About us

What is Fauna Tropica?

The main focus of Fauna Tropica is to provide good information about tropical animals, such as many different fish species, amphibians, spiders and insects.
In addition, there is a small webshop with the best products that I also use myself to keep and breed my animals.

I want to inform and educate interested people about animals in their nature, how to keep them and how to breed them. I try to put as much personal experience from my work and hobby into the posts as possible. This to provide followers with real information that can help them to successful maintain the shown animals. In addition, I try to produce good quality photos, which can help identify certain species, differentiate between sexes or see how youngsters develop. This way I can combine two great hobbies: animals and photography

It is impossible to overlook that plecos (Loricariidae) in particular play a center role in Fauna Tropica, as these armored catfish are the focus of my hobby. Nonetheless, I want to share all my experiences I could and can make with other tropical animals I care for. Next to the tropical fish, amphibians (frogs) and insects, such as praying mantis, are also shown on this website and blog posts.

A little history of Fauna Tropica

The company officially started in September 2015, then under a different name. As a hobby, we bred and sold many different types of fish, and we also sold many products such as aquarium pumps and food. This quickly became a physical store in a small building in Vianen near Utrecht, which we completely renovated, after which the official opening took place in April 2017. Here we imported and exported fish ourselves and also did aquarium construction. ​​I then started a website myself because I wanted to share more information about the fish themselves.
Because the building where we were located soon turned out to be too small, we bought a larger building. Unfortunately, this did not turn out well at the end of 2019 and I temporarily stopped.
At the beginning of 2020 I was asked to come and work in Austria for 6 weeks, at Haus der Natur in Salzburg. Due to Corona this became longer and in the end I worked here for more than 6 months. During this period it started to occur to me to do more with my own fish and to share more information, because I missed this. I picked this up and eventually founded Fauna Tropica and started this website as a purely informative website. In the beginning I did this together with Jesse, as he also shared the passion for L-numbers/Loricariidae/plecos.

Due to the many requests for products from old customers, I eventually decided after a few months to start a small webshop in addition to the website.

In 2022 I moved back to the Netherlands and continued with the website and sharing information here. In the meantime it has grown into a larger website with more and more products and information about different species that continues to expand...

Where is Fauna Tropica located now?

Fauna Tropica is located in the Netherlands, Heesch (Noord-Brabant).
I decided to use the English language for the website and posts, since it’s the common language of the internet and I intend to inform internationally and reach people all over the world. In addition to English, do not hesitate and feel free to contact me in Dutch as well.

Who is behind Fauna Tropica?

Where else can you find Fauna Tropica?

I provide the information on several platforms such as: