Scott Haymes, owner of Aqua-Pics, has been an avid fish keeper for over 50 years.  By the age of nine, he was already breeding and selling fish, and by his teens he was breeding cichlids, including some very rare species. This early fascination sparked his career in the aquarium industry.

From twelve years of being mentored by cichlid expert Heinze Straude, to State Sales Manager positions for large aquarium wholesalers, to running his own retail aquariums, Scott's experience has been vast and varied.

When he wasn’t at work, Scott continued keeping and breeding
fish as a hobby, focusing particularly on rare cichlids.

But it was difficult to find accurate information on keeping such fish in the 1980s and 90s, and the commercially available range of conditioners and buffers proved woefully inadequate.

So Scott embarked on a mission to research and develop his own formulas and began building what is today the Aqua-Pics range of products.