Salty Revolution

Salty Revolution Salty Revolution are the UK's largest marine only specialist. We stock marine fish, inverts, and We are the largest marine only specialist in the UK.

In 2022 we delivered over 20,000 marine fish, 30,000 marine inverts, and 90,000 corals/coral frags to UK hobbyists. in 2020 around 12% of all boxes of marine livestock into the UK came through us. We are right on the borders of Suffolk, Norfolk, and Cambridgeshire, only a few minutes from the A11 and A14. Our business is now online only, we no longer open to the general public. We deliver to most

of the UK every week. Around half of all our deliveries are hand delivered using our own drivers. We have a huge range of corals available online, typically 400-1,000 types of coral available, with over 200 types of coral farmed by us in store. We also have a huge range of marine inverts available online, typically 80-120 species of marine inverts to choose from. We used to also sell marine fish, including many rare species, but, have stopped selling marine fish online now to allow us to concentrate more time on coral farming which is a large and growing part of our business. For more information you can visit our website at:
https://saltyrevolution.co.uk/

Or email me at:
[email protected]

Email is the best way to contact us, but, replies may take some time for a reply at busy times.

■■■Temperature & aeration■■■● Most aquarium fish are bred in countries like Thailand where temperatures of 90F / 30c plu...
27/07/2024

■■■Temperature & aeration■■■

● Most aquarium fish are bred in countries like Thailand where temperatures of 90F / 30c plus are normal daytime temperatures, and temperatures of up to 110F or more are not unusual.

Some aquarium fish in the US are bred in polytunnels in Texas. If you have a look on YouTube at places like Goliad Fish farm then temperatures in their fish rooms of 120F to 130F is not unusual in the summer.

● I don't know why people seem to think tropical fish should be kept at low temperatures like 76F or less, because that's not the temperature they live at in the wild, it's not the temperature they are bred at in captivity, and everyone can easily check that themselves by looking at what the temperature is right now pretty much anywhere in the world live on Google. Climate information is also widely available online.

● Don't remove your heater because the tank temperature will drop at night, and your heater will be thermostatically controlled so the heater won't be on anyway if the tank is warmer than the thermostat is set to.

● Get a digital thermometer with probe that goes into the water. They cost at most 2-3 £/$/€. For marine aquaria use a reliable heating controller to control the heaters. I recommend the DD and Aqua Medic ones.

● Cool freshwater can be maybe 11ppm oxygen, even heating the water to over 100F / 38c won't have any significant effect on oxygen levels. Saturation point might drop from 11ppm to 10ppm at most. The majority of fish and aerobic bacteria are fine down to 4ppm, and fish that gulp air can tolerate much lower than that.

● It is extremely rare for fish to suffocate from a lack of oxygen, as oxygen levels rarely fall 7ppm or more. Suffocation is usually caused by an excess of carbon dioxide, not a lack of oxygen. CO2 can accumulate easily and may kill fish if it rises above 30ppm.

● While oxygen very easily enters water from the air, CO2 does not vent out of the water very easily at all. Temperature does not have a hige effect on CO2 levels, problems with excess CO2 are generally caused by oily films forming on the surface of the water due to insufficient water movement and/or poor filtration.

● It's always worth running an airpump for aeration because it:

• Moves water in a different flow pattern compared to water pumps.

• Breaks up oily films at the water surface.

• Removes ammonia, nitrite, and nitrate from the aquarium directly by venting it as nitrogen gas without relying so much on bacteria to process organics.

• Physically removes some toxins from the water because the hydrophyllic surface of air bubbles attract some pollutants, and when the air bubbles pop at the water surface some of those toxic molecules are then thrown into the air and out of the water.

● If you look at almost any large wholesaler, fish farm, etc, you will almost always see them running heavy aeration at all times because heavy aeration isn't just there to increase O2 and reduce CO2, it's also there to vent organics, bounce toxins out of the water, and to ensure the water is mixing vertically to avoid the water separating horizontally into bands of water at different temperatures, salinities, etc. I recommend the battery backed up one made by Aquarium Co-op.

