Knowledgable Help for All Since 1970

  • Plants & Animals, Fresh & Salt

    From goldfish to goniopora, we carry all the classics plus a variety of oddballs. We also have tanks devoted entirely to plants and corals.

  • Knowledgeable Help For All

    With over 100 years combined aquarium-keeping experience, we can get you started with everything you need to know, and help with the problems that crop up along the way.

  • Custom Orders

    Looking for something specific? Trying to fit an unusual space? We can order tanks, stands, and equipment you won’t normally find in stores.

Nelle (orange) & Winter (black), our resident occelaris clownfish pair

Your Friendly Neighborhood Fish Store

Located on Lake City Way, The Fish Store recently celebrated its 50th anniversary, making it the oldest continuously operating pet store in Washington State. We have a wider variety of animals than the Seattle Aquarium and a cheaper admission price, so come take a look around, ask some questions, and you might feel inspired to start a tank of your own.

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We received a shipment of plants out of Asia almost two weeks ago and they are looking great! Featured here are some Anubias varieties, swords and other exotics, and Mayaca. There are even more plants around the shop for all lighting levels, so swin
We received a saltwater shipment a little over a week ago and everything has settled in nicely. Some highlights shown here include a lined puffer, scopas tang, firefish, and red scooter blenny. There are even more shrimps, snails, and corals to ch
We received a nice shipment of freshwater animals just over a week ago and wanted to show you some of the highlights. Pictured here are blind cave tetras, clouded archers, red lizard catfish (L10A), Madagascar rainbows, and frogmouth catfish. These
Just a heads up about a temporary schedule change. We will be opening at 11:00am today and should be back to normal operating hours next Saturday. See you then!!!
Today is the day and now is the time! We have many pounds of candy to give away to kids in costume and the adults escorting them. Actually, anybody can come get some really! Happy Halloween!!!
No, the photos aren’t great, but the frags are. We received a big selection of over 200 new frags and the look fantastic. Also, a vast majority of them are in the $24.98-$34.98 range. And, yes, we still have our buy three and get one of equa
Yes, those are pea puffers. Yes, we have already sold some straight out of the bucket. No, we don’t do holds. We’ll see you when you get here.
Do you like hardscape? Because we have hardscape! For the first time in a few years our legendary rock guy has just brought us a half ton of assorted stuff like rainbow sandstone, war paint slate, obsidian, zebra rock, amazonite, and travertine. T
If you have nuisance anemones like Aiptasia in your saltwater tank then you may want to pick up some peppermint shrimp. They are great at consume the nasty cniderians and acting as scavengers for excess food in the tank. As an added bonus, since th
Here’s our attempt at a bit of bathroom humor. 😄 It is also the truth. 😉
Since there has been a fair amount of interest in the small palludariums we have set up in the past, we have decided to bring in a selection of the tanks for folks who may want to try to design and build their own. They each come with a screen top,