Fishes and More

28/09/2018

24/05/2018

MASSIVE SALE NOW ON!
Online offers are already live now, limited stocks, 25% off all Salty Revolution products, and upto 25% many well known brands. In store offers are listed below and vaild from Midday Thursday (24th May), until 6pm Monday (28th May), see opening times below. Many of these will sell out fast so get in early to avoid dissapointment. T&C applies on online offers, see website for details:
www.saltyrevolution.co.uk

IN STORE ONLY
A huge number of offers in store with almost every fish and invert reduced in price! These are just some of the offers, with over 300 fish and 1000 inverts reduced in price. There are just too many offers to list them all here, so pop in store and see for yourself!

CARIBSEA LIVE BAHAMA SAND
After many years of testing just about every sand on the market, this is the best sand we have found. It's now the only one we stock, and it's the same one that we use in all our systems. Normally £35 a bag, now just £25 a bag, limited stocks available. Swapping your sand over is quick and easy to do, pop in store and we can talk you through how to do it. In store only.

INVERTS OFFERS over 1,000 inverts reduced in price! These are just some of the invert offers, some inverts now half price (no reserves first come, first served).
Assorted small hermit crabs (in tank I3 only) £1
Nassarius snail £2
Dwarf Nassarius snail £2
Money cowries £2
Cerith snails £2
Bumblebee snails £2
Black Trochus snails £2
White Trochus snails £2
Red dwarf hermit crabs £3
Angaria snail £5
Giant strawberry top shell snail £5
Halloween hermit crab £8
Camel shrimp £8
Tubeworms £8
Large mussels £8
Strawberry conch £10
Lonspine black sea urchin £10
Anemone shrimp £10
Anemone crab £12
Trapezia crab £15
Apple conch £15
Bulla conch £15
Sand sifting starfish £15
Orange/red starfish £20
Blue Linckia sttarfish £20
Banded pencil urchin £20
Pebble crab £30
Lollipop crab (Ixa cylindrus) £40

FISH OFFERS over 300 fish reduced in price! These are just some of the fish offers (no reserves first come, first served).
Chromis £6 (minimum purchase 7+)
Azure damsels £6 (minimum purchase 10+ damsels)
Talbot's damsels £6 (minimum purchase 10+ damsels)
Springer's damsels £6 (minimum purchase 10+ damsels)
Yellow tail blue damsels £6 (minimum purchase 10+ damsels)
Banggai cardinal £10
Cleaner wrasse £10
Black coral goby £10
Hector's hover goby £10
Cincta cave goby £10
Black ray shrimp goby £10
Scooter £10
Pyjama cardinal (small) £10
Yellow Brotula £10
Squirrelfish £10
Pygmy angelfish £10
Blue eye ghost cardinal £10
Aiptasia eating filefish £15
Bicolor blenny £15
Queen coris wrasse (Coris formosa) £20
Scissortail dartfish £25
Hardwicke's wrasse (5”) £30
Lunar wrasse £40
Kashmira dwarf snapper £40
Panther grouper (6”) £40
Snowflake moray eel (large) £60
Orange spotted spinefoot (8” and 10”) £60 each
Naso hexacanthus (XXL, rare) £195

CORAL OFFERS (no reserves first come, first served).
Buy any £10 frag get another £10 frag completely free.
Buy any £20 colony and get another £20 colony completely free.
Buy any £30 colony and get another £30 colony completely free.

AQUARIUMS
3x2x2 tank, cabinet, and sump, brand new, in black gloss. Was £1,499, save £750, now just £749, half price!
4x2x2 tank, cabinet, and sump, brand new, in black gloss. Was £1,999, save a whopping £1,000, now just £999.

BARGAIN BIN
All items in bargain bin now reduced from £5 each to just £3 each! Some crazy savings to be made there.

All items on sale are in store only, first come first served, absolutely no holding, reserves etc. See below for opening times.