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Footnotes.
• Written by James Goodchild, Salty Revolution, UK, 27th July 2024.
• All product recommendations are based on my personal opinion and I do not receive any financial gain by recommending any of these products or companies.


Links.
• Aquarium Co-op (USA) battery backed up airpumps (also check out some of the other fantastic products made by Cory at Aquarium Co-op).
https://www.aquariumcoop.com/products/aquarium-co-op-air-pump

• DD temperature controller on H2O Aquatics (UK) website.
https://h2oaquatics.co.uk/product/d-d-dual-heating-cooling-controller/

• Aquamedic temperature controlller on H2O Aquatics (UK) website.
https://h2oaquatics.co.uk/product/aqua-medic-t-controller-twin/

• Goliad Farms (USA) YouTube channel link (also check out the fantastic livebearers and cichlids Charles breeds).
https://youtube.com/?si=t73wISab-jpZ8L1O

Aquarium Co-Op
H2O Aquatics
Charles Clapsaddle Goliad Farms
D-D The Aquarium Solution group

New WYSIWYG frag collections. Let me know what you think of the idea of WYSIWYG frag collections in the comments below p...
20/05/2024

New WYSIWYG frag collections. Let me know what you think of the idea of WYSIWYG frag collections in the comments below please :)

I did yet more fragging today, and I also created 4 new WYSIWYG frag collections. This pic was taken just after I'd finished fragging and moving them, so they are mostly closed up. I'll get some better pics later today and then add them to the website as WYSIWYG'S.

So far I've made 4 WYSIWYG frag collections:

WYSIWYG collection A - 6x Soft coral frags.
WYSIWYG collection B - 6x Soft coral frags.
WYSIWYG collection C - 12x Soft coral frags.
WYSIWYG collection D - 21 Soft coral frags.

These can be bought in store (please note we are open by appointment only), and later today they will also be available online for delivery too.

The live rock is now online at:
saltyrevolution.co.uk




Congratulations to Ross Davinson on being promoted to 🐪Padre De Camellos🐪. :)James Goodchild
20/05/2024

Congratulations to Ross Davinson on being promoted to 🐪Padre De Camellos🐪. :)

James Goodchild

A few better pics of some of the 90 frags I made yesterday, that are available in store. There's about 200 frags on our ...
19/05/2024

A few better pics of some of the 90 frags I made yesterday, that are available in store. There's about 200 frags on our in store tray now. Most of them are at £5, £10, or, £20 each.

Open today (Sunday) until midnight, by appointment only. Add my personal profile on Facebook and message me on there to book an appointment (I rarely check the SR page messages). Or, email me at:
[email protected]

I also have a couple of slots free Monday evening too.

James Goodchild

STARP750 Star polyps, vivid green, with white centres, 🌴El Presidente grade🌴. - BEST SELLER!This is our best selling Sta...
19/05/2024

STARP750 Star polyps, vivid green, with white centres, 🌴El Presidente grade🌴. - BEST SELLER!

This is our best selling Star polyp by far, but, has been out of stock for 8 months. Now available again online and in store.

Micro frag £12.
Mini frag £19.
Standard frag £39.
2x Standard frags £59.
3x Standard frags £79.

Buy in store, or, order online here:

https://saltyrevolutionshop.co.uk/products/starp750-photo-listing

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In store - Open today until midnight by appointment only (see below for more details.

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I've got about 200 frags for sale on the in store tray today. We are open by appointment only. See below.

Also 50-75kg of rock in stock. It's a mixture of various kinds of live rock, some Real Reef and some Caribsea Liferock. About 1/4 of it is live and 3/4 was RO soaked for a couple of months in RO. Rather than do it all at different prices, it's just all at £10 a kg and you can pick whichever bits you want.

