About us and our fishkeeping history

Here at Holiday Aquatics we have been in the fish keeping world for around 20 years.

Starting with tropical fish we soon got the bug and expanded to include breeding Kribs, Guppies, Mollies and later the more adventurous Discus.

After 6 years we turned our hands to Marines, joining the amazing circle of Reef keeping. We had some great local knowledge at hand and even had the chance to meet Julian Sprung and Bob Goemans. Still keeping Marines 3 years on, we turned our hands to keeping Koi Carp.

Our filteration system for the Koi pond was all DIY, based on our experience of Marine keeping and we had great success with having great water quaility, never having any issues with out of control algae. We had around a dozen Koi that grew from only being around 3" to over 12"+  within a couple of years, they were our new pride and joy and we had one or two Champion quality Koi.

Unfortunately after a further 5 years we had to move premises which resulted in us having to give pond keeping up, however we still kept our Marine systems and to this day we are still avid Marine keepers.

Holiday Aquatics started in 2012 looking after customers aquariums and Ponds which we still do to this day, residential and business while customers are away on Holiday or if they are just wanting that helping hand : www.holidayaquatics.co.uk

Its good to meet new Fishkeepers and learn from their experiences and find out what their Journey has been in this amazing hobby.

In 2012 we also started our Online retail shop www.holidayaquatics.com

The aim of our online store is to reasure our customers that we are true fishkeepers and to offer just what you need to make the hobby affordable and enjoyable, we are not a huge online retailer trying to make huge profits and take away your hard earned cash.

If i was to give any advice from my fishkeeping history, i would say feed your fish and corals often with good quality foods, frozen foods although natural don't have the nutritional needs a fish needs so feed a top quality flake or pallet that has plenty of vitamins and next keep your water parameters as good as you can get them. You get these two things right and your livestock will look after themselves as they have done in the wild for millions of years.

Hopefully our fishkeeping journey will not end and hope that we can grow and grow and pass on great savings and great advice.

If you have got this far.... then thankyou for reading and good luck with your fishkeeping journey :)