About Us

Our History   

Neptune Aquatics has been around since 2003 1999 (thanks for the correction, Darrell! ) and has been serving the freshwater cichlid hobbyist community with rare and high-quality livestock from Lake Taganyika, Malawi, Victoria, and other various areas. What begin as a store specializing in shell-dwellers, we have since expanded our selections to include specimens from the Great Rift Lake of Africa  ranging from Altolamprologous to Xenotilapia and everything else in between!

We are also now proud to say that we are one of the premier shop in the area to offer top-notch dang good-looking corals! We're probably one of the fewer stores that still actually cherry-pick our corals. All our frags are fully encrusted, healed, and ready to rock on in your tank! 

Our Vision

Our vision is to provide the best and friendliest service around and to empower and spread our collective knowledge with fellow hobbyists. We are very passionate hobbyist just like you so we understand how difficult it is when trying to select specimens that goes together and especially when purchasing them, so we try our best to provide high quality  and sustainable livestocks as well as competitive prices. We're constantly on the look out for unique corals to add to the "Neptune's Collection". We'll make sure you are informed about the animals and goods that you purchased and not simply sell you something just to make a quick buck.

We like to think of our store's progression as an evolution as such: Crack in the wall (Cichlids) --> Hole in the wall (+Corals) --> Freakin' Black Hole, baby (+Online Store)!

What's Next?!

    We have an endless strive (addiction?!) for fresh ideas and innovations. Currently, we are finishing up renovation of our saltwater section and will begin propagating our own corals and carrying even more cool stuff in our 3000+ gallon systems! We now have a great selection of drygoods that you actually need/want, which is constantly expanding daily. We can also do special orders for you if we don't have that item in-store!

What you will often find when you are in our shop are a bunch of nutcases aquatics professionals that are constantly working on upgrading and improving our little nook and you'll probably catch us doing some sort of construction work (we're almost done remodeling our showroom area!), so stop by often to see why we are the best and fastest growing LFS in the bay area, yo!