Special offer still on on carbon, etc too.

Open today by appointment only. To make an appointment add me on Facebook and message my profile on there.

www.saltyrevolution.co.uk













EDIT: You can now also order this online here:https://saltyrevolutionshop.co.uk/products/assorted-live-rock We've had qu...
19/05/2024


EDIT: You can now also order this online here:
https://saltyrevolutionshop.co.uk/products/assorted-live-rock

We've had quite a few people after rock recently, so yesterday I cleared out this 4'x3' (1.2m x 0.9m) section of one of the 12ft tanks (3.7m), and collected up some of the spare rock around the place. There's about 50-75kg (110-165lb) of rock in here now.

It's a mixture of various kinds of live rock, some Real Reef and some Caribsea Liferock. About 1/4 of it is live and 3/4 was RO soaked for a couple of months in RO.

Rather than do it all at different prices, it's just all at £10 a kg and you can pick whichever bits you want in store, or, order online and I can pick the pieces for you.

You can order online here:
https://saltyrevolutionshop.co.uk/products/assorted-live-rock

Also 100+ new coral frags in this week, special offer still on on carbon, etc too.

Open today by appointment only.

www.saltyrevolution.co.uk













While rummaging around in the bays last night I found a few shrimps that aren't already sold, including 2 rare ones.I ha...
18/05/2024

While rummaging around in the bays last night I found a few shrimps that aren't already sold, including 2 rare ones.

I have:

2x Banded coral shrimp / Boxer shrimp (Stenopus hispidus). These are Refugium only, because although they are commonly sold as reefsafe most places they will eat shrimps and even quite large fish!

They do eat bristleworms so are ideal in a sump (they live in dark caves in the wild, so don't mind a dark sump)- 2x available at £25 each (they are both male so cannot be kept together).

1x Hochi cleaner shrimp (Lysmata cf hochi). - Rare
Quite a rarity, will eat Aips too. - 1 available at £39.

1x Ankeri cleaner shrimp (Lysmata cf ankeri). - Very rare
A real rarity! I think from memory we've only had 4 or 5 ever including this one. - 1x available at £49.

See all 3 here:
https://saltyrevolutionshop.co.uk/collections/25-inverts-crabs-shrimps-lobsters?sort_by=manual&filter.v.availability=1&filter.v.price.gte=&filter.v.price.lte=

Photo 6 - There are 4 of these Discomas available, absolutely stunning.Here are some photos I took just now of some of t...
14/05/2024

Photo 6 - There are 4 of these Discomas available, absolutely stunning.

Here are some photos I took just now of some of the corals in store on the "for sale in store only tray".

Please note: These particular pieces are only available in store, and I open by appointment only, to a small amount of local customers only. We do not open to the general public. You can order these corals online for delivery though at:

www.saltyrevolution.co.uk














A few more pics of some of the corals on the "for sale in store only trays".I've cut 1-4 frags of each of 60-70 of the t...
14/05/2024

A few more pics of some of the corals on the "for sale in store only trays".

I've cut 1-4 frags of each of 60-70 of the types of soft corals in store, mostly from the farm stock.

At a rough guess I've probably got at least 120+ types of soft coral on farm at the moment, so I'll frag a few other ones this week as some of these sell out, to try and keep the numbers up on the in store tray.

Here's pics from the website of most of the ones I've fragged up so far (where I could find stock photos and remember what I fragged lol). I might put a few online as WYSIWYG's at the weekend, but, photographing and listing WYSIWYG's takes about 12 hours per 100, so I might not have time.

Here's pics of most of the ones I've done so far:
https://www.saltyrevolution.co.uk/in-store-2024-05-13

As usual in store sales are by appointment only, and only to people that regularly pop in store. We don't open to the general public.

