UK online frag shop recommendations

[attiland]

Never say sorry for that!

Winchester isn't that easy for me to get to, unfortunately, and I'll be moving up around Lincoln soon, so I'm on a 'no-shop' ban until the move happens - it's small torture

Same here but in the East Midlands

 

[Willbiker]

Just linked this tread to the UK reef club. By the way if you are not members join us

Where is it hosted? I would like to join that. Could you send me a link?
Many thanks!

 

[SPR1968]

Ive used mail order corals many times and their excellent, as are Masterfisch but they have temporarily suspended shipping to the UK

Masterfisch have fish very good corals, large sizes in most cases and very reasonable prices so keep an eye out when their shipping again. The customer service is excellent, and DOA are refunded immediately, not that it happens much.

As far as the UK reef club, go to user groups and then request to join. Then PM me to confirm what free frags your going to send me and I might let you in! lol

 

[Poseidon's snail]

lol

 

[schapps1664]

Have you tried any of above. I am just looking for a good shop myself too

Charterhouse have announced that from 1st Fern there is a £35 delivery charge on all live fish/inverts up to 15kg.

 

[attiland]

Charterhouse have announced that from 1st Fern there is a £35 delivery charge on all live fish/inverts up to 15kg.

That sounds like harsh

 

[Poseidon's snail]

lol - I have ordered a peppermint shrimp from them and I'm happy to report the delivery was excellent - on time and the shrimp is still healthy to this day!
very happy with charterhouse.I have not bought corals yet though.

 

[Cunning_plan]

So I have used:

• Zoa Marines (A lot) - Easy to use site, nice selection of interesting corals. I have issues with the delivery company they use however as I am almost always last on their route. This means I have about a 50% survival rate on coral and 20% on inverts. Now that I am out of vouchers I am no longer going to be able to use them which is a shame.
• The Coral Center - all aquacultured, nice sizes and often very good prices (though also sometimes awful). The only downside is they lack particularly interesting peices.
• Masterfisch - Not shipping to to the UK currently, fantastic for fish, great for larger WYSIWYG corals.
• Aquatics to your door - I gave a go for fish as Masterfish had stopped shipping. They sent me the wrong kind of wrasse...

My pet peeve is the number of sites in the UK who do not hide or let you hide out of stock corals. It makes searching an absolute nightmare.

I'm in London (Greenwich) if anyone has any reccomendations for physical shops.

 

[attiland]

I haven’t ordered on-line yet but for those who near by I am happy to recommend an LFS in Leicester called Deep Blue Aquatics. They are knowledgeable and really helpful and clean. I hope they will see this an also give me a discount

 

[jamesbutler]

Sorry to dig up an old thread, I was looking for the same info and I just placed an order with Polypbox, I think they're a fairly new company.. Very very impressed with the size and quality of the coral order and overall customer service. I would highly recommend. PS think they're based in Kent/London

www.polypbox.co.uk

 

[KarlsReef]

I can totally recommend Tee's Reef in Birmingham, he's a top guy, stunning selections and knowledgeable. Reef keeper Rugby is one of the best chain stores. Marine Aquarics in Alderidge are good and KCR too There's a few good stores over Leicester I can't remember the names of as I don't get over that way often.
Prestige Reef is excellent for mail order and Mail Order Corals is pretty good for mail order too.

 

[Sam22]

Signature frags hands down best acro selection in uk really nice lps pieces to

 

[Taylor made reef]

There is a online site call coralz and they seem responsibly priced and they not ordered yet as i have only had my tank set up a month… I will be ordering soon snd report back…

 

[_highland_]

Reefmachine and Rockncritters are two of my favs.