We provide maintenance/services/installation/products and livestock for saltwater and freshwater aquariums. We create beautiful paludariums with a waterfall out of an aquarium. A piece of paradise in your home.
It has been proven that keeping fish improves mental health and also helps to reduce anxiety. Research carried out by Plymouth University discovered that just watching fish in an aquarium 'led to noticeable reductions in participant's blood pressure and heart rate. Perhaps you’ve noticed that most doctor’s surgeries and waiting rooms have aquariums? This is not just for decorations, studies have proven that when aquariums are placed in waiting rooms, the patient’s anxiety levels are reduced and they are more relaxed during surgery. Not only are fish beneficial in waiting rooms, they have also worked their magic in care homes. Specifically those care homes that specialise in caring for patients with Alzheimer’s. When people who have Alzheimer’s are exposed to aquariums, their disruptive behaviours were reduced and they had a better appetite. Keeping fish is also a genuine and effective therapy for children who display disruptive behaviours.
Research carried out back in 2005 found that “contact with nature may provide an effective population-wide strategy in prevention of mental ill health”. When you think about the amount of money which is spent on treating mental health illnesses, keeping fish can quickly become a very cost effective way of providing therapy.
We provide maintenance/ services/ installation/products and livestock for saltwater and freshwater aquariums.
We create beautiful paludariums with a waterfall out of an aquarium.
A piece of paradise in your home.
A paludarium is an aquarium which has terrestrial plants as well as aquatic plants and aquatic life.
The aim is to replicate rainforest, wetlands and streams to let hobbyists keep a diverse collection of both land animals and plants, with aquatic animals and plants.
Popular fish choices include; celestial pearl danios, gouramis, guppies, mollies and angelfish. Whichever fish you choose, make sure they all thrive in the same pH, temperature and water hardness.
We recommend sticking to one or two species of fish – if you have too many it can end up looking fragmented and bitty.
You can also include snails (nerite and mystery snails are both great options) and shrimp (ghost, cherry and amano shrimp). Snails and shrimps make a good cleanup crew along with fiddler crabs and springtails.
A coral reef is an underwater ecosystem characterized by reef-building corals. Reefs are formed of colonies of coral polyps held together by calcium carbonate. Most coral reefs are built from stony corals, whose polyps cluster in groups.
Coral belongs to the class Anthozoa in the animal phylum Cnidaria, which includes sea anemones and jellyfish. Unlike sea anemones, corals secrete hard carbonate exoskeleton that support and protect the coral. Most reefs grow best in warm, shallow, clear, sunny and agitated water.
Sometimes called rainforests of the sea, shallow coral reefs form some of Earth's most diverse ecosystems. They occupy less than 0.1% of the world's ocean area, about half the area of France, yet they provide a home for at least 25% of all marine species, including fish, mollusks, worms, crustaceans, echinoderms, sponges, tunicates and other cnidarians. Coral reefs flourish in ocean waters that provide few nutrients. They are most commonly found at shallow depths in tropical waters, but deep water and cold water coral reefs exist on smaller scales in other areas.
