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I visited Absolutely Fish after an unsuccessful plant hunt down on route 22, when I arrived I was surprised to see two large tanks full of good looking plants. Their planted display tank was also cleaned up as it had been looking pretty bad over the holidays. They had bright green ambulia, good looking hairgrass, only two pots of nice glosso (which sold out by the time I left), and plenty of the red type of rotala, ludwiga, etc.

I wouldn't say I was blown away by the freshwater fishtanks, but they did seem to have an incredible variety of fish, water looked clean, and the livestock looked very healthy. Japonica shrimp were $4.99 each which seems a little high considering their small size, but they also looked healthy. They didn't seem to have a lot of catfish or cories if your into that. Also, they were selling the false SAE's labeled as SAE's, maybe some people just don't care, but I can't believe a store of this caliber is doing that.

The staff is very busy but very helpful, the young guy who helped me even asked if I had enough light for a planted tank. By the way, behind the checkout counter they started a small 10G planted tank which looks like its going to be very good.

EDIT 01/21/06: I must have been mistaken about the false SAE's, because today i visited there and the had a tank with true SAE's labeled as "True SAE's", I think they were ~$7.99 each..my bad...