MAIDENHEAD AQUATICS - ST ALBANS

Completed in May 2005, this flagship store is the largest and arguably one of the best stores. With a little less than thirty thousand square feet of retail space there really is something for everyone. There is an impressive range of tanks and cabinets with over sixty on show, nearly all of which can be supplied straight from stock. Everything else that you could possibly need for your tank is stocked including one hundred and fifty feet of shelving containing aquarium decor.

The fish room is probably one of the largest in the country and at three thousand square feet it is as large as some whole aquatic stores. The room is dominated by a ten feet long display tank which houses a breeding group of Leopoldi stingrays. There is in excess of fifty thousand liters of water in four hundred and fifty aquariums, on eleven, independently filtered systems. This allows for a dedicated system for Discus and Stingrays, a system for wild South American fish such as Corydoras and L-number catfish, and a system for those slightly more delicate dwarf cichlids, Killifish and Cardinals (which are predominantly European tank bred.) There is one system for African cichlids and three for the more usual community fish. There are two marine systems, one for fish and one for invertebrates with both boasting an amazing display of marine life. Whether you want the rare and unusual, or the more run of the mill species, they are stocked.