Hygiene

Certain details concerning hygiene must be highlighted in order to better understand this vital part of the business.

It must be clarified that this particular type of fish does not have teeth and therefore it cannot hurt people. However, it should be noted that there is another kind of fish in the overseas market (known as Tilapia or Chin Chin) with similar behavior to the Garra Rufa fish, which does have small teeth and do bite.

The fish that we supply are certified ‘Garra Rufa’.

Furthermore, according to the most recent scientific research, the fish spa pedicure has no negative side effects to human health. There are no reported illnesses transferred from one person to another, even when they share the same aquarium.

Hygiene is of the utmost importance to us, and so our fish spa process involves cleaning of the feet before and after the fish pedicure procedure, to ensure that our strict sterilisation standards are maintained to the benefit of the both the customer and the Garra rufa fish.

The maintenance of the facility also has a direct impact on the hygiene of not only the customer, but also of the fish and its wellbeing. For this reason, special attention is given to ensuring the high quality of the mechanisms and the cleaning of their water.  To purify the water, we use high quality mechanical, chemical and biological filters, which recycle the water in the aquarium more than 3 times per hour. For the removal of the water bacteria we use a special filter with UV radiation which eliminates 99.9% of bacteria. This way, we can ensure the crystal clarity of the water and satisfy the highest hygiene standards.

To conclude with the health and safety concerns, we quote a press release from UK’s Health Protection Agency:

“The Health Protection Agency (HPA) and Health Protection Scotland are currently unaware of any cases of infection associated with the use of fish spas pedicures in the UK”