Pettex

Pettex is a British brand that sits mostly outside the food aisle, covering pond care products, aquarium gravel and decor, reptile substrates, and cat litter. It is not a food brand in the way names like Harringtons or James Wellbeloved are, which makes it worth knowing what it actually covers before you go looking for a Pettex dinner for your dog or cat.

The range we carry reflects that spread: pond sticks and pellets for garden fish, coloured aquarium gravel for a tank, reptile substrates such as aspen and beech chip for vivariums, and both clumping and non-clumping cat litters.

If you keep a garden pond, an aquarium, a reptile, or a cat that needs a litter change, Pettex is one of the names on our shelf rather than the only one, and which product suits you depends more on the setup than the brand name — an aspen substrate suits a snake enclosure, while a beech chip substrate suits a different reptile setup entirely.

We stock a selection from the wider Pettex range rather than everything the brand makes, and what is shown in the grid above is what we currently have available to order.

Because Pettex covers such a spread of categories, the right product depends far more on your setup than on the brand name attached to it. A pond needs a stick or pellet food matched to the size and species of fish in it; an aquarium benefits from gravel chosen for both look and compatibility with your filtration; a reptile enclosure needs a substrate suited to that particular species' humidity and burrowing needs, which is not the same for every reptile.

If you are setting up a new tank, pond or vivarium and are not sure which Pettex product in a category fits, it is worth checking the specific needs of your fish, reptile or setup first, then matching the product to that rather than picking on brand recognition alone.