This Is The BIGGEST Fish Store I’ve Ever Seen!

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‎ Come along with Cory as he visits Zoo Zajac - the biggest pet store in the world according to the Guinness Book of World Records. Housed in a 130,000-square-foot warehouse, their aquatics section is bigger than most fish wholesalers and has every product and fish imaginable. Cory saw all sorts of new fish like African tetras and European eels, shelves of fish books, 3D aquarium backgrounds, botanicals, outside ponds with peacocks, and more!
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At Aquarium Co-Op, we focus on your aquariums. We specialize in freshwater tropical fish, aquatic plants, and the overall betterment of the freshwater fish keeping hobby. Our goal is to help you with your first pet fish and graduate you to an advanced aquarium hobbyist. If you'd like to take it to the next level, subscribe to Aquarium Co-Op and check out our weekly videos.
Cory McElroy is employed by Aquarium Co-Op LLC. He also owns Aquarium Co-Op LLC. Therefore, all content is sponsored by Aquarium Co-Op.
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[@AquariumCoop]

*What was your favorite part of Zoo Zajac? What fish or product do you wish they had in your country?*

[@sghettinona]

The refrigerators with live food in bags & tissue cultures. Also the plant section, in bags, the planted mats w/suction cups & wood with plants on, etc. Everything is so affordable. It's so incredibly clean and immaculately well organized- Fantastic! Thanks for sharing!

[@t3dwards13]

Chris doing guerilla signing was my favourite! Lol

[@t3dwards13]

It's odd that we don't get anything remotely close to stores like that in the states... Especially since "we" like to brag about the biggest and best of everything.

[@johnmarkzimm]

The assortment of substrates! (and of course the bags of live foods!)

[@chadalca17]

um... the sloth?

[@ingesexton811]

Can we all just take a moment to appreciate Cory's camera skills!? He took us on a whole tour and I didn't get motion sick once.

[@Tirfing88]

i was thinking exactly that, I always get dizzy 2 mins into videos like this one... shows the dedication of providing quality content

[@ingesexton811]

@@Tirfing88 most videos I just click out of because I get too motion sick. I was able to watch this whole video.

[@Tirfing88]

@@ingesexton811 yeah Cory knows the importance of good stabilization, minimizing motion blur and slow pans

[@boboften9952]

.... the moment I read " tour " .... " a three hour tour ..... " Imagine being stuck there with .....

[@VuHien2011]

The right way of doing it is to take a scene and then take another scene. You do not want to have a sweeping movement with the camera as this is what gives you the motion sickness.

[@kellybrentmoody9744]

Why can't we have this level of aquarium stores here in the States? I'd spend my days off there and they'd end up with all my money... but oooooh.... it's like Disney World for Aquarium Hobbyists

[@_invertico_]

Yep

[@danm8004]

We don't have Disney World...

[@fullgratz5370]

There are a few places like this here, but unfortunately it's not the standard of quality here. I use to have several high quality independently owned pet shops around me that were all put out of business because the average American preferred petsmart and petco.

[@davidsteele2969]

Corporate business models differ between the US and Germany/EU. In the US, it's profit over quality (based on Supreme Court rulings). Germany its a different approach to economics/business management.

[@uclajd]

@@davidsteele2969 Oh BS. A single store doesn't make any point about economics or business, and the Supreme Court has nothing to do with American free market outcomes. Obviously that local German store has a high number of enthusiasts supporting it. There are plenty of US companies based on higher quality = profit, not to mention, EVERY EUROPEAN LUXURY BRAND SELLS MORE IN THE USA THAN EUROPE. 5 miles from my house in Southern California I have SIX Swiss watch boutiques and numerous other high end brands. The American economy is extremely complex and yes, lots of it is price-driven, but that is based on consumer demand, not dUr HuR pRoFiT. Yes the average US consumer wants cheap when quality doesn't matter, which is largely driven by Amazon. But we have luxury brands too. The EU is DEAD in terms of innovation. You have 100 year old brands that dominate your stock markets. So stop popping off and stick to fish.

[@jonasgl3745]

This is the largest pet store in Europe. Not only do they have fish... they have everything even farm animals. The store is located in the most densely populated region of Germany / Western and Central Europe. Which is why it keeps running without beeing a whole saler

[@Ramboo0o]

It's the biggest pet store in the world not only Europe

[@formgeben]

Farm animals? For real? 😀

[@immothep101]

@@formgeben Nah, not really. They have a lot of poultry but no horses but that's about it. No pigs, cows or sheep

[@exotherm42]

They also have sloth, monkeys and used to have meerkats until they had to give them up due to multiple citations and had to give them up. Also used to sell dogs and cats until it was shut down because the way they were kept wasn't up to standards. Basically the guy put his ego way above the well being of his animals. At least he barely made any money with it, small blessings I guess.

