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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

Best Independent Retailer - we have been shortlisted for this prestigious award. We are very excited to be taking aquascaping to this high profile media event.

Our opening hours are changing, we will not be open on Sundays from 20th June 2010 unless by pre-arranged appointment.

If you need to visit on a Sunday, get in touch at least 48 hours before your visit and we can arrange to open specifically for you.

Our new opening times are:

Tuesday to Saturday 10am - 6pm.

In order to make it easier for you to navigate our website and find what you want quickly we have developed 'Bookmarks' for you.

'Bookmarks' allow you to literally bookmark products, articles, tips and tricks, gallery photos and other interesting content so that you can easily find it again.

ADA stands for Aqua Design Amano, which is Takashi Amano’s company.

Takashi Amano pioneered the ‘Nature Aquarium’: he used CO2 injection to enhance plant growth which meant that for the first time in the history of the planted tank it was easy to achieve beautiful, lush, green, natural plant growth that mimicked nature – hence the term ‘Nature Aquarium’.