Listed below are some of the useful shops & online sites I have purchased from in the past, or interested in purchasing in the near future.
Disclaimer: I am not endorsing any shop/sites listed here. I am not recommending to purchase (or not) from these places. I have no sponsorship or any commercial connections with them. They are listed here for my convienience only. You are welcome to browse & revisit this page for any of the links for your own convienience.
To the shops/owner of website so listed: If you have any objections or corrections to your own entry listed below, please send an e-mail to webmaster@reefhaven.co.uk and we will endeavour to make alterations within a reasonable time frame.
| "Local" Fish Shop (lfs) | ||
| Coral Garden Aquatics | If I were to have a shop this would be it! Brian & Sue run the shop with the hindsight of having been in the hobby for a long time. They make the effort to find interesting stock such as pairs of fish, or natural comensal pairing like pistol shrimp & goby etc... Even better still that it's only 20mins drive away! |
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| Watford Aquarium | Check with Danny (aka 'reefkeeper') first for value for money. He built my system and always perform way beyond the call of duty in my experience. | |
| Reef Creation | Ed Miller (aka 'dragon') - friendly and always willing to help. An entrepeneuring hobbiest really. | |
| STM (online) | UK's first commercial frag farming operation. Excellent livestock. | |
| Anglia Aquatics | Another site I use for online shopping - all the latest from AquaMedics to Deltecs. Very quick and efficient shopping experience. | |
| Aquatics Online | ||
| European online shops | ||
| www.aquaristic.net | ||
| www.sewatec.de | ||
| www.aquaristikshop.com | ||
| www.seame.com | ||
| www.poisson-or.com | ||
| Manufacturers/Distributors | ||
| Calcium reactors & specialist equipments | ||
| Kalk stirrer | ||
| Specialist reef equipments | ||
| Specialist reef equipments | ||
| Specialist reef equipments | ||
| MH reflectors | ||
| Phyto, Rotifiers culture kits | ||
| Phyto, Rotifiers and Golden Pearls | ||
| MDM - Sequence pumps | Heavy duty pumps for larger systems | |
| Airblast | Supplies glass beads for use as alternative substrate | |
| Altecweb | Lab supplies, including those hard to find John Guest (RO piping) bits and pieces. | |
| LabPak Chemicals | Lab grade chemical supplies such as Calcium Hydroxide in bulk and nice stuff like acids! | |
| Longcliffe | A Limestone quarry! Some reefers use P25 and P52 as sand which is calcium carbonate grounded down to fine powder. | |
| Harry
Hird, BG Electrics 01726 69552 |
Ballast and BLV lamp supplier. Helpful & excellent service. | |
| Fellow reefers | ||
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Lisa Page | Responsible for inspiring alot of my efforts - a reefer of many years experience with a witty and interesting website full of personal accounts & experiences. |
| Simon Garratt | Building up to be a good reference site with lots of technical information and an excellent DIY guide to all aspect of building a reef tank. | |
| MadSi's reef tank | Simon Steed's website - another frequent visitor to the Ultimate Reef arena with very similar ideas to my own. And yes, he is MAD! | |
| Andy Hipkiss | "Wall to wall" SPS is his idea of a reef tank! An experienced reefer always willing to give plenty of advice. Another excellent site with useful guides and calculators to help with the more technical side of reef keeping. Make sure you have plenty of jaffa cakes handy though. | |
| Reef related sites | ||
| UltimateReef | Excellent bulletin board. My first port of call for any queries and request for help. Friendly bunch with quite a few experienced reefers who won't hesitate to voice their diversed opinions and help out. |
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| Reef Central | One of the more popular US board with major contributions from leading aquarists. | |
| Reefkeeping.com | Online monthly publications | |
| Advanced Aquarists | Another monthly magazine | |
| WYMAG | Largest UK reef keeping club | |
| Reefs UK | ||
| Sea Slug Forum | ID your Nudis here... ooh err missus! | |
| Calculators | ||
| Tanks size/Volume/Temp conversion | ||
| Head/loss calculation in pipes (more) | ||
| Tank size calculator with stocking level | ||
| Online conversions | ||
| Now where have I seen that before... just a few links products that may be useful. Put here so I can find it again later. | ||
| Habistat Cool Control | Thermostatic control for fans, with water-proofed temp probe. http://www.petsparade.com/shop.asp?cat=104 | |