Arcadia have just launched their new range of Halogen basking lamps, which provide a highly efficient source of light and heat.
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Both white and blue versions are available to order now from all good aquatic retailers.
Continue reading Arcadia provides LED livestock lighting solution for Maidenhead Aquatics Brighton Gut loading is a controversial issue, do you need to do it or not? How can you be sure that the frozen food you purchase is of high enough quality to provide a decent diet for your snakes? Do all in one lizard frozen meals really do the trick?? In these days of smaller houses and busier lifestyles it is very hard to think of a snake that doesn’t take much in the way of husbandry and space. I have been collecting the smaller Boas for a while now and I find them to be perfect snake pets. Not only are the Rosy, and sand Boas very small but they require very little in the way of upkeep, and can be kept in small groups. Continue reading Small Boas Estrilda Astrild. The St Helena waxbill or common waxbill used to be one of the most common of waxbill species imported for the pet trade. That is until the ban in imports nearly 5 years ago now. So how are we doing with this the most wonderful of pet birds? Well there is a simple answer to that question, not very well. Yes captive breeding in the U.K is higher in number since 2006 but we breed a fraction in the U.K to the number bred on the continent. Why is this? I will try in this blog to answer this question as well as describe the bird and some subspecies and tell of my experience of keeping the common waxbill. When Nannacara anomola is occasionally for sale in retailers it is too often overlooked as being a relatively small brown fish, with nothing especially making it stand out, particularly when there are more familiar dwarf cichlids such as Rams and Kribs, who win out almost every time due to the more immediately obvious bright colours. Continue reading An under-rated dwarf Cichlid, and an interesting breeding project Python Regius The royal python is the perfect snake. It prefers smaller enclosures and requires minimal care compared to some other species. As a traditional python it has the wow factor of the big boas and pythons without the size, weight and unpredictability. In my quest to have owned most species of reptile I constantly come back to the pythons and boas, I guess the traditional look and muscular frame of these wonderful animals have everything you would find attractive in a snake. I purchased a hatchling in 08 fresh from the farm. This snake has behaved very well apart from the obvious few bites which go hand in hand with our great hobby. Royals when young tend to strike out at you if you invade there space. I would think this is a predator avoidance thing rather than a vicious nature. My snake fed on day one and hasn’t stopped since. I feed my royal every week now as a sub adult and it is doing very well, easily handelable and generally easy to look after. The royal python is commonly known as the ball python also. This is because they twist themselves into a ball shape when held. Continue reading Your royal highness Agama Agama (The red headed agama)  Red Headed Rock Agama For many years the Red headed Agama has been shipped over from sub Saharan Africa in quite large numbers. The red head or rainbow rock agama is a particularly striking lizard awash with colour. Like most herp keepers I have over the years tried to keep these wonderful lizards but without any real success, until last year that is. I have entitled this blog the 30 day lizard; because in the trade they are known as this due to their habit of dropping off this mortal coil within 30 days of purchase. This is a terrible waste. As a reptile enthusiast I am constantly on the lookout for more unusual species to keep. I have in the past had all sorts of weird and wonderful animals to care for, with raccoons, giant rectics, and vine snakes just to name a few. Recently I saw a snake that really caught my eye at a well know reptile importers. I was caught hook line and sinker within a few minutes and as always, knew I would have to add this to my list of species kept. |
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Arcadia has just launched a new high power submersible led spotlight for use in marine and freshwater aquariums. Available with a choice of blue or white one Watt LEDs, the new submersible spotlight produces a powerful single beam that can be used to highlight individual corals or plants. Able to be used above or below water the directional spotlight attaches to the aquarium glass by sucker or can be screw fixed to an aquarium hood.
The first installation of a new low energy LED lighting system from Arcadia has just been completed at the Maidenhead Aquatics store in Brighton. Maidenhead Aquatics approached Arcadia in July when they were still planning the electrical installation at the new store to see if it was possible to reduce the energy consumption of the lighting for the livestock systems. Currently the stores use T8 lamps with magnetic ballasts, which provide excellent results, but require 252 Watts of electricity to light each 2.4m section of the three tiered livestock bays.
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