Sho Tank Aquariums

Welcome to Sho Tank Aquariums. We are in the business to make your aquatic hobby enjoyable and affordable. The main goal of any hobbyists is to create an environment that can support any form of life that you wish to keep. The hobby has made several advancements over the years to enable the average hobbyist to create a thriving ecosystem. The key to these advancements stems from the understanding of water chemistry in a closed system. In the early years, hobbyists relied on the use of expensive filtration to replicate the natural resources of the ocean with very little success. Today there are several different ways to maintain and grow corals in a natural environment. Like most when I first started there were many questions and I was confused with all the conflicting advice. It seemed one question had 10 answers which made problem solving a real trick. After buying and reading several books from a variety of authors I found that there are many ways of maintaining an aquariums and the key to long term success was to marry a methodology and stick with it. We are a small brick and mortar shop located in the far north suburbs of Chicago. Our current facility is also 2000sq' of floor space and half is dedicated to the fish room. We do have freshwater and marine fish, corals, inverts, and live rock. Our coral system consists of 24- 24x18x13 oceanic tanks, they are double stacked and 2 tanks share the same light hood consisting of (3 ) 110w VHO bulbs on electronic ballasts with 2 actinic and one white actinic URI bulbs.