About Splashy Fish

Splashy Fish was founded in 2020 pre-pandemic by Nguyen Le. Nguyen has 10+ years of experience in freshwater aquarium specialized aqua scaping design, breeding betta, and guppies. Before founding Splashy Fish, Nguyen bred bettas and guppies as a hobbyist and sell them to local customers and ship them to out-of-state customers to cover some cost of breeding. He wants to take his hobbyist to the next level and decided to sell all his aquariums and started this business as a side hustle business. Splashy Fish was originally sold on the E-bay platform to gain customers. Once the pandemic hit, everyone stayed home and the interest in the hobby grow. Nguyen then quit his cooperate job and focus on Splashy Fish full time. Nguyen self-designed the website, partnering with local breeders and international breeders to source the highest quality of fish and aquarium plants.

Splashy Fish started in a garage with 10 aquariums of 10 gallons, later grow to 1000+ gallons aquarium store and continue to grow bigger. We only put one species of fish per tank to ensure proper quarantine process, care and prevent unwanted cross breeding. Splashy Fish's mission statement is Splashy Fish strives to provide our customers with proper knowledge, the highest quality, the most sustainable live freshwater fish, freshwater shrimps, aquatic plants and premium fish foods, highest quality aquarium supplies, and fish tanks accessories to keep your friends happy & healthy.

We offer knowledge blogs that we focus on Beginner Guide to start and maintenance the aquarium to advance level with care guide for specific type of fish. We hope that these knowledges will help our customers to learn and provide your fish a proper eco-system and happy life. Splashy Fish will continue to develop and hopefully we will have a YouTube channel that can show our customers in person all the knowledge.

Splashy Fish is an authorized dealer for multiple highly recognized brands such as Seachem, Fritz Aquatics, Fluval, Omega One, Tropica, New Life Spectrum, Dainichi, and Brightwell Aquatics, Continuum Aquatics, Hakari, Lifeguard Aquatics, and many more.

Splashy Fish really appreciated & thank you personally for being a loyal customer to our small business throughout the years. Thank you for being a part of Splashy Fish family!

Below is the honest review from our customer who have trust, and making Splashy Fish apart with their hobby. 

Splashy Fish Review

 

 

 

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Hillstream Loach
Bill Mclaughlin
Active and healthy!

I was able to select two young females, though larger adults were also available. They adjusted immediately to my cooler temperature tank and are thriving!

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Hillstream Loach
Danielle Olsen
Hillstream loach

I got a hill stream loach to replace one that died when we moved. We have two in the tank and they are my favorite fish to watch. They remind me of stingrays. They move around even the tank and it’s fun to play find the loach. Sometimes they hang out together but most of the time they are separate.

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Alder Cones
Susan Clay
The real deal

Purchasing them here is like pulling them off a tree … Nothing fake-processed-feeling like a mass-sold version… Highly recommend!

The fish arrived healthy and looked absolutely stunning in my tank. Highly recommend.

The guppies were healthy and colorful. Nguyen, the owner, took his time to explain all of my questions. Great service!!!

Beautiful and Unique Betta

Very happy with the purchase of my Premium Red Koi Galaxy Male Betta. The fish is healthy and a beautiful addition to my tank. It coexists well with 6 ember tetras in my 10G tank.

Amazing Betta, I am so happy

The most amazing betta, arrived healthy, and instantly went looking for food when I put it in my tank. I only can have one betta, but if I wanted another, I would buy it from Splashy Fish!

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Pigeon Gold Discus
Helen Barold
Discus

These discus are so so wonderful! :) They come to the front of the tank, they're very happy and healthy. We bought them a little over a week ago and they are so great. Highly recommend! We also bought some betta fish for our sorority here and they are also great!

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Gold Mystery Snail
Craig Talarowski
happy and healthy

They are happy, very active a week later in two 10 gal dirted tanks @ 74 deg F. and doing well. They came wrapped in a wet paper towel in separate little plastic bags...I never saw shipping done this way before but it works well, and saves weight.

Amazing Quality Bettas

I ordered the 2 premium Bettas from Splashy fish recently and they are thriving. The owner was very cooperative with shipping my fishes at an opportune time after Hurricane Milton hit our area. Great experience...highly recommend Splashy Fish!

Seachem Prime Fresh and Saltwater Conditioner

Good

So i had the worker hunt me down a female hillstream which she did with no problem at all, I really appreciated it. The little one seems healthy, she wonders the quarentine tank for food which is a great sign, flashes a little but i know how picky some hillstreams are with water quality and bare bottoms. Overall the hillstream is healthy and the worker was super accommodating.

Great

I got a yellow and blue mystery and they are nice and healthy.

Quality fish and fast shipping

You do get what you pay for and my 2 Betta purchases from Splashy Fish can attest to that. Great experience and really awesome fish. Can't thank you enough.

Spiderwood Driftwood

Panda Cory Purchase

The Splashy team was very friendly and knowledgeable. We have always been satisfied with the quality and health of fish purchased from Splashy.

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Cholla Wood
Jack Durkin
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Fish, Plants, & Decor

I have been to Splashy Fish twice now. Their animals are well cared for and they have a nice selection of fresh water fish and some crayfish. I am not a Betta person but they seem to have a dazzling and beautiful selection of them. In addition I was told that they breed some of their stock which is great for hobby and the environment from which their fish originate. I met the owner today and got some good advice on setting up my tank after a move. I have purchased fish, plants, and decor from them. They are a friendly and helpful locally owned business. It is clear that they are much more committed to keeping their animals healthy than the big box pet stores. They will be my regular aquarium store from now on.

The White Cloud Minnows I purchased are eating well and growing fast. I enjoy watching them forage.

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Java Moss
Jesse Von linden
Fantastic experience

Staff was friendly and knowledgeable. They walked me through a ton of options for my tank. Amazing experience definitely headed back there.

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Gold Mystery Snail
Jody Cellar
2 of 3 arrived dead

I am extremely happy with the snail that arrived alive. He is very small but seems to be thriving. I have not heard back on the two I reported DOA. If I have to pay shipping to replace I won’t replace. I have already found another company that overnight shipping is much less expensive than Splashy Fish 2 day shipping. I have already ordered from the second company and they respond to customer service inquiries much faster.

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Christmas Moss
Daniel Nakada
Staff was super helpful

Splashy Fish is one of the few aquarium-only shops around the beltway. They have a great selection of fish, plants, soil, test kits. Family enjoys talking to the knowledgeable staff about general aquarium maintenance

Fantastic local fish shop

Splashy has an amazing selection of healthy fish. I revitalized my tanks with unique tetras and rasboras! All very healthy fish. Will always come back.

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Seachem Flourish
Juan Kirkwood
Good store

I think that they have great customer service. I personally found everything I wanted there. They also have really cool fish there. Something I do want to point out is, all their plants in the fridge were dead. At la least when I was there. But love everything else.

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Red Racer Nerite Snail
Krzysztof Janczak
best place to buy

I am so glad I found you

Beautiful store

Beautiful store with a great selection of fish and water plants