How we work

Fish is imported from our sister companies and suppliers all over the world. These fish are then stocked in our systems, only after a solid quarantine period and throughout quality control, these fish are shipped to our customers.

Our facility:
Our farm has 2400 aquariums and over 350 large fibreglass holding systems which in total hold more than 800.000 litre of water, we also hold 400.000 litre of fresh water in preparation for daily water changes.

Specialist knowledge:
The team at Aquafarm understands fish keeping, many of them have been working in the ornamental fish industry for over 25 years and is supported by the renowned fish specialist Gerald Bassleer, and the founder of Colombo, Doctor Mario Blom, to enhance our fish knowledge, our health policies and to provide training to our staff.

Complete assortment from guppy to discus, from fantail to japanese koi;
Tropical fishes: weekly direct imports from Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Shri Lanka, South America, Afrika, Czech, Israel and we also stock fish from Dutch breeders.

Fantail: we supply a big variety of Fancy Goldfish.

Pond fish: from goldfish to Sturgeon and Israeli Koi, over 50 varieties are selected from the best breeders in Europe and Israel.

Japanese Koi: during the season we stock over 600 boxes of great quality Japanese Koi, selected in Japan by our sister company Ornafish Japan.

Social responsibility
Aquafarm are proud participants of CITTASLOW together with the local municipality we aim for good working conditions, better quality living environment, local produce, hospitality, and environmental responsibility.
https://www.cittaslow-nederland.nl/english/

We aim to reduce the use of energy, packing materials and chemicals and reduce CO2, our large solar roof provides green energy during the daytime, and we recycle 75% of our water to protect the environment.

As a Member of OFI International we adopted the code of conduct for ethical, fair and legal fish trade and we try to lead the trade in responsible behaviour towards animal welfare and fair trading. https://www.ofish.org/