An Instagram Blitz of Denver area Local Fish Stores

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 #acrooptics @acrooptics
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

We're on our annual #Colorado #LFS crawl to distribute flyers for #ReefStock – first up is @elitereef in Arvada with this rockin' little #Nanoreef which is LED lit and even has a tiny #refugium on the back
A photo posted by reefbuilders (@reefbuilders) on Jan 29, 2016 at 11:01am PST

Jake Adams

Jake Adams has been an avid marine aquarist since the mid 90s and has worked in the retail side of the marine aquarium trade for more than ten years. He has a bachelor’s degree in Marine Science and has been the managing editor of ReefBuilders.com since 2008. Jake is interested in every facet of the marine aquarium hobby from the concepts to the technology, rare fish to exotic corals, and his interests are well documented through a very prolific career of speaking to reef clubs and marine aquarium events, and writing articles for aquarium publications across the globe. His primary interest is in corals which Jake pursues in the aquarium hobby as well as diving the coral reefs of the world.