Fish Supplies

Make Aquatic Design's Fish Supplies your complete source for aquatic livestock. Give a new home to freshwater fish, saltwater fish, marine invertebrates, corals, live rock, aquarium plants, koi, goldfish, and more! We acquire livestock from around the world and make it all available to you from our newly renovated, state of the art Aquarium Store located in Plano, Texas. Visit our retail store that has over 60 tanks with more than 36,000 gallons of water filtered by the most scientifically advanced water filtration system available. We are the best! And we make sure you get the best!

 

On a $75 order, our live delivery service brings your selection from our catalog below to your door the next day if you live within 15 miles. Or visit our store - see our map! If you live too far away to visit our store, shop for fish supplies online with our affiliates Drs. Foster & Smith - The Trusted Name for Aquarium Products.

We help you feed and care for them sensibly. But first, click here for some interesting Fish Facts.

Shop at our store. Buy your aquatic pet food from Aquatic Design's Fish Supplies inventory below.

When you buy fish from our store, our aquatic technicians inspect your fish supplies for health and quality. Then they are well packed using the best insulating methods and materials available. Your carefully selected specimens are shipped in temperature controlled boxes directly from us, to you, via FedEx and guaranteed for 5 full days upon arrival. Our professionals oversee every single step in this process, from caring for the fish on a daily basis, to insuring they are collected, packed, and shipped with the least amount of stress. From our tank to yours in one day, quickly and safely. And while we're there, you may want our service technician to service your Fish Tank. For more information about our Aquarium Services click here.

 We classify our fish supplies into these general categories. Click on the one you want to see. But before you go, read about some interesting things about fish.

Marine Fish

·Freshwater Fish

·Invertebrates

·Aquatic Plants

A recent issue of Fish and Fisheries, devoted to learning, cited more than 500 research papers on fish intelligence, proving that fish are smart, that they can use tools, and that they have impressive long-term memories and sophisticated social structures.

Marine Biologists as well as other scientists are learning more about our finned friends. Their recent discoveries are fascinating.

Fish Facts

Many people have never stopped to think about it, but fish are smart, interesting animals with their own unique personalities—just like dogs, cats and other pets with which we share our lives. For instance:

• Fish can learn to avoid nets by watching other fish in their group and that they can recognize individual "shoal mates"?

• Some fish gather information by eavesdropping on others

  Some South African fish lay eggs on leaves so that they can carry them to a safe place—even use tools.

• A recent issue of Fish and Fisheries, devoted to learning, cited more than 500 research papers on fish intelligence, proving that fish are smart, that they can use tools, and that they have impressive long-term memories and sophisticated social structures. The introductory chapter said that fish are "steeped in social intelligence, pursuing Machiavellian strategies of manipulation, punishment and reconciliation … exhibiting stable cultural traditions and cooperating to inspect predators and catch food."

• Culum Brown, a University of Edinburgh biologist who is studying the evolution of cognition in fish, says, "Fish are more intelligent than they appear. In many areas, such as memory, their cognitive powers match or exceed those of 'higher' vertebrates, including non-human primates." Their long-term memories help fish keep track of complex social relationships. Their spatial memory—"equal in all respects to any other vertebrate"—allows them to create cognitive maps that guide them through their watery homes, using cues such as polarized light, sounds, smells, and visual landmarks.

• Dr. Phil Gee, a psychologist from the University of Plymouth, says that fish can tell what time of day it is, and he trained fish to collect food by pressing a lever at specific times. He says "fish have a memory span of at least three months," and they "are probably able to adapt to changes in their circumstances, like any other small animals and birds."

“We're now finding that [fish] are very capable of learning and remembering, and possess a range of cognitive skills that would surprise many people."—Dr. Theresa Burt de Perera, Oxford University

"Australian crimson spotted rainbowfish, which learnt to escape from a net in their tank, remembered how they did it 11 months later. This is equivalent to a human recalling a lesson learnt 40 years ago." —Sunday Telegraph, Oct. 3, 2004

The Fish Down Side is that fish flesh can become contaminated with mercury (which can cause brain damage) and toxic chemicals like DDT, PCBs, and dioxin (which have been linked to cancer, nervous system disorders, and fetal damage), as well as disease causing bacteria.

Dr. Sylvia Earle, one of the world's leading marine biologists, said, "I never eat anyone I know personally. I wouldn't deliberately eat a grouper any more than I'd eat a cocker spaniel. They're so good-natured, so curious. She says fish are sensitive, they have personalities, they hurt when they're wounded." The inset box serves as a little reminder that fish have feelings too – from our friends in the UK.

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To find out more information about our fish supplies, click on one of the stock categories below, and go there.

• Marine Fish

• ·Freshwater Fish

• ·Invertebrates

• ·Aquatic Plants

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