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Saltwater Refugium benefits, setup, and pictures

What is a Saltwater Refugium? Refugium (fishkeeping), an appendage to a marine, brackish, or freshwater fish tank that shares the same water supply.? a region that has remained unaltered by a climatic change affecting surrounding regions and that therefore forms a haven for relict fauna and flora Above...

Mangrove growth 3/23/2010

Posted in Mangroves, My Aquariums, updates, Weekly Picture Update

Continuation of the post: Mangrove’s in the Reef Aquarium Just a couple pictures showing the size of the mangroves since the last post where we looked at growth rates from December 3rd 2009 to February 17th 2010. These are the most recent pictures taken on 3/23/2010. In the time since the last post, the...

Refugium Biological filtration

Posted in biological filtration, Reef Maintenance, Reef Upkeep, updates

Because so many fish and corals require pristine water conditions, filtration of our reefs water is a very important and very expansive aspect of the marine reef keeping hobby. All the types of filtration can be broken down into mechanical and biological. Mechanical filtration are going to be your canister...

Mangrove’s in the Reef Aquarium

Posted in biological filtration, Mangroves, Reef Upkeep

Mangroves are becoming a very popular addition to home reef aquariums. They are great for reducing nitrate and phospate in the aquarium, but because of their slow growth rates, many people believe they are not as effective as the other types of macro algae, such as chaeto or culpera. In my own aquarium, I...

Filtration and Cycling

Posted in Basics of filtration, Reef Upkeep

Cycling your tank Unlike a freshwater tank, it takes time for a saltwater tank to be ready for a new fish or other creatures. Once your tank has been set up, youve added your sand, filled it with saltwater, turned on the heater, started the filters, now you can add your live rock. What your tank needs is...

Cycling your New Fish Tank

Posted in Cycling Process, Reef Maintenance, Reef Upkeep

There are so many misunderstanding about establishing a new reef system. In part because there are so many ways to setup a reef system. Most of this will be based on the most common tank setups; sand beds with live rock and skimming. Will not get into sulfur systems or scrubbers or anything like that, only...