Deano3
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Hi everyone.
I visited this shop today for the first time after hearing george farmer mention them and I was blown away, so I had to do a review and let you all know a little about there products. Horizon Aquatics is based up North just off the A1 at Newton Aycliffe, Durham.
Firstly, even though they were busy with a customer they still managed to greet me with a warm welcome and asked if needed any advice or assistance.
The 2 owners Nicole and James were very nice polite people and the shop is immaculate and very well presented.
Me and my son Jake were in there a while having a good look round. Nicole was very kind and showed me round then left me to it and I had a good browse. After that I was speaking to James for a good while as he asked if i needed anything and he give me plenty of advice and recommendations on all sorts from filtermedia to questions on the fish and snails to what brands work best. He is very knowledgeable and willing to help answer any questions and the same can be said for Nicole.
The fish section is something I have not seen here up North but there was great selection of rarer fish and a huge selection of any shrimp from common to rare. I really liked the green kubotai rasboras. They also have plenty of snails like red racer snails and assasin snails and lots more. They had a great selection of hard scape and stunning aquascapes set up throughout the store.
The shop is only 12 weeks old so still a working process but love the layout and all the separate rooms like hardscape room, fish room and shrimp room etc. The selection of hardscape and dry products like filter media food and tools, tanks, lights, fertilisers was very impressive. They have a huge selection from tropica and oase and aquascaper to ADA and a large selection of hand tools and co2 equipment and refills and RO water,Literally anything you could ask for.
The plant selection they have is great and all very healthy with no algae they have huge selection of potted plants along with the 1 2 grow range.
I seen the ada simmers there and they are stunning as you expect all there products to be.
James also informed me they there are going to be starting a marine section as this is what he used to have a great passion for.
You can obviously tell I was over the moon with this store as all others like aquarium gardens etc are to far for me to travel and the store was just amazing and the love and passion the owners have comes across in the finished product.
Very highly reccomend anyone to visit this store if possible, or help them out by purchasing online or through there Ebay store or website as want this store to do well.
I am sure there will be a good workshop from george farmer or some other aquascapes once all this blows over so looking forward to it.
Thanks for reading and thanks to Nicole and James for letting me look around and treating me so well.
Dean
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I visited this shop today for the first time after hearing george farmer mention them and I was blown away, so I had to do a review and let you all know a little about there products. Horizon Aquatics is based up North just off the A1 at Newton Aycliffe, Durham.
Firstly, even though they were busy with a customer they still managed to greet me with a warm welcome and asked if needed any advice or assistance.
The 2 owners Nicole and James were very nice polite people and the shop is immaculate and very well presented.
Me and my son Jake were in there a while having a good look round. Nicole was very kind and showed me round then left me to it and I had a good browse. After that I was speaking to James for a good while as he asked if i needed anything and he give me plenty of advice and recommendations on all sorts from filtermedia to questions on the fish and snails to what brands work best. He is very knowledgeable and willing to help answer any questions and the same can be said for Nicole.
The fish section is something I have not seen here up North but there was great selection of rarer fish and a huge selection of any shrimp from common to rare. I really liked the green kubotai rasboras. They also have plenty of snails like red racer snails and assasin snails and lots more. They had a great selection of hard scape and stunning aquascapes set up throughout the store.
The shop is only 12 weeks old so still a working process but love the layout and all the separate rooms like hardscape room, fish room and shrimp room etc. The selection of hardscape and dry products like filter media food and tools, tanks, lights, fertilisers was very impressive. They have a huge selection from tropica and oase and aquascaper to ADA and a large selection of hand tools and co2 equipment and refills and RO water,Literally anything you could ask for.
The plant selection they have is great and all very healthy with no algae they have huge selection of potted plants along with the 1 2 grow range.
I seen the ada simmers there and they are stunning as you expect all there products to be.
James also informed me they there are going to be starting a marine section as this is what he used to have a great passion for.
You can obviously tell I was over the moon with this store as all others like aquarium gardens etc are to far for me to travel and the store was just amazing and the love and passion the owners have comes across in the finished product.
Very highly reccomend anyone to visit this store if possible, or help them out by purchasing online or through there Ebay store or website as want this store to do well.
I am sure there will be a good workshop from george farmer or some other aquascapes once all this blows over so looking forward to it.
Thanks for reading and thanks to Nicole and James for letting me look around and treating me so well.
Dean
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