Aquatic Design Aquariums - Aquarium shop in Plano - 1629 N Central Expy, USA

I've bought chromis, Coraline algae and live foods from here before. Nice set up. They don't rent PAR meters which was why I haven't bought corals yet, but I'm planning on getting some from here. The photos attached are from October 4th, 2023. Do not rely on my photos for prices I'm just posting to show what they had that day. I'm in the works of trading in some freshwater fish for store credit to go towards these guppies.

On Saturday 1/6/24 my husband and I drove from Sherman to visit this Plano store. It was one of two stores recommended by a store local to our area. We needed to buy live rock and get information on saltwater tanks. We walked in and saw three people. One young female was attending tanks, she was holding a fishnet. She smiled at us but never spoke or offered assistance. The other two people in the store were engaged in a conversation about dogs. We assumed the female in the conversation was a customer as her back was to us. The man saw us but never spoke or offered assistance or the customary, when you’re already with a customer, “I’ll be right with you”. We walked around in the same room these three people were in for about five minutes, admiring the fish and corals. After so much time went by, and still no assistance to help, my husband asked where the other store was that had been recommended. We Googled it and found it was less than two miles away. We decided to leave and go to the other store, since we couldn’t get a greeting or an offering of help in this store. As we headed to the door the man said “oh have you been helped?” I responded No!! (Who was gonna help us? None of them offered to, and we never saw anyone else) then he said “what were you needing? I responded “we’re good” and continued to the door. At the time he decided to engage us, the female he had been having the conversation with turned slightly and I noticed she was holding what appeared to be a fishnet, which suggested she wasn’t a customer after all but an employee!!! So we visited a small local business…not local to us…but not a national chain either and received no greeting, no help!!! We then drove to the next store. When we walked in, we were immediately greeted and welcomed with the biggest and most genuine smile!!! We had every question we had answered with expert knowledge and care. We purchased 75 pounds of live rock and when we left we felt like we were appreciated. Going forward, when we can’t find what we need locally we will always do business with the second store.

I have been meaning to check out this place for a while so I decided to stop and I'm so glad I did. This place has some amazing tanks and great fish and corals that's very healthy and reasonable price. This will become my go to place for corals now. Also the staff is very educated on corals. I recommend this place.

Very nice place with freshwater/saltwater fish. They have lots of food/equipment along with corals and a selection of cichlids

When I went here I just went here to find a tank but turns out I bought a crawfish, he is amazingly healthy and I'm coming here again to buy him a girlfriend so I can breed them. I recommend this place so much! Like it has both salt and freshwater fish!As a crayfish breeder, I love this place soooooo much! 💙💙💙💙

Beautiful collection of fresh and salt water fish, not a lot of aquatic plants but nice and healthy collection. I can tell that they take good care of their fish 🐟. Customer service is excellent. Very helpful and knowledgeable staff. Special thanks to Christine and wilis. Good job guys.

Yall have done an amazing job with taking care our aquarium for the past few years! Thank you for helping us move our fish safely too!

This place is awesome they have a big variety of fish and corals to choose from!! 10 out of 10 I will definitely be going back!