Long Island pond & aquarium specialists

The Quiet Luxury of Living Water

Pond restoration, custom aquariums, and living habitats — designed, built, and maintained by local specialists who treat your ecosystem like their own.

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What we do

Design, build, and maintain

One team for design, installation, and ongoing care — no hand-offs, no franchises.

Pond Restoration

Inherited a neglected pond with your new home? We drain, clean, rebalance, and restock — then keep the ecosystem healthy year-round.

Cleaning · Rebalancing · Seasonal care

Aquarium Design & Care

Custom freshwater and saltwater builds sized to your space, plus maintenance plans and full restorations for tanks that have fallen behind.

Design · Installation · Maintenance

Custom Habitats

Terrariums, paludariums, and specialty animal habitats built to the needs of their residents — and to your vision for the room they live in.

Terrariums · Paludariums · Specialty builds

Planted aquarium installed on an oak cabinet in a client's home

In place

Every installation is planted, plumbed, and kept by the same hands that designed it.

Recent work

From our tanks and ponds

Every photo below is our own installation — no stock imagery.

Axolotl resting on the substrate of a planted freshwater tank — Axolotl habitat — planted freshwater

55-gallon Amazonian aquarium with driftwood and tall grasses — Amazonian 55-gallon community

Hexagonal display tank with dragon stone and sand substrate — Hexagon display tank

Desktop shrimp colony tank — Desktop shrimp colony

Planted nano tank with moss balls — Planted nano tank

Rainforest terrarium with cork bark, moss, and lichen — Rainforest terrarium

Neglected backyard pond, drained and overgrown with weeds, before restoration — Backyard pond — before

Same backyard pond refilled and cleared of overgrowth after restoration — Backyard pond — after

Crystal-clear koi pond with orange and white koi beneath a wooden pergola — Koi pond beneath the pergola

Planted aquarium overrun with algae before a full restoration — Planted tank — before

Same aquarium restored to a clean aquascape with driftwood and grasses — Planted tank — after

Close-up of a gray axolotl resting among aquarium plants — Axolotl among the plants

Heavily planted long freshwater aquarium housing an axolotl — Planted axolotl aquarium

Small round aquarium bowl with planted aquatic greenery — Round nano planted bowl

Planted freshwater aquarium with driftwood and tall grasses beside a bed — Bedside planted aquarium

Freshwater community aquarium with live plants in a wooden stand — Community tank in a wood stand

Aquatic turtle habitat tank with basking lamps and planted decor — Aquatic turtle habitat

Planted display aquarium with livebearer fish, installed at a local pet store — Display tank at a local pet store

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Word of mouth

What clients say

Who we are

Local specialists, not a franchise

Island Aquariums is a Long Island company built around one idea: aquatic spaces should thrive, not just survive. We design, build, restore, and maintain ponds, aquariums, and living habitats across the island.

Whether you inherited a pond with your new home or want a centerpiece aquarium designed from scratch, you work with the same people from first visit to ongoing care.

Based on Long Island — we come to you
One point of contact from design through maintenance
Ponds, aquariums, terrariums, and paludariums under one roof

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631-290-8928

Email

longislandtanks@gmail.com

Service area

All of Long Island, NY — Nassau and Suffolk counties.