UK Fish Store Directory

[glolite]

Wyevale A28 Chartham near Canterbury Kent
9/10 for all 3 ratings

Good range of tropical and marine fish plus plants.
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Bybrook Barn Garden Centre, Ashford Kent

9/10 for all ratings

As above plus more unusual species (topaz puffers, DP's and others)
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Shotgate Nursery off the A127 between turnoffs for Wickford and Billaricay Essex

This one has the WOW factor for me. Large display tanks with large rays etc.
Definately worth an hour and a half's drive for me!!!
Staff friendly and helpful
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[bookworm]

The Goldfish Bowl - Magdalen Rd, Oxford

LFS

Variety - 10
Quality - 9
Staff - 7

They have a huge stock of fish iv'e never seen so many '+)

None of them had any signs of desease all were perky, however there were a few bettas in what looked like glorified jars; no heater or filter.

I didn't really talk to any of the staff but i have heard good things.

Can't wait to buy my tank and fish from them

I agree that the goldfish bowl in magdalen rd oxford is excellent, good variety of fish that always look healthy and the staff are helpfull and informative, have purchased all my fish and plants from them.

I had a bad experience with buying fish from yarnton nurseries they all died(6 guppies) before I got them home and they told me my car was too hot!

 

[I cant find Nemo]

Shotgate Nursery off the A127 between turnoffs for Wickford and Billaricay Essex

This one has the WOW factor for me. Large display tanks with large rays etc.
Definately worth an hour and a half's drive for me!!!
Staff friendly and helpful
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We went to Shotgate Nursery the weekend before last and was very impressed. Spent almost 2 hours in there talking to a very helpful member of staff.
Hopefully going back there this weekend.
10/10 from me B)

 

[walrus2106]

Another good shop in the Leicester area is Friends In Soggy Homes in Birstall

Variety - 9 they cater for coldwater, tropical and marine
Quality - 9 really well kept tanks
Staff - 9 very knowledgeable and helpful, although they can get very busy at times.

 

[redtailblackshark]

Jamies Friendly Pets In Amherst Nova Scotia

Variety: 9 only freshwater, but every fish you would ever need
Quality: 6 tanks are cleaned every 2 days
Staff: 7 she is very helpful (p.s. there is only one staff!)

 

[GSD]

Yhis Fish Store Is Great
Fish Alive-DURHAM

variaty-8

qualility-8

staff-10

 

[petit_pablo]

Frosts @ Millets farm
Nr. Abingdon Oxford

Quality - 7
Variety - 6 (mostly bread n butter fish)
Staff - 8

Me and the missus both work here. The aquatics dept had a good write up in Practical Fishkeeping this month.


Goldfish Bowl
Oxford

Quality - 9
Variety - 9
Staff - 7 (Bloke that served us was a grumpy chappy although knowledgeable)


World of Water
Bicester, Oxford

Quality - 4
Variety - 6
Staff - 4

On one visit we observed dead fish in tanks, white spot, wrongly identified fish and dirty tanks. Its not always that bad but its never great.

 

[specks]

Views from Suffolk

Seapets
Martlesham Heath
Nr. Ipswich
01473610969

variety 8
quality 7
staff (males) 7 (females) 3


Pets At Home
Ranlalagh Road
Ipswich
01473340120

variety 6
quality 6
staff 4

store seems to be run by youngsters with no experience

Viking Aquatics
St. Margarets Street
Ipswich
01473212234

variety 8
quality 8
staff 9

very helpful/knowledgeable

Swallow Aquatics
London Road
Stanway
Colchester
01206210360

variety 9
quality 9
staff 9

a very impressive store, clean tanks & good staff.

 

[Invader675]

Isle of Wight

Hunnyhill Aquatics:

Hunnyhill, near Sainsburys.
Newport.

Variety 7
Quality 7
Staff 8.5

The only place on the west of the island, nice place with alot of different types of fish but few special colours/sub breeds. Very clean and very helpful people.

 

[Navarre]

I cant understand why Tri Mar got such good reviews, i would rather drive out of the county for my fish to Taunton than walk the 15mins to this shop.
They do have nice clowns though.

Other than this i wont even rate them

Taunton Aquatics

Variety 9

Quality 10

Staff 9





Jasons Aquatics

A new small shop specialising in Marine only.
Not much to look at but the price is right and the quality is very good.

Variety 7

Quality 9

Staff 8


Totally Tropical (Marine section)

I used this place alot as i found it very friendly and helpful. Just dont keep enough stock in for me to keep making the 15 mile journey each time.

Variety 2

Quality 6

Staff 9 for friendliness. They usually phone me for advice though

 

[Nauplii]

i nearly had a heart attck when i saw 'waterworld' but i realised it was the one in glasgow.... phew cos that is the worst shop ever!!!


so WILDWOODS all the way

 

[hozb]

[/B]Chiltern Aquatics

Harlington, Bedfordshire (just of junc 12 of M1)

Prices are ok and ive haggled there before when ive got a few fish!!!!

Variety: 9
Cost: 7/8 (depends what ure getting rarer fish well priced tetra etc expensive)
Staff: 5 very friendly and helpful but dont always know what there talking about

 

[Discus man]

(interfish)

FISH CARE 9
STAFF 7 AND 1/2
CLEAN 10

it is in osset in the uk next to a garage that sells cars. great deals and gets some rare tropical and marine fish in sometimes.

 

[Jackson]

What do you guys think of World of Water, Whitminister now? Got a marine section there now.

 

[discusbabe]

Hi,

Following a recommendation on another forum, I visited Wharf Aquatics in Pinxton on the Notts/Derbys border just off J28 of M1 yesterday.

I was happy with my LFS, but having been here I can't see me shopping anywhere else.

website Wharf Aquatics

They make custom made tanks of any size/shape and have masses of tanks with everything from Neon Tetra to bloody great big catfish and an electric eel of about 3-4 foot long.

They have a massive display tank, I think it was 1,500 Gallons with about 4 monsters in it. Oh it is here BIG tank

The staff were very friendly, apparently knowledgable and not pushy at all.

I only popped in for a bulb and was there for 90 mins like a kid in a sweet shop.

In all the time there I saw one tank with any dead fish in and it was a quarantine tank full of neon tetras newly arrived that day apparently and the guy was getting them out when I saw them.

So:

Variety - 10 (about 40 tanks of Cichlids)
Staff - 10.
Quality - 10

Now where the hell can I put an 8ft*2*2 tank

Oh just spotted they were voted Tropical Retailer of the year 2002 + 2003 that explains it then!

Sorry not putting a 2nd or 3rd retailer, just not worth it

Arfie

I totally agree with you on this one! This is one of my lfs and one of the best in the country that I've visited that's for sure!