MANKATO —
The pet fish that Garrett Jewison sells in his South Front Street shop are vividly colorful.
He has to take customers’ word for it.
Jewison is color blind and can’t see the true hues that attract most customers to his product.
Pet fish have always been a part of Jewison’s life, but he doesn’t remember exactly when or why he acquired the passion to raise the exotic fish found around reefs of salt water seas.
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Garrett Jewison has been raising salt water corals and fish for about a decade. His hobby turned into an Internet business about 18 months ago and now includes a downtown store at 632 South Front St. John Cross
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Garrett Jewison was into raising salt water fish a few years before “Finding Nemo,” an animated movie about a clown fish like this real version, made salt water fish aquariums more popular. John Cross
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People who prefer salt water aquariums to fresh water aquariums say they enjoy the bright colors such as those found on the raccoon butterfly fish (background) and cleaner wrasse (foreground). John Cross
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A blue devil damsel is one of many colorful varieties of salt water fish available at Fragtastic Reef, a new downtown Mankato store. John Cross
August 5, 2011
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