A Comprehensive List of Coldwater Marine Livestock Sources - PLEASE GIVE SUGGESTIONS!

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Considering the (somewhat) recent closure of Coldwater Marine Aquatics, I must ask the question: Where can you still find Coldwater Marine Livestock?
Perhaps I should start a list of sources. Here it goes:

In the States:
Carolina
Gulf of Maine
Gulf Specimen Marine Laboratories
Matsu Collections
MBL Aquaculture
Oceans, Reefs & Aquariums: ORA
Quality Marine
Shark Supply LLC
Shark & Reef International

Outside the U.S.:
Charm
De Jong Marinelife
elasmobranch Inc.
Flying Sharks

Kind of a source:
LiveAquaria

Please feel free to leave suggestions and I will add them to the list!
 

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Add Blue Corner Japan for people with really deep pockets.


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Great suggestion! Unfortunately, I realized I cannot edit my original post ☹️. Newbie mistakes.
I added a link to their web page in my reply.

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Living Elements and Ken Wong in Vancouver, but I do not think their permits allow them to sell to private individuals. I'm pretty sure I know all of the temperate suppliers in the US and you have all the ones I know of listed. There is also Consistent Sea, but I believe they get their temperate animals from Matsu.

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Considering the (somewhat) recent closure of Coldwater Marine Aquatics, I must ask the question: Where can you still find Coldwater Marine Livestock?
Perhaps I should start a list of sources. Here it goes:

In the States:
Carolina
Gulf of Maine
Gulf Specimen Marine Laboratories
Matsu Collections
MBL Aquaculture
Oceans, Reefs & Aquariums: ORA
Quality Marine
Shark Supply LLC
Shark & Reef International

Outside the U.S.:
Charm
De Jong Marinelife
elasmobranch Inc.
Flying Sharks

Kind of a source:
LiveAquaria

Please feel free to leave suggestions and I will add them to the list!
I can supply west coast coldwater marine life as well.
 

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I struggled in Australia to source commercially available cold water species. Only found temperate captive bred sea horse.

There is one - Steve (forget his last name) who normally collects seahorses and seadragons, but has sent other coldwater species to Japan. There is also Pang Quong, but he isn't active lately and really only dealt with leafy seadragons.

I used to be able to get temperate Australian fish fairly regularly, but not any more.....


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There is one - Steve (forget his last name) who normally collects seahorses and seadragons, but has sent other coldwater species to Japan. There is also Pang Quong, but he isn't active lately and really only dealt with leafy seadragons.

I used to be able to get temperature Australian fish fairly regularly, but not any more.....


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The aussie boxfish used to be somewhat common (for a Coldwater fish) on liveaquaria and in stores.
 

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I know Jellyfish Warehouse carries a few cold water jellies.

 

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Is Matsu Collections still selling? Anytime I click on a window on their website it just downloads a zipped folder. On the contact tab I asked if they were still selling and never got a response after a month. Does the website work for others? It could just be that there is something wrong with my device.

http://www.matsucollections.com/home.html
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Is Matsu Collections still selling? Anytime I click on a window on their website it just downloads a zipped folder. On the contact tab I asked if they were still selling and never got a response after a month. Does the website work for others? It could just be that there is something wrong with my device.

http://www.matsucollections.com/home.html
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I haven’t tried ordering from them, but the site worked the last time I visited it - each of those list pictures downloaded the list of specimens for the category clicked.
 

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