EDIT:  In an unusual moment of being organised (don’t worry I’m sure it’ll pass), I’ve now reorganised all the frags by ...
13/05/2024

EDIT: In an unusual moment of being organised (don’t worry I’m sure it’ll pass), I’ve now reorganised all the frags by price into rows of £5, £10, £20, £30, £40, £60, £80, £100, and “try not to look at those ones!”. :D

Most of them are in the £5, £10, and £20 rows.

I also found a load more spare frags laying around the place, so there’s now about 120 corals of 60-70 types, including a few more mini colonies of some of them.

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Here's some pics of some of the types of corals I fragged up in store yesterday.

I've cut 1-4 frags of each of 50+ of the types of soft corals in store, mostly from the farm stock.

At a rough guess I've probably got at least 120+ types of soft coral on farm at the moment, so I'll frag a few other ones this week as some of these sell out, to try and keep the numbers up on the in store tray.

Here's pics from the website of most of the ones I've fragged up so far (where I could find stock photos and remember what I fragged lol). I might put a few online as WYSIWYG's at the weekend, but, photographing and listing WYSIWYG's takes about 12 hours per 100, so I might not have time.

Here's pics of most of the ones I've done so far:
https://www.saltyrevolution.co.uk/in-store-2024-05-13

As usual in store sales are by appointment only, and only to people that regularly pop in store. We don't open to the general public.

Just a quick reminder that cut off point for last orders on LPS corals is today at 11:59pm tonight (Monday 6th May), and...
06/05/2024



Just a quick reminder that cut off point for last orders on LPS corals is today at 11:59pm tonight (Monday 6th May), and it's also the last chance today to order any of the Winter Sale coral packs too. This is so I can clear all new & current orders before we do start our June to August refit.

Here's some handy links:

Main menu:
https://www.saltyrevolution.co.uk/main-menu

Our Top 20 most popular Euphyllias (Torches, Hammers, etc):
https://saltyrevolutionshop.co.uk/collections/our-top-20-most-popular-euphyllias-torches-hammer-anchors-frogspawns

Winter Sale BIG packs:
https://saltyrevolutionshop.co.uk/collections/08-other-packs?page=1

All LPS corals (348 types):
https://saltyrevolutionshop.co.uk/collections/14-0-all-lps-corals

SPS corals can still be ordered until Monday 13th May.
Soft corals and all other items cut off on Monday 20th May.

Just a quick reminder that today is the last day for taking new orders on LPS corals until our June to August refit and ...
05/05/2024

Just a quick reminder that today is the last day for taking new orders on LPS corals until our June to August refit and trips are done ready for 25th August.

Timetable for last orders:
- LPS corals - order by 11:59pm Monday 5th May
- SPS corals - order by 11:59pm Monday 12th May
- Soft corals - order by 11:59pm Monday 19th May
- All other items - order by 11:59pm Monday 19th May

Find out more here:
https://www.saltyrevolution.co.uk/breaking-news/2024/5/5/today-is-the-last-day-we-are-taking-new-orders-for-lps-corals-until-august

More new corals in today, and some pics of some of the other ones here at the moment that were fresh in this week.      ...
05/05/2024

More new corals in today, and some pics of some of the other ones here at the moment that were fresh in this week.




I've had a few people over the last few years ask where they could buy a coral viewer from like the ones we use in store...
30/04/2024

I've had a few people over the last few years ask where they could buy a coral viewer from like the ones we use in store. While you can buy proper coral viewers online, they are generally quite expensive, the big ones I use are about £80 each at retail price I think, and even small cheap ones online are £15 upwards, which is still a fair bit. They're quite easily damaged too.

I've lost count of how many of them I've trashed by putting them down the wrong way up, or clipping a rock and scratching them. Which while a scratch isn't the end of the world if you are just using them to look at coral, it does render them pretty much useless then for photography as you get a line across the image, and if using auto focus then the camera will often focus on the scratch rather than the coral.

