I have been coming to this shop since i discovered its existance during covid-19 when i started in…read morethe hobby. it quickly became my go-toshop for everything possible. the owner is so nice and trustworthy. he always walks me through any new processes I have to do such as my quarantine tank and what to and not to do. the fish I bought from this place have always been happy and healthy so far. honestly the prices are so much better that anywhere else ive shopped at it is maybe 35 minutes from my house in toroonto but is is well worth thr trip. you may spend $20 on gas but you will save $1000s on your fish and corals and anything else you may need for your tank. just recently there was a sale on purple tangs priced insanely at $99.99 while other shops in the area are selling them for $549.99 which is insane!! there are not many places that i trust when it comes to buying live stock for my aquarium but this place is one of them. 10/10 i highly reccoommend this place.

This local fish store joined the ranks of a pretty saturated market in Mississauga earlier this…read moreyear. It is a small family business. I believe the owner's name is Abdul and he is very friendly and attentive. I have visited on 2 occasions and they have had a great selection of livestock both times (fish, coral, and inverts). If you have a nano tank and are constantly on the lookout for smaller fish, Exotic Aquarium World often has juveniles in stock. Right now they have a lot of baby purple tangs! They also carry a decent selection of dry goods and frozen food (Hikari and Omega One). I find everything is priced very competitively and even more so if you can pick something up during a special promo. Due to public health directives you will need to call the number posted on the door when you arrive to be helped. They also have a website for online orders, but I have always gone in person and received great service. I would encourage fellow reefers to check it out if you haven't already.

Absolutely disgusting store, what a mess, very unorganized, no clue what they are doing…read more Never going back, what a waste of time!!

Recommend going to Kowloon , staff are very knowledgeable and very friendly definitely recommendread more

Very cool place to buy fish and equipment. I have nothing against the big box stores, but Finatics…read moreis a very cool place and the people working there are friendly and know their shit.

The best owner hands down! So helpful! Honest about all the products and livestock. Purchased…read moreseveral vampire plecos as well as substrate and corals. Highly recommend!

Such a fun store for anyone! My daughter and I stopped in on a Sunday afternoon to pick up some…read moreshrimp and possibly a few pea puffers. It was our first time there and we were both completely enamored with the displays of beautiful artery of shrimp, crabs, fish and some aquatic plants. Since we were looking to add to an existing tank, we inquired about different shrimps to see which ones would be most suitable tank mates to our current residents. The staff are very helpful and knowledgeable and they helped us with the selection. We also picked it some driftwood and moss to add to the tank for the shrimp. Looking forward to returning once they get the pea puffers in which you can place your name on a waiting list online for in stock notification. SF is a nifty little shop and we'll likely be back for more additions soon.

I went in just to browse around with some friends. I was looking for fish to add to my father's…read moreaquarium and came across this little shop. It's a little hard to find, was hoping there would be a more obvious sign or some sort of color to stand out more. We were welcomed right when we walked in and they were very informative and told us about their deals. The shrimp are really tiny!, If some of them didn't pile up on each other i would not have seen them. They have a big range of different colors and sizes too. They also sell those little cute fish that cling onto the sides of the wall or other tiny fish. The cray fish really caught my eye. They're about the size of a cookie, really pretty. They even have blue ones! The man that is working there can answer any of your questions with ease and would tell us some facts we didn't know about the care, sizes and life span. Would definitely recommend checking it out!

I come here for years now and ai would say that they are awesome. I went today and there is this…read moreguy by the fish section with the piercing on his nostril seems unfriendly and impolite. He didn't even say thank you or welcome to me. I'm a little disappointed for that.

It is like returning to childhood when I visit this store!…read moreMy son has a 10 gallon aquarium and we love to come to the store to choose underwater plants and sometimes fish. The choice is really vast! You can find literally ANYTHING in there. I'm still not ready to switch from freshwater to salt aquarium but if this finally happens I know where to go and who to ask about a proper setup!

