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ATM UK was born out of Years of Aquatics experience bumping head long into an idea that went against everything we believed in as keepers of living creatures. That idea was the “instant cycle”.

Watching the show “Tanked” as Brett and Wayde placed delicate sea creatures into what were freshly filled tanks that couldn’t possibly have been “properly” cycled made Craig Carson owner of Aquatics Express quite angry. He was very vocal in the store about how bad it was this was being shown on TV. His close friend Mark Burton contacted ATM in the U.S and ask them to explain how they could have a business based around Aquatic habitats and yet care nothing for the living creatures involved? Mark passed the reply on to Craig and he contacted the guys ATM himself to hear more.

Craig knew from all his 28 years involved in the hobby, not only as a keeper of fish but as an owner of a successful LFS, that without the right bacteria in place marine life cannot survive and what these ATM guys appeared to be doing was animal cruelty!…..”No” replied ATM.” We use COLONY a special mix of the two main bacteria that you would normally wait two months for. In a bottle that you pour into a tank that has been prepared correctly, then you can put fish and corals in straight away””no chemicals, its the very same bacteria that you introduce when you add live rock, only with a bottle of Colony you know how much you are adding, no guess work and no waiting’

Once again Craig s “experience” kicked in he knew that other brands had made the same claims in the past with very poor results, “No” said ATM .” This is very different” Craig asked to buy some samples to test, and in no time at all 2 bottles of Colony were in the UK

After receiving his Colony and reading the on-line information so the tank was properly prepared Craig poured it in and added some fish ready to contact ATM and tell them it had not worked, he didn’t use hardy fish as many would expect, Craig actually tried to break it, he added a powder blue tang, moorish idol, and a shoal of lyretail anthias!

A week passed and a slightly bemused Craig added some clean up crew and some coral, and 5 bangaii cardinals to boot. Another 2 weeks and all was fine. The light was beginning to dawn. With the help of Stacy Blood at ATM Craig began to “really” understand the role of bacteria in a tanks cycle and more importantly which ones were used in the Instant cycle provided by Colony, he watched his tanks inhabitants not only survive but actually flourish!.

So Aquatics Express started selling Colony, as well as the rest of the ATM range, Mirage, Paradigm, Barrier, Outbreak and Agent Green and instantly had customers getting the same results. Instantly cycled tanks that went on to thrive.

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