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Stephenson St - >M35 9AX, Manchester
+441616811223

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Premium Coral, Fish and Reefing Supplies.

Welcome to Out Of The Blue Marines, a hidden gem for marine enthusiasts in the UK. With a fantastic selection of healthy corals and fish, this shop is perfect for anyone seeking quality aquatic life. Our knowledgeable and friendly staff are dedicated to providing excellent customer service, offering advice and assistance with a smile. Visitors have reported feeling welcomed and appreciated, often enjoying a coffee while browsing our pristine tanks filled with vibrant marine specimens.

Key features of Out Of The Blue Marines include:

  • Wide Variety: An amazing selection of unusual fish, corals, and invertebrates.
  • Expert Guidance: Staff who are experienced and passionate about marine aquariums, always ready to share their knowledge.
  • Clean and Well-Maintained: Our shop is known for its immaculate tanks and healthy livestock.
  • Affordable Pricing: A range of products at reasonable prices that cater to all budgets.
  • Personal Touch: A friendly atmosphere where customers receive personalized attention.

Whether you are a seasoned marine keeper or new to the hobby, Out Of The Blue Marines is a must-visit destination for all your marine needs.

🕒 Opening hours

  • SUNDAY: 10H-16H
  • MONDAY: (CLOSED)
  • TUESDAY: 10H-17H
  • WEDNESDAY: 10H-17H
  • THURSDAY: 10H-17H
  • FRIDAY: 10H-17H
  • SATURDAY: 9:30-17H

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🗣️ Out Of The Blue Marines: Reviews

4.8/5 (131 Reviews)
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KEVIN Lyon 4 months ago

Fantastic experience: Great staff.helpful with any of your problems. and a good selection of fish and plants

Richard Hulse 7 months ago

Fantastic experience: Superb. Excellent customer service from Adam. Very knowledgeable about the marine hobby and genuinely interested and enthusiastic

chris oxley 7 months ago

Fantastic experience: Wow , what more can I say.. travelled from Liverpool to visit for first time , fantastic selection of clean well cared for corals and fish and I cant praise the lady owner , absolutely fantastic customer service, help and overall approach..no question a problem.. fantastic.I will be ordering my products from here from now on.. keeping my purchases to independent business for don't get the help and service anywhere else as I did today.. brilliant

Out Of The Blue Marines
Out Of The Blue Marines

It was a pleasure to chat with you and thankyou so much for taking the time out to visit and review your experience. It means alot to us to receive all feedback so thankyou again and I look forward to your next visit

Lee Bowker 10 months ago

Fantastic experience: Small shop but corals are stunning and very reasonable prices , well worth a trip out.

Alex Cartwright 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Amazing shop, the two guys in there were so helpful. Nothing was too much trouble and they spent time answering my questions and giving advice. Really patient with me and even gave me the orange lens when I wanted to take some photos of the corals I liked. I would definitely recommend and will be returning in the future.

Steven Wagner 1 year ago

Positive experience: Im an ex Oasis long serving customer thought i would give this place a go.. On my first visit i bought a coral and a fish...both doing well and i found the prices ok, plus there was a guy working there who had previously worked at Oasis...so i came away from there quite pleased. The second time however, i bought a fish and again its doing well but i was told that there was copper in the tank and not to put the water from the bag in my tank after floating the fish...something i was not told the first time...im hoping that my corals are not damaged as water from the bag housing the first fish got in my tank, secondly i would have bought a coral if when i asked for a price there was sensible pricing...every coral was either £80 or£100 with fragments at £40 it was like the pricing was guesswork and way over what i was paying at Oasis. so, i will go again today to attempt to find a reasonably priced coral. overall though i am happy with out of the blue...lets see how it goes on my next visit. Steve

Out Of The Blue Marines
Out Of The Blue Marines

Thankyou for taking the time out to leave this review I’m sure people will find your comments most helpful

Hannah Davenport 1 year ago

Negative experience: Lovely corals. Nice shop. Terrible customer service, no hello, no smiles. Felt slightly awkward being in there.

Out Of The Blue Marines
Out Of The Blue Marines

Hey Hannah!

Thankyou for your review! Sorry you didn’t receive a pleasant experience! Please remember we also have real lives and things going on in our personal lives….jst like you and everyone else! Although we do try to leave it all at the door and put on our smiley customer
service faces for our customers

We are all only human after all

Phill Edgar 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: This store was recommended to me by the owner of oasis aquarium, due to that store closing down. Went to have a look today, found it well stocked, clean and the owner was friendly, knowledgeable and took an interest in my tank setup, fish and coral. There was no hard sell either.

Kp Leonard 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Had my 1st trip to Out of the Blue Marines this morning because my hubby kept telling me how good and knowledgeable the staff are. It was brilliant. It was an Auction. We got some really good bargains, while having a laugh. I met some very knowledgeable customers too, who were helpful too. You have to visit here if you love Marine fish. Fantastic service. Thanls Vinny.

Victoria Barker 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: If you are looking for an amazing choice of healthy corals and fish this the place to come! The Out of the Blue team are very friendly, extremely helpful and the advice is always happily offered. Its a fab shop with great prices and very clean too ..a little treasure trove that I would certainly recommend to all

Fish face Tony 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Mate, what an ace little shop. I'd highly recommend it. Massive frags, brilliant selection of unusual fish, loads of inverts, and the people who own it are sound. Yeman. 10/10. Have a look.

steve jillings 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Fantastic family run shop with lots of knowledge and help on marine aquariums.

Richard Hirst 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Stumbled upon this shop just looking for a new marine shop, and it's amazing. Great helpful staff with a world of knowledge definitely worth the 50 mile round trip.

Chris Whyle 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Great shop and great staff. Good quality at good prices. Best coral and salt water shop by far for miles.

neil snelgrove 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Great shop very helpful very good variety of fish and corals nothing is too much trouble always there to help beautiful place

Paul Nolan 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Fantastic. You must put this on your next planned outting. The fish are in superb condition. The corals are to die for.. the staff are experts. A year in from last year review .. a brilliant marinrc shop and dedicated owners wanting you to learn everything you can about this hobby. Highly recommend

امل ألحياة 1 year ago

Negative experience: Bad customer service, low stock, unfriendly, these guys don't know what they are doing at all, everything looks brown, very greedy, their way of talking is absolutely inappropriate, in all honesty they are bad at dealing with customers

Out Of The Blue Marines
Out Of The Blue Marines

Here we have a classic example of a review left by a customer leaving the store WITHOUT the coral he wanted insisting it be HEAVILY discounted. Countless hours spent bartering about prices-only so he could take it away and advertise it online at a higher price!
Don’t know what we’re doing? Yet we are in possession of a 5 STAR pet shop licence issued by local authorityEverything is brown; yet we have hundreds of beautiful pictures of colourful stock continuously available maybe get those tested buddy. Good luck with your home business and the constant evading of taxes while trying to ruin another man/woman’s business Also I wish the next shop that has to deal with you the very best of luck-they’re going to need it

Piotrek Rynkiewicz 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: What’s a great experience! The best aquatic shop i have ever seen. The Staff and the owners are well experienced reefers. The best prices you can find around, all tanks are kept clean and tidy, you can’t see any pests around, nor a dirt. Lovely people, spend over an hour talking about the hobby. I drove 3 hours from Carlisle, but it is worth to drive even 6 hours. Highly recomended!

Nick Weston 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great little shop, knowledgeable staff and very clean tanks with a great variety of fish and corals. Well worth the drive up from Nottingham

Anthony Keary 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: The staff are very helpful and there's some nice stock in. Becki always goes above and beyond to help where possible

Shannon Kershaw 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Fantastic shop. Really knowledgeable staff. Went in to get some advice as we’re new to keeping fish/coral, they were really helpful and we left feeling a lot more confident about caring for fish. Recommend this shop for anyone wanting to keep a saltwater tank

A Mohammed 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: I must say the best place for fish and corals been coming here almost year and half now ever since ive got into the hobby ,becky and the out of the blue family always takes care of me ,i recommend everyone to go check them out ,great corals and fish instock ,great prices will always carry on doing business with these guys

Garath Waits 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Is a small shop but brilliant customer service and feels more personal touch. I've had nothing but a great experience there helpful staff plenty off advise as I'm quite new to it. I have bought fish corals live rock water fish food ect everything I needed and had the advice on how use it or put it in my tank. I use this shop now as my opinion amazing staff after few visits welcome ubwith your name that person touch gose long wayi fully recommend especially if new .

