Hi all,
I called in to Amazon Aquatics <http://cgi3.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewUserPage&userid=last-trading-post> (in Warminster) yesterday. Very well kept fish, and a lot of good quality kit (Eheim, Sera, Aqualog etc) bought direct from Germany and very reasonably priced. The owner (Mike) is a keen planted tank man and fish-breeder. He showed me the plans for an expansion, with a lot more with planted tanks (and Nano's particularly). I also had a look a the mail order part of the business ("the last Trading post" on Ebay), again very interesting, they are building up the in-house plant holdings. I was very taken by some very large Anubias plants, but haven't really got anywhere to put them.
Fish in stock included a few more interesting ones, 4 or 5 species of Apistogramma and some very nice Chocolate Gouramis.
I came out of the shop several fish lighter and several pounds richer (how many people can say that?), even after I'd purchased the "Back to Nature guide to Nano aquariums" <http://www.warehouse-aquatics.co.uk...-guide-to-nano-aquaria-nano-tanks-p-5404.html> for a very reasonable £10.
Having managed to come out in profit, I've arranged to purchase some Indostomus later in the year http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indostomus. This is I. paradoxus, but the other possibility is the very similar I. crocodilus. They only grow to about 40mm max., so they are pretty small.
and http://www.aquaticquotient.com/forum/showthread.php?t=16915.
They are possibly a fish for the more specialised aquarist, but sound ideal for a densely planted Nano or shrimp tank. I'm hoping to keep them as a self-sustaining colony in with the RCS.
If anybody is interested in them? PM me and I'll get a likely cost and when they will be arriving. I won't post them but I'm happy to "lodge" some until they can be collected by their owner. They are mentioned in this thread.
http://ukaps.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=10713 but I don't know how they got on.
cheers Darrel
I called in to Amazon Aquatics <http://cgi3.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewUserPage&userid=last-trading-post> (in Warminster) yesterday. Very well kept fish, and a lot of good quality kit (Eheim, Sera, Aqualog etc) bought direct from Germany and very reasonably priced. The owner (Mike) is a keen planted tank man and fish-breeder. He showed me the plans for an expansion, with a lot more with planted tanks (and Nano's particularly). I also had a look a the mail order part of the business ("the last Trading post" on Ebay), again very interesting, they are building up the in-house plant holdings. I was very taken by some very large Anubias plants, but haven't really got anywhere to put them.
Fish in stock included a few more interesting ones, 4 or 5 species of Apistogramma and some very nice Chocolate Gouramis.
I came out of the shop several fish lighter and several pounds richer (how many people can say that?), even after I'd purchased the "Back to Nature guide to Nano aquariums" <http://www.warehouse-aquatics.co.uk...-guide-to-nano-aquaria-nano-tanks-p-5404.html> for a very reasonable £10.
Having managed to come out in profit, I've arranged to purchase some Indostomus later in the year http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indostomus. This is I. paradoxus, but the other possibility is the very similar I. crocodilus. They only grow to about 40mm max., so they are pretty small.
and http://www.aquaticquotient.com/forum/showthread.php?t=16915.
They are possibly a fish for the more specialised aquarist, but sound ideal for a densely planted Nano or shrimp tank. I'm hoping to keep them as a self-sustaining colony in with the RCS.
If anybody is interested in them? PM me and I'll get a likely cost and when they will be arriving. I won't post them but I'm happy to "lodge" some until they can be collected by their owner. They are mentioned in this thread.
http://ukaps.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=10713 but I don't know how they got on.
cheers Darrel
! awesome and amazing in one word awes-zing 
The owner is very cool and very willing to chat! He fills my Co2 bottle for i. i was in there the other day and a lady came in about a heron attacking her koi, he sent he to a garden centre for some netting. Alot of other shop i know would have sold her expensive anti-heron for "a billon dollars" a metre. very good shop worth a look if you in the area! 8)
