Our Journey

Going strong at 15+ Years in the Hobby

Kenya Marine Center is an exporter of live ornamental fish and invertebrates. We offer the aquarium industry the best highest grade livestock out of the east African coast.

Kenya Marine Center was established in 2006 by Jochen Federschmied whose country of origin is Germany alongside his wife Grace Federschmied a Kenyan. Together they built a company focused on quality supply of healthy live fish. To date it is this principle that has enabled us to grow and maintain our client list who identify with our ability to provide quality livestock in all shipments to the world. Kenya Marine Center began small with just a couple of staff. Over a period of 15+ years we have managed to establish a worldwide known company with an ever growing reputation of delivering quality ornamental marine fish. Looking back into the year 2006 when it all began, we had a setting of only 36 Aquariums in a rented go down, compared to the 180,000 L tank capacity we now run in a 8,000sq/m ground.

Building the Future

Reflecting the Past

Kenya Marine Center attributes its growth to the continued support from our loyal customers who have stuck with us through time and continue to order livestock from us till date. We highly appreciate and thank you for your patronage.

Dive down memory lane with us

2006

/beginnings

Chapter Begins

2007

/tech plus

We increased our transport capacity by purchasing another pick-up and an additional light truck. We are grateful to have had supportive customers who sent us “Modern European” technological equipment to help improve on our fish quality. In the same year, our first homepage got established – the first commercial homepage for a fish export station in Africa ever.

new features

2008

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steady growth

Greater Expansion

Advanced setting – glass aquariums, skimmers, UV, Ozone; enabling us to grow our shipping average to about 500 boxes monthly. A delivery truck still in service to date plus boats, compressors and permanent fishermen – independence and sustainability was our aim. By 2014 after a construction time of almost 7 months our brand new permanent facility of 60,000 Liters was up & running.

2009 – 2014

New Facilities

2015 – 2016 Technical upgrades; new skimmers, chillers, UV-C Ozone sand filter and so on. 3 new delivery and service trucks as well. The new facility had capacity to hold enough fishes to jump above the magical 1000 boxes per month border. All the success we experienced during this period, enabled us to build an office building + storage, with the company having grown to a size of 27 permanent staff + 30 part time casuals.

2015-2016

Onwards at 16yrs

Exclusive invertebrates holding center making that two facilities for quarantining our livestock; the fish house and the invertebrates’ house. We also built a maintenance facility to aid us in seamless shipping logistics. We also delved into full function zoos & public aquaria supply with a system for holding big fishes as well. This has seen us expand our clientele portfolio supplying our healthy livestock to hundreds of countries worldwide.

2021+