Ben Morten 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Amazing coral at very good prices!!! The shop is looking the best around well done guys you deserve the credit spotless tanks and quality coral!!!

Mandy Brunt 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Always helpful and a great selection of fish and coral

Evoke 2 years ago

Negative experience: Possibly the worst marine shop in the country. Compleatly clueless staff that just want to rip you off. Avoid

Iman Barkhor 2 years ago

Negative experience: Poor customer services, low stock, not friendly, since steve left these guys dont know what are they doing at all, everything looks brown, very greedy,

Out Of The Blue Marines
Out Of The Blue Marines

Firstly iman, regarding the poor customer service-you are the only 1 star review we have ever received, this indicates the issue could be with you and not the store!??
You come into store offering us the ‘brownest’ of corals and expect to receive retail value in credit for them….all while wanting to receive everything you purchase at half price!!

I can assure you all the staff at Out Of the Blue Marines are more than capable of giving the correct advice regarding all aspects of marine keeping. I feel if the truth be known your ‘issue’ is with one staff member who refused you discount this week-and not the store as a whole!!

Anyway-good luck to the next store who has the ‘pleasure’ of dealing with you-they will need it!!

R K 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Friendly, chatty and helpful service. Vinney, Jordan and Jasmin made us feel right at home. Went to buy coral for my son whose 12th birthday it was. He loved it. They have a wide variety of coral and fish. Got lots of brilliant advice. Bought amazing coral at affordable prices. They even let him stroke a fish! He came back ecstatic. Thank you everyone.

Cameron Moors 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Really helpful staff, good selection of fish and a really good selection of coral for a small shop. Really knowledgeable staff as well

Ian rodber 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Superb little shop good selection of corals

Robert Dunning 3 years ago

Positive experience: Great bunch of guys that are really helpful and knowledgeable.

Ben Dray 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Awesome little place with some of the best corals in the greater Manchester area, highly recommended

Curtis White 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Brilliant, good range of coral and fish. More importantly very clean shop.

Audrey Mccurley 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great selection of coral Great prices Absolutely pristine tanks owner very welcoming

Sarah Hilton 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great freindly and knowledgeable staff.nice selection of corals and fish.

barry finnerty 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Steve & the Staff are very knowledgeable & like some places they don't sell you things you don't need

Robert Jeffreys 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Friendly staff, lots of marine choices

Suzanne Jeffreys 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Fantastic marine fish shop. Very knowledgeable and friendly staff.

Will 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great little marine shop, although still with a large choice. all the common fish such as clowns, cleaner crews etc. 2 big coral tanks. food choices too. also will get in anything that you would like.

Adam Ahmed 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Visit Sunday and service and selection was amazing. Very knowledgeable staff. Will be returning very soon. Selection and service is much much better than well known high street pet shops.

Lyndon Gallagher 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great shop Great guys lots of help and very approachable easy to talk to . Even grab a coffee while you browse realy nice place and extreamly clean thanks for your time see you soon

Dawn Smith 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Very experienced fish and coral keepers, well advised well happy, keep it up, thanks

Yasmin Akremi 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Excellent choice of corals and livestock very clean tanks andhealthy specimens fair pricing and very knoelrgable staff

Barbara Kozsda 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Brilliant!! Great shop with fantastic selection Thank you for all yours help!

Paul B 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great corals and prices. Knowledgeable and friendly staff, everything is in beautiful condition. Defo be back again

Ian worthington 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Fabulous people very helpful, excellent stock and excellent water quality. Always happy to help and give advice. Never had a problem with water or corals from here

Damian Mlodzianowski 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Superb shop small bot plenty in it really helpful stuff. Recommended to visit

Rhys Sutton 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Fantastic marine shop has a amazing amount of fish and coral on a weekly basis and Steve the manager knows his stuff too which isn't always the case with every shop you come across

Dan Stephens 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: What an excellent store. Staff are helpful and the store is well spaced out. Will be definitely returning.

