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

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. Plants featured will be Echinodorus tenellus, Echinodorus vesuvius, Staurogyne repens, Hydrocotyle sp japan and Ricardia chamedrifolia, all supplied by Tropica of Denmark. It is not often that a true Nature Aquarium of this size is planted, and this is one of the three largest true Nature…

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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’…

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The ADA Cube Garden: A Review by PFK Magazine

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 The article opened with the clear compliment ‘Probably the best aquarium we have ever bought’ Nathan then went on to explain that…

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Christmas Postage Times 2011

Last dates for Christmas shipping to ensure you receive it before ChristmasStandard Shipping: Tuesday 20th December before 12pm middayPriority Shipping: Wednesday 21st DecemberIMPORTANT: 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 Open25th, 26th, 27th Closed28th, 29th, 30th…

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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. We emphasized…

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