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

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

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

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...