Xpress Aquatics

31/08/2023

We will be open at 11am today.
30% off all dry goods 🔥

26/08/2023

30% off ALL Dry Goods
Including Frozen Food

26/08/2023

🔥 £2 each 🔥
Used XL Air Sponge Filters

No holds or reserves.

25/08/2023

These are now our opening hours⏰
We will no longer be open until 7👍

25/08/2023

40% off our remaining stock of fish!

No holds or reserves

24/08/2023

We will be opening at 11am today.

20/08/2023

The store will be officially closed from 30th September.

20/08/2023

17/08/2023

🔥 20% off Everything!! 🔥

12/08/2023

ALL FISH WE HAVE LEFT ARE ON THE STOCKLIST. PRICES ARE BEING UPDATED.

Sheet1 XPRESS Aquatics,OPENING HOURS 22B DISS BUSINESS PARK,MONDAY,- CLOSED HOPPER WAY, DISS, NORFOLK,TUESDAY,- 10:00AM - 6:00PM IP22 4GT,WEDNESDAY,- 10:00AM - 6:00PM THURSDAY,- 10:00AM - 6:00PM FRIDAY,- 10:00AM - 7:00PM TEL. 07359 099872,SATURDAY,- 10:00AM - 7:00PM [email protected],R...

12/08/2023

⚠️ ITS A WRAP ⚠️
We're closing the store down within the next month or 2. Once we know more we'll update.

20% off EVERYTHING starts today! 🔥

We won't hold or reserve stock unless paid in full. Otherwise it's first come first serve.

10/08/2023

🐟 ‘Catch’ of the day! 🐠🎣🐟

✨ Kribensis Cichlid✨
(Pelvicachromis pulcher)

Great community fish however, will become territorial when breeding. Should be kept in pairs and a very large tank is required if keeping more than one pair. Females will develop very bright pink/purple bellies. Will accept most commercially available foods but ensure they receive occasional feedings of frozen or live foods.

🙂 Community
📏 Max size: 10cm
🧪 pH: 5.0-7.5 (Captive bred specimens can tolerate a higher pH)
🌡 Temp: 24-27°C

🔥 SPECIAL OFFER🔥
£3 each!!
Plenty In stock! 🙌

Licensed by South Norfolk Council 🏢
21/00012/AAL

04/08/2023

🎣🐟 ‘Catch’ of the day! 🐠🎣

✨Koi Medaka Ricefish✨
(Oryzias latipes)

Ricefish are a peaceful freshwater fish that are seldom seen in the hobby. They do not require a big tank and are a good choice even for beginners. They are a very Hardy fish and can tolerate extreme water parameters. A planted aquarium is appreciated. Offer a varied diet of frozen, live and fresh foods including algae.

😊 Community
📏 Max size: 3-4cm
🧪 pH: 6.5-8.0
🌡 Temp: 18-28°C

£5.00 each or 6 for £25.00🤩
Plenty in stock✨✅

Licensed by South Norfolk Council
21/00012/AAL 🏢

04/08/2023

Xpress aquatics🐠

Plenty of free customer parking available🤩

Find us at...

📍Xpress Aquatics
Unit 22B Diss Business Park,
Hopper Way, Diss,
IP22 4GT

03/08/2023

Plenty of free customer parking available🤩

Find us at...

📍Xpress Aquatics
Unit 22B Diss Business Park,
Hopper Way, Diss,
IP22 4GT

03/08/2023

🎣🐟 ‘Catch’ of the day! 🐠🎣

🌟 Three Striped Dwarf Cichlid 🌟
(Apistogramma trifasciata)

A beautiful dwarf cichlid that makes a great addition to the community aquarium provided no other Apistogramma species are present. Ensure you provide this species with plenty of caves in the form of wood, rocks and plants. Prefers a diet consisting of frozen and live foods however, will eat pellets.

😊 Community
📏 Max size: 5.5cm
🧪 pH: 5.0-7.0
🌡 Temp: 20-25°C

£12.00 each or 2 for £21.00
In stock 👌

Licensed by South Norfolk Council
21/00012/AAL 🏢

01/08/2023

🎣🐠 ‘Catch’ of the day! 🐟🐠🎣

⭐ Black line Tail Tetra ⭐
(Moenkhausia costae)

A rarely seen species that is also one of the worlds best schooling Tetras, they form tighter schools than Cardinals and Rummynose. Best kept in groups of more than 6. Though they aren’t that boisterous, there are some whispers that they may be a bit fin nippy. They will look their best in a densely planted aquarium. Will accept a wide range of foods, dried, frozen and live.

