Smart Fishkeeping Readers’ Poll 2023 Winners Launched

We’ve reached that time as soon as extra, just because the winter months are scratching at our doorways, to reveal this 12 months’s winners of the Smart Fishkeeping Readers’ Poll. This 12 months a veritable legion of voters took half and it was no quick job, nonetheless the votes have been counted and verified and we’re excited to share the outcomes with you.

What is the Smart Fishkeeping Readers’ Poll?

Historically, the Smart Fishkeeping Readers’ Poll has been a badge of honour for the nation’s aquatic retailers. It affords a possibility for you, the readers, and prospects to voice their opinions and reward their favourite retailers with the formal recognition they deserve. There’s a certain satisfaction that comes with being suggested you’re among the finest of among the finest.

It ought to come back as no shock that this 12 months we’ve as quickly as as soon as extra seen just some new faces be a part of the ranks of the UK’s elite, nonetheless there’s moreover been a stage of consistency — many former winners can as quickly as as soon as extra declare to be the very best of their specialist genres, as voted for by you, the paying public.

Smart Fishkeeping Readers’ Poll 2023 Winners

Retailer of the 12 months

Winner: Within the case of Maidenhead Aquatics, bigger really is more healthy, and this 12 months observed a mountain of votes for what’s as quickly as as soon as extra the nation’s favourite aquatic chain retailer. With over 150 branches, it’s clearly doing one factor correct!

Runner-up: In a repeat of ultimate 12 months’s last consequence, Aquahome Aquatic Centre takes second place for this extraordinarily coveted class, and supplies to an prolonged string of regional and sophistication wins for this spectacular, Leyland based totally retailer.

On-line retailer of the 12 months

Winner: Charterhouse Aquatics appears want it’s not capable of relinquish the place, taking first place for yet another 12 months. From the off, we at PFK have been impressed at how progressive this enterprise was, and it looks like we weren’t the one ones.

Runner-up: In a single different repeat of ultimate 12 months’s last consequence, we uncover Full Aquatics. With many prior runner-up positions, this retailer has set the bar extreme for what constitutes an essential on-line retailer.

Unbiased retailer of the 12 months

Winner: A mannequin new face sweeps into its first Readers’ Poll win in spectacular vogue inside the kind of Premier Aquatics. With a strong social media presence and adoring purchaser base, a category win was inevitable for this Runcorn based totally retailer.

Runner-up: Taking a good place amongst the Excessive 40 retailers in last 12 months’s poll, Little Fish Aquatics in Kings Lynn has pulled the entire stops out for rather more recognition this time spherical, romping residence with second place on this exceptionally busy class.

Marine retailer of the 12 months

Winner: Fully no surprises proper right here to see Finest Aquatics of Widnes taking first place for marine retailer of the 12 months as soon as extra. Ever rising, and even web internet hosting its private aquatics competitors, we’re constructive we’ll be seeing additional of the Finest title in years to return.

Runner-up: Snatching the runner-up place for marine retailer of the 12 months we see Radical Aquatics of Leeds. With its robust five-star consider rankings on Fb, it’s clear that this retailer’s hitting the right phrase for an eager saltwater viewers.

Coral retailer of the 12 months

Winner: Leaping up from last 12 months’s runner-up place, Finest Aquatics storms into first place for corals, giving the store two class wins plus a regional win for 2023. Talk about going from power to power.

Runner-up: The clue’s throughout the title in relation to Signature Frags in Ripley, Derbyshire. Pitching itself as a ‘UK aquaculture specialist’, one solely has to take a look at this retailer’s wonderful corals to know that this retailer’s inserting its money the place its mouth is!

Aquascaping retailer of the 12 months

Winner: There are few retailers as aesthetically pleasing as County Durham’s Horizon Aquatics, and it looks like we’re not the one ones who’ve been taken by its great aquascape-focused variety of {{hardware}} and greenery.

Runner-up: A most well-liked haunt for the UK’s prime aquascapers, Aquarium Gardens of Huntingdon is a sort of corporations we won’t get enough of. With inspirational tanks and top-notch workers, it’s a delight to see it getting the recognition it deserves.

Catfish retailer of the 12 months

Winner: I indicate, come on. Selling the kinds of catfish that completely different retailers can solely dream of accessing, was it ever going to be a shock that the mighty Pier Aquatics of Wigan was going to comfortably scoop up this class however as soon as extra?