NASSARIUS SNAILS
Watch the zombie snail apocalypse as hundreds of hungry Nassarius snails eat a frozen fish, bones and all, in mere minutes!
https://www.facebook.com/SaltyRevolution/videos/344554082663432/

Also check out this video we made a while back on clean up crew (CUC). This explains what clean up crew to get for the best bang for your buck. If you stick to this recipe half the work in your aquarium will be done by these little guys. Leading to better water quality, a much more attractive aquarium, and saving you time, money, and effort. We're open until 10pm on Thursdays, so pop in and get the clean up crew you need to sort out your aquarium, and start reaping the benefits. Watch this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEd0x--p6AY&t=1s

Viva la revolución!

Check us out on YouTube.
https://www.youtube.com/saltyrevolution

Video live shows on Mondays and Saturdays at 9pm, every week on the shop page, set an alarm on your phone now, so you don't miss out!

OPENING TIMES
Online offers available NOW!
Tues-Weds Closed
Thursday Midday to 10pm, sale starts at Midday.
Friday Midday to 6pm
Saturday 10am to 6pm
Sunday 10am to 6pm
Bank Holiday Monday 10am to 6pm, sale ends 6pm.

Salty Revolution 94d Hampstead avenue, Mildenhall, Suffolk, IP28 7AS. It's opposite Ridgeons and behind Delmore. Look for the little Clownfish sign. It is worth looking at this 2 minute video on how to find us:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xtp9gmXtO4Y

James Goodchild

18/05/2018

SAND BEDS

WHY IS A SAND BED IMPORTANT?
The sand in the bottom of the aquarium performs many vital roles. First of all it forms the backbone of the biological filtration. Often outperforming live rock on how much nutrients it can process. It also slowly releases carbonates and trace elements into the water. In moderate to high demand systems the sand bed is unlikely to keep up with demand, but in tanks containing mostly soft corals a good sand bed can be sufficient to keep calcium levels at sufficient strength (yes even soft corals use calcium). Sand beds also provide a home for burrowing species such as Wrasses, and many Goby species.

WHAT TYPE OF SAND BED IS BEST?
Ideally you will want a sandbed between an inch, and an inch and a half deep (25-40mm). The finer the sand the better. With coarse sand waste easily gets trapped in the sand, whereas with fine sand any waste tends to stay on top where it is more likely to be dislodged by pumps, or at least visible for manual removal.
Avoid trapping too much sand under the rockwork. You really want as much of the surface of the sand exposed to clear flowing water as possible. Don't let your rockwork interrupt more than 20% of the surface of the sand.

WHAT ABOUT LIVE SAND?
Live sand usually costs about 50% more than good quality dead sand. A lot of people use a little live sand and use dead sand for the rest of the bed, simply for cost reasons. Live sand typically has far lower levels of phosphates and silicates in it than dead sand, so although live sand can cost a little more to start with, there are savings to be made on phosphate removers etc, and generally systems using only live sand will get far less nuisance algae.

HOW MUCH SAND DO I NEED?
To cover the tank bottom to a depth of about an inch you will need roughly 10lb of sand per square foot of base area. In metric that would be roughly 45kg per square metre to give a 25mm depth.

COULD I ADD MORE SAND TO AN EXISTING SAND BED?
Yes you can. Mix the new sand in with the old when you put the new sand into the aquarium.

WHAT MAINTENANCE DOES A SAND BED REQUIRE?
Not much. Sand sifting gobies, Conchs, and Nassarius snails will do the bulk of the work for you, but it is recommended to vacum, or at least rake through the sand once per week. If your sand bed has been neglected for a long time, then only rake through a small area of the sand at any one time.

WHAT ABOUT DEEP SANDS BEDS?
Deep sand beds (DSB's) used to be quite popular in sumps. These are mostly undisturbed sand beds of 4-8" (100-200mm) deep. They are best kept in the dark. Deep sand beds can be very troublesome. They take a long time to establish properly, their care is complicated, and they have the potential to cause many problems. Unless you have an indepth knowledge of anoxic denitrification, then DSB's are best avoided.

CONCLUSION
A bright, clean, well maintained sand bed will not only greatly enhance the look of your aquarium, but will also help to improve water quality, reduce algae, and reduce those pesky nitrates and phosphates. Have a look at your sand bed today. Check it for cleanliness, depth, and grain size, and see what you can do to improve this part of your captive marine system.

We used to sell a wide variety of sands, but, found this one outperforms all the rest we tried. Here's a link:
https://saltyrevolution.co.uk/shop/salty-revolution-live-sand-offer