If you do want one, but, don't want to spend a lot then grab one of these from B&M for £1.50. I got one today and tried it out, and it's pretty good tbh, and at just £1.50 it's well worth having one even if you are only going to use it occasionally.

You probably won't get as good a photo through one as you would a proper coral viewer, so if you want to use it for photography it's probably worth getting a proper one, but, for everyday use it's pretty good for £1.50, and even if you have a proper one for photography then it's worth having one of these for the rest of the time so you get less wear and tear on your proper one.

Boxing and bagging carbon, this is one of those days when having an almost entirely black wardrobe is a handy bonus! :DS...
20/04/2024

Boxing and bagging carbon, this is one of those days when having an almost entirely black wardrobe is a handy bonus! :D

Several hundred litres in stock.

Get free delivery on the 5 litre one using discount code:

FREE-DELIVERY

Order your's here:
https://saltyrevolutionshop.co.uk/collections/made-by-salty-revolution

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El Presidente's Dolphin Friendly Carbon
- BLACK EDITION -
1 LITRE £10.
5 Litres £39.
SUITABLE FOR FRESHWATER & MARINE.
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"EVERY YEAR SOME DOLPHINS DROWN IN SOME NETS.**

BUT, WITH EL PRESIDENTE'S DOLPHIN FRIENDLY CARBON - BLACK EDITION -
WE NEVER INCLUDE FREE MEDIA BAGS.

AND THAT'S A PROMISE!"***

EL PRESIDENTE, MARCH 2024
USE
FOR BEST RESULTS USE 1 ML PER LITRE OF AQUARIUM WATER AND REPLACE MONTHLY. RINSE BEFORE PLACING IN THE AQUARIUM.
Please note:
*"Dolphin Friendly" only applies to the - BLACK EDITION -.
**Some statistics may have been guessed at to save time.
***Media bags can be bought separately.

I've put a few more WYSIWYG corals online just now. There are 36 WYSIWYG's to choose from starting at just £4 each. Incl...
14/04/2024

I've put a few more WYSIWYG corals online just now. There are 36 WYSIWYG's to choose from starting at just £4 each. Including:

14+ different colours of GSP including some really rare ones from the farm, from £4 each.

4 different colours of mid and high end Discoma mushrooms ranging from £29 to £99 each.

Plus a couple of other ones. More details on the Salty Revolution group.

James

Jedi Army Cloves - Find out why this is our most popular coral ever!Find out more about Clove polyps on the new Special ...
13/04/2024

Jedi Army Cloves - Find out why this is our most popular coral ever!

Find out more about Clove polyps on the new Special offers page, including why they are so popular. CLAV900 Jedi Army clove polyps is probably actually our best selling coral of all with over 50% of all of our customers already having bought this absolutely fantastic coral.

Now available in 6 sizes starting at just £9 a frag it's easy to see why it so popular!

WHY THEY ARE SO POPULAR:

- We now do most of our Clove polyps in 6 different sizes!

- The polyps can be quite large, in time growing to 10p size and several inches tall.

- Easy to keep, fast growing, and look just as good in a large reef as they do in a nano.

- Bright splashes of electric colour at very little cost.

- As well as having bright colour they also have a nice structural shape, and they wave in the current creating movement too.

- A few colours to collect, we get up to about 8 types of clove polyps in total.

MORE SIZE OPTIONS THAN EVER BEFORE!
Most of our Clove polyps are now available in 6 different size options ranging from a single polyp to XL sized colonies!

On most of our Clove polyps they are now available as:

- 1 polyp frags

- 3+ polyps frags

- 5+ polyps frags

- Mini colony (10+ polyps)

- Colony (20+ polyps)

- XL Colony (40+ polyps)

Find out more about Clove polyps, and see more information on our 30 or so most popular LPS corals too on our new special offers page.

Find out more here:

https://www.saltyrevolution.co.uk/special-offers-

James (& Tik Tok).