[@Teddzworth]

Autographing the books in the store is such a champion move

[@southerncharmed4118]

Not only was the store amazing, but most everything seemed affordable! The markup on stuff like aquatic plants, wood and stone here in the good ol’ US is ridiculous! I mean The Co-op has pretty good prices for their plants but I can’t go anywhere in the states and buy a huge plant like that, that wouldn’t be at least a hundred bucks!

[@TzOn79]

@@kasperkjrsgaard1447 So 25 years is the first 5 years?

[@ericteneyck8691]

Having been in the hobby over 40 years (in the US), and having made a habit of visiting fish stores on my travels as well as visiting every fish store in the various cities I have lived in or near, I have never seen anything even close to being this impressive. I have seen some pretty nice stores, but nothing this cool. Even if the store has cool and unusual livestock, they are rarely carry more than 2 or 3 lines of merchandise, and then only a fraction of what a brand may produce. Seems like nearly every other country that has fish keeping hobbyist takes the hobby far more serious than the US ever has.

[@stelthtenau]

Australia is worse than the US

[@sgbirch]

It does make a change though. In general, the USA has the financial resources to address each special interest far more impressively than Europe.

[@BukitMan]

It wasn’t always that way. I have an old aquarium book that paints a different picture.

[@Cgraseck]

That African tetra that Cory didn't know was Phenacogrammus aurantiacus, sometimes called the Blue Eye Congo Tetra. They are expensive. I purchased some from The Wet Spot for $25 each. They require extremely soft and acidic water, and In my experience they are not hardy at all. Cheers, Chris

[@Cgraseck]

@@aarondavies8486 Probably captive bred. Hopefully they are more hardy. Cheers, Chris

[@porcu12345]

The african tetra you were wowed by at 17:58 is a blue eyed congo tetra (Phenacogrammus aurantiacus)

[@ShadySheev]

18:46: Are you really just skipping the part where a freaking SLOTH crawls above your head?! No comment on that? 😆

[@TilmanBaumann]

Zoo Zajac is a legend

[@rachelverkic1340]

My husband and I went to this store in May while in Germany visiting his family. We spent almost 4 hours in the store which felt rushed. The plumbing section for tank building was impressive, especially since we spent a great deal of time trying to find specific parts for a recent saltwater build. They have an entire huge wall with every piece of plumbing you would ever need. I was trying to talk my husband into moving back home, but it is a hard no for him after over 30 years living in the states.

[@stuartcharlton3363]

12:32 best part, it looks so happy!!!

[@Saji310]

Great to see you in Germany. 😊 That store is really amazing and you really caught an empty day, usually it's packed like crazy. Lot's of families with kids and a lot of aquarium fans from Germany or the neighbouring Netherlands too. The fish at 17:55 is a golden Kongo Tetra btw.

[@crabnationgermanysteiger8849]

@Georgios Didaskalou Zoo Zajac

[@Gk22632]

The only pet store where the fish probably don’t wanna get bought lmao

[@formgeben]

😀

[@suellenlines6766]

Just a FYI, the "green water" is phytoplankton. It's used for feeding different corals, copepods, mysis and other things

[@AquariumCoop]

Yeah wasn’t sure if it was fresh or salt version.

[@ricknathburn4167]

im a man and I loved that catfishes face...so no more than mother could love that face...it was precious

[@joeshmoe1366]

Holy moly that place is very amazing!

[@Sayneclayre]

The massive piranha tank from the beginning of the video used to contain Arowana and ID sharks of close to 4ft in length. They were massive!! Then again: it’s the biggest pet store of entire Europe, if I’m not mistaken! Definitely worth the visit if you’re ever around! 🖤

[@gordonpingenot1731]

I really LOVE your store tours. Please keep doing them!!!!

[@kyle1010kyle]

"With a face only a mother could love" I howled!

[@charliebright12]

Now there is a guy with a vision. Thanks for taking us along. ✌️🐟🌿

[@jawjagrrl]

And here I was excited to visit a couple LFS that were over an hour away yesterday... that could fit within a fraction of the pond area of this store. The US market has a long way to go... but companies like Tetra marketing products in Europe that they don't offer in the US when they are headquartered in VA? :(

[@teastan95]

Tetras HQ is in Melle Germany.

[@fischkopp1234]

Tetra was founded in Germany in the 1950s and is still headquartered there. It may be owned by an elusive American company now, but it's still operating from Germany and focuses on the European market.

