Aqua Lab Aquaria

I recently bought a house in San Jose that came with a pond. Unfortunately the previous owner had passed away and left no instructions, so I had absolutely no idea where to start. I’ve never had a pond before and knew nothing about how to maintain one. I called Aqua Lab and Kent was incredibly helpful from the start. He took the time to walk me through everything and explain how the system works without ever making me feel dumb for asking very basic questions. We decided to do a one-time deep cleaning to restore the pond. Before the scheduled cleaning, Kent stopped by to check out the system and figure out what actually needed to be done. He ended up fixing a broken part, doing a full deep clean of the pond and the filter/skimmer, and adding beneficial water additives. Since I live about 3 hours away, he kept me updated throughout the process with photos and messages, which I really appreciated. He even left me some pond tools to use and offered to come back another time, at no extra charge, when I’m at the house so he can walk me through the system in person and show me how to do the regular monthly maintenance myself (or help with that if I decide I’d rather have him handle it). His pricing was very fair and actually came in lower than other local shops I contacted. Overall just a really great experience. I’ve attached before and after photos of the pond. Highly recommend Aqua Lab and working with Kent. What a great guy!

Review for aquarium service - had a new tank set up in my home that I feared had cracked! Kent from Aqua Lab was super patient and thoughtful with helping me solve the issue. Thankfully it ended up being excess silicon that he helped clean up, but Kent took extra time to make sure my tank stand was level, adjusting the height of the stand legs and moving the stand. His help alleviated a huge stress on my mind, and I’m super thankful I can rest easy!

Good stock of almost every aquarium-related thing you could need. Prices are reasonable/as expected in the area. Bettas are kept in small, filtered tanks and look healthy. The person who helped me out seemed knowledgeable.

We are brand new to aquascaping and so grateful these guys are in the Bay Area. We spent hours in the shop talking to their associate who walked us through how to set up our tank, gave recommendations, and worked through permutations of different fish we could get that would be supported in our ecosystem. I loved that we were able to give them the directive of “we are trying to do minimal upkeep and have an interesting tank” and they could work with that. Also we bought our tank and filter there bc their tanks are much cooler looking. Even now months later the owner Kent gives me very detailed and helpful advice when I call him or text him with questions and pictures of our tank. This is our 2 month old tank where we are growing a carpet of pearlweed and have 2 corydora catfish and some shrimp. Guppies incoming.

Really rough around the edges. The display tanks are over run with algae, have flatworm infestations, and are covered in dead plants. I wanted to get some macro algae but after seeing all of that I just don’t trust that I could ever get it parasite clean.