUCH FUN but a little different than keeping fish. Our water is great for them here in VA but there’s a few things to know:

Neocaridina Shrimp Water Parameters:
Neutral PH: 6.5-7.5
GH: 6-10 dGh
KH: 2-8 dKh

Tips for success:
-Shrimp are more sensitive than fish. Be sure to acclimate properly and don’t do huge water changes.
- They can be tasty snacks for fish, but can live with certain fish if they are small enough not to eat shrimp. Shrimp only tanks are a lot of fun and low maintenance!
- Shrimp love natural decor like real plants, wood, and rocks.
- Be sure to add a sponge cover to your filter so they don’t get sucked up!
- weekly 10% water change recommended

Acclimation:
Shrimp are super sensitive compared to fish. Shrimp will likely die if your tank hasn’t cycled for 4-6 weeks or more. They don’t like big water changes or big adjustments in water parameters. Before adding shrimp to your tank, drip acclimate them by pouring in small cups of tank water into their bag every 10 minutes for an hour or two to slowly adjust them to your water.

Breeding:
One male and one female needed. The female will become “berried” with eggs under her belly and you can see them grow under her until they hatch. She’ll hold onto the eggs for 3-4 weeks and then the shrimplets will hatch and be free swimming, smaller than an eyelash! Provide lots of hiding spots for baby shrimp if fish are in the tank, they are easy snacks!

Colors / Genetics: Shrimp can be bred to achieve special colors and patterns like rili shrimp (striped). Colors don’t always mix upon breeding… blue shrimp + red shrimp don’t make purple shrimp, and red + yellow won’t make orange... It’s complicated. If you choose to mix colors and go with a ‘skittles’ shrimp tank, their colors will eventually revert back to ‘wild type’ brown shrimp after many generations of cross breeding. Culling (rehoming) unwanted colors will help the genetic pool remain consistent in color, grade, and patterns.

Food:
Shrimp will eat pretty much anything. Feed them shrimp specific food, algae wafers, sinking fish food, blanched vegetables like cucumber or broccoli, or even leaves.

How will you colonize the rainbow? 💚

12/11/2025

Show and tell! 🪾🐠 🌱 What goodies have you brought home from Blue Ridge Aquatics?

🎼 Deck the tanks with fish and live plants, fa la la la la, la la la la 🎁 ‘Tis the season to upgrade! Stock up and shop ...
12/08/2025

🎼 Deck the tanks with fish and live plants, fa la la la la, la la la la

🎁 ‘Tis the season to upgrade! Stock up and shop local this holiday during our 12 Days of Fishmas! Gift cards available!

✨ Did we mention handmade quilted ornaments by Mike’s Grandma? 🌲 💚

12/07/2025

📣 IT IS 🦐TIME!!! These will go FAST! If you’re looking for fire reds, yellow goldenbacks, blue velvets, snowballs, bloody marys, or Amano shrimp, run, don’t walk, we are open 12-7 tomorrow. More to come in time, thank you for your patience! 🦐 💚

Get them what they REALLY want this year 🎁 🌲 a sleek new paludarium, tank/stand combo, or all-in-one tank setup from Ult...
12/05/2025

Get them what they REALLY want this year 🎁 🌲 a sleek new paludarium, tank/stand combo, or all-in-one tank setup from Ultum Nature Systems! Available for custom order! 💚

Cold? ❄️ We know of a place where it’s always a warm and toasty 72 degrees and full of all sorts of great snow day activ...
12/05/2025

Cold? ❄️ We know of a place where it’s always a warm and toasty 72 degrees and full of all sorts of great snow day activities… Open 12-7pm 🔥

If you’re planning on stopping by tomorrow for , parking will close along W. Main from 3pm onwards for The Waynesboro Christmas Parade (starts @ 6pm), but the back parking lots and the Farmer’s Market parking lot will remain open, and so will we! What better way to spend a Saturday evening than setting up camp out in front of Blue Ridge Aquatics with family, friends, and some amazing local food 🥘 🍕 ☕️ 🥪 to watch the parade. And maybe bring home some driftwood and rocks… 🪾🪨💚

Weekend stock list! 🎁 💚 See you on
12/05/2025

Weekend stock list! 🎁 💚 See you on

12/04/2025

We checked twice, your tank is on the nice list 👍 🎁 🎅 🤶 ❤️

12/03/2025

Skipping quarantine is like getting gas station sushi 🍱 🍣 Will you be fine? Maybe. Should you risk it? Absolutely not.

Some cool fish arrived to the quarantine room today 📦 and we have a ton more on the way this week! More 🌱on the way! More saltwater 🐠 + 🪸 from Biota(!) is on the way! Colonized rainbows of neocaridina shrimp 🦐- on the way! It’s going to be a fun month! ❄️

Any future requests for 🎅 🤶 🎁?

Address

317 W. Main Street
Waynesboro, VA
22980

Opening Hours

Tuesday 12pm - 7pm
Wednesday 12pm - 7pm
Thursday 12pm - 7pm
Friday 12pm - 7pm
Saturday 12pm - 7pm
Sunday 12pm - 7pm

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