I'm Gonna Miss Liquid Sunshine

Leah C.

February 8, 2010 - 5:21 PM

Bad news. One of my favorite stores in Eugene is closing: Liquid Sunshine. The local fish store was a convenient stop for me to get all my aquarium needs. Apparently the owner, Eric is moving out to become an aquarist at the Curator of Living Collections in North Carolina. I will no longer be able to walk over and purchase healthy and well loved fishes. No offense, but large chain pet stores can sometimes be a gamble when purchasing live fish. I have had bad experience with new tank mates that belly up after a week. It's just the care that is put into raising fishes that makes them happy and healthy.

Every bad news must have a good news, and that is everything in the store is heavily discounted. Tanks, food, accessories, and FISH are all 30%, with an additional 20% off if you can name Eric's favorite family of fish (hint starts with a "C"). In total, that comes down to 50% off! which is ridiculous, but everything must go. If I could, I'd buy everything. Unfortunately I'm a bit low on money, and I already have too many tanks and fishes at home.

An update on the pets: Mark Twain has a new friend who lives on my desk. A blue and red crowned tail betta. I also just got two African dwarf frogs. These frogs spend their time under water and are no bigger than my thumb. They're so cute!! Anyways, sorry for the fish blurb, I had some other things I wanted to write about this week, but I got caught up. Please bear with me. I have a midterm tomorrow and I haven't had the chance to study. HKSA budget filled up my Friday day, I'll have to explain later, but until then, I'd advise checking out Liquid Sunshine before they close. It's a lovely family owned place. I'll probably check it out again later this week and I'll try to not bring my wallet with me this time.