| Tropical Paradise Aquatics |
| The new Tropical Paradise extension was finished in December 2004 after months of hard work, and all the difficulties of working and running an aquatic shop that resembled a building site. The team at Tropical Paradise tell us: "The extension forms the new fish house, and the added space has allowed us to have the extra tanks needed to keep the selection of coldwater and tropical fish we want to stock - as well as being able to build one of the largest marine fish and marine coral/invertebrate systems in the area. We also have quarantine tanks for both marine and tropical fish. "With a 3500 litre marine fish system, it's possible to stock a large selection of popular marine fish, as well some more unusual fish. On the tropical fish section with a 5250 litre system we have copied our marine fish system. Our policy is to have the largest selection of popular tropical fish possible as well as stocking some more unusual species. "We have continued to invest in the shop and since December 2004 there have been several expansions to the tank arrangements to include a specialist 450 litre SPS tank running on a miracle mud sump system, a dedicated LPS, soft coral and nine invertebrate-only tanks all totalling 3000 litres. "With all the fish now in the fish house, we had freed up valuable space in the main shop for us to double the amount of stock carried by the shop almost overnight. This was helped by sponsorship from some big companies such as Eheim, Seachem, Juwel and New Era in areas such as shelving and uniforms. "We now stock just about every item that any tropical or marine hobbyist would want, as well as a vast selection of pond dry goods. The very latest investment is the new computer till system that has just been installed, which allows us to monitor sales and stock levels, as well as being able to automatically order new stock. This is going to be critical when we go online with the new website (which is under construction at the moment) and go live with Mail Order sales. "The shop has grown from strength to strength since it opened in June 2002 and now is a very popular and successful family run business with customers often travelling from neighbouring counties and is regarded by some big name suppliers to be in the top ten Aquatic outlets in the UK". |
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Store details
| Address | Tropical Paradise Aquatics Unit 4 Boyatt Wood Shopping Centre Shakespeare Road Eastleigh Hampshire United Kingdom SO50 4QP Tel: 023 806 1 2996 |
| Website | Visit website |
| Opening hours | Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday: 9am-5.30pm; Tuesday: 9am-1pm; Sunday: 10am-3pm. |
| Directions | We are within 10 minutes of both the M3 and M27 junction 5 Eastleigh airport roundabout. |
| Map | Map of Eastleigh Hampshire |
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Livestock details
| Aquaria | 65 tropical tanks, 2 Discus tanks, 7 African cichlid tanks, 34 marine tanks, 4 coldwater tanks, |
| Quarantine | 18 tropical quarantine tanks on site 2 Discus quarantine tanks on site 6 marine quarantine tanks on site 4 coldwater quarantine tanks on site. |
| Specialist stock | We import the majority of our tropical fish direct from Czech Republic and only select prime examples from national importers. We hold a large range of tropical fish with some of the most impressive fish being our range of discus, dwarf chiclids, and Oscars, and a good selection of unusual Plecs including true Para plecs, L200, Golden long fin ancistrus, Scobiancistrus aureatus and LDA02. We also stock an ever changing range of killi fish. Marine fish sourced either direct imports or from various premium wholesalers. We currently have a half a dozen flame angels, majestic angel, blue face angel, scott's fairy wrasse, engineer gobies, chevron tang, Achilles tang, emperor tang, pipe fish blue throat trigger, pink tail trigger, purple tile gobie and sea horses. Inverebrates are all imported directand include many of agricultured over 200 softs 300 LPS and 40 SPS in stock amongst the rarest being frogs spawn, torch, and hammers, bubbles, galaxias, open brains, sun (black and orange) branching hammers and trumpets being amongst a vast selection. |
| Guarantee | 7 days subject to water tests |
| Water parameters | Tropical: pH 7.5, 26°C. Marine: pH 8.2, 25°C, sg 0.019, Reef: sg 0.025. |
| Fish stocked | tropical freshwater fish, marine fish, coldwater fish, discus |
Trade membership
| Dyed Fish | This store has signed the Practical Fishkeeping Dyed Fish Campaign and has pledged not to knowingly stock or sell dyed fish. |
| OATA membership | According to our records this store is not an OATA member. |
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