Absolutely disgusted by what I saw in the store, wow, at least look after your tanks and maybe your…read morelivestock will live longer. Pretty sad, never going back.

Ooooh I absolutely adore this place! it's super cutee! The man i spoke to (i'm assuming was the…read moreowner) is super nice and funny too! Walking in there is a beautiful large selection of Koi fish. Walking around I can ask him any question I want even if it's silly and he would just laugh and joke around along with me. He showed me a fish in particular that he thought was interesting but was already on hold for another customer it was a black colored really big and puffy one. I was saying the fish looked like a mafia boss and he would just laugh. I had a lot of fun with my friends and him just talking and walking around to the point we lost track of time and ended up being in there for 45 minutes. He didn't mind that we came in to just browse and have a look around as i was unsure if my father's tank needed any more fish. The fish there are big! (There are little ones too). There's also fish i don't see in regular pet stores (there was this super buggy eye'd looking gold fish, the eyes literally popping out of his head like big round googly eyes). I will definitely recommend this place to my friends and family!

If you are looking for a passionate, knowledgeable, friendly specialist micro store, then this is…read moreyour place! Chris is a true gem and an asset to the local aquarist society. He has some hard to get species and breeds an number of exotic plecos. I was so excited to see baby zebra plecos (which have become one of my favourite fresh water fish), that I ended spending almost $400 in one stop. Chris also carries a variety of specialty foods and filter materials. I can see myself visiting this place a few times a year. Highly recommend.

In short: a tiny boutique new fish importer specializing in uncommon species and variants. It's…read morenot a shop you wander through on a Saturday afternoon to browse your basic tetras, but if you want something specific, unusual, or rare, Chris is your guy. When I set up my first aquarium, a more experienced friend cautioned me against the dangers of developing fish elitism, the gradual but inescapable attraction to increasingly rare species. At the time, I laughed and blew him off, convinced I would never catch that bug. The platies and guppies I had picked out from PetSmart were more than good enough for me - I couldn't imagine going out of my way to deliberately seek out more obscure fish. My friend was right, of course. Less than a year after setting up my plebian little platy tank, I was scrutinizing the stock at Big Al's, grumbling that what they had labeled as corydoras julii were *obviously* just the more common corydoras trilineatus, and lamenting the fact that none of the local fish stores seemed to be interested in stocking anything *interesting*. Chris, who runs Next Gen Aquatics, stocks *interesting* fish - interesting, unusual, wonderfully obscure fish. I had been looking for some corydoras hastatus for months to add to my boraras brigittae tank (the platies and guppies having long since been given away to less demanding relatives), but hadn't been able to either find any for sale, or to convince any local stores to stock them. After one text to Chris and a couple of weeks of waiting for import and quarantine, I was able to pick up a full bag of perky, healthy, adorable little tailspot cories, at a very reasonable price. NGA is still a very small business: visits are by appointment only, and the selection is limited by the space available. But the setup is meticulous, all of the fish are healthy (and huge!), and Chris himself is enthusiastic and knowledgeable and quick to respond to inquiries or requests. If, like me, you find yourself wandering discontented through the aisles of your local fish store every week wondering why they never stock any plecos other than bristlenose, or if - like me - you spend hours browsing through species listings on Seriously Fish, fall in love with some obscure little corydoras, then realize nobody local actually carries them... drop Chris a line, and see what he can do for you.

This is one of my main stops when we're doing the a fish store crawl in Toronto. They always have a…read moregood variety of fish we dont always see in the US and good prices as well. It's conveniently located near other fish stores as well.

Drove from Ottawa to go to Mississauga Aquarium and it was well worth it. They have the best…read morelooking Discus I've seen for a long time. They packaged up what I bought to insure the fish made it back safe and sound which the fish did. The owners were very friendly, extremely helpful and very knowledgeable. Thank you for all you help. I will be visiting this store every time I go to Toronto. Paul