Richard Helsby 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Excellent staff and quality livestock Steve knows his stuff

Robert Clelland 4 years ago

Positive experience: Good little shop clean healthy fish and corals only reason it’s not 5 star is, no corals have price tags....so you end up saying “how much is that mate”. About 50 times and gets really annoying quick for the customer.... nobody likes constantly asking for prices The only shop in northwest where you gotta ask.... id go a “lot more” and buy more if stuff was labeled, but end up going other places that display there prices clearly! Shame as it’s a good shop apart from that

Out Of The Blue Marines
Out Of The Blue Marines

Thanks for your feedback ‘ a google user’. Due to our super quick turnaround on livestock and extremely large variety of both colonies and frags-it is largely impossible to keep on top of pricing each individual item! We are a small friendly shop with limited staff but massive turnaround on livestock!l Also we work at a fast pace to keep our tanks in pristine condition to ensure our livestock is happy and healthy!

I’m sorry that this small detail impacts on your shopping experience with us enough to make your review a 4* however all staff members are more than happy to assist you should you require it in the future

Lisa Flint 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Love this place. Always happy to help and great advice. X

Andi Lock 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: A reliable store where the staff give you as much attention as you need. Don't sell you things you don't need, also the livestock is well looked after!

Andy J 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Best marine shop around...genuine advice given...not advice based on what they can sell you like other shops do

Neil Rankin 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Fantastic little find, shop was quiet tanks were immaculate and corals looked very healthy. 2 cracking blokes working in thier

Mark Ashworth 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Brilliant shop one of the best in the country

Philip Tennant 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Jordan very knowledgeable and helpful, amazing shop and plenty of choice

Ian Fox 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Reef and Marine aquarium specialist Great service a good source of information excellent quality stock my go Marine supplier.

Nicola Brumat 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great staff friendly atmosphere great selection of fish and corals

Bartek Akwa 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Sklepik mały , ale sądzę,że każdy znajdzie coś dla siebie. Duży wybór korali i ryb . Obsługa naprawdę miła, można napić się kawki. Naprawdę polecam. Smak place ,but i think u found what u looking .Large selection of corals and fish. The service is really nice, you can have a cup of coffee. I really recommend.

an56464 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great shop

Mark Hebb 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: One of the best in the northwest.

Steve Pickering 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: What a fantastic little shop ! I’ve literally just walked out having visited for the 1st time and was made to feel really welcome by the staff was offered a brew within seconds of walking in ( very nice thank you ) all the tanks were spotlessly clean with really healthy looking fish and the coral tanks full of beautiful pieces stunning ! Thanks guys will definitely be calling in again

chris wardle 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Good shop for marine fish and coral keepers, plenty of corals and fish etc, friendly knowledgeable staff, worth a visit !

Karl Parlane 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Fantastic outfit. Super friendly staff with alot of knowledge and advice. Definitely using these guys again

M B 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Hi guys me and my other half have just had are first visit to the shop and we couldn’t be happier the young chap who’s name I didn’t catch his knowledge and advise on what we wanted in are tank was so helpful I don’t think I’ll bother going any other fish store now the corals and fish are all amazing and very well priced and the fact that they offered a brew and cake did it for me lol Thanks again tho to the young chap who helped us massively with what we wanted without trying to hard sell any products on us we got what we wanted with advice on how to care after the corals and fish we just bought Try this shop guys before you go anywhere else they are fantastic Thanks again Mark

ste scanlan 6 years ago

Positive experience: Not many fish but the corals are great!

Out Of The Blue Marines
Out Of The Blue Marines

Hi Ste. Thanks for your feedback. As we pride ourselves on healthy livestock. We choose not to overcrowd our fish in the tanks as this can lead to alot of implications when it comes to fish health. Problems such as Parasites, bacterial infections, bullying and nipping, competition for food and ultimately stress which can lead to death. We are able to hand pick and order any fish on a weekly basis so if you are ever looking for something we may not currently have instock, please let us know and we will do our best to source them if needs be

Matt Aquatics 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Brilliant staff and shop

