At Ottawa Inverts we believe that reef keeping can – and should be – an ethical hobby.

We carefully select each of our livestock suppliers to encourage only the best and most sustainable techniques of collection and propagation, and we encourage the use of substitute materials such as DIY Rock.

If fish are available captive-bred or captive-raised, Ottawa Inverts will not purchase wild-caught specimens.

Marine aquaculture has come along by leaps and bounds over just the last decade, and Ottawa Inverts has made an ongoing commitment to support this developing community.

Our hope is that, as our wonderful hobby evolves, less of the content of our tanks will need to come from our oceans than will come from the tanks of our fellow hobbyists.