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Herein are listed the top 5 best pressurised pond filters for 2025, based on Real Aquatics 2024 sales and reliability data from Real Aquatics outlets on eBay, Amazon and official websites.

In this regular pond season feature, we detail the best selling and most reliable pond products from last year to inform your purchases for 2025. Herein we feature all-in-one pond pumps.

To inform your purchases for 2025, herein we detail which garden water features proved the most popular and most reliable, based on our own 2024 data.

Few people are aware that CO2 is the most important nutrient for aquatic plants. Light, water and CO2 are decisive elements in the growth process of all plants, also known as the photosynthesis. Our CO2 systems can be found by clicking here.

Using RO water helps maintain stable water chemistry, reducing fluctuations that can stress marine creatures. Many reef keepers mix RO water with reef-specific salt blends to create an optimal environment that closely mimics natural seawater.

RO water is commonly used for drinking, cooking, marine fishkeeping and other industrial applications, and is especially useful in areas where tap water contains high levels of dissolved solids or pollutants.

Butterfly moor's are omnivorous. Feed them sinking and floating goldfish pellets flake and broken-up algae wafer. Will also happily eat bloodworm, brine shrimp and other meaty fresh food (frozen is fine).

Red moor's make peaceful additions to community freshwater tanks with other goldfish or low-temperature tolerant tropical fish of a similar size. They are relatively easy to keep healthy if the tank is clean, well filtered, and they are fed a good diet. This makes them suitable for beginners.

A fully grown moor goldfish usually reaches 15-20cm, around 6-8" inches in length. Care must be taken not to house with smaller fish that can fit in its mouth, when it reaches adult size - black moor goldfish will happily swallow small tetra or similar tankmates. 

Panda moor goldfish have distinctive black and white colouring, like a panda, and are one of the rare varieties of the species. This colouration is simply a lack of black pigmentation on a black moor goldfish, and can sometimes display flecks of traditional goldfish orange.