Lymph can be a common problem in marine fish, here's a short video about it.
10/04/2024

Lymph can be a common problem in marine fish, here's a short video about it.

All you need to know about Lymphocystis.James talks you though this misdiagnosed disease. James tells you how to spot the difference and what steps you need ...

Absolutely fantastic design work by  If you're looking for a logo for a new business, or, redesigning/improving an exist...
10/04/2024

Absolutely fantastic design work by

If you're looking for a logo for a new business, or, redesigning/improving an existing logo then it's well worth sending a DM.

If you could help them promote their business by sharing this, I'm sure they'd really appreciate it. Some of your friends might want a new logo so they might be grateful you did too. ❤️

Marine fish are online now!I wasn't planning on getting any more marine fish in to be honest, but, due to a combination ...
04/04/2024

Marine fish are online now!

I wasn't planning on getting any more marine fish in to be honest, but, due to a combination of it being a bit dull without a few about the place, and pretty much everyone that helps me in the shop slowly wearing me down by asking me about Tangs all the time, they've eventually won the war and I'm getting in some fish.

Before you get too excited, this is probably a one off event, I'm mostly only doing it because it seems every single one of my friends either wants a Purple Tang or a Gem Tang, and buying fish in in small numbers like this I'll at best break even, and it'll probably cost me a bit more to buy them all than I'm selling them at after VAT, postage, time, food, etc.

But, they are now online. Only in very limited numbers on most. I might not get any of these fish again, and might not get any species of marine fish again, so if you want any of these, you will likely need to be fairly quick as some will go fast, and there won't be many anyway. I might add a few more to this over the next couple of weeks, or might not.

A few inverts will also go online today/tomorrow/later, but, only in extremely small numbers. I'm only looking at getting a few hundred inverts in total, which might sound a lot, but, last year on average we sold over 3,000 inverts a month, so a few hundred is a tiny number for us.

Anyway here's a link, go get em.
https://www.saltyrevolution.co.uk/expect-weirdness

James (& Tik Tok).

Our latest harvest of Zoas & Palys are now ready for cropping! There are more details in the Salty Revolution Facebook g...
31/03/2024

Our latest harvest of Zoas & Palys are now ready for cropping!

There are more details in the Salty Revolution Facebook group, and also on the Concierge menu. These are not available to the general public (sorry), only Salty Revolution group members and Concierge customers. I do check!

There's also free delivery on them (see post in the SR group for details), for delivery this Thursday or next Thursday (again see group for details).

Cheers,

James (& Tik Tok).

One of 20 types of Zoas and Palys I'll be harvesting from the farm Monday. Prices from £1 per frag, with free UK deliver...
31/03/2024

One of 20 types of Zoas and Palys I'll be harvesting from the farm Monday. Prices from £1 per frag, with free UK delivery.*

These will be fragged to order from the farm stock, but, only in limited numbers as only around 200 of the 800+ polyps on farm will be released for sale. You'll be able to order later today.*

Delivery to you will be on Thursday 11th April (unless you've already got a delivery booked for the 4th, then it'll come on the 4th). Free UK delivery using discount code too!*

*These are only for sale to: Concierge customers, and, Salty Revolution Facebook Group customers only. They are not available to the general public, sorry.

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James Goodchild, Salty Revolution.

Salty Revolution - The UK's largest online marine shop. Find out more at: saltyrevolution.co.uk

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Salty Revolution, how it all began.

Well every one has a story to tell and here's ours

Back in 2016 we decided that we wanted to change the saltwater/reef keeping world. Forever!!

After a lot of long and boring chats, maybe even some sums and graphs. We (Dale and James) combined like transformers into one super mega awesome robot... well not robots but into the best saltwater shop in world, but you get the point. From that point on Salty Revolution was born. Now why Salty Revolution I hear you say? Simply we wanted to be different and raise the bar. Evolution wasn't working so we started the revolution!

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