Hi Tony,
Yep West Horsley's my "local" mAQ store for most day to day things.
I didn't see much when I popped in there a couple of weeks ago (was looking at substrate prices, but they only had Red-Sea Florabase, which turns to claylike mud over time (I've got it in my cube tank)).
They've just revamped to add marines and they'd taken the baskets away from the middle in-between the tanks where they kept most of their aquascaping materials, they used to have a fairly impressive range, but all I could see on my quick look was some rather ropey looking bogwood.
They also used to have some nice stone, I'dve thought they'd have some more particularly as they're trying to push their nano cubes at the moment.
My other mAQ I tend to visit is over towards Weybridge, it's got a better range of planted equipment and it used to be my closest decent marine store when I kept marines.
Generally though, I tend to find most fish stores I've visited in Surrey woeful in terms of planted tank knowledge and equipment (mAQ are some of the best I know of here, but they've got a LONG way to go before I'd call them a really good source for planted tank equipment).
mAQ in West Horsley is generally fairly good for buying plants themselves (if a bit expensive,particularly in comparison to online), and they've got an interesting range of planted tank shrimp and nano tank fish at the moment.
Buying online has a lot going for it, but for some things,like aquascaping materials, in my opinion you need stores, if they had a better range, with some more choice in planted materials, I think I'd probably use them a lot more.
I've not investigated the Morden mAQ yet, I'll have to give it a try at the weekend, cheers for the advice.
Matt
Yep West Horsley's my "local" mAQ store for most day to day things.
I didn't see much when I popped in there a couple of weeks ago (was looking at substrate prices, but they only had Red-Sea Florabase, which turns to claylike mud over time (I've got it in my cube tank)).
They've just revamped to add marines and they'd taken the baskets away from the middle in-between the tanks where they kept most of their aquascaping materials, they used to have a fairly impressive range, but all I could see on my quick look was some rather ropey looking bogwood.
They also used to have some nice stone, I'dve thought they'd have some more particularly as they're trying to push their nano cubes at the moment.
My other mAQ I tend to visit is over towards Weybridge, it's got a better range of planted equipment and it used to be my closest decent marine store when I kept marines.
Generally though, I tend to find most fish stores I've visited in Surrey woeful in terms of planted tank knowledge and equipment (mAQ are some of the best I know of here, but they've got a LONG way to go before I'd call them a really good source for planted tank equipment).
mAQ in West Horsley is generally fairly good for buying plants themselves (if a bit expensive,particularly in comparison to online), and they've got an interesting range of planted tank shrimp and nano tank fish at the moment.
Buying online has a lot going for it, but for some things,like aquascaping materials, in my opinion you need stores, if they had a better range, with some more choice in planted materials, I think I'd probably use them a lot more.
I've not investigated the Morden mAQ yet, I'll have to give it a try at the weekend, cheers for the advice.
Matt