Out Of The Blue Marines
Out Of The Blue Marines

Thanks for your review Matt

Stephen Pryke 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Vinnie and Stevie...legends. 2 super guys who know there stuff. Really beautiful store and so welcoming. They made a fuss of my daughter and took time out to listen and explain on all my questions. I am a freshwater tropical guy but since speaking with the team I now need to get myself a marine setup. When I do I will be straight back here as first port of call. Oh yeah and the offer of a brew was an extra touch and thank you for the juice for my lil girl

Out Of The Blue Marines
Out Of The Blue Marines

Thankyou for taking time out to write this lovely review!! We look forward to welcoming you back on your next visit

Laura Blundell 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Fantastic place by far the best in Manchester. Friendly staff with massive amounts of knowledge. Always willing to go the extra mile to help . Plenty to choose from and if they dont have it they will do there best to source it for you.

Out Of The Blue Marines
Out Of The Blue Marines

Thanks for you review phil!! Much appreciated always a pleasure

Chris Butterfield 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great place with a very good selection of corals and fish.

Out Of The Blue Marines
Out Of The Blue Marines

Thanks for your review Chris!! Much appreciated hope to see you again soon

Michael Cresswell 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: The shop that's second to none staff well educated shop well stocked and healthy quality at it's best I travel 60+ mile for there services

Out Of The Blue Marines
Out Of The Blue Marines

Thanks for your review of our store micheal

Dino Gradio 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Nice little shop, super friendly and helpful staff. Good range of healthy fish and corals. If you love marines you'll love this shop.

Out Of The Blue Marines
Out Of The Blue Marines

Thanks for your review

Zivile Bliuvaite 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Small but amazing place! Stunning collection, very knowledgeable and helpful people in there. Will definitely come back for some more purchase's

Out Of The Blue Marines
Out Of The Blue Marines

Thanks for your review zivile

Sean Parker-Perry 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Really pleased to find Out of the Blue! The tanks are literally crystal clean and stocked with immaculate creatures and critters. Helpful, honest advice and the kettle is always on! It was our first visit today and we'll be back soon

Out Of The Blue Marines
Out Of The Blue Marines

Thanks for you review Sean

Arnold Gray 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Me and my uncle have been going here for a few months now and the staff are more than happy to help and very friendly. Wont just sell you fish or coral if not right for your tank. Brew and cake offered when you arrive through the door. Couldn't speak higher of the place, if you have marine tank this place is a most.

Out Of The Blue Marines
Out Of The Blue Marines

Thanks for your review Arnold

Pip 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Magnificent place to go too. Steve Becki & Jordan are full of information. Great place. Thank you

Out Of The Blue Marines
Out Of The Blue Marines

Always a pleasure phil

John Holt 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Quality fish at fair prices Helpful knowledgeable staff

Out Of The Blue Marines
Out Of The Blue Marines

Thanks for you’re review of our store John!! Hope you’re well all the team

A Crossley 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: First visit today,won't be the last.Very friendly people.

Out Of The Blue Marines
Out Of The Blue Marines

Thankyou for taking time out to review our store hope to see you again soon
All the team @ out of the blue

MICHAEL HOBIN 6 years ago

Positive experience: Seem top lads n helpful plus just round corner nice littleset up and loads great stock

Out Of The Blue Marines
Out Of The Blue Marines

Fantastic to receive your feedback Michael!! Thankyou for taking time out to review us!!
All the best the team

Stephen Makin 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Absolutely immaculate premises and tanks. Offered a brew as soon as we stepped through the door. Stock is very healthy and the price point is spot on. Well worth the 50 mile round trip - see you again soon!

Out Of The Blue Marines
Out Of The Blue Marines

Thankyou for shopping with us Stephen!! Pleasure to meet you both and look forward to seeing you again soon

Help to Buy Solar 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great shop layout, very professional, great for corals which you don’t see in Manchester. I know you have opened 3 months ago wish you all the luck Jason

Out Of The Blue Marines
Out Of The Blue Marines

thanks very much jason. we hope to see you soon

Philip Codd 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Very friendly and great to see a new style shop

Out Of The Blue Marines
Out Of The Blue Marines

thankyou

Tony Boardman 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great little shop, quality stock and nice staff

Out Of The Blue Marines
Out Of The Blue Marines

thanks. hope to see you again

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