Saltwater Fish & Coral · Frankfort, Illinois
The color you
came for is
already here.
Family owned, live coral and fish store located at 9500 Lincoln Highway in Frankfort, Illinois.
#AdvancedAquatics #GETSALTY
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Saltwater Fish & Coral · Frankfort, Illinois
Family owned, live coral and fish store located at 9500 Lincoln Highway in Frankfort, Illinois.
#AdvancedAquatics #GETSALTY
The Sunlit Zone
Everything in this room has been through our system, watched, and fed before it ever goes up for sale. If something isn't ready, it doesn't leave — and if a tank isn't ready for it, we'll tell you that too.
That's the whole difference. Livestock is easy to buy anywhere. Livestock that lives is a different business.
The Back Reef
Advanced Aquatics started the way most good coral shops do — one tank that turned into a room, then a room that turned into a business. Around here everyone just calls the guy behind it Frankie Finns, and that name stuck long before the shop did.
It's still family owned and run out of the same store on Lincoln Highway. No corporate ordering system and no rotating staff who don't know your tank — just the person who fed your coral picking up the phone when you call.
Salt Life Selects
WYSIWYG — what you see is what you get. Every coral pictured is the exact piece you'll receive.
The Refugium
Reef School
Water changes, dosing, quarantine, whatever's going wrong in your tank this week — there's a good chance it's already been covered on the shop's TikTok. Here are a few to start with; we'll swap these for a proper curated set once Frank picks his favorites.
Struggling with pH levels?
How filtration actually works
Anchor Down
Parameters that won't hold. A coral that keeps closing up. A tank you're about to give up on. Frank has been keeping reef systems long enough to have already made the mistake you're about to make.
No appointment, no pressure. Bring a water sample and a photo of the tank. Worst case, you leave knowing what's actually wrong.
Come see it lit
Photos don't do actinic lighting justice. The color in this room is the reason people drive out here.