Runner-up: So regularly a Readers’ Poll favourite that it’s nearly part of the furnishings proper right here, Wharf Aquatics of Pinxton, Nottingham, on no account fails to thrill its prospects with decisions of all points space of curiosity and whiskery.

Cichlid retailer of the 12 months

Winner: Not content material materials with merely taking the unbiased retailer of the 12 months class, Premier Aquatics explodes onto the Readers’ Poll scene with yet another first place. With an prolonged curiosity historic previous, proprietor Steve Chester has a clear eye for what the paying public want.

Runner-up: As quickly as as soon as extra, no surprises from the PFK employees to see the ever-dominating Wharf Aquatics—and its great dedication to cichlids from throughout the globe—glide merely into the second-place place for this space of curiosity class.

Oddball retailer of the 12 months

Winner: With two runner-up slots already throughout the bag elsewhere, Wharf Aquatics leaps into an uncontested first place in relation to oddballs. With a passion for the quirkier side of aquatics, it’s the one-stop retailer for anyone’s oddballs needs.

Runner-up: Remaining 12 months it was reward for its discus, and this 12 months Fur and Fins of Blackwood, Caerphilly, is receiving new reward for its oddball unfold. And, to our shame, PFK nonetheless hasn’t visited, so depend on a roadtrip to Wales sometime imminently!

Discus retailer of the 12 months

Winner: Ah certain, who else may it is nonetheless the person who ran out of trophy space for profitable discus competitions, and as quickly as had an indoor pond full of them? It’s Cambridgeshire’s Chens Discus reclaiming the store’s rightful title as quickly as additional.

Runner-up: A repute synonymous with prime quality livestock, Devotedly Discus in Polegate has a few years of experience in coping with the perfect fish spherical. You don’t even wish to go to to see, merely watch on the webcam from the store’s private website online!

Pond retailer of the 12 months

Winner: Aptly named, and repeating its success after scooping the pond class for 2022, we see Full Koi & Aquatics of Bolton. Dealing with the proper in high-end fish, this retailer is a company pondkeeper’s favourite.

Runner-up: We finish this 12 months’s courses with yet another modern face throughout the poll, this time throughout the kind to The Carp Co. With its private farm, and offering spectacular livestock ensures, it was solely a matter of time sooner than it joined Readers’ Poll rankings.

We at PFK want to thank each voter who took half, plus extra explicit as a result of our sponsors at Fluval for making the poll potential!

Regional winners

North

Winner: Aquahome Aquatic Centre

Runner-up: Premier Aquatics

Scotland

Winner: Fishkeeper Coatbridge

Runner-up: Fishkeeper Inverness

Midlands

Winner: Wharf Aquatics

Runner-up: Sweet Knowle Aquatics

Wales

Winner: Aquatic World Cardiff

Runner-up: Runner-up: Fur and Fins

West

Winner: Maidenhead Aquatics @ Mere Park

Runner-up: The Aquatic Retailer Bristol

South

Winner: Fish Planet London

Runner-up: Maidenhead Aquatics @ Ascot

East

Winner: Little Fish Aquatics

Runner-up: Scope Aquatics

Northern Ireland

Winner: Maidenhead Aquatics @ Belfast

Smart Fishkeeping 2023 Excessive 40 Itemizing

Superior Aquarium Consultancy

Aquahome Aquatic Centre

Aquarium Gardens

Aquatic World Cardiff

Charterhouse Aquatics

Chens Discus

Full Aquatics

Full Koi and Aquatics

Devotedly Discus

Ely Aquatics and Reptiles

Ely Exotics

Emperor Tropicals

Finest Aquatics

FishCove Aquatics

Fishkeeper Coatbridge

Fishkeeper Inverness

Fishkeeper SouthWest

Fish Planet London

Fur and Fins

Horizon Aquatics

Little Fish Aquatics

Maidenhead Aquatics Ascot

Maidenhead Aquatics Ashford

Maidenhead Aquatics Belfast

Maidenhead Aquatics Chesterfield

Maidenhead Aquatics Farnham

Maidenhead Aquatics Mere Park

Maidenhead Aquatics Pyle

Maidenhead Aquatics Ramsgate

Premier Aquatics

Radical Aquatics Leeds

Scope Aquatics

Signature Frags

Sims Tropical Fish

Sweet Knowle Aquatics

The Aquatic Retailer Bristol

The Carp Co.

The Ocean Problem

Tropical Offers

Wharf Aquatics