[@Texas_Takeover]

If a store like that existed near me, I would be broke

[@girrl88]

Derpy catfishie @12:38 made me smile

[@andrewklock3208]

Wish we had these here in America

[@aquapuncture]

That molly tank @ 9:40 😍 Thanks for the tour, Cory!

[@barryrochon5032]

I live in a small town in BC Canada where i feel lucky if there are more than 3 tanks with fish in them and they're not half dead. WOW what a store. Thanks Cory

[@mikesmith-wk7vy]

cant imagine the hobby being big enough to support a store that big in the Unites States outside of maybe LA and Houston , New York city

[@fishgirlfromct7743]

All I can say is...I'm so jealous. So so jealous. Awesome video!! Thanks for sharing.

[@shred_zed1]

Cory you aren't dead are you??? Cause that looks like heaven!!

[@KerbalSpacey]

those mark ups 💀

[@MullockHeap]

Has very expensive and giant piranha tank......uses a 50 cent stick on thermometer.....love it!

[@nikhilkharkar1753]

Cory’s narration!!!!!

[@oneofmanysouls]

Woooooooow! This one is my favorite so far! The piranhas!! I would never want to leave if I had access to a store like this!!

[@thomasbarnes8827]

I believe that this is what the future Aquarium Co-Op is going to look like in a few years from now. 🤞🏽

[@reginaphalanges7331]

I could spend an entire weekend there!!! Those African tetras are gorgeous, love to get some of them!

[@Nick-pe3zw]

At first sight i immediately noticed where you were. I have been there once, i live in the Netherlands and will never forget this experience.

[@NigiVlogs]

I remember Zajac from like 20 years ago, they had a catalogue that they were sending for free, my country wasn't on the list but I would put the neighbouring country and then the real country in the street name and get catalogue just to watch it because I couldn't afford anything in it lol. I remember the picture of that huge aquarium and the interior of the store, fascinating!

[@Boulder_Betta]

4:47 the mat of java fern

[@spsniper1170]

Man..that place blows my mind..just..damn..magnifico..

[@cindy321]

Received my aquarium coop supplies today. Thank you from Canada

[@Cichlids23]

Wowzers..... amazing selection and looks clean and organized as well..

[@emw1816]

I would go nuts in there. This is spectacular!!!

[@condoti]

Cory is getting ideas for his store's next expansion.

[@Cort_jakje]

Ive been there with my dad alot, thats where i got all of his hardscape man. amazing store man!

[@pickled_sneeze]

Man that store is amazing. One of those in the US would be worth a road trip

[@KyleSGibson]

shout out to the 20 foot tall cat at 11:02

[@ALAPINO]

Not only is it massive, it's clean! If you live in any large city in North America the quality of store you will encounter will vary wildly.

[@CurieBohr]

7:00 whoa! There’s water in there!!!!!!!

[@Beesmakelifegoo]

Absolutely Devine! Thank you Corey! You are awesome.

[@lorenzreusse947]

Its such a treat living 20 minutes away from that shop, it is so awesome! Also the staff really knows their buissness, they can tell you lots of interesting and useful tricks for fishkeeping and configurating your tank :)

[@olslimy6428]

Always a treat to see different amazing fish store/market around the world... Thanks for the awesome tour Cory!

[@redbeardeddragon3405]

And I go searching on these channels on aquariums and fresh water stuff. Corey you're the only one that continuously talks about the subject of fish keeping and hobby. I like watching your channel because of the tank talk. I'm happy you don't keep your personal life the main focus of the show. There's a lot of KZbinrs out there to step off track. Thank you Corey

[@AJBAdventures]

What an amazing place just for a day out !

[@TheZenGinger]

I think I went broke, just watching the video! Going into that place with an active credit card, feels über-dangerous! And THANKS CORY... I was already busy, and now I have to figure out how to get to Germany! LOL And that weird red plant, KINDA looked like a mosaic plant, that's growing new leaves, and maybe was moved around a lot...? 😂 Best guess, anyway! Lol

[@tobyr3946]

I've been there. Zoo Zajac

[@jensino]

One of the best places for the aquarium enthusiast. They not only have all the beginner fish, but a lot of rarities as well. The aquariumplant section alone is bigger than most aquarium shops. Outdoors they have a lot of fish, too. If you need a 2 m sized sturgeon for your farm pond Zoo Zajac is the place to go. *hehe*

[@mariahpierson9573]

This store is absolutely amazing! I’d love to go there!

[@adkgaladkgal1799]

Best pet shop Ive ever seen for sure AMazing

[@kylefriend6391]

Very inspiring all around. Just WOW.

[@boboften9952]

" Come and see the EXIT " Barnum and Bailey ( to keep the public moving along ) True .

[@dutchmonsterfish8791]

I love that store! Been there plenty of times to. They have everything there. For all kinds of animals.

