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In a different thread, @Fish Folksuggested I make a post about what a LFS is like in Japan. I'm thinking about trying to go to mine this weekend. It's there anything in particular y'all are interested in seeing? If there are any specific fish or products you'd like to see, let me know and I'll do my best to get some pictures. 

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On 9/23/2021 at 6:21 PM, Okesa said:

In a different thread, @Fish Folksuggested I make a post about what a LFS is like in Japan. I'm thinking about trying to go to mine this weekend. It's there anything in particular y'all are interested in seeing? If there are any specific fish or products you'd like to see, let me know and I'll do my best to get some pictures. 

If the owner will allow you to film a video, just a quiet, calm walk-through is perfect. No need for comments if you don’t want to say anything.

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This may not be essential, but for my part, I always _buy things_ first, affirming that I’m a paying customer before asking a store / manager if they’d “do me a favor.” I’d want to be very respectful. 

Be sure to look awhile at plants and any aquascaping materials / set-ups. That Amano influence runs very, very deep…

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On 9/24/2021 at 9:27 AM, Fish Folk said:

This may not be essential, but for my part, I always _buy things_ first, affirming that I’m a paying customer before asking a store / manager if they’d “do me a favor.” I’d want to be very respectful.

I need turtle food and 4 nerite snails, so I've got the buying things part covered. 😅

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If you putter around on YouTube, which apparently I do too much, you can find fish store tours from all over the world including multiple ones from Japan. It's pretty neat seeing what's popular elsewhere and the prices. Just Google "fish store tour videos" and you can spend a day or two catching up on fish stores around the world. There are a ton of videos out there.

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I need to edit the video clips I took to make sure there aren't any customers in them and remove the audio so they don't get flagged by Disney, but until I get the chance to do that, here are some pictures I took at the LFS this weekend. 

Tank setups:

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Plants for sale:

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On 9/27/2021 at 7:09 PM, Guppysnail said:

This is amazing. Never thought I would envy how a fish store tank looks!  I wish American stores would up their game like this. 

This is a particularly nice store. The small one inside the hardware store close to my house doesn't have any cool tanks - just fish and maybe some elodea. 

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On 9/28/2021 at 4:47 AM, Okesa said:

Here is a short walk-through of the store. I had to stick close to the tanks to make sure I didn't get any customers in the frame, and they were playing loud Disney music, so I had to remove the audio. I tried to caption things as best as I could, but there could be some mistakes trying to translate from the Japanese into English. 

I think that Cory at the end was in Nirvana😂

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