Abstract: A live seafood storage apparatus having a tank for holding seafood, such as lobsters, and a substantially rectangular storage tank for a large quantity of bacteria-supporting bio-media. The storage tank is disposed beneath the lobster tank. Normally, water drains from the lobster tank into the storage tank, where it passes through a pre-filter and down through the large volume of bio-media. Water is moved from the storage tank back to the lobster tank by a pump. If a power failure occurs, substantially all of the water drains from the lobster tank by gravity into the storage tank. Closed access doors minimize evaporation, thus providing sufficient moisture within the lobster tank for lobsters to survive for an extended period of time.