Chief's PA vaca!

[Chiefmcfuz]

I just returned from my family vaca in Hershey PA. This is my favorite plpace in the world for vacation spots. IAs a kid we went there and the times were more fun than we had at any other family vacation destination, probably because we had freedom and spent good quality time together as a family. Well now I am bringing that family to my kids. I Did my usual Hershey stuff (Hersheypark, Amish country, and the Strasburg railroad) But this time I took a little side trip that some of you may enjoy. I took plenty of pics, please wait til I am done posting to comment. Here is a little preview:

I was really impressed with the setup and the quality of the livestock, there were some problems but minor cyano outbreaks or 1 or 2 DOA's in a tank are nothing when you are dealing with over a thousand fish. I gave the manager the sites info to see if they would be willing to be a sponsor JIC anyone calls or PM's the admins.

 

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This is the saltwater fish room!

 

[Chiefmcfuz]

A cool way to put macro in a display tank :lol2:

 

[Chiefmcfuz]

I almost came home with this spotted stone fish but figured with the kids in the house having a fish this venomous would be a bad idea.

 

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Live rock bins

 

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Skimmer reactor combo

This is the skimmer reactor combo #2 with my 4 year old as a size comparison.

 

[Chiefmcfuz]

Ok Pics done for now, Post away!

Thanks to all who waited to post to this point thanks.

 

[Zuska]

some interesting stuff here that you posted. hope you had fun. what camera are you using???

 

[Chiefmcfuz]

Cannon S2IS

 

[masterswimmer]

Welcome back to your REAL home :hug:

You should have told us your daughter is 6' tall for perspective

R

 

[deelucky]

nice,i have ordered from there before and always wondered what it looked like.nice pics too.

 

[House of Laughter]

Skimmer reactor combo

This is the skimmer reactor combo #2 with my 4 year old as a size comparison.

This skimmer in the back is a commercial grade Bermuda Aquatics with a ReefkeeperII sticker on it.

Nice shots chief - glad you vacationed - we all needed it

House

 

[cybermeez]

I get stuff from this place and Foster and Smith online. I've have had great customer service from both. Always wondered what the place was like. Neat-o! Thanks Chief!

 

[Awibrandy]

Thank you Brendan!! Always wondered what TFP looked like. Your little angel is beautiful!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Great pics, so nice and clear. By the way, now how in the world am I suppose to stop buying fish, when you post such beautiful pics of some awesome fish.lol

 

[bad coffee]

cool pics!

Now imagine someone tipping over that 55 gallon bucket of skimmate. . .

MMMM

 

[TimberTDI]

Brendan,

I went down to visit TFP about eight years ago. I bought a trunkload of drygoods, only to realize on the way home that I paid more in sales tax than I would've in S/H. Go Figure. But I have to say, "I never felt more like a kid in candy shop then on that day."

Steven

 

[tosiek]

Chief you went all the way to PA and didn't visit! I was up there this weekend!

Thats a pretty cool store. Always meant to go stop by there but never got the time to.

 

[pmui]

nice vacation spot.

 

[jhale]

cool pics chief.

looks like the fish have plenty of room to swim maybe they could use a few more rocks, lol.

I like they have some large display tanks set up.