🤔 Community with caution
📏 Max size: 6cm
🧪 pH: 6.0-7.5 (Captive bred species accepts a wider range)
🌡 Temp: 24-28°C

£6.00 each or 6 for £31.00 🙌
In stock ✅️ More due in WC 28.2.22

Licensed by South Norfolk Council 🏢
21/00012/AAL

01/08/2023

Open til 6pm 🙌

28/07/2023

🎣🐠 ‘Catch’ of the day! 🐟🎣

⭐️ Superblue Emperor Tetra ⭐️
(Inpaichthys kerri ‘Superblue’)

This species can be fin nippy unless they are kept in a large group of at least 10 in order to disperse aggression. Having a larger group will also create a far more natural looking display. This species prefer an aquarium decorated with pieces of driftwood to form caves. They enjoy a varied diet consisting of a high quality flake/ micro pellet alongside small frozen/ live foods.

🙂 Community
📏 Max size: 4cm
🧪 pH: 5.5-7.0
🌡 Temp: 24-27°c

£3.00 each or 6 for £16.00
✅️ In stock! 🙌

💡 To find out more about this species, click the 'INFO' link on our livestock stocklist 💡

Licensed by South Norfolk Council
21/00012/AAL 🏢

28/07/2023

Find us at📍…
Xpress Aquatics
Unit 22b diss business park
Hopper way
Diss
IP22 4GT

Plenty of free customer parking available😊

27/07/2023

🐟🐠🎣 ‘Catch’ of the day! 🎣🐠🐟

Neon Tetra 💙
(Paracheirodon innesi)

The most popular tropical aquarium fish in the world. Similar to the cardinal tetra but a little smaller and easier to care for. Excellent community fish, keep in shoals of 6 or more. Appreciates love plants and shaded areas. Feed a varied diet.

🙂 Community
📏 Max size: 3cm
🧪 pH: 4.0-7.5
🌡 Temp: 24-28°C

£2.50 each or 6 for £13.00
In stock ✅

Licensed by South Norfolk Council
21/00012/AAL 🏢

27/07/2023

⚠️ Politely we ask customers not to park in the RED areas. These Units are separate businesses and need clear access at all times for fork lifts and accepting palletised deliveries.
We've had complaints of cars parked in the red areas and we don't want to create any animosity with our neighbours.
There is a large car park opposite our shop (20 feet from the shop door) which can be used. If you need closer access to the door, please park in the green area highlighted.
Please take a look at the photos 🙂

27/07/2023

We are open until 6pm this evening.
Pop down and see us 🙌

26/07/2023

🦞🎣 ‘Catch’ of the day! 🎣🦞

💙🦞Blue Lobster🦞💙
(Cherax quadricarinatus)

Strikingly colourful. The blue lobster requires a large well filtered aquarium with a tight fitting lid. They can be very territorial with their own kind. Will eat any fish they can grab hold of. Being a scavenger, they will eat almost anything.

😠 Aggressive
📏 Max size: 12cm
🧪 pH: 6.5-8.0
🌡️ Temp: 18-24°C

£14.00🤩
1 remaining in stock✨✅

Licensed by South Norfolk Council 🏢
21/00012/AAL

25/07/2023

Fancy an underwater river in your aquarium? 🏞️

Create the effect of a flowing river within your aquarium whilst keeping your tank well oxygenated for your plants and fish to thrive 😁

Includes bridge ornament, airline and non-return valve (air pump sold separately). Available in store!

Open today until 6pm 👏

25/07/2023

💿🎣 ‘Catch’ of the day! 🎣📀

📀Pigeon Blood Discus💿
(Symphysodon aequifasciatus)

Best kept in groups in a large planted aquarium. A peaceful species that would work well with other community fish as long as they require similar water conditions (Discus species require softer water and higher temperatures). Can be a very shy and skittish species however, once settled they will become calm. Feed a diet rich in protein. Requires pristine water conditions as will not tolerate nitrates etc.

😉 Specialist Community
📏 Max size: 15cm
🧪 pH: 5.5-6.5
🌡️ Temp: 28-30°C

£80.00 each or 2 for £140.00🤩
2 available ✅✨

Licensed by South Norfolk Council 🏢
21/00012/AAL

23/07/2023

🐚🎣 ‘Catch’ of the day! 🎣🐚

🐌🐰Assorted Rabbit Snails🐰🐌
(Tylomelania sp.)

Available in a huge variety of colours and patterns. Does well in a community aquarium, avoid housing with Loaches, Assassin snails and other species that may harm them. They are known to eat soft leaf plants. Will eat algae, vegetables and wafers.

😁 Community
📏 Max size: 12cm
🧪 pH: 7.0-8.5
🌡️ Temp: 24-29°C

£4.50 each or 3 for £12.00🤩
In stock✅✨

Licensed by South Norfolk Council 🏢
21/00012/AAL

23/07/2023

Plenty of free customer parking available🤩

Find us at...

