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Jan 03 2012

Planting of the 3m NA Display by James Findley on Thursday

Famous Aquascaper James Findley Professional aquascaper and founder of The Green Machine, James Findley will be planting the 3m long Nature Aquarium in-store display tank this Thursday 5th January and Thursday 12th January.

Dec 16 2011

Join us for Mince Pies on Christmas Eve!

We close at 4pm on Christmas Eve, so come and pick up the last of your bits and pieces for the holiday season and join us for some tasty mince pies - yum!

Plus, James Findley will be in store to answer any questions you have about aquascaping, and you can get a sneaky peek of his new aquascape in our 3 metre display aquarium, and if that wasn't enough you can also see 'Nature's Chaos' which is growing in beautifully!

Dec 15 2011

The ADA Cube Garden: A Review by PFK Magazine

Image of ADA Cube Garden-F Respected aquascaper, marine aquarist and writer Nathan Hill recently reviewed the ADA Cube garden 45-F for Practical Fishkeeping Magazine.

We are happy to say that he was as taken with the ADA Cube Gardens as we are! In fact, he asked for one on his ‘Christmas Wish List’!

*Image by Practical Fishkeeping Magazine

Dec 15 2011

Christmas Postage Times

Last dates for Christmas shipping to ensure you receive it before Christmas

Standard Shipping: Tuesday 20th December before 12pm midday

Priority Shipping: Wednesday 21st December

IMPORTANT: Delivery before Christmas is dependent on stock levels, especially for plant deliveries. We advise you check with us over the phone first to make sure we can get it to you when needed... 01978 265 090. This is essential with live aquatic plant orders.

Christmas opening hours:
December 24th 10am-4pm Open
25th, 26th, 27th Closed
28th, 29th, 30th 10am-6pm Open
December 31st, January 1st, 2nd Closed

Tuesday 3rd January open as usual...
Tues-Sat 10am - 6pm Open
Sun & Mon - Closed

Dec 09 2011

Why We Now Stock This LED Light

Why we didn't stock LED lighting...

Some time ago we wrote an article entitled ‘Why we don’t stock LED Lighting’ because we were constantly being asked why we didn’t by our customers. In that article we explained that despite testing several LEDs we had not yet found one that passed our stringent tests, set by professional aquascaper and founder of The Green Machine, James Findley: try it test it and try it again.