[@CBales2006]

Awesome camera walk thru Cory.. thanks for sharing with us here back home in the states. This was an amazing store. I think I’m still picking up my jaw off the floor 😂 so many cool fish and plants.

[@swimmye.8133]

Oh that is such an amazing place.

[@jccrespo208]

Dear Lord!! This store is like a mid size Aquashella!

[@mathewclayton2731]

I always geek out to these store tours from the Coop. But this time I’m awaiting my first shipment to 🇨🇦! Thank you!!

[@alexiscondit898]

Absolutely amazing! Makes me so jealous living in the states. Nothing close to this anywhere on the west coast I know of...

[@culturalhouse2643]

Wowzer. What a fish store.

[@_invertico_]

I am thinking of visiting the store. I once bought in the online store and the quality of the products are fantastic👍

[@moonnightbricks3948]

Never underestimate how therapeutic these videos are....thanks.

[@Ashwellx]

Heaven on earth, I'd do anything to work there.

[@aquariumplantman]

Just wow, very impressive.

[@XCaliKev]

👍😎 Are we looking into a crystal ball, The Co-Op in 20 years. Awesome place.

[@Sea-cucumber1151]

Nerd out, want to see everything! Could spend days there, and I would watch! ❤️🦀

[@catherinesanchez1185]

Thanks for these tours Cory ! It not only shows us what other countries are doing , but it shows what is possible .

[@RyeTheWanderer]

If this was on my country... I would be here for hours. HOURS.

[@jaclyncritesJesuslovesyou]

All I can say is… WOWSA!!!! 😆👏👍 Thank you for sharing, Cory!! Looks like Germany knows how to make aquascaping accessible to so many with endless supplies for fish keeping for beginners to advanced aquarists!! Amazing!! 🇩🇪🇺🇸

[@jjsc3334]

well maintained, clean, good job!

[@63fahrenheit]

:O This store is a dreamland

[@michaelgarvais9350]

Books! Remember when local fish stores used to stock books?!?

[@jensino]

I have ten aquariums plus my own bookshelf with aquarium literature. 🙂

[@brazzr]

That's heaven to me.

[@jimmyreese4740]

This is an amazing video I’m just loving what the Aquarium Co-Op crew is bringing us and teaching us!!

[@michaeld5750]

Amazing! Didn’t think a place like that could exist! So cool!

[@jacquelineleblanc7996]

Points camera at a literal sloth on the ceiling and says … there’s ducks 😂😂😂

[@newmexicoaquatics282]

Fantastic. A little jealous. Thank you for sharing! - Little Bobby

[@tree.65]

Aaah-mazing! I wish we had fish/pet stores of this level here in America. Even if they were a third of the size. This entire video had my jaw dropped. I'm sure you spent a lot of time in there Cory. I would have been there for hours. Wow! Awesome of Chris Lukhaup to show you around.

[@randystewart8895]

Really enjoyed the tour. Yeah, this is a super store of a place. Never seen anything on this level.

[@Mxbdt]

Thank you for sharing that with us all. Amazing store!!

[@samiprovost8567]

This is soooooooo COOL!! We need this in North America BIIIIIG time!!!!! 🐌😻🐠

[@pirminkogleck4056]

norbert is a legend !

[@Eden_Rivers]

Thank you for sharing! I watched this and then re-watched with my kids!

[@amazingaquaticsandexotics3030]

gotta love these sort of stores

[@_invertico_]

Definetly

[@klausoxen6597]

Zoo Zajac is only 2 Hours away from us (Kassel)...are there at least 4 times a Year! Chris Luckhaup (Great Guy) is well known in the German Aquarium Scene, by the Way,he was the Bass player in the Underground Metal Band "ATROCITY" in the 1990s! Many greets from Germany 🤘

[@11solrac44]

So it’s like an zoo/aquarium where you can buy the animals lol love it. The care and looks of the store are very clean and neat. Thanks for the awesome video. I was expecting to see more shrimp and rarer shrimp since it’s such a big store. I think I only saw the red cherry shrimp, sad.

[@JustaKarenDiscoveredTheIntrnet]

he really didnt do in depth look at all the tanks

[@thinerj1]

I wish fish stores were like this in the us!

[@hannakierstead289]

I cant get over how clean all the tanks are! and I dont think I saw one dead fish !

[@mingbritson]

WOW - WOW - WOW !!! It just keeps GOING!!! So glad you shared this!

[@cherylcalifornia125]

That’s one amazing, humongous fish store. It looks so bright and super clean as well. I could spend a good chunk of the day just looking at everything and watching the fish.

[@BenOchart]

Ginormous! Very awesome. Tanks and fish looked incredible. Thanks!