Showroom Appointment — Aquarium & Vivarium Gallery

A working gallery of aquarium and vivarium displays built to zoo standard — and you can book it to yourself. No crowd, no queue, no sales floor. Just the room, the animals, and the marine biologist who keeps them.

Your adult ticket comes back to you

Every adult ticket is applied in full as credit against any same-day in-store purchase. Buy a fish, a coral, a light, a bag of salt — the price of the ticket comes straight off it. Come and look properly, take your time, and if you leave with something, the visit cost you nothing at all.

Come and look

Reef, planted, biotope and vivarium systems running side by side, stocked with animals most shops never get near: wild oddballs, aquacultured corals, dart frogs, rare morphs and colour forms. It is a genuinely good afternoon — bring the kids, bring a camera, take your time. Plenty of people come purely to see the displays and leave without buying a thing. That is fine by us.

Come and decide

Not sure what you want yet? That is the best possible reason to book. Photographs flatten everything — walk the room and see what a species actually looks like at full size, in real colour, under real light, in a system that has been running for years. Then get a straight answer on what it needs, what it costs to keep, and whether it suits the tank you already have.

Come and pick my brain

For keepers who already know their way around a tank. Book 15 or 30 minutes of Cameron's time and use it however you like: bring water numbers, bring photos, bring a problem you have not been able to crack, or bring a build you are planning and want stress-tested before you spend money on it. Marine biologist, 25+ years in the hobby, no upselling and no guessing.

What it costs

• Gallery tour — adult (13 & up) — $10. Credited in full against any same-day in-store purchase.
• Gallery tour — child (12 & under) — $20. Non-refundable, and not applied as credit.
• Tour + 15 minutes with Cameron — $39.
• Tour + 30 minutes with Cameron — $78.

Ages

Anyone 13 and over books an adult ticket — and gets the credit. Children 12 and under book the child ticket, which is non-refundable and is not applied as credit against a purchase.

Booking a visit as part of an online order? The adult ticket comes off automatically at checkout — one per item you buy — and time with Cameron comes off automatically on orders over $150.

All of it is free, always, for clients on a YoCamron's aquarium maintenance plan.

16 Bridge Street, New Milford, Connecticut. Saturday and Sunday, 12–10 PM, by appointment.