📍Xpress Aquatics
Unit 22B Diss Business Park,
Hopper Way, Diss,
IP22 4GG

22/07/2023

Wow! Looks artificial

This is a lobster (Panulirus ornatus )

More details/photos: https://bit.ly/3OpY0R1

22/07/2023

I bet an Oscar would still try to eat it 🤣

Credits to UNILAD

22/07/2023

Some people on the post office could learn a thing or 2 from Neons 😂

Credits to Fish in the News

A new study shows these very polite fish form queues in emergencies. When evacuating through narrow spaces, schools of neon tetra fish (𝑃𝑎𝑟𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟𝑜𝑑𝑜𝑛 𝑖𝑛𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑖) queue so that they don’t collide or clog up the line.

Open-access - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-36869-9
Sci-comm blog post - https://www.sciencefocus.com/news/polite-neon-tetra-fish-queue-in-emergencies/

𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗧𝗶𝘁𝗹𝗲
Fish evacuate smoothly respecting a social bubble

𝗖𝗶𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻
Larrieu, R., Moreau, P., Graff, C. et al. Fish evacuate smoothly respecting a social bubble. Sci Rep 13, 10414 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-36869-9

𝗔𝗯𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁
Crowd movements are observed among different species and on different scales, from insects to mammals, as well as in non-cognitive systems, such as motile cells. When forced to escape through a narrow opening, most terrestrial animals behave like granular materials and clogging events decrease the efficiency of the evacuation.

Here, we explore the evacuation behavior of macroscopic, aquatic agents, neon fish, and challenge their gregarious behavior by forcing the school through a constricted passage. Using a statistical analysis method developed for granular matter and applied to crowd evacuation, our results clearly show that, unlike crowds of people or herds of sheep, no clogging occurs at the bottleneck. The fish do not collide and wait for a minimum waiting time between two successive exits, while respecting a social distance.

When the constriction becomes similar to or smaller than their social distance, the individual domains defined by this cognitive distance are deformed and fish density increases. We show that the current of escaping fish behaves like a set of deformable 2D-bubbles, their 2D domain, passing through a constriction. Schools of fish show that, by respecting social rules, a crowd of individuals can evacuate without clogging, even in an emergency situation.

Copyright © 2023 the Author(s). Published in Scientific Reports. This paper is released under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

22/07/2023

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22/07/2023

🐟 ‘Catch’ of the day! 🐠🎣🐟

✨ Dwarf Suckermouth Catfish ✨
(Otocinclus Sp.)

A small shoaling species of suckermouth catfish. This species does best in groups of at least 6. This species can be sensitive to water quality and therefore it is only recommended to add these to a mature aquarium. Despite being well known for their cleaning abilities, a varied diet must also be offered as algae in the aquarium alone is not sufficient food. They love cucumber!

😊 Small Community
📏 Max size: 5cm
🧪 pH: 6.0-8.0 (Captive specimens can tolerate a higher pH)
🌡 Temp: 20-26°C

£4.50 each or 6 for £23.00
✅ in stock!

Licensed by South Norfolk Council 🏢
21/00012/AAL

22/07/2023

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21/07/2023

Interesting post by Tetra UK

Did you know that fish can not only hear you, but they can also produce sounds for a variety of reasons?

These include signals to predators or competitors, to attract males or as a fright response. There are four main ways that fish produce sounds:

1) drumming by using sonic muscles that are located on or near their swim bladder. Interestingly the drumming muscles of the plainfin midshipman are the fastest vertebrate muscles, they can work at about 200Hz at 25˚C. The humming noise made is so loud it really annoys people who live near the coasts where these fish are found.

2) stridulation by striking or rubbing together skeletal components
3) hydrodynamics by quickly changing speed and direction while swimming
4) Many fish pass air which makes a squeaking sound. When gasping air the weather loach takes it through the intestinal tract and then exhales through the spout-hole (this process explains the squeak sound loaches make when you take them out of water).

21/07/2023

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21/07/2023

🐟 ‘Catch’ of the day! 🐠🎣🐟

✨ Carolina Platy ✨
(Xiphophorus maculatus)

Very popular and peaceful community species. Available in all sorts of colours and markings. Keep a higher ratio of females to males. Will mix well with most communal species such as tetras, rasboras, cories, and plecos to name a few. Will readily breed in captivity without intervention. In order to save fry its recommended to place a gravid female that's ready to give birth in to a fry trap. Provide plants and decor In order for the females to take refuge when the males are relentless and they want a break. Most commonly available foods are accepted including flakes, pellets, frozen, live and freeze dried foods.

🙂 Community
📏 Max size: 7.5cm
🧪 pH: 7.0-8.2 (Captive bred specimens can tolerate a higher pH)
🌡 Temp: 20-26°C

£3 each or 6 for £16
In stock! 🙌

Licensed by South Norfolk Council 🏢
21/00012/AAL