Massive 500 Gallon Cichlid Tank! (Nova Tropicals Tour)
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Today's video is a local fish store tour in Washington, D.C., where we highlight a 500 gallon cichlid tank, some beautiful cichlid stocking options, and some rare fish. The fish store is Nova Tropicals in Dale City, VA, just outside of DC. We really enjoyed seeing the amount of cichlids available, as well as a clean and well managed store. You can find more from Nova Tropicals below:
📍 Nova Tropicals
5409 Mapledale Plaza
Dale City, VA 22193
From our first two DC episodes, we followed Mike to his local store. We loved seeing all of the different cichlid tanks, but even more - we enjoyed getting to know Mike and sharing his inspiring story. In our previous video, we discussed, how the aquarium hobby saved his life. Like many other first responders or service members, Mike dealt with combat issues, PTSD, and trauma, and his fish room and aquariums gave him a valuable outlet and positive hobby to improve his well being and mental health. You can find the full interview below, along with links to his channel.
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Our favorite LFS. A few of the fish in the 500 came from me. Dave the owner rehomed 19 cichlids from me for store credit, he's an awesome guy and I came home with a 210gal tank. John and Lisa, KGTropicals, turned us on to Dave and his great store.
Thank you for visiting our store my name is Shane I’m the one who does saltwater for nova tropicals. So thank you for coming in and completing my saltwater tanks was a lot of work to get them to were they are now.
@CichlidBros
6 ай бұрын
Thanks for having us! And seriously, that display tank was pristine! 👏🏼
@oVAPEoo
6 ай бұрын
Thanks and you guys are awesome sorry I wasn’t there to meet you all I was doing services
All their show tanks are incredible. It was an awesome tour with great camera work. Thanks.
I really liked the 500g setup. Very presentable!
Very cool seeing yall come to my area. NoVa Tropicals is awesome. Centreville Aquarium is my go to LFS being so close to I-66 and if you're north of DC you have to hit up House of Tropicals fo sho!
@dcdude81
6 ай бұрын
Same here, but selection is on the weak side. I go their for frozen food mostly.
Same here Alec! I’m 6’5 and absolutely love a tall tank and hate having to bend over to see the tank
@CichlidBros
5 ай бұрын
Love having tall tanks/stands!
So beautiful ❤ thanks for the tour. Merry Christmas from Birmingham England 🇬🇧 ❤️
@CichlidBros
6 ай бұрын
Merry Christmas!
Love that store. The owner and staff are great.
Literally was there just last week
@CichlidBros
6 ай бұрын
Just missed ya!
Every tank is super clean..
NOVA tropicals is a wonderful store. I know them well.
@CichlidBros
6 ай бұрын
That’s great!
This is sickkkkkkkkkkk
@CichlidBros
6 ай бұрын
👊🏻👊🏻
Great video guys!
@CichlidBros
6 ай бұрын
Thanks for watching!
My Go to Place for all fish needs only 15 mins away! been going to them since day one! i can never go in there with out leaving empty handed! haha always enjoy a good convo with Dave, Shane, and Noah awesome guys! they always have my back with anything needed for my tanks.
@CichlidBros
6 ай бұрын
Awesome, love to hear that!
Awesome tour guys! Really nice shop there! The 500 gal wow what we could do with that tank! Like #399 i wanted to be 400 but someone slacking😅 lol
Second question what would the dimensions be on the water box 380.8 and the price. And is there a waterbox 380.8 and the waterbox 500 gallon I would like the dimensions and price for the 380.8 and the waterbox 500 gallon..??? And your waterbox 500 gallon aquarium is sweet 👍👌
Your water box 500 gallon aquarium sweet, Can I ask you what would the dimensions be on the aquarium please and thank you
Do the calculations for it’s like four 125s
What was the rare tanganyikan cichlid
I have a Question I have a 75 gallon chilids tank and a 20 gallon! I'm going away for 3 days do I need to buy a automatic feeder and if so are there any you recommend? Thank you so much
@CichlidBros
6 ай бұрын
I usually wouldn’t worry about feeding them, but if you want an auto feeder - I like the one from aquarium co op or Eheim
@dtechvinnie
6 ай бұрын
@CichlidBros Do you have link to website
@JosephKarthic
6 ай бұрын
Get some tiny fishes and put them in the tank before you leave, the cichlids will hunt them when hungry, when you return home if you don't see any tinies then you know why, if you see some remaining they mastered the art of survival and you should keep them...😂
@dtechvinnie
6 ай бұрын
@@JosephKarthic not doing that
Come down south a little bit and check out aquariums unlimited in Virginia bread
Did I miss hear or did he say he got into the hobby about four months ago at the time of the making of that video ,he needs to slow down or he’s gonna crash and burn😂
@CichlidBros
6 ай бұрын
Yeah you misheard I think
@dcdude81
6 ай бұрын
I believe he said he got into the hobby last year. Still hardcore collection in just one year.
@oscardean6351
6 ай бұрын
@@dcdude81 yeah I was talking about the first video he appeared in I’m sure he said four months, that’s why all the tanks still look new. Nothing wrong with it though fair play to him 👍☹️
@dcdude81
6 ай бұрын
@@oscardean6351 either way, that’s a bunch of fish tanks in a short period. He seems into it though, hopefully it works out.